My Music, page 3

Last Edited: 29-Jan-2017 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
NOTE: This edition has been compiled and written by Eric Langford and Charlie Rooke. The 2008 edition was edited by Sandy Finlayson. Earlier versions were compiled and edited by John Lucas. Special thanks for research and recordings are due to Keith Wickham, Martin Hood and Alexander Lucas.

Series 1 through 10
Series 11 through 16
Series 17 through 23
Series 24 through 28, TV, Miscellany

On this page: Series 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Series 17-23
Broadcast
Date
Series-
Episode
Contents
Cast
Parameters
09 Jun 1982
Recorded
05 Jan 1982
17-1
#328
TS323
  • Bartók/Concerto for Orchestra, Annie Ross and “Our Gang,” Rossini
    /Le Comte Ory and Kid Ory, There’ll Always Be 48 States in the
    U. S. A. (song title) made false by Alaska and Hawaii
  • Brahms/Academic Festival Orchestra, Jam Session, Beniamino
    Gigli, A 440
  • The Warsaw Concerto, Slaughter on Tenth Ave, Theme from the
    Glass Mountain, Dream of Olwen
  • Words from Songs: isle-de-dan (nonsense syllables)/The Old Sow
    Song, What makes a lady of 80 go out on the loose?/Elmer’s
    Tune, Hey there mister, you’d better watch your sister/The
    Fleet’s In, The darkest night would shine if you would come to
    me soon/How High the Moon
  • Tunes from the 60’s: James Bond Theme, Wheel’s Chacha,
    Forgotten Dreams, Manhattan Spiritual
  • Number of Letters in Composer’s Names: Harrison Birtwistle,
    Domenico Scarlatti, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Tennessee
    Ernie Ford
  • Final Songs: After the Ball, I’ll Clothe Myself in Green, Luvin’ Sam,
    They Didn’t Believe Me
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US NPR
26:59, 25337, S

16 Jun 1982
Recorded
05 Jan 1982
17-2
#329
TS324
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Vaughan Williams/O Clap Your Hands, The Oscars, Herbert/Naughty
    Marietta, Whispering Jack Smith and Peggy Lee
  • Literary Questions: Victor Hugo, George Eliot, Henry James,
    Robert Browning
  • Electronic Music: Prokofiev/Symphony No. 5, Rimsky-Korsakov/Flight
    of the Bumblebee, Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 8 ("Pathétique”),
    Tomita/The Dazzling Cylinder that Crashed in Tunguska, Siberia
  • Music Starting with the same four notes: Brahms/Symphony No. 2,
    Serenata, Waldteufel/Sirens Waltz, Three Little Words
  • Signature Tune for a Optician
  • Preludes and Fugue: Shostakovich, Crosby, Sinatra and Martin,
    Weinberger/Schwanda the Bagpiper, Mr Bach Goes to Town
  • Final Songs: I Want To Be Happy, If Music Be the Food of Love, Sing
    On, Keep On Doin’, I Only Have Eyes for You
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WWFM
27:01, 25395, S
23 Jun 1982
Recorded
12 Jan 1982
17-3
#330
TS325
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Copland/Billy The Kid, Serpent-Shaped Horn, Jussi Björling, The
    Jersey Bounce
  • Titles in Translation: Britten/Les Illuminations, Mozart/Così fan
    tutte, Ravel/Pavane pour une infante défunte, Je t'aime, Moi non
    plus Labèque sisters, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, first line
    of song, from Shall We Dance
  • Themes Starting with the Same Notes: Beethoven/Symphony No. 1
    and I Like to Recognize the Tune, I Kiss Your Hand, Madame and
    Toots Thielmans/Bluesette
  • A Sporting Chance: ASCH as keys, Two Note Song/One Note Samba/
    I Got a Note, Sir Donald Bradman, Lord Beginner
  • Final Songs: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To, Tom Bowling, My
    Old Brown Hat, Always
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KWAX
27:00, 25371, S
30 Jun 1982
Recorded
12 Jan 1982
17-4
#331
TS326
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Beethoven/Septet op. 20, Goethe/Gounod/Reilly, (Tommy Reilly
    plays harmonica), Gavotte from Thomas/Mignon (based on Goethe
    novel), Dvořák/Humoresque
  • Conjunction or Adverb?: Because
  • Janáček Kreutzer/Beethoven Kreutzer, Beethoven/Symphony
    No. 7, horn calls, Two Eyes of Grey
  • Piano Medley
  • Beautiful vein of genius
  • Final Songs: Rose of Tralee, Girl of the Golden West, Oh Ma
    Leave the Door Ajar, My Love’s an Arbutus
Held in Archives
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Race/Race
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WWFM
27:01, 25391, S
07 Jul 1982
Recorded
19 Jan 1982
17-5
#332
TS327
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Delius and Beecham, Le Douanier Rousseau, Der Rosenkavalier:
    Beecham, Nipper the Dog
  • Life in which city? Offenbach/Paris, Spice of Life, Life is
    nothing without music, Sasha Dichter/The Good Life
  • Instruments: small bore, viola di gamba, left-handed flute
    player in the mirror, snare drum
  • Momentary bursts of singers: Edith Piaf, Fred Astaire, Jack
    Buchanan, Dean Martin
  • Middle bits/Last bits: Grandfather’s Clock, Don’t Put Your
    Daughter on the Stage, With Her Head Tucked under Her
    Arm, How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You
  • Burglar in Russia singing a song: Impromptu in A♭, When the
    red red robber, Boris Got enough, Nobody knows the rubles
    I’ve seen, Everything I have is yours
  • Words from songs: just two fools/My Heart and I, Then
    they come on tiptoe to kiss him in his sleep/Mighty Lak’ a
    Rose, The rose of youth was dew-empearled/Sweet
    Genevieve, But we don’t talk about that/My Sister and I
  • Final Songs: I’m in the Mood for Love, Aragonese from Le Cid,
    Georgie and Mary, The Girl That I Marry
Held in Archives
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WWFM
27:01, 25399, S
14 Jul 1982
Recorded
19 Jan 1982
17-6
#333
TS328
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Third Symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov, and
    Saint-Saëns; Johnny Mathis, Swan Lake, You’re Gonna Hear
    from Me (by Dory and André Previn, from the movie Inside
    Daisy Clover, sung by Connie Francis)
  • Music people named Davis, A rhythm insulting in Mexico,
    Henry Hall (was organist at Exeter Cathedral), Article by
    Frank Muir in the DNB (Dictionary of National Biography)
  • Mood Music with Commentary
  • Lines from songs: sucking at the bung/Captain Stratton’s Fancy
    (composer Peter Warlock, based on the poem by John Masefield),
    night brings long strings o’ forty thousand million/Boots (composer
    J. P. McCall based on the poem by Kipling), Your face was a hymn/
    Bless You, Here’s her Social Security Number/Lydia the
    Tattooed Lady
  • Piano Medley
  • Soft Rolls in the 4th Symphony (of Beethoven), Berlioz and Timpani
  • Final Songs: Tiptoe through the Tulips, Serenade from Bizet/The
    Pearl Fishers, Three Little Words, Silent Worship
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25391, S
21 Jul 1982
Recorded
02 Mar 1982
17-7
#334
TS329
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Crescendo: Rossini/The Barber of Seville, Sewing Machine, Come
    for Tea My People, Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Piano Medley
  • Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Bruch all granted doctorates,
    Miss Turnstile = Vera Ellen , restored St Paul’s organ, In the
    Mayfair Theatre in Pocatello
  • Johnny Day, Frankie and Johnny, Bryce, Denis
  • A Yodeling contest
  • Final Songs: Why Do I Love You, Cottleston Pie, It’s a Well-
    Known Fact, A Cornish Lullaby
Held in Archives
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Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25393, S
28 Jul 1982
Recorded
02 Mar 1982
17-8
#335
TS330
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Suppé/Tchaikovsky Pique Dame/Queen of Spades; Come into
    the Garden, Maud; Trial by Jury; bass saxophone on Ida
    Sweet as Apple Cider
  • Sixths: Fritz Kreisler/An Old Refrain, When I Dance with You,
    Absent, Talk to Me Baby
  • Music Titles with Misplaced Letters: Beethoven/Symphony
    No. 5 with Kate knocking at the door, Land of Soap and Glory,
    Così fan Sooty, Silent Warship, I’ve Got a Feeling Your Foaling,
    I’ve Got You under my Sink, The Lady Is a Tram
  • Film themes: Dr Zhivago, The Man with the Golden Arm, Zorba
    the Greek, Goldfinger
  • Arias: Manon Lescaut, Girl of the Golden West, Jussi Björling,
    Cavalleria rusticana
  • Final Songs: (I’ll Be with You) In Apple Blossom Time, Tell Me
    Tonight, Nostalgia, If I Only Held the Key to Your Heart
Held in Archives
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WWFM
27:01, 25396, S
04 Aug 1982
Recorded
09 Mar 1982
17-9
#336
TS331
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Messiaen/Turangalîla-Symphonie, Music from Now Voyager, Elgar/
    Chanson de matin, John Green
  • Piano Medley
  • Beethoven’s comment on Sir Walter Scott, Dryden’s definition of
    opera, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Folk Dance
  • How many notes in the phrase?
  • Musical Fairs: Mussorgsky/Sorochintsy Fair, Roger Whittaker,
    Benjamin Luxon, Guy Mitchell, Brigg Fair
  • Final Songs: I’ll Be Your Sweetheart, Sally in Our Alley, In the
    Woodshed, Limehouse Reach
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:02, 25407, S
11 Aug 1982
Recorded
09 Mar 1982
17-10
#337
TS332
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Elgar/The Music Makers, Under the Double Eagle, Calum Kennedy,
    Music from The Sweet Smell of Success
  • Piano Medley
  • George Formby, Frances Day, Joyce Grenfell, Elizabeth Welsh
  • Judas Maccabaeus, The Campbells Are Coming, What is the Title?
  • What was Your “Party Piece”?
