Michael Flanders and Donald Swan composed and sang their own amusing songs, accompanied by Donald Swan playing the piano. Flanders was a large man in a wheelchair and Swan a slight man. Good natured, somewhat dry, and very English lyrics, and somewhat dated, as they were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. They did wonderful stage shows in those simpler times.

This recording appears to be a distillation of the two albums, At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat. I don't really understand why many of the songs are missing; when you release a CD like this it has a lot of nostalgia value, usually appealing to people who are long familiar with the works on LP and are bound to be dissapointed with the ommission of their favourites. Bedsted Men from the second album is absent. It's one of my favs. from the LP and so I won't be buying this CD. Go figure the people in the recording industry.