[…]. I think I must double check this sometime. I heard it on a news item or something.SPEAKER: M21But I must I must check that but yes she was a lovely singer and then I was selected to go on the on the television training course from Manchester which was I think in about 19 and a 57 into 58 in those […]
[…]as only about mid-twenties, which was very young to be a producer then. And I was able to communicate much better with pop groups and young pop singers.. and.. I wasn’t… they felt I was much more sympathetic with them than… than other people that… they found quite hostile in the BBC. And[…]
[…]as a wonderful pianist; she changed to light music and jazz and was very successful with that. Before the war she had her own trio – two pianos and a singer – and they played at the Berkeley and the Savoy in London, all over the place. And that’s really how she earned her living; she used to play du[…]
[…]h directors, they'd scour the world, they used to go to Paris, they used to go to America, and they'd bring back all the top speciality acts, the top singers, and it was a very expensive, very funny review which was on every summer. And I suppose that's a great influence on me because I used to go t[…]
[…] in London from 1932 -1960 CB: And an A merican singer sang the songs ‘ Ain’t she sweet’ and ‘Drifting […]
[…]them. I think writers are, painters, writers and people in all the arts, they are very lucky they are in the arts, all of them, writers, poets, opera singers, anybody in any facet of art is very, very lucky. I think most of them, don’t know how lucky they are in most cases to have the kind of talent[…]
[…]y Charter Film Productions was set up in 1937.5 Vivian Van Damm (1889-1960) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960
CB: And an American singer sang the songs ‘Ain’t she sweet’ and ‘Drifting and Dreaming’ and I danced around in the background and I didn’t say anything but I just danced […]
