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Don Davis invites listeners by telephone to join in the national game of naming the tune. 'Prizes for all who know their music.'
If you would like to play this game, send a postcard giving your name, address and telephone number to: Beat the Record, [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Don Davis
Producer:
Tony Luke

The story of 60 years of popular music. A 26-week series
' Benny Goodman made a quip to me one night and I thought he was trying to be funny, as funny as Benny Goodman can get. He said " What are you trying to do, take over the damn business, you damn singers? '" ' (DICK HAYMES ) IS: There'll Be Some Changes Made
Kenneth More continues the history of popular music from the beginning of the 20th century, with the help of: PRANKIE LAINE , ROSEMARY CI.OONEY DICK IIAYMES , GUY LOMBARDO SY OLIVER. NEIL HEFTt
ALEC WILDER , GEORGE T. SIMON and others
Written by PETER CLAYTON Research by BILL SULLIVAN
Producer JOHN BILLINGHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Benny Goodman
Unknown:
Benny Goodman
Singers:
Dick Haymes
Unknown:
Kenneth More
Unknown:
Prankie Laine
Unknown:
Ooney Dick Iiaymes
Unknown:
Lombardo Sy Oliver.
Unknown:
Neil Heftt
Unknown:
Alec Wilder
Unknown:
George T. Simon
Written By:
Peter Clayton
Unknown:
Bill Sullivan

Fragant memories from Victorian and Edwardian times and a little later, with .IEAN GRAYSTON. LESLIE FYSON DUNCAN ROBERTSON *
THE REGINALD LEOPOLD ORCHESTRA
THE GENTLEMEN OF BRASS and the KING'S SINGERS
Introduced by Alan Keith Producer RORERT BOWMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Fyson
Unknown:
Duncan Robertson
Unknown:
Reginald Leopold
Introduced By:
Alan Keith
Producer:
Rorert Bowman

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