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Nellie Wallace: 'Mother's Pie Crust' (live, 1940s)
Nellie Wallace, who was billed as 'The Essence of Eccentricity', worked in the character of a frustrated spinster, usually dressed in a moth-eaten feather boa, a skimpy hat and a patterned jumper and skirt. Her best-remembered song, 'Mother's Pie Crust', is known from the 1930 78, but here, with a different second verse, she performs in front of a live audience in a BBC broadcast. I can't date this, but presumably mid to late1940s.
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Mabel Constanduros: 'Christmas Day at the Bugginses' (1929)
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Comic actress Mabel Constanduros was famous on radio in the 1920s and 1930s for many sketches as the Buggins family - she played all the voices apart from Father (Michael Hogan). During the second world war she broadcast recipes in the character of Grandma, using comedy to put over useful information. Folllowing the previous year's attempt to make a Christmas Pudding, the family endures a fract...
Harry Hemsley: 'Christmas Presents' (1932)
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Harry Hemsley was a popular impersonator of children's voices. He did this by covering his mouth with a book, newspaper or just his hand to signal a transition. His imitations were so spot-on that later, when he went on radio, many listeners were fooled. He also made many records: in this one he voices all the children as they choose presents for their mother. Recorded 29 October 1932.
The Tune Twisters: 'I'm Against Rhythm' (1937)
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Small close-harmony vocal groups became popular in the 1930s, particularly once performers realised that with electrical recording you didn't have to bellow at the recording machine. The Tune Twisters - Andy Love, Robert "Bob" Wacker, and Jack Lathrop - were popular from 1934 into the 1940s. In this song (from the stage musical 'Beat the Devil' in which they appeared) they complain about the ve...
Claude Hulbert: 'Taking Possession' (1933)
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Comic actor Claude Hulbert (younger brother of Jack Hulbert), in his usual 'silly ass' persona, has problems setting up a new home: assisted by Bobby Comber, Paul England and Max Kester. Recorded 14 July 1933.
Flanagan and Allen: 'Digging H"OI"les" (1935)
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Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen were the most popular double-act of the 1930s and 1940s: the on-stage relationship was friendlier than most double-acts who tended towards aggression for comic effect. Their catchphrase was 'OI!' spoken by Flanagan and then the band after he'd been corrected by Allen, usually over some word-twisting. This example was recorded on 26 November 1935.
The Teddy Bear's Picnic' (vinyl pressing) - Henry Hall & His Orchestra (1932)
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This famous record really was used as a BBC test record because of it's remarkably high quality: I've gone round studios testing gramophone players myself with it. EMI made special pressings in vinyl rather than noisy shellac for the BBC. When the 78rpm gramophone players were removed, I acquired the last remaining copy in Engineering Stores (it would have otherwise have been thrown out) so the...
Gillie Potter: 'Mr. Potter Waxes Historical' (1930).
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Gillie Potter (real name Hugh William Peel) was famous through the 1920s and 1930s for his eccentric comic monologues, displaying his own particular brand of acerbic facetiousness. Many of his monologues revolved round the imaginary village of Hogsnorton - one of radio's first 'imaginary communities'. He was a difficult person in real life: his BBC file is bulging with irritated memos complaini...
Dorothy Summers ('Mrs. Mopp'): 'Can I Do Yer Now, Sir?' (1943)
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Dorothy Summers played the cleaning lady Mrs. Mopp in the hugely popular wartime radio show 'ITMA' which starred Tommy Handley. In this solo song 'Do' means 'clean for' and 'TTFN' stands for 'Ta-Ta for now'. Recorded 12 November 1943.
Hawaiian music: Kanui and Lua - 'Oua Oua' (1933)
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Hawaii was still a USA territory, not a state, when this recording was made. It had long been a popular holiday destination and its distinctive music had led to many imitations. Kanui and Lula were a Hawaiian duo formed by William Kanui on hawaiian guitar and his wife Lula, who played ukulele and danced the hula. This recording, made in 1933, shows the genuine Hawiian style. The Hawaiian style ...
