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Songs about the libelled ladies of Tin-Pan Alley and Charing Cross Road, sung by Diana Ward
The Three in Harmony
with BBC Revue Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum

Charles Heslop will introduce Miss Otis, Madame la Zonga, Olga Pollovski , Minnie the Moocher, Hard-Hearted Hannah, and all the other guests
Written and produced by Howard Thomas

Here is a bright idea, worthy of the brain of Howard Thomas who has devised so many interesting and ingenious radio programmes, the idea being briefly that nice girls in programmes have been overdone, and so he proposes to give a chance to the shady ones.
Howard Thomas, who comes from Manchester, devised and wrote the 'Man Behind the Melodies' series, the first of which was broadcast by Herman Darewski - himself a Manchester man. But probably Howard Thomas's most famous series was
'Showmen of England' which featured the late Bertram Mills, C.B. Cochran, and many another who had the flair for appealing to the public taste.

Contributors

Sung By:
Diana Ward
Leader:
Boris Pecker
Conducted By:
Hyam Greenbaum
Conducted By:
Charles Heslop
Unknown:
Olga Pollovski
Produced By:
Howard Thomas
Unknown:
Howard Thomas
Unknown:
Howard Thomas
Unknown:
Herman Darewski-Himse
Unknown:
Howard Thomas
Unknown:
Bertram Mills
Unknown:
C. B. Cochran

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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