  • String Music: Schoenberg/Verklärte Nacht for String Orchestra,
    op. 4, Mendelssohn/Violin Concerto, Raff/Cavatina, Legrand/
    Watch What Happens
  • Final Songs: Whispering Grass; Mozart/Dalla sua pace (from Don
    Giovanni); Oh, Timothy, Let’s Have a Look at It; Annie Laurie
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25412, S
18 Aug 1982
Recorded
16 Mar 1982
17-11
#338
TS333
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Villa-Lobos/O trenzinho do caipira, Ellis/Coronation Scot,
    Honegger/Pacific 231, Warren/On the Atchison, Topeka, and
    the Santa Fe
  • Seasonal Music: The Boar’s Head, Yonder Peasant from Good King
    Wenceslas, In the Bleak Mid-Winter, St Stephen’s Day December 26th
  • Music Starting with the same five notes: Haydn/My Mother Bids Me,
    Woody Woodpecker Song, Beethoven/Pastoral Symphony, Together
  • Sex Equality Songs
  • The Timpani: Berlioz/Requiem, What would happen if there was a
    hole in the shell of the kettle drum? Elgar/Enigma Variations, Red
    Nichols and His Five Pennies
  • Words from Songs: g-g-g-girl/K-K-K-Katy; Stars were peek-a-
    booing down/In a Little Spanish Town; Only four- foot two; Jing,
    jing, jing/Ja-Da! (Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing)
  • Piano Medley
  • Final Songs: Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Schumann/Im
    wonderschönen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe), Mrs Carter, An Old-
    Fashioned Town
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
26:58, 25362, S
25 Aug 1982
Recorded
16 Mar 1982
17-12
#339
TS334
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Giordano/Andrea Chénier, Cavalleria rusticana and I Pagliacci, Allan
    Murray/I’ll Walk Beside You, Left-Hand Buttons on a Piano Accordion
  • Music Starting with the Same Four Notes: The Girl with the Flaxen
    Hair, Mairzy Doats, The Lady Fair (from Princess Ida), I’ll Buy
    That Dream
  • Works not to be performed, Bell Foundaries, Lincoln Cathedral Organ,
    Vamping Horn
  • Noted Musical Duos: Forbes and Foggin, Morton and Kay, Flotsam
    and Jetsam, The Nicholas Brothers
  • Early Music: Types of Dances, Tickle Me Quickly, Bass Kirtle, Fantasia
  • Final Songs: Tea for Two, Du bist die Ruh, The Bon Vivant, Bless
    This House
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25409, S
01 Sep 1982
Recorded
24 Mar 1982
17-13
#340
TS335
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Mendelssohn/Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”), Thomas Bowdler,
    Gérard Souzay (song from Brazil), Eye Level
  • Piano Medley
  • Miscellaneous Musical Questions: Mozart/Oboe Quartet/The Shade
    of the Old Apple Tree, Vivaldi/Winter (from The Four Seasons)/
    When I Marry Mr Snow, Four Seasons, Bassa Viola, How Many
    Strings on a Cello, Purfling
  • Tuning a Cello: CGDA
  • The Beatles: Their Names, Abbey Road, Will You Still Need Me Will
    You Still Feed Me When I’m 64? Other Beatles
  • Final Songs: You Are My Honeysuckle; Girl in the Garden of Love;
    There's a Girl in the Heart of Wheeling, West Virginia; Love’s
    Garden of Roses
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25407, S
08 Sep 1982
Recorded
24 Mar 1982
17-14
#341
TS336
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Kreisler/Tambourin Chinois, Chords on a Violin, Dvořák/Slavonic
    Dance No. 2, Caprice
  • Musical Technicalities: Hocket, Melisma, Isorhythm, Minnesinger
  • Piano Medley
  • The Names the Same: Engelbert Humperdinck, Tiny Tim, Ted
    Heath, Dorian Gray
  • Lines from Songs: If Winter comes can spring be far behind, new
    deck of bicycles/Darktown Poker Club, And there’ll maybe be a
    christening yet/I’m 94 Today, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
    in French
  • Final Songs: My Old Dutch, I Wonder As I Wander, He Was More
    Like a Friend than a Husband, Leanin’
Held in Archives
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Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25413, S
15 Sep 1982
17-15
#342
TS337
  • Dvořák/American Quartet, Musical people born in the same year,
    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Annette Hanshaw
  • Musical Technicalities: Strophic vs. Through Composed,
    Pandora, Dumka, Yankee Doodly Dum (from “Brother Can You
    Spare a Dime”)
  • Buddy Can You Spare a Dime, Year of Composition (1931), Two
    Bits vs. a Dime, Composition of a Tower, Yip Harburg
  • Tapped Rhythms: Theme from Façade, Young Person’s Guide to
    the Orchestra, Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, Maybe It’s
    Because I’m a Londoner
  • Musical Similarities: Delius/Aquarelles and Let’s All Go to Mary’s
    House, Love For Sale X 2
  • Final Songs: Darling, Je vous aime beaucoup, The Shepherd’s
    Daughter, Louella, The Sunshine of Your Smile
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:02, 25433, S
22 Sep 1982
Recorded
30 Mar 1982
17-16
#343
TS338
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Britten/Serenade, Tchaikovsky/Piano Concerto, Handel/Oh Ruddier
    Than the Cherry, Johnson Rag
  • Musical Anecdotes: Liszt’s falling asleep, Sousa’s medal, Review
    of Berlioz, Haydn’s comment on Bath
  • Piano Medley
  • Songs for 40th Birthdays
  • Musical Names Based on Months: Jacques Février, June Lady
    Inverclyde, April Cantelo, Jan August
  • Lines from Songs: When the sun has gone to rest/Roamin’ in
    the Gloamin’; The gay continental rapscallion/Olga Pulloffski,
    the Beautiful Spy; hole in her shoe/On Mother Kelly’s
    Doorstep; Marie
  • Final Songs: All of Me, The Flowers from A Child’s Garden of
    Verses, All On Account of a Strawberry Sundae, The Ash Grove
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
26:59, 25387, S
29 Sep 1982
Recorded
27 Jan 1982
17-17
#344
TS341
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Film Music: Walton/Spitfire Theme from First of the Few, Big
    Country Theme, Williams/Star Wars, Lady Hamilton Theme
  • Miscellaneous Questions: George Antheil, Music for a Poem,
    Cricket Reference to Oh Worship the King, For Old Time’s Sake
  • Bird Songs as Classical Musicians: Brahms/Waltz in A♭, Bugle Call,
    Mendelssohn/Symphony No. 4, Sentimental Journey
  • Words from Songs: Merry and bright, Bands are getting jazzier,
    Juvenile fancy, Someone else’s ear
  • Dance Band Signature Tunes and their leaders
  • Piano Medley
  • Music banned on “Down Your Way”
  • Final Songs: The Hut-Sut Song, North Country Folk Song, Poor
    Gus, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Held in Archives
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Shryane-Atkin
WWFM
27:01, 25405, S
06 Oct 1982
Recorded
27 Jan 1982
17-18
#345
TS342
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Noël Coward Songs sung by the King’s Singers: Mad Dogs and
    Englishmen x 2, The Stately Homes of England, Nina from Argentina
  • Technicalities: Harmonia, Reeds, Lowest note on a bassoon or cello,
    Highest note on a trombone or Ian Wallace’s singing voice
  • The Lost Chord: Musical Setting, Lyric Writer, Sullivan’s best-known
    hymn tune/Onward Christian Soldiers, Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Magnificant but small singers
  • Start of Tosca, Vissi d'arte, Act III, Shepherd Boy
  • Words of Songs: To be Happy, Where Black’s Puddings Is Made,
    When She Left the Village She Was Shy, Suddenly I can See it
    all Change
  • Final Songs: Oh You Beautiful Doll, Italian Folk Song, I Wonder
    How I Look When I’m Asleep, Beautiful Garden of Roses
Held in Archives
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WWFM
27:00, 25400, S
13 Oct 1982
Recorded
16 Feb 1982
17-19
#346
TS343
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Chopin/Polonaise in A major, op. 40, No. 1 (“Military”); Rule, Britannia/
    Charles II Mistress; Trumpeter Ship; Merrie Melodies Theme
  • Orchestral Questions: Weber using paper to conduct, Theorbo,
    Musical Reeds, Valentine Snow
  • What instrument did Ernst Gottwald Funt play
  • What Comes Next? Mahler/Symphony No. 8, Don’t Sit under the
    Apple Tree, Pack Up Your Troubles, The Laughing Policeman
  • Piano Medley
  • Memorable Lines from Songs: No use complainin’/I Got Plenty o’
    Nuttin, You can’t holler down our rain barrel/I Don’t Wanna Play in
    Your Yard (Peggy Lee), the human race has fallen on its face/A
    Cockeyed Optimist (from South Pacific), No Use complainin’/I’m
    Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
  • Final Songs: The Band Played On, The Cool Calloor, When
    Paderewski Plays, Little Gift of Roses
Held in Archives
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WWFM
26:10, 24622, S
20 Oct 1982
Recorded
16 Feb 1982
17-20
#347
TS344
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Dame Janet Baker/Art Thou Troubled, Ian Wallace/The Hippopotamus
    Song, Ballet Égyptian, Skating Music
  • Headlines of Musicals: My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Perchance to
    Dream, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • Piano Medley
  • Music For Giving Birth
  • Lines from Popular Songs and their singers: Tony Bennett singing
    Eleanor Rigby - Who was the priest? (Father McKenzie), Peggy
    Lee’s closing advice: Don’t smoke in bed, Mel Tormé sings “Is
    to find a spot of land and live there with you” (Next word:
    Someday)/The Folks Who Live on the Hill
  • Favorite Singers in Films
  • Middle Bits: Delibes/Les Filles de Cadiz, My Very Good Friend the
    Milkman, Love Is Where You Find It, It’s Always You
  • Forgettable Lines from Songs: Frustrate their knavish tricks/God
    Save the Queen, the faraway ranch of the Boss in the sky/The
    Last Roundup, Watched you bloom in the wildwood/Marta
    (Rambling Rose of the Wildwood), I would pass up all the orchids/??
  • Final Songs: All Alone, Libiamo ne’ lieti calici, There’s No Place Like
    Home When There’s Nowhere Else to Go, The Bonnie Earl of Moray
Held in Archives
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WWFM
27:01, 25398, S
27 Oct 1982
Recorded
23 Feb 1982
17-21
#348
TS345
  • Eric Coates/The Dam Busters March, Mozart/Ruhe sanft from
    Zaide, Andrés Segovia, Sunset Boulevard
  • Words from Songs: Prom Prom Prom, Miss Otis Regrets, I Plays
    The Banjo Better Now, What Makes Your Eyes Light Up?
  • Piano Medley
  • Haydn’s Arrangement of a Scots Song, Mingulay Boat Song,
    Marlinspike and Creel, Whit Cunliffe
  • Place Names in Song: The Two Grenadiers, fish guarda swim
    (possibly Fishguard in Wales), St James’s Park, Uruguay,
    Paraguay, Venezuela
  • Final Songs: Wait ’Til the Sun Shines, Nellie; Bold William Taylor;
    I Must Go Home Tonight; When You and I Were Young, Maggie
Held in Archives
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WWFM
27:00, 25389, S
03 Nov 1982
Recorded
23 Feb 1982
17-22
#349
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10 Nov 1982
Recorded
04 May 1982
17-23
#350
TS339
  • Dvořák/Slavonic Dance No. 1, op. 46, My Music Signature
    Tune, Verdi/Falstaff, Stardust
  • Music starting with the same five notes: Vaughan Williams/
    London Symphony, Listen to My Music, Donna Diana
    Overture, Our Love
  • Signature Tunes for a Doctor
  • Mike Sammes Singers: Chopin/Fantasie Impromptu, in C♯ minor
    with introduction from Singin’ In the Rain, Waltz from Coppélia/
    So In Love With You
  • Questions About Songs: Walton’s Songs for the Lord Mayor’s
    Table, The Song of Songs, Delius/Parry/Songs of Farewell,
    Flanders and Swann/A Song of Patriotic Prejudice
  • Continuing a Song: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals,
    One Fine Day, Carry Me Back to Green Green Pastures, Michelle
  • Final Songs: Mean to Me, Dvořák/Humoresque, She Don’t
    Wanna, Always
Held in Archives
Archive description of 17-23 matches TS339
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WWFM
27:00, 25393, S
17 Nov 1982
Recorded
04 May 1982
17-24
#351
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[No information]
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MISSING
24 Nov 1982
Recorded
11 May 1982
17-25
#352
TS340
  • Puccini/O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi a) the plot
    b) spelling, Verdi/Macbeth, Lot’s Wife
  • Piano Medley
  • Lives of Musicians and Composers: Grainger’s Comment on
    Beecham, Spohr/Oratorio Calvary, Elgar/Enigma Variations,
    Peter Warlock’s birthplace
  • Musical Sums: Elisabeth Schumann, Mary Garden, Monteverdi,
    Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Bing Crosby singing in 1928, Song from Little Boy Lost, Dinah,
    Bing Crosby and Donald O’Connor
  • Final Songs: Paper Doll, Dicky Bird Hop, Tonight’s My Night
    with Baby, A Brown Bird Singing
Held in Archives
Steve Race introduces TS340 as the 352nd edition of the program
Amis, Muir,
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:00, 25390, S
01 Dec 1982
Recorded
11 May 1982
17-26
#353
TS346
  • Mozart/Serenata Notturna, K239, Delius/Hassan, Puccini/La
    fanciulla del West, What Do I and What Don’t I See in Your Eyes?
  • Translated Composer Names: Enrique Granados, Christoph W.
    Gluck, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Gustav Mahler
  • 1960’s Music: As Long as He Needs Me, Portrait of My Love, I
    Remember You, Yours
  • Lines from Songs: Don’t you know?? that she’s exclusive/Miss
    Annabelle Lee, The band had only one more song to play/The
    Last Waltz (Engelbert Humperdinck), Pickled cabbage is all
    right/A Little Bit of Cucumber, not to them not to those/Me (Berlin)
  • Middle Bits: Pale Hands I Love, Little Gypsy Dreamgirl, The White
    Dove, I Wish That I Were Twins
  • Songs for a Marriage Guidance Clinic
  • Final Songs: Love’s Old Sweet Song, Call the Cows, Charlie
    M’Boy, Good Night
Held in Archives
Referred to by Steve Race at end as “the closing edition”,
indicating last in series
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
TS Disc
27:21, 25710, S
15 Jan 1983
Recorded
07 Nov 1982
special
#354
--
My Music at Sadler’s Wells
Not taken by TS Held in Archives
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Shryane-Atkin
MISSING
09 Mar 1983
Recorded
18 Jan 1983
18-1
#355
TS347
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Vaughan Williams/Symphony No. 6, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart,
    Li’l Abner/Druthers
  • Violin Music: Opinion of a jazz fiddle player, Stephen Foster,
    Souvenir, George Burns Signature Tune
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Seedling Roses, Wellington’s Horse Song
    (Copenhagen), What Have They in Common?: All born in the
    same year, Parrott Electrifies Albert Hall (Parrott is a conductor)
  • One Tune Sounding Like another: Mountain Greenery and Things
    Ain’t What They Used to Be, Grieg/Morning and Them There Eyes
  • Early Film Music: Margaret Dumont, Rudolph Valentino, Ginger
    Rogers; Clayton, Jackson, and Durante
  • Sources of Song Lines: But they do (There Are Fairies in the
    Bottom of Our Garden), How can he be a dud (a stick in the
    mud from song Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones), A large bathing
    machine (The Nightmare Song from Iolanthe), Going from town
    to town (My Gal in Calico)
  • Final Songs: At Sundown, John whistles a selection from
    Schubert/The Trout Quintet, Just Making Conversation (When
    We Ought to be Making Love), Love Is a Very Light Thing
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:36, 25944, S
16 Mar 1983
Recorded
18 Jan 1983
18-2
#356
TS348
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Bach/Coffee Cantata, Gay Gordons, Ian Wallace, Leanin’
  • Miscellaneous Questions: The Waltz, ABBA, Carmen, The
    Fox Trot
  • Piano Medley
  • Misprints
  • One Word Indentifications: Richard Tauber, Hoagy Carmichael,
    Peter Dawson, Johnny Mercer
  • Showtime: Chorus Line, Plumb Productions, Wish Me Luck,
    The Swimmer
  • Final Songs: I Love My Baby, Ohio Boatman's Song, My Cutie’s Due
    at Two to Two, The Old Songs (Words and Music by Steve Race)
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:06, 25474, S
23 Mar 1983
Recorded
25 Jan 1983
18-3
#357
TS349
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Duke Ellington’s arrangement of Anitra’s Dance, You’re my
    World, Tito Schipa, Gershwin/Nobody But You
  • Musical Film Memories
  • What’s the Title? Schubert/Taubenpost, La donna è mobile,
    Schubert Serenade, Skyliner
  • Words to Fit The Skaters Waltz
  • Questions about ABBA, Swedenborg, Did You Enjoy That?,
    Angel Eyes
  • Final Songs: Sunny Side Up, Camille’s Song (from The Merry
    Widow), S’posin’, We Parted on the Shore
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:21, 25710, S
30 Mar 1983
Recorded
16 Mar 1983
18-4
#358
TS350
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Beethoven/Symphony No. 5, Gracie Fields, Speak! Speak!
