Although they may seem like an artifact of a bygone era, the legacy of patter songs can still be heard today. Like contemporary rap, the patter song is fast-paced and filled with tongue twisters. Here ...

Steve Martin had just one edit. He was completely game to sing this absurd, tongue-twisting, joke-packed patter song about three infants who are all suspects in the murder of their mother — but he ...

Earlier this week, Pirates! The Penzance Musical opened on Broadway, bringing back one of the OG patter songs of the the musical theate canon- "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General." In this ...