where's Mr V to help us reminice...we are talking Sing Something Simple here...

[Bobbisox]

I bet Mr V can have loads of lovely stories about the radio shows of yesteryear?

[Bobbisox]

sorry I left there peeps, just been on the phone to afcjan, we ring eachother every Sunday, a great gal ♥

[boxtops]

I remember round the Horne too, that was good. Wilfrid Pickles, too - give 'em the money Mabel! and in the morning, Music While You Work, 10.30am - Mum used to tell me that it was to cheer up people working in the factories. No singing, just catchy continuous cheery music for half an hour. Listen with Mother at 1.45 followed by Woman's Hour - which is still on now!

[Mr Veritas]

askyourgran,
Eth & Ron,were from "The Glums" June Whitfield,Jimmy Edwards & Dick Bentley.
Revived for TV(not very sucessfully,as it was really not a visual comedy) in 1978,with Patricia Brake, Jimmy Edwards & Ian Lavender.
The wonderful,unique,and much loved June is still going strong at 84!
I saw her in a Leonard Bernstein musical last year in London (no she wasn't dancing,but I think she could).
BTW Ian Lavender is now 64! Now doesn't that make you feel old,I know it does me! LOL

[askyourgran]

Thanks MrV, My memory isn't nearly as good as yours and you are older than me.

Boxtops I remember those programmes now you mention them, Workers Playtime and there was a programme that Victor Sylvester used to have, maybe In Town Tonight?
Blimey I'm really rusty, but it's fun trying to remember them all. Was it Ray Ellington that played rumba music.

[Mr Veritas]

askyourgran,
My memory is only so ggod due to it having to be when I was in the Army,and SOE,it wasn't only our bodies that they trained!
Victor Sylvester had a TV programme called "Dancing Club",which alternated each week with the original "Come Dancing".
The difference veing "Come Dancing" was a competiton,and "Dancing Club" was reall VS teaching you HOW do dance,and demonstrating it with well known ballroom dancers of the day.