    Speak to me, Thora, King Oliver
  • Unusual Occupations: Charles Blondin, William Huskisson,
    William Webb Ellis, Joseph Merrick
  • What is it called? By the Sleepy Lagoon, Perry Mason Theme,
    Our Love Is Here to Stay, Harlem Nocturne
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Mahler/Symphony No. 4, Bells of St
    Mark’s, Figures on the Albert Memorial, Northanger Abbey
  • Music starting with the same notes: The Merry Widow, You Say
    the Sweetest Things, Beneath the Lights of Home, Mr Sandman
  • Who is Singing “Someday”?: Noël Coward, Ella Fitzgerald,
    Dean Martin, Harry Secombe
  • Lines from Songs: Sounds of the rude world/Beautiful Dreamer,
    He was just dying to cuddle his queen/Get Out and Get Under,
    A man then staggered down the aisle/The Volunteer Organist,
    All is in the point of view/A Kiss or Two (from “Hit the Deck”)
  • Final Songs: The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, Rich
    and Rare, Have You Anything On Tonight, Little Gypsy Sweetheart
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:23, 25735, S
6 Apr 1983
Recorded
31 Jan 1983
18-5
#359
TS351
From the 1983 Hong Kong Arts Festival
  • Saint-Saëns/Rondo Capriccioso, Sibelius/Violin Concerto, Bruch/
    Violin Concerto, Beethoven/Violin Concerto
  • Names in songs: Lord Rosebery/Burlington Bertie, Lotte Lenya/
    Mack the Knife, bold Leopold/Goodbye (from The White Horse
    Inn), Madame Sappho/Most Gentlemen Don’t Like Love
  • Thoughts on Success: Charles Ives, Groucho Marx, Harry
    Secombe, Billie Holiday
  • What Have They in Common?: Preparing for Sleep, Shepherds,
    Sailors, Seasons
  • Final Songs: Pennies from Heaven, I Will Give My Love an Apple,
    Lookin’ at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses, My Ain Folk
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:25, 25769, S
13 Apr 1983
Recorded
31 Jan 1983
18-6
#360
TS352
From the 1983 Hong Kong Arts Festival
  • Beethoven/String Quartet No. 4, in C minor, op. 18, no. 4, Alex
    Glasgow, Kiri Te Kanawa, Pete Atkin
  • Song Curiosities: Translation of La Marseillaise, The Stars and
    Stripes Forever, On the Road to Mandalay, Taps
  • Sabu Saves the Day, Which Singer is this?
  • Symphony Questions: Britten/Spring Symphony, Schubert/
    Unfinished Symphony, Prokofiev/Classical Symphony, Theme
    from the Four Wives
  • The Medicine Quartet
  • Final Songs: Waiting for the Robert E. Lee; O, The Days of the
    Kerry Dancing; Julius; Old Man River
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:08, 25498, S
20 Apr 1983
Recorded
14 Feb 1983
18-7
#361
TS353
From the Planet Theatre, Slough
  • Chopin/Revolutionary Study, Castanets, Hinge and Bracket,
    Anderson/Sandpaper Ballet
  • Tapped Rhythms: Waltz of the Flowers, Praise the Lord and
    Pass the Amunition, Granada, Post Horn Gallop
  • Musical Titles: A Day’s Ride, Midshipmite Polka, The Red
    Feathers, Funeral March of an Elephant
  • Instruments of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Order of a Musical
    Score, Meaning of MJQ, Instruments in a String Quartet
  • “Some of these Days”, What’s the Profession? Signature Tune
    for Bank Jazz Band, Bach Goes to Town/I’ve Got a Feeling I’m
    Falling/After You’ve Gone, Kenny Baker
  • Final Songs: Hey Look Me Over, O Waly, Waly, When My Ship
    Comes In, The Rio Grande
Held in Archives
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
26:32, 24943, S
27 Apr 1983
Recorded
14 Feb 1983
18-8
#362
TS354
From the Planet Theatre, Slough
  • Mozart/Exultate Jubilate (vocalist: Dame Joan Sutherland);
    Lulu’s Back in Town; At the first performance, was it
    “Ruddigore” or “Ruddygore”? Simon and Garfunkle’s album “Bookends”
  • Outpourings of Gorgeous Song: The panel give their favorites
  • Bird Songs: Blackbird, Sparrow, Dogfox, Red Grouse
  • Answers in the Words of Songs: How high is the corn in
    Oklahoma!? (as high as an elephant’s eye), What do you and
    you alone bring out? (the gypsy in me (from “Embraceable You”)),
    At what time of day can I hear someone called Carol Gay?
    (chimes ring out with a carol gay at the end of a perfect day
    from “A Perfect Day”), What conversation follows the hateful
    hates? (the conversations with the flying plates (from “I Wish I
    Were in Love Again”)), Why must I see my broker? (’Cause I’m
    in the market for you (from “I’m in the Market for You”))
  • Piano Medley
  • Miscellaneous Questions: What is a Wolf Tone? Mayerl and Paul/
    Did Tosti Raise His Bowler Hat (When He Said Good-Bye), Two
    most successful Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas, Words from a love
    song addressed to a cigarette
  • Final Songs: After You’ve Gone, Youth of the Heart, Gonna Get
    a Girl, Roses of Picardy
Held in Archives
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Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
TS Disc
27:16, 25567, S
04 May 1983
Recorded
01 Mar 1983
18-9
#363
TS355
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Chopin/Prelude No. 21, in B♭ major, op. 28; Take It From Here;
    Elgar; George Gershwin
  • Seven Notes: Irving Berlin/The Song Is Ended (But the Melody
    Lingers On), Turk and Handman/My Sweetie Went Away, Noël
    Coward/If You Could Only Come with Me, Ray Noble/Cherokee
  • Stéphane Grappelli and Martin Taylor; Lennon and McCartney/
    Here, There, and Everywhere; Old Man River; Arlen and
    Koehler/I’ve Got the World on a String
  • Boy Meets Girl: Fred and Adele Astaire, Teddy St Denis/Lupino
    Lane, Peggy Wood /Georges Metaxa, Jack Holbert/Phyllis Dare
  • Buildings: Buckingham Palace, Tower of Pisa, British Museum,
    Wrigley Building
  • Final Songs: My Melancholy Baby, John whistles music from
    Verdi/A Masked Ball, Your Mother’s Son-in-Law, Goin’ Home
Held in Archives
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:02, 25410, S
11 May 1983
Recorded
01 Mar 1983
18-10
#364
TS356
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Open University Theme (Salzedo), Beaumarchais, composers born
    1810-13 (Wagner, Verdi, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann), Maid of the
    Mountains
  • National Heroes: Nelson and Wellington’s Victory, Agincourt,
    Charles Edward Stuart, Davy Crockett
  • Great Comp Festival: complimentary tickets?, at Great Comp
  • Piano Medleys
  • Jazz Bassoon, Alfred Bestall of Rupert Bear, The Stables at
    Wavendon, Duke Ellington
  • a pocketful of tin/Camptown Races, a fine-toothed comb/Bill
    Bailey, an Indian rajah/The Galloping Major, the grin of
    impetuous youth/I Believe In You, a dainty bray/The
    Donkey Serenade
  • Final Songs: Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby; Love Thee Dearest; Your
    Baby Has Gone down the Plughole; The Cricketers of Hambleldon
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
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Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:31, 25869, S
18 May 1983
Recorded
09 Mar 1983
18-11
#365
TS357
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Verdi/Otello, Lute for Two, Arnold/Three Shanties for Wind
    Quintet, Barry Manilow
  • Questions about Mice: Benjamin Britten, Christopher Smart,
    Dukas/Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Mickey Mouse
  • Lines from Songs: They’ve taken of his buttons off/Danny
    Deever (music: W. Damrosch, words: R. Kipling); Z-O/(I’ve
    Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo; wee, wee, wee/This Little Piggy; a
    charcoal burner/Nancy (with the Laughing Face),
    lyrics by Phil Silvers (Sgt Bilko)
  • Music Starting With Similar Notes: Liszt/Piano Concerto
    No. 1, in E♭ major, Nutcracker Suite, The Mikado’s Song,
    Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner
  • Music from Annie, Carol Burnett, Albert Finney, Easy Street
  • Final Songs: Good Morning, O mio babbino caro (from Puccini/
    Gianni Schicchi), Sweetheart, Donkey Riding
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:13, 25586, S
25 May 1983
Recorded
09 Mar 1983
18-12
#366
TS358
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Walton/Belshazzar’s Feast, Boney M, Pontypridd, How do you
    spell Pontypridd?
  • Music starting with the same four notes: The Old House,
    Marching Strings, Laurel & Hardy Theme, Drum Boogie
  • Miscellaneous Questions: How many instruments in Cardew/Octet
    ’71 (10!), Charles Kingsley, Rhine Maidens, Charlotte Brontë
  • Songs from 1941: A Pair of Silver Wings, Carroll Gibbons, Nat
    Gonella, George Evans
  • Signature Tunes for Nurses
  • Final Songs: Look for the Silver Lining, The Stately Homes of
    England, There Are Nice Girls Everywhere, This Is My Lovely Day
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:13, 25577, S
01 Jun 1983
Recorded
16 Mar 1983
18-13
#367
TS359
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Holst/The Perfect Fool and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)/Money
    (both in 7-time); Handel/Water Music (1717); The Girls at
    Maxim’s (Lolo, Dodo, Jou-Jou, Clo-clo, Margot, and Frou-frou);
    Too Much Mustard (Jim Europe bandleader)
  • Words from Songs: pins, points, laces, and gloves (Dowland/
    Fine Knacks for Ladies), the delivery of a large number of kisses
    is contingent on someone singing “Old Folks at Home”
    (Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody), Basingstoke
    (Gilbert & Sullivan/Ruddigore), When I’m fighting vainly the old
    ennui (I Get a Kick Out of You)
  • The Name’s the Same: Nellie Wallace, Jamie Muir, Ian Wallace,
    Christine Norden
  • Song “Lead-ins”: I’ve grown a(ccustomed to her face), But it’s
    a (long long while), The Lord a(bove), Look at (me), I could
    have (danced all night), If I didn’t (care), Sometimes I (wonder),
    You’re walking a(long the street)
  • A Suitable House Name for a Musician
  • Piano Medley
  • Final Songs: It’s Only a Paper Moon, Love’s Young Dream, In
    My Little Red Book, Down in the Glen
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KWAX
27:23, 25736, S
08 Jun 1983
18-14
#368
TS360
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Ibert/Little White Donkey, Little Titch, Monica Sinclair, Marie Lloyd
  • What did the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra do in the last week
    of June 1982?
  • Daughters: Sibelius/Pohjola’s Daughter, Carole Carr, Daughter of
    the Regiment, Billy Bigelow
  • Music starting with the same six notes: Duke Ellington/In a
    Sentimental Mood, My Hat’s on the Side of My Head, Little Man
    You’ve Had a Busy Day, Hiawatha's Lullaby
  • What is a Polonaise in music and in dress? What is a Bolero in
    music and dress?
  • Final Songs: Gilbert the Filbert, A Beethoven Folk Song, Bench
    in the Park, My Blue-Eyed Mountain Queen
Not listed in Archives
No repeat broadcast on 10 Jun 1983 (replaced by General Election results)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:26, 25779, S
15 Jun 1983
Recorded
23 Mar 1983
18-15
#369
TS361
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Schumann/Piano Concerto, Beethoven/Piano Concerto No. 5
    (“Emperor”), Chopin/Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninov/Piano
    Concerto No. 2/Full Moon and Empty Arms
  • Words from Songs: “Whistle” in its title? (Whistle While You
    Work and This Will Make You Whistle), “Tweet” in its title? (I Lift
    Up My Finger and I Say Tweet, Tweet), “Whistler” in its title?
    (The Whistler and His Dog, The Whistler, The Whistler’s Mother-
    in-Law), “tweet” in its second line/Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
  • Boccherini/Minuet from Quintet for Strings in E, op.11, No. 5,
    Delibes/Naila Waltz, Archibald Joyce/Dreaming, Here Comes That
    Rainy Day (from “Carnival in Flanders”), Reginald Foresythe/
    Serenade for a Wealthy Woman
  • Queen Victoria’s Musical Choice: The panel give suggestions
  • The London Serpent Trio: I Will Give My Love an Apple, On Wings
    of Song, Huntsman’s Chorus, Royal Fireworks Music
  • Music for Sheep or Dogs
  • Songs about Transport: Daisy, Daisy; Track 29; All Aboard;
    Pullman Porter
  • Final Songs: Every Little Movement, She Wore a Wreath of Roses,
    Don’t Be Cruel to a Vegetable, When That I Was a Little Tiny Boy
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:22, 25714, S
22 Jun 1983
Recorded
23 Mar 1983
18-16
#370
TS362
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Elgar/Light of Life, The Worzels, Calum Kennedy, Elton John
  • Which is the Odd One Out?
  • Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 32, in C minor, op. 111, Moon
    of Manakoora/Tumbling Tumbleweed, Maria Callas, Goodbye Blues
  • Felicity Palmer Songs: Sir Edward German, Samuel Coleridge-
    Taylor, Somewhere a Voice Is Calling, Hilaire Belloc
  • Music for people watching their weight
  • Piano Medley
  • Final Songs: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Aria from Fedora,
    Mandy, My Heart Stood Still
Held in Archives
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Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:07, 25487, S
29 Jun 1983
Recorded
30 Mar 1983
18-17
#371
TS363
From the Bloomsbury Theatre, London
  • Brahms/Symphony No. 4, The Last Night of the Proms, Strauss/
    Verdi and cricket, John McEnroe
  • Schubert/Death and the Maiden, Music Publishers, Mozart’s place
    at the Bishop’s table, Mozart and Marie Antoinette
  • Piano Medley
  • Verdi/Macbeth, The Witches in Macbeth, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
    Last lines of Macbeth
  • Final Songs: When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful; To the
    Children; Cabbages, Beans, and Carrots; As Time Goes By
Held in Archives
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KWAX
27:23, 25730, S
06 Jul 1983
Recorded
30 Mar 1983
18-18
#372
TS364
From the Bloomsbury Theatre, London
  • National Airs/Greensleeves, Beggar’s Opera, Stuart Burrows, The
    Red Flag/Maryland, My Maryland
  • Tennyson/Out of the Deep; Beethoven/Sonata for Piano No. 21,
    in C major, op. 53 ("Waldstein"); The Mikado; Come into the
    Garden, Maud
  • Loud music to stop a burglar
  • Golden Oldies: Names of Musicians, Ray Noble, Al Bowlly/Dinner
    for One, Please James, Ziegfeld Follies of 1921
  • Musical Criticism, Liberace, Liberace on Tchaikovsky, Felix
    Arndt/Nola
  • Nonsense Songs: Peter Sellers, Swim Said the Mummy Fish,
    The Bells of Hell, Spurs That Go Jingle Jangle Jingle
  • Final Songs: That Certain Party, Italian Folk Song, Why Should
    The Rich Man Have It All? The Old Turf Fire
Held in Archives
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KWAX
27:14, 25589, S
13 Jul 1983
Recorded
12 Apr 1983
18-19
#373
TS365
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Bliss/Colour Symphony, The Gondoliers/Li’l Abner, Tchaikovsky/
    Symphony No. 5, Why the Music Stopped on July 5th 1982
  • Piano Medley
  • Answers from jazz songs: The Whole World Smiles With You,
    I’m Dancing with Tears in My Eyes, Sheik of Araby, Junk Man
  • When was this written?
