[…]I did their only musical, I went in to do a musical called Oh What a Crazy World [sic, What a Crazy World, 1963] and it had in it Brown.. what is the singers name? [Joe Brown] it had all the singers of the sixties in it at the… I’m so bad with names, it will come to me in a minute. Anyway the […]
[…] at Kensington House there was Bryan Cowgill in charge of sport. And you, Norman, in music and arts. Steven Hurst was there. Aubrey Singer in charge of science and features. And it was…I mean, again, I was very fortunate with the reporters in Panorama, I was exceptionally luc[…]
[…]ed by Goebbels. So because I’m not an intellectual, they made me Head of Light Entertainment. And I started with nothing except an orchestra and some singers. Absolutely, I went around pw [prison] camps, trying to find young writers, young performers. I even went into Buchenwald.[Side 2, 04:47]DMW: […]
[…]ed with sitting around, or just staying at home, she wanted to travel. She’d been herself a performer, she’d been a trick cyclist first, then a singer with a girl partner which is when she met Dad, they were on the bill for two weeks running at different places during that two weeks. Dad[…]
[…] kitchen ceiling on an umbrella, like he was coming down in a parachute. John Cato played it for me. Then I did another one, Eric Shilling, the opera singer, did it for me. I did another one, a wonderful one, I can't remember what the set was but it was a fairly stylised set of some sort, and I don’[…]
[…]as a recording studio. Columbia Graphaphone had a recording studio there. And, of course, there was where we recorded all the Scala opera singers, all the big, big, big Scala people. And, apart from all the ‘hoi palloy’ there were other things a well. Local singers and such l[…]
[…]ather and my grandmother,Unknown Speaker 0:24 what did they tell me about your father and mother? My motherSpeaker 2 0:27 was singer. She She played the bell in the bell of New York, and she was in Florida from the country girl. My grandmother was a singer, and my father was […]
[…] was there a sense of deja vue?VG: Life is a Circus was a musical too; I think so yes. We had Shirley Eaton in it…Michael Holliday who was then a top singer, sounded exactly like [Bing] Crosby; I played him in there as a juvenile [lead] and we had Eddie Gray and all the old gang, I wrote sketches fo[…]
[…] Council and we00:03:01came out of it and when Dickie retired I was Vice Chairman and I was re- elected to be Vice Chairman when a chap called Aubrey Singer of the BBC.Television Producer he became Chairman for two years and two years after that. After his two years I became the Chairman of SFTA. Wh[…]
