You'd better watch these composers, same thing happened before. I wrote Handel's Largo, and when I got it to the publishers, he'd already written it. You know what he called it? Handel's Largo, same as me.
11 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:00:24 in the radio play.
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- What beautiful words. Why don't we set it to music?
- Of course! Just stand under this tree and listen.
- Just a minute. Just a minute please. Just a minute, Mister Secombe.
- That music was written by Edward Elgar, Sir.
- Edward Elgar, he got in quick, didn't he?
- Is your name Handel's Largo?
- What, what, what, what, what? You'll get a belt on that big shiny ear'ole of yours.
- Never mind, there, Hershel, never mind.
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