  • Music from the Coronation of King George II: The King Shall
    Rejoice, Zadok the Priest, My Heart Is Inditing, Hallelujah
  • Signature Tune for a man who had married 105 women
  • Final Songs: Oh, What a Beautiful Morning; Lalo/Aubade;
    Liza; When a Woman Smiles
Held in Archives
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KWAX
27:19, 25678, S
20 Jul 1983
Recorded
12 Apr 1983
18-20
#374
TS366
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Gershwin/Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel/Piano Concerto and
    Gershwin/American in Paris, Balham Gateway to the South,
    Thomas/Mignon, Trunk Songs
  • Emma Kirkby, Difference between Anon. and Trad., Selection
    from Handel/Alceste, Purcell/Don Quixote
  • LBR = Left Before Right, Grieg/Piano Concerto, Gounod/Ave
    Maria and Bach/Prelude No. 1, in C major, BWV846, from the
    Well-Tempered Clavier, Yancey Special
  • Missing word from a musical review, Never Sing Louder than
    Lovely/Isobel Baillie, What is a Gecophone?/ Comment on
    Beethoven/Symphony No. 5, Comment on Kate Bush LP
  • Shakespearean Songs: Who Is Sylvia?, Hark, Hark the Lark,
    Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred, Sigh No More, Ladies
  • Final Songs: Ragtime Gal, The Lark in the Clear Air, A Noise
    Annoys an Oyster, Laura
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KWAX
27:23, 25737, S
27 Jul 1983
Recorded
19 Apr 1983
18-21
#375
TS367
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Mono-Duo-Trio: Rondo Allegro, Eleanor Rigby, Samuel Coleridge-
    Taylor/Petite Suite de concert, op. 77, Benny Lee and Jean Campbell
  • Piano Medley
  • W. C. Handy, Ethel Waters, Songs mentioned in the song
  • Richard Strauss/Four Last Songs, Composed in 1948, Lucia Popp,
    Melismatically
  • Words from Songs: dig dig dig dig dig dig dig/Heigh-Ho (Snow White
    and the Seven Dwarfs), Make it [soon??]/ Three Coins in the
    Fountain, eyt up t’ducks/On Ilkla Moor Baht ’At, a klook a mop
    [scat lyrics]/Oop Bop Sh’Bam (Dizzy Gillespie)
  • Final Songs: The Nipper’s Lullaby, Yes We Have No Bananas (in
    German), Believe It Beloved, Beautiful Dreamer
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KWAX
27:13, 25582, S
03 Aug 1983
Recorded
19 Apr 1983
18-22
#376
TS368
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Surnames and American Cities: Victoria de los Ángeles, John
    Denver, Monte Ray, Marion Montgomery, Lennox Berkeley,
    Nathan Detroit, Frederic Austin, Gene Austin
  • Popular Song Choruses: Velia, Spread a Little Happiness,
    Sunshine of Your Smile, You Were Meant for Me
  • What is the Instrument? The Bugle, Quote from Tennyson,
    Marching through Georgia, Andrews Sisters
  • Harpsichord Music: William Byrd, Fitzwilliam Museum, Farnaby’s
    Conceit, The Jack
  • Songs for Licensed Victuallers
  • Drinking Song in Flemish
  • Final Songs: Easy Street, Moon of My Delight, At The Willows,
    The Old House
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KWAX
27:21, 25701, S
10 Aug 1983
Recorded
26 Apr 1983
18-23
#377
TS369
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Haydn and Beethoven, Gaiety Girls, Non più mesta from Rossini/
    La cenerentola, Who’s Sorry Now?
  • Music starting with the same five notes: Joseph Horowitz/Alice
    in Wonderland, If I Had You, Love in Bloom, I’m Going Back from
    Bells Are Ringing
  • Music from the Films: Ordinary People (Pachelbel/Canon),
    Kramer vs Kramer (Vivaldi/Concerto for Mandolin in C Major
    RV425), Hopscotch (Largo al factotum from Rossini/The Barber
    of Seville, vocalist Hermann Prey) (Hopscotch also uses much
    music by Mozart), The Shining (Bartók/Music for Strings,
    Percussion, and Celesta)
  • Who is an Amiable Megastar?
  • What is Ragtime Music? Little Rock Getaway and Carolina
    Shout; There’s Something about a Soldier, Billy Mayerl/Honky-
    Tonk, Big Noise from Winnetka played by Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc
  • Final Songs: Nobody’s Using It Now; Died for Love; You Taught
    Me Lots of Things; Green Grow the Rushes, O
Held in Archives
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KALW
27:05, 25456, S
17 Aug 1983
Recorded
26 Apr 1983
18-24
#378
TS370
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Brahms/Violin Concerto, Do Owls Hoot in B♭, Handel/Gloria Patri
    from Dixit Dominus, Eric Coates/By the Sleepy Lagoon played
    by Harry James
  • Piano Medley
  • The Panel’s wives’ favourite songs
  • Percy Grainger: Gumsuckers’ March, The Arrival Platform Humlet
    – an LP that has been Graingerised, David Cullen’s re-working
    of Folk Songs of the Auvergne, Julian Lloyd Webber
  • SATB – mnemonic for these initials (Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, Basses)
  • Final songs: Spread a Little Happiness, Fenesta vascia, The
    Hobnail Boots That My Father Wore, Handel/Ombra mai fu (Largo)
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
TS Disc
27:22, 25728, S
24 Aug 1983
Recorded
03 May 1983
18-25
#379
TS371
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Elly Ameling, Odd Music Review, Dance from The Snow Maiden,
    Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney
  • Performers at Coronations, Walton’s Coronation Marches,
    Cornopian, Boobams
  • Flagrant Hours with the Great Masters: Berlioz/Damnation of
    Faust, Berlioz Memoirs, Nude production of Die Fledermaus,
    Phrase from Singin’ in the Rain
  • Final Songs: Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart, Bell Song from Lakmé,
    Who’s Stuffing Your Turkey This Christmas, Just Because the Violets
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:06, 25475, S
31 Aug 1983
Recorded
03 May 1983
18-26
#380
TS372
From the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre of The Royal Academy
of Music
  • Tommy Dorsey/Song of India, Nickelodeon, Andrew and Julian
    Lloyd Webber, Sing It Again
  • Edward German’s Fallen Fairies, Comment on Jean-Jacques
    Rousseau, Composer of the Holy City, The Reluctant Debutante
  • Piano Medley
  • First Lines from Songs: ’Twas on a Monday morning/Dashing
    Away with the Smoothing Iron; Ev’rybody ought to know/The
    Tickle Toe; I’ll wear a petticoat of mus-a-lin/Dream o’Day Jill
    (from the operetta Tom Jones); This lovely day/I’ll Remember April
  • Dvořák/Husitska Overture, op. 67; Radio and TV Theme; Sola,
    perduta, abbandonata from Puccini/Manon Lescaut; Between 18th
    and 19th on Chestnut Street
  • Final Songs: Hello, Hello, Who’s Your Lady Friend? Copland/Long
    Time Ago; Boulevard of Broken Dreams; The Very Thought of You
Held in Archives
Steve Race introduces TS372 as “the closing edition of the present series”.
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane-Atkin
KWAX
27:31, 25861, S
21 Dec 1983
Recorded
30 Nov 1983
special
#381
TS373
Special Christmas Edition
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Endings: Bach/Christmas Oratorio, Ravel/Bolero, Ritual Fire Dance,
    Chicago - My Kind of Town
  • Memorable lines: Bless all the corporals (Bless ’Em All), Strong
    white teeth like Joel McCrea (Watch the Birdie), Ann May
    Hall-York-Rhys, Mrs B. White, Sometimes he yodels (Yodelin’ Jive)
  • Tailors and Tailoring: Alfred Deller singing the Tailor and the Mouse,
    A Brand New suit by Eleanor Powell, I Want a Zoot Suit from Happy
    As a Sandbag, She Wore a Little Jacket of Blue
  • SLABCH (Tailors’ shorthand – Stands like a blasted cart horse)
  • My Fair Lady: Wouldn’t It Be Loverly in German, With a Little Bit of
    Luck in Swedish, Get Me to the Church on Time in Hungarian, The
    Rain In Spain in three languages
  • Final Songs: The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot, Three Kings
    from Persian Lands Afar, Please Let Me Sleep on Your Doorstep
    Tonight, Trust Your Destiny to a Star
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS Disc
26:44, 25127, S
29 Feb 1984
Recorded
16 Jan 1984
19-1
#382
TS374
154465
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Darius Milhaud/Le Boeuf sur le toit, op. 58, Peter Skellern, Chaplin/
    Delius/Song of Summer, Xavier Cugat/Vanessa
  • Piano Medley
  • Cole Porter’s comment on Ethel Merman, Gypsy, Duet with Ray
    Bolger, Connection to Bob Dylan (Zimmerman)
  • What does it say on your passport?
  • Final Songs: I’m on a Seesaw, The Toy Trumpet, Any Time, Drink
    to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KOUW2
26:51, 25261, S
07 Mar 1984
Recorded
16 Jan 1984
19-2
#383
TS375
154466
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Haydn/Symphony No. 100 ( “Military”)/Old 100th Psalm Tune,
    Mozart Piano Trio in G, Oley Speakes, Donald Fagen
  • Answers beginning with the same letter: Billy Budd, William
    Walton, Friml/Firefly, Lovely Lady
  • Good and Bad: Lady Be Good; The Good, the Bad, and the
    Ugly; There Are Bad Times Just around the Corner; I Got It
    Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
  • Miscellaneous Questions: DRCM=Dr of Music at the Royal
    College of Music, Edith Sitwell/Façade, Shaw on The Severn
    Suite, A Turkey
  • Do You Enjoy Music While You Work?
  • Final Songs: My Hat’s on the Side of My Head, If My Complaints,
    The Stars Shine above You, The Last Time I Saw Paris
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:05, 25456, S
14 Mar 1984
Recorded
18 Jan 1984
19-3
#384
TS376
154451
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Who’s the Singer? Janet Baker, Nat King Cole (Guadalajara),
    Marlene Dietrich [x 2]
  • Schubert Piano Music, Schubert played by the Alban Berg
    Quartet, Schubert Lullaby, Technical Terms (Subdominant Minor)
  • Piano Medley
  • A Serenade For a New Baby
  • Music from Science Fiction Films: Bliss/Things to Come, Williams/
    Return of the Jedi, Tiomkin/Lost Horizon, Steiner/King Kong
  • Final Songs: I’ll See You Again, The Little Horses, I Love to
    Lie Awake, Some Enchanted Evening
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
26:58, 25352, S
21 Mar 1984
Recorded
18 Jan 1984
19-4
#385
TS377
154452
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Happiness and Laughter: Josef Schmidt (This was the
    Happiest Day of My Life), Make That Trombone Laugh - a
    Recording from 1922, How many digits do two pianists
    have between them? This Can’t Be Love - The Supremes
  • Questions about Islands: Rachmaninov/Isle of the Dead,
    Isle of Innisfree, Isle of Mull, Majorca, Isle of the Moon
  • Music starting with the same four notes: I Loves You
    Porgy, Harbour Lights, On the Town, I Can’t Get Started with You
  • Maurice Chevalier, Oh That Mitzi, Fanny, Thank Heaven for Little Girls
  • Early Musical Memories
  • Final Songs: He Had to Get Under, Schubert/Serenade,
    She is More to Pitied than Censured, Down Below
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:14, 25602, S
28 Mar 1984
Recorded
25 Jan 1984
19-5
#386
TS378
154505
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Beethoven/Kreutzer Sonata, Iolanthe Performance, Sibelius/
    Symphony No. 2, Victor Silvester’s Orchestra
  • Identification from small amounts of music: Plácido Domingo,
    Charles Aznavour, John Amis, Topol
  • Piano Medley
  • Opera: I Lombardi, Macbeth, Lucia di Lammermoor, Torno a Surriento
  • Words from Songs: abso-bloomin’-lutely/Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?
    (from My Fair Lady); Kealakekua/My Little Grass Shack in
    Kealakekua, Hawaii; prosy/Romance (from Romberg/The Desert Song);
    You have no lips/Heyman-Mann-Weiss/They Say
  • Final Songs: There’s a Small Hotel; Osian Ellis/The
    Watercresses; Put a Bit of Powder on It, Father; Sylvia
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:30, 25848, S
04 Apr 1984
Recorded
25 Jan 1984
19-6
#387
TS379
154506
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Schoenberg arrangement of Strauss, Barbara Cartland singing,
    Ezio Pinza, Mel Tormé/California Suite
  • References to Things: Then I Kissed Her on the Ship, Sweet
    pushcarts gently gliding/Manhattan, I talk on the telephone
    for hours/I Enjoy Being a Girl, The chair and then the sofa/We
    Just Couldn’t Say Good-Bye
  • What did you want to be when you were a child?
