The Bab Ballads
W. S. Gilbert
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The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert's childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations "Bab". (summary from Wikipedia) (3 hr 1 min)
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| Captain Reece | 4:55 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Rival Curates | 4:07 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Only A Dancing Girl | 2:29 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| General John | 2:55 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| To A Little Maid - By A Policeman | 1:32 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| John And Freddy | 3:36 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Sir Guy The Crusader | 3:00 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Haunted | 3:51 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Bishop And The 'Busman | 3:56 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Troubadour | 4:14 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman | 5:24 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Lorenzo De Lardy | 4:20 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast | 3:02 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Babette's Love | 4:28 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be) | 3:09 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent | 4:25 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Sir Macklin | 4:04 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell" | 4:54 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo | 4:40 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale | 4:08 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| To Phoebe | 1:13 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Baines Carew, Gentleman | 4:45 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Thomas Winterbottom Hance | 4:49 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Reverend Micah Sowls | 4:18 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| A Discontented Sugar Broker | 5:14 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask | 3:11 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Force Of Argument | 4:32 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin | 4:45 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Phantom Curate. A Fable | 4:24 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Sensation Captain | 5:00 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Tempora Mutantur | 2:53 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One | 4:07 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| King Borria Bungalee Boo | 5:11 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Periwinkle Girl | 4:02 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Thomson Green And Harriet Hale | 3:53 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Bob Polter | 5:14 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Story Of Prince Agib | 4:41 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Ellen McJones Aberdeen | 5:40 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Peter The Wag | 5:03 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum | 4:37 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| The Three Kings of Chickeraboo | 4:18 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter | 4:45 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch | 1:28 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |
| Gentle Alice Brown | 6:12 | Gelesen von Graham Redman |