Fred Tomlin

[…]ey listened to them and there was nothing on there. But I wish he'd have had them because we went to one or two nightclubs and there were some lovely singers. Because I said to Malcolm, "Oh if I could have a copy of some of those," but we never did get it you know. But that was an interesting job. B[…]

Ena Baga

[…]hoever won it, he would suggest where they could hang it. All the debutants were programme sellers, it was a lovely night of course. We had the negro singer, Ethel Waters they wrote the song ‘Dinah’, it was written for her. She was very nervous, she hadn’t sung with an organ before, so we’d rehearse[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]I thought, you know, as being his first film, and then I followed it on the young Kapoor, who was that time next to Ginny and Karu, so one of the top singers in the world. And he appeared in a firm called My song for you. He was based striking personality, had a great sense of humor. And also we dis[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] But Carmen was with Tom Burke, who was an opera singer. He actually came from Lancashire I believe. And he […]

Fred Tomlin

[…] to the cinema. So when they fetched over The Jazz Singer which - no, The Jazz Singer wasn't the first […]

Pete Murray

[…]n it.PETE MURRAY:  Well, the first ones were Lonnie Donegan, Tommy Steele.  I think we had Dennis Lotis on, who was at that time one of the singers with the big Ted Heath band.  I can’t really remember many of them, but then Don Lang came later because the original Six - Five Special […]

Dicky Leeman

[…] an extra [laughs], and I believe if it had been an evening dress job you got thirty shillings a day. But Carmen was with Tom Burke, who was an opera singer. He actually came from Lancashire I believe. And he was married to a well-known West End star called Marie Burke. I don't remember a lot about […]

Bill Cotton

[…]title variety sums up, it is called variety because it's meant to be a variety of things on one, in one theatre, you went and you saw a juggler and a singer and a comedian and trickcyclist and whatever, whatever. And that if you like was the same type of thing as the variety department became when I[…]
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