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' SING ME A SONG WITH SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Presented by Leslie Perowne
While it is probably true that nine songs out of ten are love songs, there remains the other tenth to include songs on other subjects. Some of the best songs ever written have been ' social' songs-songs about work, about play, about snobs, and about earning a living.
. Leslie Perowne has been busy getting together some of the best of these songs. Some of them are grave, while others are gay-all of them reflect some aspect or other of social life. On the one hand you will hear Norman Long singing ' The Council schools are good enough for me' and on the other that brilliant little artist Molly Picon singing her ' Song of the Tenement '

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Presented By:
Leslie Perowne
Unknown:
Leslie Perowne
Unknown:
Norman Long
Artist:
Molly Picon

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