A Little Nonsense

This record presents us with a rich feast of the nonsensical in word and sound, which should satisfy the appetite of even the wisest among us, young or old. Owen Brannigan, besides having made an enviable reputation as a singer of serious music of every type, has built up a vast public for the radio and television broadcasts and concerts in which he sings folk-songs, North Country ballads and humorous songs of all sorts in an inimitable manner. Here we have this side of Brannigan's art at its best. Besides unaccompanied folk songs, there are orchestral settings of three of Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs , two of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales and four parodies of the style f Handel to the words of nursery rhymes. Add to these two of Ronald Binge's fantasies on children's songs and two more by Herbert Hughes and Victor Hely-Hutchinson and it will be seen that the menu of our feast is not only rich but varied and unusual.