from swing to classics
Records of Olive Groves
Recording of Walter Chapman and his Band, broadcast in the Home Service at 3.0 p.m. on January 19
with Joan Allen , Jack Collins , and Sandy Macpherson at the organ of the Royal Cinema. Plymouth.
on gramophone records
Headlines
News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas
On gramophone records.
Half-hour programme of music chosen entirely by a member of the Forces serving overseas. Today's choice' is by Lieut. R. G. Lytton Hamer , M.E.F.
David Java and his Orchestra
CBC Network programme, originating in Vancouver, with Percy Harvey and the Golden Strings Orchestra, and songs by Ann Watt and Greg Miller. (CBC recording)
CBC Network programme, featuring popular tunes and cowboy songs played by Cammie Howard and his Quintet and sung by OraL Scheer . (CBC recording of a programme originating in Ottawa)
Records of classical music chosen by civilian and Forces listeners overseas
of the Championship Quartet Contest of Great Britain, promoted by Morris Motors Club, in conjunction with Morris Motors Band
at the piano, with his Quintet
with the Bachelor Girls. Peter Akister. and George Elliott. Directed by James Moody
Close-ups from the war-fronts
Weekly review of the music popular
. in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada, featuring the Brass Hats. the Singing Strings, the New George Evans Orchestra, and Beryl Davis. Produced by Pat Dixon. (Recording of a broadcast in the A.E.F. Programme)
David McCallum plays popular light pieces written or transcribed for the violin
Orchestral music, on gramophone records
Overture: Fingal's Cave: London
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Piano Concerto No. 1, in D minor:
Ania Dorfmann. with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr
James 'Sloan introduces the Govan Burgh Band; Margaret McLean (soprano): Ellis Drake and Jack Fraser; the Hampden Roar. Sports news: 'Call Yourself a Scot?' (the weekly quiz). Programme produced by John Keir Cross .
Novelty numbers and solo pieces. played by the BBC Variety Orchestra (conductor, Charles Shadwell ), with Gene Crowjey
and reports from the battlefromts
Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas
and the Dance Orchestra, with Rita Marlowe , Sid Buckman , and the Prairie Boys
Weekly review of sporting topics. past and present. Soccer: ' The First Cup Final of All.' by E. Dudley Evans: Billiards and Snooker: Arthur Goundrill recalls some of his experiences during his long career with the cue
Followed at 8.10 by Home News from- Canada cabled from the CBC News Rooms
Weekly broadcasts from well-known Variety theatres.
This week's bill: Alec Pleon, Dawn Davis, Bennet and McNaughton. From the Coliseum, Portsmouth
with the Combined Stoll Theatres Orchestra.
(NEWS HEADLINES AT 9.15)
featuring Mary Livingstone , Don Wilson , Rochester, Phil Harris and his Orchestra, and Jack Benny. (Recorded in America, and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network) followed at 9.58 by News Headlines
with his Orchestra, and artists
Harry Fryer and. his Orchestra. (Recording of a broadcast in the Home Service on January 20)