  • Music Starting with the Same Five Notes: Leanin’, Dixon of
    Dock Green, Inka Dinka Doo, Sam’s Song
  • Beginnings and Endings, Don Giovanni, The King and I, Die
    Fledermaus, Come Fly with Me LP
  • Miscellany: Atkinson and Winter, First Names of Big Band
    Vocalists, Big Band Leaders, What was Joy Worth?
  • Final Songs: Don’t Have Any More, Mrs Moore; Whistle;
    Personal Friend of Mine; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:09, 25519, S
11 Apr 1984
Recorded
30 Jan 1984
19-7
#388
TS380
154507
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  •  Handel’s Place of Birth and Burial, Poetry of T. S. Eliot,
    Elgar’s Wedding Present, One Touch of Venus
  • Songs and Singers: Purcell/Nymphs and Shepherds, Nellie
    Melba, Aria from Rigoletto, Adelina Patti
  • Stories of Interrupted Performances
  • Piano Medley
  • Final Songs: Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?, Tell Me
    Where is Fancy Bred?, Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue?,
    Oh Mistress Mine Where Are You Roaming?
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:55, 25305, S
18 Apr 1984
Recorded
30 Jan 1984
19-8
#389
TS381
154508
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Bach/Passacaglia/Gillian Weir, Parry/Blest Pair of Sirens,
    Waltz from Gounod/Faust, Eric Burdon/House of the Rising Sun
  • Clarinet Players: Sidney Bechet, Harry Parry, Benny
    Goodman, Artie Shaw
  • Moonlight Sonata, Temptation Rag, Jumping Bean,
    Spooky Takes a Holiday
  • Peggy Lee Songs: My Heart Belongs to Daddy/Cole Porter,
    Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern
  • Signature Tune for an Accountant
  • Final Songs: Deep Purple, My One and Only, I Love Me,
    She’s So Lovely
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:17, 25638, S
25 Apr 1984
Recorded
01 Feb 1984
19-9
#390
TS382
154509
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Marches: Mendelssohn/War March of the Priests,
    Mendelssohn/Wedding March, Gounod/Funeral March of
    a Marionette (Theme to Hitchcock’s Half Hour), Elgar/
    Pomp and Circumstance
  • Song requests using the wrong line: will you still feed me
    (When I’m 64); taxi honey (Darktown Strutters’ Ball); rifle,
    rob, and plunder (The Wolf); hat and coat (Sunny Side of
    the Street)
  • Who conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra, June 1983,
    The Stars and Stripes Forever?/Mr Paul Kehayias, Chauffeur
  • Piano Medley
  • Cigar box rhythms: March from the Love for Three Oranges,
    We’re Off to See the Wizard, The Gendarmes’ Duet, Breathless
  • Old TV Signature Tunes: Marcia by Dag Wirén/Monitor, Eric
    Rogers Tune/Sunday Night at the London Palladium, March
    from A Little Suite by Trevor Duncan/Dr Finlay’s Casebook,
    Three Stars Will Shine Tonight/Dr Kildare.
  • Final Songs: Down the Road, Simple Gifts, The Pig Got Up
    and Slowly Walked Away, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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Archive description of 19-9 matches TS382
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:02, 25404, S
02 May 1984
Recorded
01 Feb 1984
19-10
#391
TS383
154510
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Mahler/Boys’ Chorus from Symphony No. 3, Some Enchanted
    Evening sung by Ian Wallace, Puccini/La Bohème duet –
    Plácido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes, André Grétry/Richard
    Coeur de Lion - Sherrill Milnes
  • Four notes: Beethoven/Violin Sonata No. 4, in A minor; It’s
    All in the Game; A Little White Gardenia; At Long Last Love
  • 78 rpm treasures: We’ve Got a Lot to be Thankful For/Ralph
    Reader singer, The Corrigan Hop (Douglas “Wrong Way”
    Corrigan), The Lindy Hop/Lil Armstrong singer, Dear Ma -
    we’re having lots of fun
  • Who, What, Where?: Rudolf Friml, B. C. Hillingham (Flotsam),
    Haydn in London, Fred Astaire, Boris Christoff/Boris Godunov,
    Noël Coward and Ivor Novello/Sirocco
  • Final Songs: Ramona, Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage,
    Mrs Worthington, I Love to Dance, I’ll Walk beside You
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:21, 25698, S
09 May 1984
Recorded
15 Feb 1984
19-11
#392
TS384
154453
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, in D major, Leonore No.3, Fidelio
    aria – Helen Donat singer, Symphony No. 9
  • Steve Race plays Poor Butterfly
  • Wunderbar from Kiss Me Kate/Cole Porter, This Pullover, Eamonn
    Andrews, Raphael
  • Joggers’ signature tune
  • Place names in song: New York, New York, Castle Abbey, 42nd
    Street, Hollywood, Wall Street.
  • Final songs: The Lily of Laguna, Theme from Soap, What
    Happens after the Ball, Easter Parade
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:53, 25275, S
16 May 1984
Recorded
15 Feb 1984
19-12
#393
TS385
154454
From the Westminster Theatre, London
  • Vaughan Williams/Job’s Comforters, Two horn players on
    Cook’s voyage, Electricity first seen at the Savoy Theatre in 1881,
    Country and western
  • Immediately before …: Beethoven/Moonlight Sonata, Big
    Spender/Sweet Charity, Humming Chorus/Madam Butterfly,
    Music Lesson/The Music Man
  • Piano medley
  • Mirella Freni sings: Handel/Alcina, Rossini/William Tell, Verdi/
    Falstaff, Puccini/La Bohème
  • Hallé, (Clara) Schumann, Piatti, and Joachim; Robert Browning
    the poet, Piatti cymbals, Robert and Elizabeth, a 1964 musical
    starring Keith Michell (Robert Browning), John Clements (Mr
    Barrett), and June Bronhill (Elizabeth Barrett)
  • Final songs: Boiled Beef and Carrots, Song from Cymbeline,
    Why Not Stay All Night, A Policeman’s Lot Is Not a Happy One
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:12, 25563, S
23 May 1984
Recorded
23 Feb 1984
19-13
#394
TS386
154455
From St John’s, Smith Square, London
  • Elgar/Symphony No. 2, Cecilia/Max Bygraves, Noël Coward/
    Conversation Piece sung by Joan Sutherland, Flanagan and
    Allen imitation by Bernie Winters and Leslie Crowther
  • Million sellers: Tchaikovsky/Piano Concerto No. 2 – Van Cliburn,
    Russ Conway/Sidesaddle, The Bachelors/Diane, Paul Anka/Diana
  • Dolmetsch consort recorder ensemble: Morley/The Frog
    Galliard, the one-keyed flute, Handel duo/Thurston Dart,
    Adieu/Gordon Jacob
  • Terse opera plots: Albert Herring, Faust, Die Meistersinger,
    Hänsel und Gretel
  • Show songs sung by Des O’Connor: Butch Cassidy and the
    Sundance Kid, Midnight Cowboy, Man of La Mancha,
    Carnival in Flanders
  • Lines from songs: All at once am I/On the Street Where
    You Live, When your professor cries/The Varsity Drag,
    the principal ingredient/Cocktails for Two, a barrel of
    dynamite/Goody Goody, It Must be Jelly (’Cause Jam Don’t
    Shake Like That)
  • Final songs: Imagination, The Brisk Young Widow, The Girl
    with the Dreamy Eyes, If You Could Care (Darewski)
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:02, 25414, S
30 May 1984
Recorded
23 Feb 1984
19-14
#395
TS387
154456
From St John’s, Smith Square, London
  • Verdi/Il trovatore: Ferrando’s aria – Di due figli, Di quella pira,
    Il balen, Anvil Chorus
  • Neville Marriner - First opera conducted, St Martin-in-the-
    Fields, Monopolylogue, The World’s most boring concert
  • Momerset English dialect songs: Somerset, Suffolk, Norfolk, Sussex
  • Four notes: Mona Lisa, Blaze Away, Just a Little Street
    Where Old Friends Meet, Twenty Years Ago (from Princess
    Ida), You’ll Be Mine in Apple Blossom Time, And I’ll Be Happy
  • The Wren Orchestra conducted by Parrott
  • Final songs: Margie, Down by the Salley Gardens, ’N Everything,
    The Last Rose of Summer
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:20, 25696, S
06 Jun 1984
Recorded
07 Mar 1984
19-15
#396
TS388
154467
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre
  • Beethoven/Fideleo/deductive playing, Slam Stewart, Grieg/
    Norwegian Dance No. 2, Slew Foot Dance
  • Questions about Feet: “And Did Those Feet”, “Pedal
    Extremity”, “In Your Shirt and Your Sox”, “I’ll Hear a
    Footstep on the Stair”
  • Beethoven/Sonata in E♭ (#4 or #18??), Bach/Sheep May
    Safely Graze/Welsh Counting, Llangollen Dreamer/La
    Golondrina, Who Played Stella/Ray Milland
  • Manuel de Falla/The Three-Cornered Hat, Plié, 1919 -
    Birth of Ian Wallace, Pompous cut down to size.
  • Final songs: Manhattan, The Housewife’s Lament, Never
    Let Your Braces Dangle, Stardust
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:59, 25364, S
13 Jun 1984
Recorded
07 Mar 1984
19-16
#397
Not
taken
by TS
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre
  • General questions
  • Introductions
  • Early music
  • Jazz
  • Finish the couplet
  • Final songs: South of the Border, The Flower Song, I'se a-
    Waiting for Yer, In the Gloaming
Held in Archives
Listed by Archives as the 400th edition of My Music, but we have only
identified 396 prior episodes. Archive description does not match
any TS episode
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
MISSING
20 Jun 1984
Recorded
14 Mar 1984
19-17
#398
TS390
154469
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre
  • Unusual music: Federico (“Fred”) Elizalde, Bach minuet/New
    Bath Guide -1760s, ’Round Midnight - Five instruments,
    Thelonious Monk, Spike Jones - Rossini/William Tell Overture
  • Piano medley
  • Birds: Grainger/My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone, Wren birdsong,
    Stanford/The Bluebird, Edith Piaf (The Sparrow)/Mea Culpa
  • Pets’ signature tunes
  • Lead-ins 1: The Very Thought of You, Nina from Argentina,
    When You’re Smiling, Spring Spring Spring
  • Lead-ins 2: My Heart and I, Don’t Fence Me In, Be My Love,
    In My Solitude, There’s a Song in My Heart
  • Final songs: Little Dolly Daydream, Kreisler/Caprice Viennois,
    You Know What I Mean, Loch Lomond
Held in Archives
Archive description of 19-17 matches TS390
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:54, 25278, S
27 Jun 1984
Recorded
14 Mar 1984
19-18
#399
TS391
154470
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre
  • Constant Lambert/Waltz from Horoscope, Malcolm Arnold/
    Cornish Dance No. 1, Massenet/Meditation from Thaïs, Vitsa Davis
  • My Grandfather’s Clock, Bless ’Em All, Maria, She Was a Sweet
    Little Dicky Bird
  • Denis Norden 17 years ago sings She was a Sweet ….
  • County origins of folk songs: The Nutting Maid/Sussex, The
    Folkstone Murder/Kent, The Sweet Primroses/Somerset, Brigg
    Fair/Norfolk
  • Magical mutter: Who mutters magically?
  • Piano medley.
