A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Programme summary
Records of Joseph Hislop (tenor)
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
followed by Programme Parade
Details of some of today's broadcasts
played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Raymond Raikes will play you some records that have been best-sellers within the last few years
at the theatre organ
Felton Rapley was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral and received his musical training from Dr. Prendergast, its famous organist, to whom he was pupil assistant for three years. Entering the cinema industry at the age of seventeen, he became musical director at a number of South-Coast cinemas, and soon became a theatre organist, in which capacity he has held posts all over the country.
at the piano
Eddie Carroll is one of the most talented figures in the dance-band world, both as a band leader and as a composer. His ' Harlem' and ' Ebony Shadows are two tunes that must rank among jazz classics. He has played with a number of famous bands, including those of Ambrose, Lew Stone , and Henry Hall , with whom he was solo pianist on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary.
A lunch-hour entertainment for factory workers relayed from a factory 'somewhere in Britain'
played by Frank Thomas
Conductor, Cyril I. Yorath
Another programme of words and music to enjoy at your leisure
Devised by Vernon Harris and Phillip Leaver with Ivan Brandt
Paula Green
Dick Francis
Eettie Bucknellr
Ian Sadler
Jane Grahame
BBC Revue Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Presented and compered by Vernon
'Harris
played by Van Straten and his Music
Presenting the story of Jeanette Macdonald
The cast will include Godfrey Baseley, Joan Young , Cecile Chevreau , and Richard George with the recorded voices of Nelson Eddy , Jack Buchanan , and Jeanette Macdonald herself
Programme arranged and written by Harry Alan Towers
Produced by Charles Maxwell
' Fats Waller '
Played by Alan Paul and Ivor Dennis on two pianos
A commentary on one of the Men's Singles matches by Raymond Glendenning.
Records of good jazz
A recorded version of the week's events at home and abroad
Produced by the Recorded Programmes Department
A gramosaic of dance music from the Morris to the Conga
Presented by Alec Bristow
followed by National and Regional announcements
and his Dance Orchestra
A programme of requests designed to unite members of the Forces with their relatives and friends at home
with Kean and Mather
Mabel Constanduros
Renee Houston and Donald Stewart and other star artists
BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell
Compere, Philip Slessor
Presented by John Sharman
A programme of songs by the composer of 'If you were the only girl in the world ' with Doris Hare
Patrick Waddington
Mark Daly
Ivan Samson and Nat D. Ayer
BBC Theatre Chorus
Trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Programme presented and conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
to the Scottish Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Ronnie Munro and presented in archaic manner by Tom Dawson
with Esther Coleman
Listeners will welcome a broadcast by Billy Mayerl and his Band, not only because he always provides first-class entertainment, but because he is in the news. Sydney Lipton's Band has provided the dance music at Grosvenor House for the last nine years, but Sydney is now in the Royal Corps of Signals, and since May 5 Billy Mayerl and his Band have taken over. Thus one of the earliest of British jazz celebrities the former Savoy Havana pianist has returned to the business after an absence of sixteen years.
Some records of armchair music
