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[…]kay. Okay. Ernest Maxin  0:25  My career started at the age of six my professional career that is. My father was a very fine musician. And by the age of six, I was playing the piano. My father actually, who was a violinist wanted me to be a violinist, but my hands were too s[…]

[…]ne of the greatest screenwriters of all time. I would love to be able to do music it's something I regret more than anything but again how many great musicians are there? How many Alfred Junges or John Box’ are there. They're very few and far between and if one isn't on that level then it all seems […]

[…]tance, you know, he would say, I think you will record the theme from Shane and something or other on the back. So I do the arrangements. We book The musicians, record it, and that would be go out under the name Ronald Goon and his orchestra. But it I mean they could have, as I said, he's been mount[…]

[…]umoured to have coined the term documentary, meaning non-fiction film.[xxx]Ernest Borneman (1915-1995) was a writer, film-maker, anthropologist, Jazz musician and critic, and many other things. He was interned during the war, and then was released to join the BBC and made various film projects, incl[…]

[…]ive years trying to learn the trumpet and I think I came out of that and I was as bad as the day I started.  It’s like you have got to be born a musician.  If you haven’t got it like, from the word go, you ain’t never going to get it.  I messed about with that.  I did comedy - st[…]

[…]rother called Charlie who was always on call if there was ever a scene, as there were, with a dummy band you know, having done the playbacks of dummy musicians...Charlie Grossman with his trumpet was always had to be number one on the call sheet. But Joe was really out of this world. It's awfully di[…]

[…]e he got the food from and all that...?" He said, "But he entertained everybody in Suez. It was a fantastic party" and he said, "It was a wow! He got musicians...he got a..." He said, "Bloody good bloke!" He said, "Did you well." So, I said, "Oh, very nice..." He said, "No, excellent." He said, "Don[…]

[…] Not BBC girls?Julia Cave: Well one turned out to be a BBC girl, and she’s now living in Chicago, we’ve remained friends all out lives.  She’s a musician.  We had a pretty wild time in this flat but… [laughter] Norman Swallow: [laughter] No comment!Julia Cave: An extremely untidy and […]

[…]t! Bob Allen: Was your wife in the business? Mickey Hickey: No. No, her father used to work in the stores at MGM. Her father was a professional musician. You see talkies finished him, because he was in the Music Halls - whereas it made me, but it finished him. Her brother worked at MGM as a ri[…]