Frank Chaksfields Tunesmiths--The Obernkirchen Children's Choir--Gracie Fields--Maurice Elwin--Tennessee Ernie Ford--New Light Symphony Orchestra

  Just a mixed lot of music and vocal's ending in a Classical Mode !!.....with no Info on the net of The "New Light Symphony Orchestra"

1. Meet Mr Callaghan......Frank Chakfields Tunesmiths

2. Prelude Rag......Frank Chaksfields Tunesmiths

3. The Happy Wanderer......The Obernkirchen Children's Choir

4. Eventide......The Obernkirchen Children's Choir

5. Honey Child......Gracie Fields

6. Papa Won't You Dance With Me.......Gracie Fields with Tommy Fields

7. Just Once For All Times......Maurice Elwin

8. Live Laugh And Love.......Maurice Elwin

9. His Hands.......Tennessee Ernie Ford

10. I'm A Pilgrim......Tennessee Ernie Ford

11. Barcarolle......New Light Symphony Orchestra

12. Cavalleria Rusticana......New Light Symphony Orchestra

"The Happy Wanderer" is a popular song. The original text was written by Florenz Friedrich Sigismund (1791–1877).

The present tune was composed by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller shortly after World War II. The work is often mistaken for a German folk song, but it is an original composition. Möller's sister Edith conducted a small amateur children's and youth choir in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany, internationally named Obernkirchen Children's Choir, in Germany named Schaumburger Märchensänger. She adapted Sigismund's words for her choir.

In 1953, a BBC radio broadcast of the choir's winning performance at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod turned the song into an instant hit. On January 22, 1954, the song entered the UK singles chart and stayed on the chart—only a Top 12 at the time—for 26 non-consecutive weeks, peaking at Number 2 (for five consecutive weeks). The amateur choir, many of whose original members were war orphans, turned into an international phenomenon in the following years. The group performed on many international tours under the name Obernkirchen Children's Choir and recorded several albums. They made two appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show (November 29, 1964, and December 11, 1966).

Norman MacPhail Blair (14 June 1896 – 5 October 1975), who most often used the pseudonym Maurice Elwin in his professional work, was a British dance band singer and songwriter who was popular between the First and Second World Wars. He used over 60 different pseudonyms, both as a singer and composer, including John Curtis, Maurice Kelvin, Donald O'Keefe, Guy Victor, and Max Wynn, as well as sometimes using the name Norman Blair.

He made his first known recording, as Maurice Elwin, in 1916, though it was not issued at the time, in 1926 he was singing and recording, notably with the Gramophone Company and on the Parlophone label. He recorded many solo performances and duets, as well as uncredited vocals on dance band records, simply noted anonymously as "vocal refrain".

A baritone singer, Elwin was one of the most prolific British recording artists of the era, recording some 2,000 tracks. His style was said to be "understated and subtle", relatively unemotional and with precise diction. Among the many bands with whom he recorded in the 1920s and early 1930s were those of Bert Firman and Arthur Lally. These were regarded at the time as "hot" bands, though Elwin also recorded with more orchestral ensembles, notably the Savoy Orpheans led by Carroll Gibbons in the early 1930s. By 1936, he was said to receive the highest salary ever paid to a British dance band singer.

          1. Meet Mr Callaghan