Alexander Armstrong: The Modern Major General's Song

Raised on G&S… love when a performer nails this one. Such a brilliant piece of writing and music.

Why do I feel like to be a general in the British army you should have to be able to sing this at least once. It doesn’t have to be good you just have to be able to do it.

Okay but not a patch on the D'Oyly Carte singers of old.

a good equivalent is Trouble in River City from The Music Man...I would like to see Robert Preston have a go at this.

Hopefully Alexander will do Tom Lehrer's period table version of this song next!

Mind blowing performance!

subatonic particle. thats all im going to say.

Wow, what a voice, and such a funny song. Well done!

He's consistently late.

💅👏👏👏

Considering how ridiculously hard the song is, that's a good performance. But nowhere near as good as that of George Rose.

Well done Alexander 👏

Difficulty level: Pimafore

Pointless

Another attempt to modernise this masterpiece of its age - and current today. Abysmal

Bravo!

Eggs on top

I'm amazed his tongue doesn't get all twisted doing all these stanzas in the song! Before I watched this version, I watched the Simpsons with " Side Show Bob vs Bart Simpson," and I thought that was an excellent piece of work; seeing this live performance 👏 was incredible 😲,

That's gotta b so hard to sing but I reckon the 2 Ronnie's could have done it😂😂

Poor-quality video of the event.... Booooo!

My new reference for this song.

His late granddad Sir Keith who played him would be proud 🥹 wait this was a year before his Death…

Danger Mouse is a great singer

In the days when comic relief was…
1 actually COMIC
and
2 actually WORTH WATCHING.

Oh how I miss those shows!

Also Tom Lehrer who wrote "the elements" and "poisoning pigeons in the park".

Isnt this the guy off pointless? I was watching thinking "oh he's not bad but ive seen better" but HUH? So unexpected

Never knew he could sing lol

We’re going to need Eminem to cover this one day.

OK AA now try this after 6 large Scotch's and a few lagers....................well done old chap I'll see you in the mess this evening!

Audio keeps stuttering and the music is so loud I can hardly make out the lyrics 😕

Duggee hug

Eminem should sing this

I don't know how many parodies there are of this, but there needs to be one about someone who's a geek. (probably something along the lines if "I am the very model of a modern (???) individual!")

Bravo!

Sure, lets ruin classical pieces by adding modern gender politics. Just what I was hoping (NOT!!!!) to hear when looking for some fucking ENTERTAINMENT!!!!

Hamilton before Hamilton

I didn’t know he could sing?! Well done 😂❤

is there something wrong with my phone, PC or router ? I just can't get it to stream cleanly.

Is a british brigadier general required to sing this upon promotion?

BRILLIANT

I thought he was just the Pointless host, but now I learn he has actual talent. Solid work!

Genius👍🏽

His understanding of the word commisariat is probably equivalent to his understanding of the word singing

This song is famous for requiring a lot of words to be sung very quickly. And so very difficult to pull off. So yes I applaud any body who can successfully sing it. 👏👏 bravo

However, having said that, I am not sure how to feel about the fact the fast paced lyrics are basically humble bragging about just how very smart the guy is, how much he knows about all the academic topics. Being smart and skilled is fine, but do you have to brag about it?

Such jittery audio cutting out quality but worth it for the Wogan line...Just

Brilliant ..

Stunning! :)

Beautifully done, everything all 'Sir Garnet'!

I performed Pirates in a youth chorus with an adult singer playing this character. He never managed to get through it without stumbling, except for the last performance we did, which we all had to stop ourselves from cheering along with the audience.