  • Final songs: A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, She’s Like The Swallow,
    I Love to Go Swimmin’ with Women, Mary’s a Grand Old Name
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:05, 25450, S
04 Jul 1984
Recorded
21 Mar 1984
19-19
#400
TS392
154471
400th
episode
by our
count
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre
  • Carl Nielsen/An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands, Bing
    Crosby, Kalman/Countess Maritza, Jack Hylton’s Band members
  • Piano medley
  • Happy families: Berlioz and his loves, Wagner and Liszt, Evelyn
    Rothwell/Barbirolli/Hallé, Teagarden – Jack, Charlie and Norma
  • Guiseppe Di Stefano: Ponchielli/Cielo e mar; Bizet/La Fleur que
    tu m'avais jetée; Puccini/Non piangere, Liù; Puccini/E lucevan
    le stelle
  • Final songs: When You and I Were Seventeen, Spare, Oh
    Spare, My Baby’s Chair, Ye Banks and Braes
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:16, 25621, S
11 Jul 1984
Recorded
21 Mar 1984
19-20
#401
TS393
154472
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre
  • Piano medley
  • Lines from Flanders and Swann: Have some Madeira m’dear,
    chacun à son gout, it’s not irrelevant it’s a Hippopotamus,
    eat garlic in bed
  • Correct Pronunciation: Che gelida manina, Orfeo ed Euridice,
    Turandot, Nureyev
  • Underrated Musical Works or Personalities: Sándor Végh, Fu
    Cong, Steve Race, Donizetti/Il campanello (The Night Bell),
    Gertrude Mitchell (Denis and Frank seem to be pulling Steve’s leg)
  • Tunes that start with the same five notes: Beethoven/Pastoral
    Symphony, Together, My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair, You’ll
    Never Know
  • Lines from Songs: Just me and my radio, Whenever I sneeze,
    Summertime was nearly over, Hot cha cha
  • Final Songs: If You Knew Susie, Rufford Park Poachers, One Hour
    Tonight, Off to
    Philadelphia
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:19, 25667, S
18 Jul 1984
Recorded
27 Mar 1984
19-21
#402
TS394
154457
From the Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • Zez Confrey/Kitten on the Keys, Hoagy Carmichael/Georgia on
    My Mind, Vivian Ellis and A. P. Herbert/Other People’s Babies,
    tinpantithesis of melody/Cole Porter/It’s De-Lovely
  • Piano medley
  • Rossini/The Barber of Seville: Overture used in other operas,
    Figaro’s occupation, Dr Bartolo’s aria, Elopement scene
  • Song lines: Thy breath be rude/Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind;
    Every road has a turning/I Cried for You; Reply, reply/Tell
    Me Where Is Fancy Bred, you can do the job when you’re in
    town/Winter Wonderland, Want some seafood mama/Hold
    Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
  • Final songs: When I Am Married, Federico’s Lament, Where
    the Cross-Eyed Claras Grow, I’m Old-Fashioned
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:22, 24786, S
25 Jul 1984
Recorded
27 Mar 1984
19-22
#403
TS395
154458
From the Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • Fats Waller’s handspan, The Old Groaner – Crosby not
    Sinatra, Mozart/Don Giovanni/George London and Walter
    Berry, Henry Wood/hissed and applauded
  • Variety’s parlance: Kideo-crics/Child video critics, Oater
    bombs at BO/Western fails, Terps, thesps and helmers/
    dancers, actors and directors, chopsocky/martial arts film
  • Linda Rondstat - What’s New?: Gershwin/I’ve Got a Crush on
    You, Berlin/What’ll I Do?, Ira Gershwin/Someone To Watch over
    Me, Stein-Cahn/Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
  • Theme song for the Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • Final songs: On the Sunny Side of the Street, The Twa
    Corbies (Two Crows), It’s a Man Every Time, The Lost Chord
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:24, 25756, S
01 Aug 1984
Recorded
03 Apr 1984
19-23
#404
TS396
154511
  • Cats: Andrew Lloyd Webber/Cats, T. S. Eliot/Old Possum’s
    Book of Practical Cats, Ravel/L'Enfant et les sortilèges,
    Peggy Lee/The Siamese Cat Song
  • Birdsong: Nightingale – Quail – Cuckoo/Beethoven/
    Pastoral Symphony, Manx shearwater, Curlew, Puffin
  • Five notes: Rachmaninov/Piano Concerto No. 2, Let Me
    Call You Sweetheart, Ronald Binge/The Water Mill,
    Novello/Highwayman Love
  • Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow: Vesta Victoria –
    1892, Delius/Prelude to Irmelin, Tchaikovsky/Symphony
    No. 4, Denis Norden’s alternative last line
  • Not In the Mood Music
  • Final songs: Ain’t Misbehavin, Zion’s Walls, There Ought to
    Be a Moonlight Saving Time, Wandering the King's Highway
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Atkin
KALW
27:10, 25526, S
08 Aug 1984
Recorded
03 Apr 1984
19-24
#405
TS389
154468
  • Berwald/Symphonie Singulière, Herbert Farjeon/Pulling Down
    London, Star Trek, Bach/Double Concerto/Stern-Mintz-Mehta
  • Six notes: Dvořák/Slavonic Dance – Bohemia, We’re All Going
    on a Summer Holiday, Handel/Messiah – He Shall Feed
    His Flock, Let It Snow
  • Rigoletto: Jonathan Miller production, La donna è mobile, Gigli
    1934 recording, Jan Peerce
  • Dance bands/singers: Billy Cotton’s Band/Alan Breeze,
    Ambrose Orchestra/Anne Shelton, Jay Wilbur’s band/
    Dorothy Carless, Harry Davis/Beryl Davis
  • Final songs: Put Me amongst the Girls, Oona [Una??] Fair,
    Mabel Ran a Table, Welcome Home
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Amis, Muir
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Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:08, 25495, S
15 Aug 1984
Recorded
10 Apr 1984
19-25
#406
TS397
154512
  • Arnold Bax (aka Dermot O’Byrne)/Country Tune, Coates/Calling
    All Workers, Max Bruch/Violin Concerto, Jimmy Witherspoon
  • Song settings by Delius: Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson,
    Poet: Ben Johnson, Poet: William Sharp (aka Fiona MacLeod),
    Poet - Robert Herrick
  • Favourite poems
  • Composers: Lully/Le Carrousel du Roi, Peter Warlock/Capriol
    Suite, Waldteufel/Estudiantina, Gibbons
  • Songs about babies: You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby,
    Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Let’s Put Out the Lights
    and Go to Bed, Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
  • Final songs: I Wan’t to Be Happy, Ah! Fuyez douce image,
    I Do Like an Egg for My Tea, Horo Mhairi dhu, Turn Ye to Me
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:28, 25813, S
22 Aug 1984
Recorded
10 Apr 1984
19-26
#407
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MISSING
23 Dec 1984
Recorded
28 Nov 1984
special
#408
TS398
155225
Special Christmas Edition
From the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall
  • The Kneller Hall soprano, a Rushing Blues, The Bach Choir,
    Nat Gonella/Old Man Mose Is Dead
  • The Boar’s Head Carol, Wassail, Field and fountain/We
    Three Kings, The very sod/Good King Wenceslas
  • The sum of numbers in selected songs
  • Kiri Te Kanawa: The Keel Row, Come to the Fair, Island
    Spinning Song, I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue
  • Tunes for a Desert Island
  • Final songs: When the Lights Go Up in London, Twelve Days of
    Christmas, Give Me the Kingston Bypass, Let the Punishment
    Fit the Crime
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BBC R4X
27:19, 25674, S
26 Jun 1985
Recorded
16 Jan 1985
20-1
#409
TS399
155835
  • Singers: Joseph Schmidt – sings a high C♯, Howard Keel,
    John Raitt, Michael Jackson
  • Minor concerto, Beatrice Harrison/Philomena of Oxted,
    Von Trapp children, Tickets for Cats
  • Piano medley
  • Peoples’ names: Tito Gobbi: Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff,
    L’elisir d’amore, Otello
  • Final songs: It’s a Great Big Shame, She is Far from the
    Land, Washing Dishes with My Sweetie, Trumpeter What
    Are You Sounding Now?
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Atkin
KXOT
26:48, 25194, S
Jul 1985
Recorded
16 Jan 1985
20-2
#410
TS400
155836
  • Jussi Björling/Di quella pira/Top C – Verdi did not write, Theme from
    M*A*S*H, Oboe gives the orchestra its A, Oscar Peterson the singer
  • Lines from songs: a strange allure/Down Below, I ain’t
    had no lovin’ since January/Shine on Harvest Moon, the
    wild birds/I Love the Moon and Jeanie with the Light Brown
    Hair, Dig you in the land of nod/Hit the Road to Dreamland
  • Three notes: Britten/Playful Pizzicato, Who’s Been Polishing the
    Sun, Land of Love and Land of Birth, The Archers theme
  • E♭ chord variations: Elgar/Nimrod from The Enigma Variations),
    Beethoven/Piano Concerto No. 5, Mozart/Magic Flute
    Overture, Glenn Miller/At Last
  • Most erotic records:
  • Patriotic songs: The Roast Beef of Old England, God Bless the
    Prince of Wales, A Scottish Soldier (music from Rossini/William
    Tell), We Don't Want to Fight
  • Final songs: Isn’t This a Lovely Day, Gute Nacht (Schubert/
    Winterreisse), What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur,
    Our Wedding Day
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Atkin
KXOT
26:22, 24785, S
10 Jul 1985
Recorded
23 Jan 1985
20-3
#411
TS401
155837
From the Westminster Theatre
  • Sydney and Celia Lipton, George Shearing/Let There Be
    Love, Wagner/The Flying Dutchman, Sammy Cahn/It’s
    Nice to Go Travelling
  • Languages best suited to singing.
  • Tunes with the introduction continuing under the melody:
    De Falla/El amor brujo, The Peanut Vendor, Satie/
    Gymnopedie No. 1, Adios
  • Sopranos: Jessye Norman/Dove sono, Kiri Te Kanawa/Don
    Giovanni, Ileana Cotrubas/Così fan tutte, Dame Janet Baker
  • Swing together and swear/Eton Boating Song, Something
    good will come from that/Would You Like to Take a Walk,
    En garde/Toreador’s song, Grabbing at the flies/Old Rockin’ Chair
  • Final Songs: Just Like the Ivy, Oft in the Chilly Night,
    Thermogene, I Can’t Do My Bally Bottom Button Up
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Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:10, 24597, S
17 Jul 1985
Recorded
23 Jan 1985
20-4
#412
TS402
155838
From the Westminster Theatre
  • Bartók/Quartet No. 4; Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye; George
    London; James Thurber/The Day the Dam Broke
  • Fritz Spiegel’s Musical Dictionary: Famous Violins, Leopold
    Stokowski, The Flash Haggis/Sir Alexander Gibson, Left-
    Handed Musicians
  • Piano Medley
  • Seagulls: Coates/By the Sleepy Lagoon, The Seagulls (Greek
    Music), “7 Time” Roger Whittaker, Ogden Nash
  • Tunes that Start with the Same Four Notes: Rossini/ Overture to
    La gaza ladra, Braid the Raven Hair, I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,
    Play to Me Gypsy
  • A Song for a Car
  • Final Songs: Chez moi, On a Sleeping Friend (Music by Steve
    Race), Pickin’ All the Best Ones Out, The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray
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Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
26:56, 25316, S
24 Jul 1985
Recorded
30 Jan 1985
20-5
#413
TS403
155839
From the Westminster Theatre
  • Guiseppe Di Stefano/Ponchielli/Cielo e mar (Ezio’s aria from
    La Gioconda), May Morning Madrigals/Magdalen Tower,
    Schwarzkopf/Carl Zeller/Don’t Be Cross, Cherry Gillespie
  • Mood music:
  • Middle bits: Chopin/Mazurka No. 1, op. 24, Carry Me Back to
    Green Pastures, Estrellita, I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore
  • Panellists’ musical dislikes:
  • Danny Kaye/Quotation from Tchaikovsky, Bob Crosby/
    Stompin’ at The Savoy/increasing tempo/Judy Garland,
    They’re Playing Ten (Nine) Pins in the Sky/Judy Garland
  • Final songs: Oh, You Beautiful Doll, JA whistles Habañera
    from Carmen, On a Sunday Afternoon, Long Ago and Far Away
Held in Archives
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Atkin
KXOT
27:07, 25487, S
31 Jul 1985
Recorded
30 Jan 1985
20-6
#414
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Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
MISSING
07 Aug 1985
Recorded
07 Feb 1985
20-7
#415
TS404
155840
From the Shaw Theatre
  • Wagner/Parsifal/Good Friday music, Walton/Henry V, Bing
    Crosby/Juanita, Soon It’s Going to Rain/St Swithin’s Day/July 15
  • Gypsy scale, Long keys (white notes), Bass clef or F clef/
    the same, Tromba spezzata
  • Piano medley
  • Overheard comments
  • Donizetti/Maria Stuarda/Fotheringay, Felix the Cat/Timbuktu, Long
    Ago in Alcalá/Cervantes birthplace, A Girl in Calico
  • Two songs simultaneously: Il bacio/Tipitipitin
  • According to the words of songs: Myself When Young, Sand in My
    Shoes, Down Argentina Way, The Cornsilk in My Daddy’s Pipe
  • Final songs: Who, Banks of the Daisies, Halfway to
    Heaven, Eriskay Love Lilt
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Amis, Muir
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Atkin
TS404
26:50, 25223, S
14 Aug 1985
Recorded
07 Feb 1985
20-8
#416
TS405
155841
From the Shaw Theatre
  • Richard Strauss/Don Juan, Balalaika Orchestra/Flight of
    the Bumble Bee, Boris Christoff/Mussorgsky/A Prayer,
    Clara Bow/The Seven Stars Symphony.
  • Cigar box rhythms: Mozart/Symphony No. 40 K550, Bucalossi/
    Grasshopper’s Dance, When a Felon's Not Engaged in His
    Employment (from The Pirates of Penzance), Tico Tico.
  • Piano medley
  • Delibes/Lakmé/Flower duet, Mary Rose, Pan pipes/Georghe
    Zamfhir, Ella Logan/It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.
  • Bobby Shaftoe’s Gone to Sea.
  • Final songs: I’m In the Mood for Love, The Ohio Boatman’s
    Song, I’m a Hero to My Mum, There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:00, 25376, S
21 Aug 1985
Recorded
11 Feb 1985
20-9
#417
TS406
155842
From the Shaw Theatre
  • Gluck/Orfeo/Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Sinding/Rustle of
    Spring, Theme from Last of the Summer Wine, La Cucaracha
  • Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, That’s My Weakness Now,
    Ali Baba’s Camel, Gather Lip Rouge While You May.
