Years before Monty Python, a red-nosed comedian in disreputable tails and an improbable moustache created a world all his own. With his spoofs of well-loved poems, raucous street-corner singing and surreal narratives of life in the saveloy-and-gin class, Billy Bennett brought a spirit of daring and rebellion to English music hall and variety stages in the 1920s and '30s.

Billy Bennett can now be seen as a street-wise surrealist and his remarkable humour shines as bright today as it did then. The CD is remastered to the highest standard from the best condition original 78-rpm discs.

BILLY BENNETT ALMOST A GENTLEMAN TSCD780

1 Nell
2 My Mother Doesn't Know I'm on the Stage
3 Mandalay
4 I'll Be Thinking of You
5 Ogul Mogul - A Kanakanese Love Lyric
6 No Power on Earth
7 She was Poor But She was Honest
8 She was Happier When She Was Poor
9 The Miser
10 The Only Girl I Ever Loved
11 The Charge of the Tight Brigade
12 Don't Send My Boy to Prison
13 Family Secrets
14 Please Let Me Sleep on Your Doorstep Tonight
15 Christmas Day in the Cookhouse
16 The Club Raid
17 She's Mine
18 Mottoes
19 The Green Tie On The Little Yellow Dog