Angela Baddeley and L.du Garde Peach: 'Motoring Without Tears (1928)
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Angela Baddeley (the younger sister of Hermione Baddeley) is remembered mostly for her role as Mrs, Bridges in the TV series 'Upstairs Downstairs' and many stage performances. Here she appears at the age of 23 in a sketch with L.du Garde Peach, also its author, and a prolific writer of books and plays (including many for amateurs). Recorded cFebruary 1928.
Promenade Concert 1936: Sir Henry Wood & Elisabeth Schumann.
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This is an extract from the Promenade Concert in Queen's Hall London, on 8 September 1936. Sir Henry Wood conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Elisabeth Schumann sings two Mozart arias: 00:00 L'Amerò (Il Re Pastore) (violin obligato by Marie Wilson) 05:35 Alleluja (Exultate Jubilato) Queen's Hall, in Langham Place at the north end of Regent Street, London, was the venue for the regular summer...
Harry Gordon - 'My Pal Wullie' (1932)
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Scottish music-hall comedy tended towards the 'couthy' (cosy) as opposed to the more brash English comics. Harry Gordon was notable for creating one of the first 'imaginary communities' (like Gililie Potter's Hogsnorton) and performed acts as various members of the community: though in this record he appears not as an Inversnecky notable but a man with an over-friendly friend. Recorded c1932.
'I Am Columbia' - promotional record, c.1930
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A very stilted promotional record, not for sale, but intended to be played in shops to demonstrate Columbia UK's combined radio and gramophone ('Graphophone' to match their trade-mark*) - a new idea at the time. Radio-gramophones had a radio and an electrical record player in a posh (and expensive) wooden cabinet, and were popular among the well-off through to the general replacement of valve a...
Binnie Hale: 'Spread A Little Happiness' (1929)
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One of the great songs of the 1920s charmingly sung by Binnie Hale, its original performer in the show 'Mr. Cinders'. Recorded 12 March 1929. There are already several copies of this on UA-cam but I thought it worth posting as I've been able to get better quality. My copy is in really good condition with no wear. There is the usual crackle from abrasive filler, so digital noise reduction has be...
Ada Reeve: 'Foolish Questions' (1915)
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Ada Reeve: 'Foolish Questions' (1915)
Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch in 'Band Waggon' Jubilee Edition (1947)
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Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch in 'Band Waggon' Jubilee Edition (1947)
Silent Movie themes played on the organ of the Trocadero Cinema (1932)
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Silent Movie themes played on the organ of the Trocadero Cinema (1932)
Ethel Revnell and Gracie West: 'Going to the pictures' (1938)
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Ethel Revnell and Gracie West: 'Going to the pictures' (1938)
Bransby Williams: 'The Green Eye of the Yellow God' (1913)
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Bransby Williams: 'The Green Eye of the Yellow God' (1913)
Richard Murdoch sings 'Ballet Egyptien'
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Richard Murdoch sings 'Ballet Egyptien'
Billy Bennett: act in 'Happidrome', 1941.
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Billy Bennett: act in 'Happidrome', 1941.
Stanley Holloway introduces 'And yet I don't know'
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Stanley Holloway introduces 'And yet I don't know'
"The Mikado" - Mikado's entrance and song (1950)
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"The Mikado" - Mikado's entrance and song (1950)
Peter Dawson: 'The Lost Chord' (Sullivan) (1907)
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Peter Dawson: 'The Lost Chord' (Sullivan) (1907)
Harry Secombe: pre-Goon Show act (1950)
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Harry Secombe: pre-Goon Show act (1950)
The Happiness Boys - 'You Can't Walk Back From An Aeroplane' (1927)
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The Happiness Boys - 'You Can't Walk Back From An Aeroplane' (1927)
Gracie Fields: 'What Can You Give A Nudist For His Birthday' (1934)
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Gracie Fields: 'What Can You Give A Nudist For His Birthday' (1934)
Ben Albert 'Three Ages of Women' (1908)
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Ben Albert 'Three Ages of Women' (1908)
Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch: 'Band Waggon' excerpts (1938)
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Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch: 'Band Waggon' excerpts (1938)
This would have been incredible back then, the only way to do anything like this before was to record an optical track on film, which was very expensive, discs were the way that radio was prerecorded, in america we even had 16'' records called transcription discs which were made specifically for radio, and the runtime wasn't any better than the blattnerphone.
