You can feel the men who perform the patter song getting high on those rhythms, and it's an infectious feeling.

For many years she turned out patter songs and other material for his performances.

Even Coward's witty patter songs about modern life complained more than they celebrated.

Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:

The sketch included several patter songs and a comic lecture upon Natural History.

The women do ballads and comic patter songs.

A patter song was spoken in rhythm, by Harrison, as "Unbelievable."

She'd been leaning against the bulkhead and watching Namid write down the lyrics of the patter song.

The opening ensemble on the train, the use of patter songs throughout, the musical numbers that dissolve as in a film, the instantaneous scene changes.

Spon lightened the mood by performing a Triexian patter song.

The patter song after the recitative "Away, remorse!"

Hamlet as if by Gilbert and Sullivan, with a patter song and a happy ending.

It is one of the most difficult patter songs to perform, due to the fast pace and tongue-twisting nature of the lyrics.

In Yiddish theater, the kuplét was "the comedian's almost obligatory comic patter song."

Its songs - even the exquisitely rhymed patter songs - seemed to flow effortlessly.

There used to be a patter song about Constantinople that helped you to spell it, but nothing about Istanbul.

While she emphasized Coward's sentimentality, his witty patter songs stood out as his finest.

I can think of many examples, could rattle them off after the fashion of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song.

After the third rendition of a "Pirates of Penzance" patter song the tape was used up and the line went dead.

For 48 gruelling weeks of each of those 20 years he effortlessly negotiated the tongue-twisting patter songs."

None of these four recordings include Robin's Act II recitative and patter song.

A high-velocity patter song, popped into the middle of a revue, can be savored as a virtuosic wordgame.

(The Major-General's patter song might as well be in Kurdish, for all you can make of it.)

The contrast, however, between the patter song of invective against the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the dignified paean to that estate was exploited to the full.

One such tradition is the patter song exemplified by Gilbert and Sullivan but that has origins in earlier Italian opera.