A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Records of Vera Lynn, Britain's sweetheart of song
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
Played by John Reynders and his Orchestra
Listeners will congratulate Captain John Reynders on just recently getting his third pip. This well-known broadcaster entered the musical profession at the age of thirteen, and soon obtained his first engagement at the Gaiety Theatre in London as violinist under the late Ivan Caryll. At twenty he was conducting a George Edwardes touring production. After the last war Reynders entered the cinema field, conducted the orchestra for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at the Palace Theatre, London, and later became Director of Music at the Tivoli Cinema in the Strand. He has done a lot of work for the films, and arranged the music for Emlyn Williams 's picture A Night Alone.
A personal choice of records presented by Ajax Farrar
and his Orchestra
at the theatre organ
Theatre organ favourites
An ENSA concert for war workers with . Raymond Newell , Judy Shirley , and Jerry Hoey and his Orchestra
and his Orchestra with Gloria Brent , Buddy Loman , Edna Kaye , Doreen Stephens , and Rudy Starita
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Sousa on parade
Old English melodies
at the theatre organ
Lullaby in rhythm
Fredric Bayco , who has been broadcasting since 1935, began his musical education with piano lessons at the, age of seven. Five years later he was appointed assistant organist at a Littlehampton church. He continued his organ studies at the Brighton School of Music, and became a cinema organist at the age of sixteen at the Capitol Theatre, Tonbridge. The following year he joined the Gaumont-British Film Corporation, and made his name on the air with his broadcasts from the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road.
played by the BBC Variety Orchestra
Leader, Frank Cantell
Conductor, Charles Shadwell with Helen Clare
with another half-hour, featuring those popular personalities, the Happy Gang
A programme of music with a rhythmic lilt, played by Wynford Reynolds and his Orchestra
sung by Cavan O'Connor (tenor)
The snowy-breasted pearl The star of County Down
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
Editors, Bill MacLurg and Howard Thomas
Hugh Macmillan (fiddler)
Angus Campbell (piper)
and his Orchestra
at the theatre organ
BBC Orchestra
(Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
in ' The Birth of a Notion'
A romantic musical play
Part of an entertainment by a Signals Unit in Scotland
A weekly summary by the Canadian Press of Canadian news, specially presented for the Canadians in this country and read by Gerry Wilmot
(In collaboration with the CBC and the Canadian Press)
with Edward Reach (tenor)
with Don Johnson, David Wilkins, Betty Kent, and the Johnsonairs