I vagualey remember this as a kid love the Goons and Spike in particular
Only Spike Milligan would say "gipo" to the initials G.P.O. I'd just swallowed a sip of wine - just in time. 😋
Ooooohhhhh ron😊😊😊😊😊😊
Wonderful Good quality too
Great!
An impressively physical routine, especially for a guy his age. If only it was funny
I just finished reading The Diver and I imagined he’d sound EXACTLY like this.
Gosh they're so mean to each other lol
A brilliant essayist.
I have a laminated early copy of the DB but this really shows how good this recording is. Interesting that you used this round studios yourself!
I was able to compare a shellac copy a friend had with mine, and the cymbal clash after the bass sax descending phrase had very slightly more impact on the shellac copy - this is because the vinyl 'gives' very slightly, so it dampens the transient slightly, where shellac is hard and doesn't. Of course his copy was much noisier.
Thanks! Good to hear the chat of the past from 2 funny characters.
He's talking a bit too fast and too expressively for E.L. Wisty, and not flat and droning enough. Maybe he had to speed up his delivery for TV.
Brilliant. Love Harry Gordon. More please. Always very energetic and the recordings are usually very good quality.
See ua-cam.com/video/B0E1Sy5qVuk/v-deo.html
Absolutely brilliant, simple but so effectively portrayed!
Beautiful.
My uncle introduced me to Billy Russell in the mid 50's. I played the record over and over and still remember almost every gag. So great to listen to the routine after all that time.
Itma's are usually easy to date but this is problematic. The comment about putting the clocks forward means its early April but which year. Looking on Trove (Australian newspaper archive) shows that they ran the show from Oct'42 to Nov'45. April'43 is too early because it doesn't look like Beryl Davis had joined the show yet so that leaves April 44 or 45, and that's as far as I got. April 44 maybe more likely?
The colleague who supplied me with this is dead, but I have his printed catalogue. Digging into it - it is well over a thousand closely typed pages! - he says 'first transmitted circa 19th October 1943, possibly from BBC Archives 22214-7'. I don't kow how he arrived at this date: I can only find one placing in genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ and that's for 28 November 1942 (Forces Programme). I suspect your guess may be as good as his.
Thanks for posting the full version, I only had the 27min edit repeated on 10.10.82.
I did a gig with TR & Jimmy wheeled in about TV Didsbury 1962
Thanks for uploading this. I was hoping I could now throw away my tape copy, but unfortunately there are record jumps in one of the songs.
What a delight!
Thanks for this
Top man born in lived in Upholland lancashire
He read Churchill’s speeches impersonating him during the war years and fooling the British public and the world
I only ever think of Max Wall as he was at the end of this sketch - the funny dance...but was aware that, in my youth - early '80s, the style I'd adopted was reminiscent to to the older generation of his style; in my case cut off black levi's, white boot socks and doc martins! The old arm extension joke made me smile though...
I guess not brilliant enough to garner more comments!😉 I got here through a reference in “Death at the Sign of a Rook,” by Kate Atkinson, which contains exactly this brand of tongue in cheek humour.
I remember being at a Church concert and someone recited this (or something very similar) and I have remembered it since then. She also had a recitation describing a young lady's luggage including a valise. The punch line at the end was along the lines of "the clothing she wore that brought her such fame, was in the valise." Does anyone know anything about such a recitation?
Absolutely delightful! 😊👏💖
That's lasted very well and still raises a smile. As you say, great delivery!
