A Cavalcade of Lyrics past and present by famous Authors
Presented by BRUCE SIEVIER
Vocalists
ESTHER COLEMAN and PERCY MANCHESTER
At the pianos,
JEAN MELVILLE and ALBERT ARLEN
Sing me the words
While shadows softly fall, For songs without words Have no meaning at all
Clifton Bingham , Lilian Glanville , Clifford Grey-these are the three lyric writers whose works Bruce Sievier will present tonight. They wrote the words to songs of the past, songs that still live ; and those words were so good that they are now inseparable from the tunes.
Clifton Bingham is now dead. It was he who composed, among other things, the lyric of ' Love's Old Sweet
Song' and A Jovial Monk am I Lilian Glanville has collaborated with composers of the calibre of Haydn
Wood and Eric Coates. Remember It is Only a Tiny Garden ' and ' Brown Eyes I Love ? It was Lilian Glanville who wrote the words to these. Then there is Clifford Grey who wrote the words of The Grenadiers ' and ' Dream Lover', songs that were sung so charmingly by Jeanette Macdonald in the film The Love Parade. Grey has had many other triumphs, too. One ot his greatest, of course, was the famous duet sung by George Robey and Violet Loraine , ' If You were the Only Girl in the World