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The Good Old Days

Ken Bruce, aided and abetted by Barry Cryer, presents Friday Night Is Music Night, as we recall 成人快手 TV series The Good Old Days, first broadcast 60 years ago.

Ken Bruce aided and abetted by our guest music hall chairman Barry Cryer presents tonight's Friday Night is Music Night, as we recall the 成人快手 TV series - The Good Old Days - first broadcast 60 years ago.

Later this year Friday Night Is Music Night will celebrate its 60th anniversary - for the last 60 years the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra has been a constant feature of our Friday evening listening.

1953, as it turned out, was a fruitful year in 成人快手 production. Apart from Friday Night is Music Night there had been the great achievement of the live coverage of the Queen's Coronation , drama presented a new series called The Quatermass Experience, Rag, Tag and Bobtail made their very first appearance on the small screen for small people and a new current affairs show was launched entitled Panorama. Then on the 20th July 1953 the entertainment department produced the first of a series of shows which would continue for the next 30 years - The Good Old Days.

The Good Old Days was the brain child of producer Barney Colehan - who before moving to television worked in radio on shows like Have A Go with Wilfred Pickles. The Good Old Days format may be puzzling and dated to today's audience. Recorded at the City Varieties Theatre in Leeds, the Good Old Days recreated the golden era of the Victorian-Edwardian music hall performed by the stars of the present-day. The likes of Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Arthur Askey and Ted Ray all appeared. The audience was asked to wear suitable attire or else they were banished to the seats in the circle away from the television cameras. The Good Old Days original chairman was Leonard Sachs known for his loquacious introductions to the variety of guests who queued up to do a turn.

Tonight, two guests who regularly appeared on the Good Old Days reunite to celebrate this golden entertainment show - Barry Cryer and Bernard Cribbins. Bernard performs Marriott Edgar's classic tale - Albert and the Lion - whilst Barry acts as our music hall chairman. Soubrette Sophie-Louise Dann performs tributes to the great Marie Lloyd and Vesta Tilley, tenor Alexander Grove entertains with a touch of operatic song and Mark Walsh recalls the great Max Miller. We'll also be joined by virtuoso accordionist Martynas. The 成人快手 Concert Orchestra are as ever on hand conducted by Gavin Sutherland . And we'll end(as the Good Old Days always did) with a chorus of Down at the Old Bull and Bush.

There will be more Good Old Days memories from guests Barry Cryer and Bernard Cribbins during our concert interval.

The show was recorded at the Hackney Empire in June and first broadcast in August 2013.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Fri 11 Oct 2013 20:00

Music Played

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    High Adventure (FNIMN Sig Tune)

  • 成人快手 CONCERT ORCHESTRA C.B. GAVIN SUTHERLAND

    BLAZE AWAY

  • Sophie Louise Dann and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    BURLINGTON BERTIE FROM BOW

  • Sophie Louise Dann and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    Following In Father's Footsteps (Part of Burlington Bertie Medley)

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra conducted by Gavin Sutherland

    ROUGE ET NOIR

  • Mark Walsh and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra Cb. Gavin Sutherland

    THE MARROW SONG

  • Mark Walsh and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra Cb. Gavin Sutherland

    LADY OF SPAIN

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra Cb: Gavin Sutherland

    Whistling Rufus

  • Alexander Grove and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    Le Danza

  • Bernard Cribbins

    THE LION AND ALBERT

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra conducted by Gavin Sutherland

    THEATRELAND

  • Martynas Levickis

    1st Mvt Allegro Winter

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    EGYPTIAN BALLET - 1st MVT Allegro Non Troppo

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    OVERTURE HMS PINAFORE

  • Sophie Louise Dann and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    I'M CALLED LITTLE BUTTERCUP (HMS PINAFORE)

  • Sophie Louise Dann and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    Ship Ahoy!

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra Cb: Gavin Sutherland

    Pas De Quatre (Faust Up To Date)

  • Alexander Grove and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    GIRLS WERE MADE TO LOVE AND KISS

  • Mark Walsh and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra Cb. Gavin Sutherland

    AMERICAN SONG MEDLEY - The Banjo's back in town,If you knew Susie, Swannee, California here I come, Stars and Stripes

  • Martynas Levickis

    Hava Nagila

  • Sophie Louise Dann and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    Marie Lloyd Tribute-When I Take My Morning Promenade, My Old Man Said Follow The Van, The Boy I Love

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    OVERTURE: THE ARCADIANS

  • Cast members and the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra C.b Gavin Sutherland

    DOWN AT THE OLD BULL AND BUSH

  • 成人快手 Concert Orchestra Cb: Gavin Sutherland

    FNIMN Closing Sig Tune

An Insiders View with soprano Sophie- Louise Dann

An Insiders View with soprano Sophie- Louise Dann

Hey, I love it when I鈥檓 asked to be a part of Friday Night is Music Night and this one鈥檚 going to be special!