+chocsal. Agree with all that (and the recording is very well restored), although it’s not much of a tune.
A very funny and clever entertainer.
An amazing place and the best job I ever had, thanks Roger, I spent many years there. But what was the hand pointing of the Studio Manager in S46 during News Reel about?! I assume for the camera. the very best job I ever had, the nicest people too. A strange Island of Tranquility on the Strand. You can't go back in time, but you don't know how you have it until you leave. Thanks for uploading. Very happy memories.
At 31'24'', John Morris, the SM, was asked by the film makers to wave into the studio to start Pam Creighton off because just using the green light key didn't look noticeable enough. It's nonsense, of course, and John wasn't pleased about it, but that's film making. British TV crews were liable to do this sort of thing to manage the filming: but I once had an American film crew in the studio during a transmission and they insisted that I ignore them and work exactly as normal.
From "Much Binding in the Marsh"..... lovely memories....so glad I found this. Thanks for posting.
Hello Roger. I've just come across your channel. Sincere thanks for uploading these BBC broadcasts. The sound quality is incredible. I've heard of the Philips-Miller system but I had no idea that the quality was so good. I have a number of BBC MSS discs from the 1930s (Geraldo Music Shop and Romance in Rhythm broadcasts) but they are not in great shape I'm afraid.
Those disks are bound to .deteriorate as time goes on: they dry out and eventually the surface starts to craze: once that's happened there is ittle you can do about it. Copying them and using a good declicker can make the contents reasonably listenable.
Pathetic!
Good clean comedy
Hard to come by. Many Thanks
How lovely. The great Rob Wilton was also a master of the monologue, one I particularly liked was: 'I'm subject to colds and they make me quite deaf and then I can't hear what you say. A fella once asked me if I'd have a drink, and I heard that with a cold, by the way. As we talked, we got chatting of girls we had met. I described a sweet bird dressed in read. My description was good, but my pal went half mad. 'T'was the girl he was going to wed...' [The title is The I said, he said monologue.]
For the best of the many parodies of this poem see ua-cam.com/video/zzdT8V_as6s/v-deo.html
A slower pace compared to modern day .
True story, A long time ago now, we decided to have lunch out, Maidenhead by the river, nice restaurant overlooking the Thames, and who was sat only a few feet away, Yep, it was him, the man himself , Mr Max Wall. still acting, he was always on stage, even if he was not, but as he says live is a stage... how true.. funny guy....
Brilliant from Billy 'Almost a Gentleman' Bennett. Just as funny today as it was then, in fact, much funnier than modern so-called comedians.
Wonderful. The talent of these old 🤩
Thanks for this gem. I am listening to Radio 4 on Kafka and Orwell, which has just played an extract from this show. It was so funny I tried to find it - it didn't take me long, thanks to you, google and youtube.
Thanks for the memory
Someone has posted a TV performance by Jimmy James himself at ua-cam.com/video/XeJN5p4HveU/v-deo.html (sketch starts 2 minutes in)
Splendid recording considering its date . Daughter in law elect always annoys me too !!
Did these guys have music on Laurel & Hardy? It sounds very familiar.
I'm sure the L&H background music (which of course had no vocals) was recorded 'in-house' as it were: I have an idea that some of it was actually issued on a CD some time back. The style is similar to a lot of dance bands of the time.
@@RogerWilmut You are right. I must be confused! I might be thinking of old cartoons...
I got this, along with Two Horses and a Debutante/Mrs Pettibone at a Salvation Army thrift store (charity shop for those in the UK). They came in an album, 90% of which consisted of soprano Rose Bampton performing Beethoven, Verdi, and Berlioz. I would like to think that this came from a sophisticated person who lived in NYC (or aspired to) and was either from Scranton, PA or left it to a relative who lived there.
Editing with a spot welder...
Literally - or a soldering iron. The tape head was a knife edge with a coil wrapped round it, and the blobs caused by the editing process frequenty bent it.