A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Programme summary
Records of Ella Fitzgerald, the famous coloured singer and band leader
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
played by Victor Fleming and his Orchestra
Dance music and songs for the housewife on gramophone records
with Helen Clare
Presented by Hugh Shirreff
An ENSA concert for war workers with Ann Canning , Ted Plant , and Reg Morgan and the ENSA Orchestra
and his Band with Gloria Brent , Edna Kaye ,
Bobby Logan , Rudy Starita
Maurice Winnick , whose band is on the air every day this week, was born in Manchester in 1902, and began to play the violin at the age of seven. At fourteen he was playing in a cinema, and at twenty toured Variety halls throughout the country with his own band. Three years later he undertook a series of engagements on. various liners, and made three complete world cruises.
Back in England, he began film work with his own orchestra simultaneously with the making of the first British talking picture. Since then his band has played at several of London's famous rendezvous and he has made a big name for himself in the dance-band world.
at the theatre organ
Although only twenty-seven, Aircraftman John Madin has had eleven years of cinema experience, beginning as an orchestral accompanist in the davs of silent films.
He was acting as deputy organist at Chesterfield Parish Church when only fifteen years old, and later became interested in the cinema organ, studying the technique of this instrument. At the same time he studied straight organ playing under G. D. Cunningham. Madin has had experience of all types of organs, from the village church harmonium to the mighty organ of the Albert Hall.
played by Richard Telfer at the theatre organ
Tea-time tunes and tattle with Edward Cooper, Diana Morrison, Graham Payne, Luanne Shaw
Compere, Guy Vemey
Dance Orchestra, directed by Billy Ternent
Presented by Reginald Smith
Woodhouse and Hawkins
Two comedians with many voices strongly supported by Geoffrey Waddington and his Orchestra
A twice-weekly magazine programme for men of the Anti-Aircraft, Balloon
Barrage, and Searchlight units
Sports features, topical interviews, musical novelties, high spots from the news, and stop press items
Compere, Lionel Gamlin
Editor, Bill MacLurg
A fortnightly summary of New Zealand news, specially presented for New Zealanders in this country and read by W. D'Arcy Cresswell
and his Ambassadors Dance Band m
A black-faced minstrel show, devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper Bones, tambourines, corner - men, crack banjo team, stump speech, old and new melodies
The cast includes
Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch , C. Denier Warren , Sidney Burchall , the Kentucky Banjo Team: Dick Pepper , Edward Fair , Bernard Sheaff ,
BBC Variety Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus, conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Music arranged by Doris Arnold and orchestrated by" Wally Wallond
Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren
A new cartoon invented by John Watt
Written by C. Denier Warren and Ted Kavanagh. Lyrics by James Dyrenforth. Music by Henry Reed , played by the augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Gordon Crier
A musical comedy
Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen-what's your favourite record ? Tell us th; title and as many as can be got into half-an-hour will be played to you by Roy Rich
Address your postcards, marked ' Record Time ', in the top left-hand corner, to the BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.I.
A weekly summary by the Canadian Press of Canadian news, specially presented for Canadians in this country and read by Gerry Wilmot (in collaboration with the CBC and the Canadian Press)
Presented by James Moody
The Three in Harmony, George Melachrino , Peter Akister and James Moody at two pianos
with Anne Lenner and Sam Browne
