Wednesday 2 October 2024

Ann Stephens--Reginald Dixon--Bud & Joe Billings--The Grosvenor Light Opera Company--Gracie Fields--Josef Locke

What a wonderful colourful collection of labels...can you spot the mistake ??..I perhaps need some new glasses or a better span of concentration !

1. Teddy Bears Picnic......Ann Stephens
2. Dicky Bird Hop......Ann Stephens
3. Waltzing With Strauss (Part 1)......Reginald Dixon
4. Waltzing With Strauss (Part 2)......Reginald Dixon
5. When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver.....Bud & Joe Billings
6. I'm Alone Because I Love You......Bud & Joe Billings
7. Vocal Gems From Showboat. (Part 1).The Grosvenor Light Opera Company
8. Vocal Gems From Showboat. (Part 2).The Grosvenor Light Opera Company
9. It Began With A Tango......Gracie Fields
10. Serenade Of The Bells......Gracie Fields
11. Wonderful Copenhagen......Josef Locke
12. One Little Candle......Josef Locke

Ann Stephens (21 May 1931 – 15 July 1966 was a British child actress and singer, popular in the 1940s. She was born in London. In July 1941 she recorded several songs, including a popular version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", "Dicky Bird Hop" (with Franklin Engelmann) and a setting by Harold Fraser-Simson of one of A. A. Milne's verses about Christopher Robin, "Buckingham Palace," which was often featured on the BBC Light Programme's Children's Favourites. 


A series of 78 RPM recordings are available from the 1930s by 'The Grosvenor Light Opera Company' it is not clear how the company that recorded these works are related to the modern group.

Grosvenor Light Opera Company (GLOC) is a nonprofit community theatre organization in London, established in 1949 to study and perform the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The company is the only (non-student) amateur Gilbert and Sullivan group both to rehearse and perform in central London and has been described by Ian Bradley as the "leading amateur G & S performing group in London".

        10.Serenade Of The Bells

2 comments:

  1. Hi Micky, the link is missing ;-) Can you please add it?Thanks for all the interesting posts!
    Greetings from Holland, Henk

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  2. no link miki

    thank you

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