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Flanders and Swann attended the same school ( Westminster School) but went their separate ways during the Second World War. However, a chance meeting in 1948 led to a musical partnership writing songs and light opera; Swann writing the music and Flanders writing the words. Their songs were performed by artists such as Ian Wallace and Joyce Grenfell.
In December 1956, Flanders and Swann hired the New Lindsey Theatre, Notting Hill, to perform their own two-man revue At The Drop Of A Hat, which opened on New Year's Eve. Flanders sang a selection of the songs that they had written, interspersed with comic monologues, and accompanied by Swann on the piano. The show was successful and transferred next month to the Fortune Theatre, where it ran for over 2 years, before touring in the UK, the USA, Canada and Switzerland.
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Over the course of 11 years, Flanders and Swann had made nearly 2,000 live performances. Although their performing partnership ended in 1967, they remained friends afterwards and collaborated on occasional projects.