  • Chopin/Scherzo No. 3, Two Minuets in G/Beethoven/Paderewski,
    Elgar/Starlight Express, Movie melody by Steve Race
  • Berlioz/Les Troyens, Dido/Je vais mourir, Dido
    and Aeneas make … love, Carthage and Troy
  • Sol, ti, do: Once in Royal David’s City, Sun in
    the Morning, I Feel Pretty, J’attendrai, Blues in the Night
  • Verdi/I Lombardi, Piano player not named Sam,
    Handel/Messiah/Unto Us a Son Is Given, Wynton Marsalis
  • Final songs: Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Gounod/Faust/
    Salut demeure chaste et pure, Never Let Your Braces
    Dangle, Love Is the Sweetest Thing
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
26:27, 24862, S
28 Aug 1985
Recorded
11 Feb 1985
20-10
#418
TS407
155843
  • Trains: Richard Rodney Bennett/Murder on the Orient
    Express, Della Reese, The Train and the River, Around the
    World in Eighty Days
  • Five notes: On the Sunny Side of the Street, It’s an Irish
    lullaby, Marching through Georgia, Carousel Waltz
  • Turn of the Screw: Britten - composer, Henry James -
    author, Four singers, Film version – the Innocents
  • Cole Porter songs: It Was Just One of Those Things, You’d
    Be So Nice to Come Home To, All of You, What Say Let’s
    Be Buddies
  • Irving Berlin songs: Alexander’s Ragtime Band, I Left My
    Heart at the Stage Door Canteen, It’s a Lovely Day Today,
    I’ve Got the Guy Who Used to Be My Captain, What’ll I Do
  • Cleaning up lyrics
  • Final songs: Bye, Bye, Blackbird; Weill/The Threepenny
    Opera/Ballad of the Pleasant Life; In the Great Indoors;
    In Summertime on Bredon
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Race/Race
Atkin
KXOT
27:19, 25675, S
04 Sep 1985
Recorded
14 Feb 1985
20-11
#419
TS408
155844
  • Prokofiev/Violin Sonata (1 or 2??)/Gidon Kremer, Misattributed
    music, Jazz version of Offenbach/Barcarolle (from The Tales of
    Hoffman), Tommy Dorsey version (Dorsey born in Shenandoah, PA)
  • Song references: Crystal Palace/Cole Porter/You’re the Top, Am
    I the Moth or Flame/Ira Gershwin (lyrics)/But Not for Me, Sorry,
    Miss Pike!/Britten/Albert Herring, This is all?? I beg of you/Don’t
    Take Your Love from Me
  • Five starting notes: Godard/Berceuse de Jocelyn, We’re In the
    Money, Symphony, Common feature
  • Stuffed in Tunbridge Wells – Nipper the dog from the HMV label
  • Malcolm Arnold/Flute concerto, Malcolm Arnold quote – Music is
    an act of friendship, Maurice Jarre/Lawrence of Arabia
  • Final songs revisited
  • Final songs: Poor Little Rich Girl, Fond Dove, One Little Girl Who
    Loves Me, Moon River
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Wallace, Norden
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Atkin
KXOT
27:19, 25673, S
11 Sep 1985
Recorded
14 Feb 1985
20-12
#420
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[No information]
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Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
MISSING
18 Sep 1985
Recorded
20 Feb 1985
20-13
#421
TS409
155845
  • Bartók/Violin Concerto No. 1, Richard Addensall/Warsaw
    Concerto (NAAFI Version), Massenet/Le Cid, Harry S Pepper/
    The Stage Revolves
  • Journey to Reims/Rossini (contains our national anthem),
    Under Milk Wood, And like a torrent rush rebellious Scots to crush –
    line from a verse of the English National Anthem, Opening and
    closing lines of Ian’s second autobiography
  • Piano Medley
  • Clue by Clue: The Nutcracker.
  • Music for Dressmaking: Silver Threads among the Gold, Hems
    Ancient and Modern, The Singer Not the Song, Mama’s Little
    Baby Loves [misquoted as ‘Children Love’] shortnin’, I wish I
    could sew, If I were a Stitch Man etc…
  • Old record: Which is first instrument – Muted trombone, Who
    is the singer – Gertrude Lawrence, - give next line “Someday
    I’ll Find You”, Co-stars – Noël Coward, Lawrence Olivier and
    Adrianne Allen
  • Guesswork – which song sold huge numbers in 1898 – Soldiers
    of the Queen, Jonathan Swift’s words about Handel, What did
    “Home Sweet Home” cost in 1906 (£1), Legal witticism –
    “They must be very fortunate people in Epsom” about
    organist not playing Keep the Home Fires Burning
  • Final songs: Is It True What They Say about Dixie, Après un
    Rêve, She Showed Him the Parlour, When I Was a Lad
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Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS409
27:24, 25752, S
25 Sep 1985
Recorded
20 Feb 1985
20-14
#422
TS410
155846
  • Negative quote about harpsichords by Henry Wood, Phil
    Harris song using name Edmund Hoyle (wrote book about
    whist in early 18th Century), I Left My Heart in San Francisco
    sung by an American computer (not unlike Steven Hawking),
    How many strings in Steve’s Piano? (c. 220)
  • Songs about Love Affairs: Berlioz/Béatrice et Bénédict,
    Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler, Dido at Carthage, What
    did Abelard say to Heloise (in Just One of Those Things)
  • Pavarotti sings: ‘To live without jealousy no regrets with no
    more worries about love’; ‘Lolita’ –name Author and professor
    in Lolita, ‘Two Lovely Black Eyes’ – Ian finishes Pavarotti’s
    song ‘Rosalie’, Name the arranger and conductor of Pavarotti’s
    album – Henry Mancini.
  • Poor auditionee (Pete Atkin) getting cut off, name the songs:
    They Can’t Take That Away from Me; I’ve Grown Accustomed
    to Her Face; The Gypsy’s Warning; Cocktails For Two; K-K-K-Katy;
    Sam Sam, pick oop tha’ musket; On the Road to Mandalay; My Way
  • Final Songs: Wave (instrumental), The Girl from Ipanema, Maybe
    It’s Because I’m a Londoner (as Maurice Chevalier), Sunshine,
    September Song
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Race/Race
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TS410
27:05, 25456, S
02 Oct 1985
Recorded
25 Feb 1985
20-15
#423
TS411
155847
  • Who was Suppé’s Uncle (Donizetti), Hinge and Bracket/Stackton
    Tressel, Suppé, Procul Harum/Whiter Shade of Pale
  • Three notes: Mahler/Symphony No. 7, Till Eulenspiegel, Brahms/
    Hungarian Dance No. 6, Intermezzo from Escape to Happiness
  • Quintets: Brahms/Clarinet Quintet, The Hot Club of France
    (Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli etc.), The Magic Flute,
    The Beach Boys
  • Never to Be Forgotten Nights in the Theatre; First night of Peter
    Grimes, Cinderella at The Theatre Royal Ramsgate, Nicholas
    Nickleby at the National, The Thurber Carnival
  • Final Songs: Yes, My Darling Daughter; Dance of the Hours; She’s
    Such a Comfort to Me; Emily
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS411
26:53, 25273, S
09 Oct 1985
Recorded
25 Feb 1985
20-16
#424
TS412
155848
  • Views about Music: The most powerful four chords in choral
    music - Zadok the Priest conducted by Andrew Davies (rather
    hear than see him conduct), Fireworks Music by Handel –
    where is the “stone harper” – the statue of Handel which
    moved from Vauxhall to the Victoria and Albert Museum, Music of
    the Spheres by Josef Strauss, Sir Roger de Coverlet
  • Words from Songs: What do these have in common? “Britannia
    rule[s] the waves” and “Heart[s] of oak”; Answer: should be
    “rule” and “Heart”; Farenheit or Centigrade/Fever, a hole/
    There’s a Hole in My Bucket), Your name will be right on the tip
    of my heart/Never in a Million Years
  • Technical Stuff: Accidental, Why only 48 Preludes and Fugues,
    Piano scale from the Lesson Scene from Bittersweet, What film
    didn’t this come from – Debbie Reynolds You Are My Lucky Star
    that didn’t get into Singing in the Rain
  • Cigar Box tapping: The Rakoczy March, Façade, Raymond
    Overture by Thomas, Take It from Here
  • Song titles that tell lies: My Heart Belongs to Daddy; I’m
    Popeye the Sailor Man; I Am Pretty, Witty and Gay; The
    Best things in Life Are Free; You’re Dancing on My Heart;
    I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore; I Did It My Way
  • Final songs: Exactly Like You, The Aubade from Le Roi d’Ys,
    When Flossie Found Her First Grey Hair, The Snowy Breasted Pearl
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS412
27:17, 25644, S
16 Oct 1985
Recorded
27 Feb 1985
20-17
#425
TS413
155930
  • Identification: Constant Lambert/The Rio Grande, Stanley Holloway,
    Jesse Norman singing Mahler, Cavan O’Connor sings When I Leave
    the World Behind
  • General questions: Registration, Butt and Tub, Wagner, Bill
    Chesterfield to his son in the 18th Century
  • People and Places: Avalon/Erroll Garner, Paris/Marguerite Monet,
    Chicago/Oscar Peterson, San Francisco/Nancy Wilson
  • Audiences Must Be Made to work – panel’s reaction to this
  • Mi Mi Re Re Do – tunes that begin with these notes: Panis
    Angelicus, Parlez-Moi d’amour (1930), Pirates of Penzance
    Chorus, Those Were the Days/Mary Hopkin
  • Final Songs: Stars Fell on Alabama; The Colleen from County
    Down; Virginia; Devon, Glorious Devon
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Atkin
TS413
26:18, 24714, S
23 Oct 1985
Recorded
27 Feb 1985
20-18
#426
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  • Round 1
  • Song lyrics:
  • Round 3
  • Round 4
  • Voluptuously life enhancing pieces of music:
  • Final songs: Whispering, Whistle Down the
    Wind, Good Time Charlie, Silver Threads

    among the Gold

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MISSING
30 Oct 1985
Recorded
06 Mar 1985
20-19
#427
TS414
155931
  • Connections: Schubert/To Be Sung on the Water/Delius/Summer
    Night on the River, Vera Lynn and Anne Shelton singing Hollywood
    Square Dance, Cherry Ripe/Herrick/Horn, Jessie Matthews/
    Everything’s in Rhythm with My Heart
  • Other Team member’s specialities: Nora Howard/Other People’s
    Babies, Ian’s Pistola (in Falstaff), Fanny Bernie’s Father (Charles,
    wrote a history of music), Eric Fenby – Delius’s Amanuensis
  • Piano Medley
  • Voices and Voices: José Carreras sings: As Time Goes By –
    Associations with – Bogart, Casablanca, Memories – The Way
    We Were/Streisand/Marvin Hamlisch, Dream the Impossible Dream,
    Summer of ’42/Michel Legrand
  • Two notes: I Want to Be Happy, Japanese Sandman, Carolina in
    the Morning, China Boy/Benny Goodman Trio
  • Final Songs: All of Me, Only a Rose I Give You, Is Mr Izzy Ill?
    A Garden in the Rain
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Atkin
CBC
27:37, 13012, S
06 Nov 1985
Recorded
06 Mar 1985
20-20
#428
TS415
155932
  • Begins and Ends: Puccini/Tosca, The problems with swarf,
    Gounod/Faust, Jack Teagarden/The Sheik of Araby
  • This and That (Lines from Songs): Whose hungry mouth is
    pressed to whose sweetflowing breast? (A tree whose hungry
    mouth is prest/Against the earth’s sweetflowing breast)/Trees
    (from the poem by Joyce Kilmer); the 8.21/Who Do You Think
    You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler? (Dad’s Army Theme); Not a quattie/
    Linstead Market; The sky’s a blackboard/Teach Me Tonight; I’ll
    raise a bunion/The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  • Noël Coward: Dearest Love, A Room with a View, There Are
    Bad Times Just around the Corner, The Party’s Over Now
  • A PSA band – what does this stand for? – Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
  • Cigar Box tapping: Schumann/Piano Concerto, Barber of Seville,
    Les Sylphides, Theme to My Music
  • Steve Race plays a tune of his own – Far Away Music
  • Final Songs: The Rose, They Say It’s Wonderful (as a Frank/
    Denis Duet), My Old Shako
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Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
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Atkin
TS 415
27:14, 25600, S
13 Nov 1985
Recorded
12 Mar 1985
20-21
#429
TS416
155933
From St John’s, Smith Square
  • Kashmiri Song from Four Indian Love Lyrics, sung by Benjamin Luxon;
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson/Come into the Garden, Maud; Kate Moss/
    Floral Dance sung by Norman Bailey; Robert Tear singing Linden
    Lea (words by William Barnes, music by Ralph Vaughan Williams);
    Forbes Robinson singing On the Road to Mandalay
  • Song Titles from Second Lines: Vienna, City of My Dreams; Basin
    Street Blues; The White Dove; All the Things You Are; Sonny Boy
  • He brought Haydn to London: Salomon, He tore its chords
    asunder/The Minstrel Boy, Shaw talking about Arthur Sullivan,
    What is my question to which your answer might be “the population
    hereabouts”? Answer: In the song You Came a Long way from St.
    Louis, what line follows “and certainly impressed”
  • Suggestions for real tearjerkers
  • Same starting notes: Stravinsky/Ebony Concerto (written for Woody
    Herman), Tchaikovsky/Dance of the Reed Pipes (from The
    Nutcracker), Hubert Gregg/Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner, On
    the Beach at Waikiki
  • Song Lines: asbestos/I Won’t Dance [Heaven rest us! I’m not
    asbestos], if the boy were I/Would You, a monotonal “stately
    clock”/Night and Day, refers to a book of seventy pages/
    The Day I Read a Book
  • Final Songs: For Me and My Gal, Nymph Errant, We Must All Be
    Very Kind to Auntie Jessie, Two Little Girls in Blue
Held in Archives
Amis, Jones
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS416
27:19, 25672, S
20 Nov 1985
Recorded
12 Mar 1985
20-22
#430
TS417
155934
From St John’s, Smith Square
  • Mozart/Hallelujah/Exultate Jubilate, Sousa/Pride of the Wolverines/
    Bix Biederbecke, Peter and the Wolf/Terry Wogan; Yes, Sir,
    That’s My Baby/Cantabile
  • Words of Songs: Show Me the Way to Go Home, Ta-Ra-Ra
    Boom-De-Ay, Underneath the Arches, Like Someone in Love
  • Piano Medley
  • What is an Interval?
