A F (Peter) Birch

[…]fashion.Alan Lawson : How many mikes would you use on an orchestra then? Just the one?Peter Birch : As a rule, one.Alan Lawson : One, and one for the singer.Peter Birch : Unless there was a solo section in the orchestra that you had to portray, and then you'd have an extra mike of course, and you'd […]

Margaret Dale

[…]ore important than school was to me the dancing class.NS: Where was this?  In the school?MD: No, no, no! I think my mother wanted to be an opera singer so she took me to dancing class. I went to dancing class before I went to school. I went to dancing class at three.I think what happened (this […]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…], with the [Lou Crader] orchestra?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes...the [Lou Crader]...John P Hamilton "Palais Party" which incorporated the "find the singer contest" didn't it?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yep.John P Hamilton And all sorts of jolly things like that - an in-built quiz within a musical s[…]

Jean Anderson

[…]get down. He was absolutely motionless until the crump, then get up! And again, on the occasions that I performed at the Player’s theatre, I wasn’t a singer, but I did do one or two monologue and used to play in the pantomimes occasionally. On some occasion, William came on with me, like a Yorkshire[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]rdinary housewife. Anyway, Burgess made it, as you imagine, because he was a major in the American Army in bombed out Berlin that she is a night club singer or something like that. The bombed Berlin they found a bomb site near St Paul's and that was Berlin where they were shooting, and it was a Satu[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]lm was Roddy McDowell, who was aged eight. I may have mentioned this. Oh, yes. Yeah. But again, I so I re met Glynnis, who played in it? And a little singer girl. Yes. But you look to the to the clock. And it was a very, very happy picture, indeed. And it was, it was wonderful for me in a way becaus[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]at fun. Travel, and I got on the phone with him. Linda Wood  36:24Beautiful voice didn't. Donald Wilson  36:26He was an effective singer. But I wrote a couple of lyrics for him, would you like because I put the e sound on the high notes, which you would like very much, because it[…]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]s in it, strangely enough. The first film she ever did as a five or six year old girl was the girl who sings in Paris, the English woman, the English singer called...[20:30]Petula Clark, do you mean?Elizabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 1 Side A14Elizabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 1 Side AYes. And, and, and Linden, Li[…]

June Randall

[…]c Portman. First time I was ever on the floor.1: Who was continuity girl on that? [Winifred Dyer]It’s out of my memory for the moment.1: Was it Becky Singer?June Randall Page 3No. No it wasn’t. It’ll come to me in a minute, come to me in a minute. But I did a filmwith her, then Jo Harcourt came[…]
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