' The Seaside Bandstand '
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe wit'u F. H. Grisewood as compere
Tonight marks the peak of the first great open-air holiday of the year, and the seaside has awakened to receive thousands of visitors. There is still a bandstand on every sea-front, though it is not today the focal point of activity that once it was.
'Seaside Bandstand ' will recall the seaside atmosphere of pre-war days, and recapture some of the music that older listeners will associate with the ' Prom-prom-prom, where the brass band played tiddley-om-pom-pom!'
You will hear waltzes of Archibald Joyce and Lincke, a French overture of the type so popular in those days, a cornet solo, a Tosti ballad, a popular march of the day, and some such novelty number as ' A Policeman's Holiday or the well-known ' The Whistler and his Dog '.
F. H. Grisewood will compere the programme, giving a lucid commentary on the sort of fun that went on in the shadow of the big drum.