A tribute to the Good Old Days and听 the great British tradition of Music Hall. FAB!!

Chat through possible material with Producer Bridget Apps and after the OK from Maestro Gavin Sutherland we鈥檝e got a programme.

THURSDAY: Rehearsal at Watford Colosseum

听WOW 鈥 what great acoustics.

Met the lovely Alexander Grove whose tenor voice sounds amazing. Such a treat to sing this material with a full orchestra!听听 With just a few tweaks in tempi and听 impromptu听 final bars of Vesta Tilley tribute we鈥檙e good to go.

FRIDAY: Hackney Empire.

With frocks and wigs in tow for the live audience, felt a real buzz at the afternoon rehearsal. Barry Cryer and Bernard Cribbins arrive and do their sound-check.听 A treat to be reunited with Bernard after 23 years since a season at Regents Park Open Air Theatre!!

8pm 鈥 Curtain up! The crowd is buzzing. First spot 鈥 a Tribute to male impersonator of the era Vesta Tilley in 鈥榙rag鈥 鈥 black tux and hair slicked back. Great buzz on and offstage,

QUICK CHANGE: for G&S and Ship Ahoy 鈥 the audience are in fine voice singing along with gusto!Backstage everyone smiling and watching from the wings. Time for a few photos too!

Another change into Marie Lloyd costume and wig.

Ace spots from ukelele player and comedian Mark Walsh and the enigmatic Martynas along with the soaring Tenor Alexander Grove.

Bernard听 brought the house down with his monologue and banter with 鈥淢r Chairman 鈥 your own, your very own Barry Cryer.

Last spot 鈥 a tribute to Marie Lloyd 鈥楺ueen of the Halls鈥欌.

鈥榃as everybody happy?... 鈥榊ou bet your life they were!!...

Have a Little Sing Along with us

鈥淔RIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT SALUTES THE GOOD OLD DAYS鈥

We invite you to join in the choruses if you fancy a singalong whilst listening at home

After the Ball

After the ball is over,听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

After the break of morn 鈥

After the dancers' leaving;

After the stars are gone;

Many a heart is aching,

If you could read them all;

Many the hopes that have vanished

After the ball.听听听听听听听听

The Marrow Song

(Ooooh! What a beauty!),

听I've never seen one as big as that before

(Ooooh! What a beauty!),

听It must be two feet long or even more

It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat

I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that

(Ooooh! What a beauty!),

听I've never seen one as big as that before

Ship Ahoy

All the nice girls love a sailor,

All the nice girls love a tar;

For there鈥檚 something about a sailor -

Well, you know what sailors are!

Bright and breezy, free and easy,

He鈥檚 the ladies 鈥榩ride and joy -

Falls in love with Kate and Jane,

Then he鈥檚 off to sea again

Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!

Swanee

Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya

My dear old Swanee.

I'd give the world to be among the folks in

听D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for me,

praying for me down by the Swanee.

The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that swanee shore

California, Here I Come

California, Here I Come

Right back where I started from

Where bowers of flowers

Bloom in the spring

Each morning at dawning

Birdies sing at everything

A sun kissed miss said don't be late

That's why I can hardly wait

Open up that golden gate

California, Here I Come听听听听听听听听

My Old Man

My old man said: "Foller the van,

And don't dilly-dally on the way".

Off went the van wiv me 'ome packed in it.

I walked be'ind wiv me old cock linnet.

But I dillied and dallied,

Dallied and dillied;

Lost me way and don't know where to roam.

And you can't trust a "Special"

Like the old-time copper

When you can't find your way home.

The boy I love

The boy I love is up in the gallery,

The boy I love is looking now at me,

There he is, can't you see, waving his handkerchief,

As merry as a robin that sings on a tree.听听听听听听听听

The Old Bull and Bush

Come, come, come and make eyes at me

down at the Old Bull and Bush,

Da, da, da, da, da,

Come, come, drink some port wine with me,

Down at the Old Bull and Bush,

Hear the little German Band,

Da, da, da, da, da,

Just let me hold your hand dear,

Do, do come and have a drink or two

down at the Old Bull and Bush!听听听 Bush! Bush!

Conductor's Corner

Conductor's Corner

Conductor, composer/arranger and pianist, Gavin Sutherland鈥檚 career takes in many of the world鈥檚 top orchestras and artists. With a catalogue of over 80 commercially available compact discs and his compositions and arrangements played and broadcast frequently around the world, Gavin鈥檚 dedication to the production of high-class music is of considerable importance.

Interval Item

Interval Item

Tonight鈥檚 interval

Relive the heyday of the Good Old Days in the company of Barry Cryer, Bernard Cribbins and Leeds City Varieties鈥 Rachel Lythe.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 23 Aug 2013 20:00
  • Fri 11 Oct 2013 20:00