  • Glyndebourne Operas and Singers: Busoni/Arlecchino, Michael
    Redgrave, Ian Wallace, Spike Hughes
  • Songs to be sung to flowers
  • Final Songs: Poor Pa, John whistles Shostakovich/Romance/The
    Gadfly, Where the Charabanc Had Rested, Tonga
Held in Archives (dated 21 Nov)
Amis, Jones
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KWAX
27:09, 19159, S
27 Nov 1985
Recorded
20 Mar 1985
20-23
#431
TS418
155935
From the Westminster Theatre
  • Joan Sutherland/Violetta/Drinking Song (from La traviata),
    Ambrose and Orchestra/Denny Dennis/South of the Border,
    Sarah Walker/Debussy/Mandoline, Joseph and His Amazing
    Technicolour Dreamcoat
  • Identifying Song Words: lovely companions/The Last Rose of
    Summer, playing the fool/Muffin the Mule, slanty/It’s Only a
    Shanty in Old Shanty Town, Who’s Louis/I’m the Guy Who
    Found the Lost Chord
  • Piano Medley
  • Curious Uses of the Albert Hall Organ
  • What do they have in common – Stéphane Grappelli/Willow
    Weep for Me, Battle Hymn of the Republic/Joan Baez, Anne Shelton/
    My Silent Love, Can’t We Be Friends (Piano) – All written by women
  • How to Cure Headaches at the Keyboard
  • Final Songs: Dance Little Lady, Brigg Fair, Always (parody
    recitation), The Sentry Song
Held in Archives
Archive description of 20-23 matches TS418
Amis, Muir
Wallace,
Green
Race/Race
Atkin
TS418
27:19, 25672, S
04 Dec 1985
Recorded
20 Mar 1985
20-24
#432
TS419
155936
From the Westminster Theatre
  • Identification: Maria Callas/Il pirata, Overture by Aubert, Ian
    Wallace/Uproarious Devon, Henry Hall/Just the Time for
    Dancing/Here’s to the Next Time
  • Lines from songs: The stars in their apiaries/Waltz from Façade;
    I’ll be a great sensation, I’ll be an inspiration/Daddy; firewater
    gin-gin/Totem Tom-Tom from Rose Marie; That’s all that it was/Oh
    What It Seemed to Be
  • Variations on a D♭ tonality; Holst/The Perfect Fool, If I Were a Bell,
    Debussy/The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Lecuona/The
    Brazen Eye (Andalucia suite)
  • Circus Music: Entry of the Gladiators, Trapeze (Und ein Bier),
    Spanish Gypsy Dance, Incredible flying feat with long drum roll
  • Four notes: Petrushka/Stravinsky, Tommy Dorsey theme music,
    Fascination, Mario My Own
  • Putting words to a ballet piece from An Amercian in Paris
  • Final Songs: The Game of Love, Song from Háry János Suite by
    Zoltán Kodály (Hungarian), It Had to Be You (parody),
    Somewhere over the Rainbow
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace,
Green
Race/Race
Atkin
TS419
27:24, 25753, S
11 Dec 1985
Recorded
26 Mar 1985
20-25
#433
--
[No information]
Held in Archives
Assumed from sequence as not taken by TS
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
MISSING
18 Dec 1985
Recorded
26 Mar 1985
20-26
#434
TS420
155937
  • Divertimento (various composers), Mike Nichols and Elaine May,
    Peter Sellers (Hard Day’s Night as Olivier), There’s Life in the
    Old Girl Yet/Noël Coward/London Calling!/Maisie Gay
  • Words from Songs: We hope you can rouse Keith Prowse…/
    Parody of A Room with a View, contaminate/Money Is the Root of
    All Evil, syncopated/Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Inspiration/Daddy,
    estimation/I’m in the Market for You
  • Piano Medley
  • Spelling: ASCH/Schumann, M.U.G/In Trinity Church I Met My Doom,
    TAN TIN/Constantinople, ETH/Sweetheart
  • Suggestions for Musician’s Livery
  • Four Notes: Should I Reveal, Live Laugh and Love, Back to Those
    Happy Days, the difference between black and white piano keys
  • Final Songs: Together, Air from Gounod/Faust, Southend-on-Sea,
    This Nearly Was Mine
Not listed in Archives
Identified as the last in the series by Steve Race
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS420
27:27, 25802, S
22 Dec 1985
Recorded
06 Nov 1985
special
#435
TS421
156689
Special Christmas Edition
  • Mahagonny (Kurt Weill), Norwegian Wood, Song of the Fir Tree,
    Mahogany (Diana Ross), The Nut Tree
  • Piano medley
  • Words from songs: A frosty morning/Here We Come Gathering
    Nuts in May, Back where you started from/Back in Your Own
    Backyard, Dilly dilly/Lavender Blue, Willy nilly/Imagination, Dilly
    dally/Don’t Dilly Dally on the Way
  • Little people: Frank Little and Vera Little sang in Othello and
    Daphne, Little Richard/Good Golly Miss Molly, Little Titch,
    Little Lemmy
  • Steve Reich, The King’s Singers/Happy Days Are Here Again,
    Horowitz/The Waltz of the Flowers and Gardeners, Ballin’ the Jack
  • Final songs: Tiptoe through the Tulips, And Joseph Wondered,
    Around the Corner, He Came from the Glorious Kingdom
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
KOUW2
26:36, 25012, S
18 Nov 1986
Recorded
29 Jan 1986
21-1
#436
TS422
157327
  • Our Hunting Fathers/Britten/Rats Away; Harry Lime Theme
    (played wrongly); The “Mary Jane Suite”/Misprint for Háry János
    Suite; Bye, Bye, Blackbird sung wrongly by Frank Muir in an
    earlier edition
  • Beethoven/Piano Concerto No. 3, Alfred Brendel interviewed
    about the piano concertos, The second subject, End of the
    movement and applause.
  • Piano Medley
  • Which work was conceived on Uxbridge Station? (Yeomen of
    the Guard)
  • Songs for pessimists
  • Cigar box tapping (Sent by Lew Grade): The Charleston, That’s
    My Weakness Now, The Veleta, No Other Love Have I
  • Final songs: The Sheik of Araby, The Dicky Bird Hop, I Gave
    Her That, Look for the Silver Lining
Held in Archives
Ian Wallace says “on the first day of term”, indicating it’s the first of
the series
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS422
26:25, 24827, S
25 Nov 1986
Recorded
29 Jan 1986
21-2
#437
TS423
157328
  • Adding storm effects – Louis Julien conducting and adding a tin
    with dried peas, Song about George Fox – founder of The
    Society of the Friends of Truth (The Quakers), Flotow/Martha,
    Broadway – Fewest performances including Breakfast at
    Tiffany’s closing before first night
  • Title for mood music – Table for One, Queen of the Klondike
  • Musical Palindrome as base – Beethoven/Leonore Overtures
    2 and 3, Eriskay Love Lilt, Frankie and Johnny, Palindromic
    group (ABBA) and song (Anna),
  • Song Words – Leeds or Birmingham/Take Me Back to Dear Old
    Blighty, Do me a favour/Put Me among the Girls, shadow of a
    willow tree/Tiptoe through the Tulips, some starless night/
    Catch a Falling Star, Knee deep (Tiptoe through the Tulips)
  • Minor pleasures – Clean Sheets, Hot buttered toast and butter,
    Winning 84p on the pools, etc…
  • Where are you going my pretty maid…. Finish off the phrase
    sung by Pete Atkin
  • Final Songs: Call Me Irresponsible, Cottleston Pie,
    Ain’t Love Grand, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS423
27:19, 25681, S
02 Dec 1986
Recorded
05 Feb 1986
21-3
#438
TS424
157329
  • Identification; Richard Strauss/Don Juan, Bach/Hindermith
    (Pigeons can tell the difference), Fauré/Kitty-valse, Denis/
    Blondie (Penny Singleton played Blondie in a series of films)
  • Three Notes; Beethoven/Appasionata Sonata, eden ahbez/
    Nature Boy, Brahms/Symphony No. 4, Starlight Souvenirs
  • Piano Medley
  • Kiri Te Kanawa: Handel/Samson; Pop Album “Blue Skies”
    (arr. Nelson Riddle); Gone with the Wind, sequestered days/
    Yesterdays (Kern) vs. Yesterday (McCartney); How High the Moon
  • Theme Music for a Sauna or Massage Parlour: As Long as She
    Kneads Me; Baby, It’s Cold Outside; I Wanted to Be Rubbed by
    You; Is That All There Is?; I’m steaming on the top line/
    Wrapping on my white towel/Warming up my tail (parodying Top Hat,
    White Tie, and Tails – Fred Astaire)
  • Final Songs: Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird; Youth of the Heart;
    I’m Gonna Bring a Watermelon to My Girl To-Night; Blue Room
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS424
27:27, 25796, S
09 Dec 1986
Recorded
05 Feb 1986
21-4
#439
TS425
157330
  • Julian Bream/Queen Elizabeth’s Galliard (dance in triple time),
    Lalo/Symphonie
  • Espagnole/Gay Manuelo, Gounod/Faust/Marguerite and Siébel,
    Good Morning/Singin’ in the Rain
  • Complete the following: I love My Music, but there’s one thing
    I’ve always wanted to ask…
  • First Promenade Concert: condition from the first benefactor
    of the Proms (use of low pitch instruments), Price of Promenade
    ticket in first proms (a shilling), Sir Thomas Beecham (no
    mentions in Henry Wood’s book), Cost of a suit made to order
    lined with silk (5 guineas).
  • Four notes: Chopin/Polonaise in A♭, op. 53, No. 6, Till the End of
    Time/Dick Haymes, Sempre libera/La traviata/Montserrat
    Caballé, Dickie Valentine/I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  • Do you eat before singing on stage? Food anecdotes.
  • Final Songs: Too Marvelous for Words; My Love is Like a Red,
    Red Rose; Mulligatawny; Titwillow
Not listed in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS425
27:30, 25852, S
16 Dec 1986
Recorded
12 Feb 1986
21-5
#440
TS426
157331
  • Miscellaneous: Prokofiev/Piano Concerto No. 4 (for left hand
    only), Lee Marvin, Suitable Music for a Sultana, Julie Covington,
    Sviatoslav Richter “pass me the horn” anecdote, Silver oars to
    the sound of flutes kept stroke (Cleopatra), What is a Classach
    (a Celtic harp), Real names of singers
  • What would the panel like to have been?
  • Memory lane: Sibelius/Valse triste/Frank Biffo and his Brass Quintet,
    Sid Collins (writer) singing, Christopher Stone singing (he was
    the first DJ), Erroll Flynn “singing” We’ll Gather Lilacs
  • Final Songs: An Apple for the Teacher, John whistles the theme
    from Delius/1st Dance Rhapsody, I Might Learn to Love Him Later
    On, Lassie Would You Love Me
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS426
26:34, 24970, S
23 Dec 1986
--
no program
Replaced on 23 Dec by a repeat broadcast of Part 1 of ‘News Quiz of the
Year’ and in the 25 Dec ‘repeat slot’ by Episode 1 of ‘Paul Temple and the
Conrad Case’

--
30 Dec 1986 --
no program
Replaced on 30 Dec by a repeat broadcast of Part 2 of ‘News Quiz of the
Year’ and in the 01 Jan ‘repeat slot’ by Episode 8 of ‘Paul Temple and the
Conrad Case’

--
06 Jan 1987
Recorded
12 Feb 1986
21-6
#441
TS427
157332
From the Westminster Theatre
  • Places: Mortlake – John Amis in Thames Pageant by Andrzej
    Panufnik, Elizabeth Maconchy/Proud Thames, Palace Theatre,
    New York – Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller, Monti/Czárdás
    (National dance of Hungary), Louis MacNeice/Bagpipe Music (poem)
  • Musical Benefactors: Ludwig von Köchel b.1800, Barlow and
    Morgenstern (Dictionary of Musical Themes), Kobbe (b. 1857) Opera
    Book, Ray Dolby (inventor of noise reduction technology)
  • Piano Medley
  • Travel – The Vagabond Life – Suggestions for a signature tune for
    a carrier pigeon
  • Similar Tunes – Schubert/Sonata in A Major D664 and Guess Who I
    Saw Today, Vivaldi/ Winter (from The Four Seasons) and April
    Showers
  • Suggestions for an unsuitable interruption to a piece of mambo music
  • Final Songs: I’ll Get By, There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for
    New York (from Porgy and Bess), Love Song in 32 Bars, Ages Ago
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS427
27:27, 25802, S
13 Jan 1987
Recorded
20 Feb 1986
21-7
#442
TS428
(157333)
  • Hollywood Outtakes; An American in Paris/I’ve Got a Crush on You/
    Gene Kelly (composed by Gershwin), Summer Holiday/Spring Isn’t
    Everything (Walter Huston), Frank Sinatra/Rodgers and Hammerstein/
    Take Me Out to the Ball Game, It Never Entered My Mind/Betty Garrett
  • Vaughan Williams quote about Hubert Parry/Blest Pair of Sirens,
    Jerusalem (music by Parry, words by William Blake), Robert
    Bridges (poet, Parry put his words to music)
  • Piano Medley
  • Concertina: Uses 3 fingers on each hand to play; John Playford
    (published The English Dancing Master, a collection of music); Sir
    Charles Wheatstone – inventor of the concertina amongst other
    things; the sleeve of the Concertina LP makes reference to
    Hubert Hupfeld’s “greatest and only hit”, As Time Goes By; actually
    it was Herman Hupfeld, and he did have other hits; Dooley
    Wilson sang it in Casablanca but the piano was played by someone else
  • Arioso by Bach introduces round of suggestions of music to be played
    by cello player at airport customs, and how you dress to “look like a
    musician”
  • Final Music: I’m Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter,
    Turn Me Not Away, Your Old-Fashioned Father, I Met a
    Little Elf Man Once
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS428
27:12, 25565, S
20 Jan 1987
Recorded
20 Feb 1986
21-8
#443
TS429
157334
  • Borodin/Quartet No. 2 (also known as And This Is My Beloved from
    Kismet); Jazz Piano Playing (“stride” piano); Pergolesi, played
    by Evelyn Barbirolli (née Rothwell); The Green Cockatoo
  • Interest in the first two will increase, interest for the last two will
    decrease – critic referring to the four Brahms Symphonies
  • Single note repeated to start a piece: 15 x F♯ begin Khachaturian/
    Sabre Dance; 30 x E♭ begin Jobim/One Note Samba; 13 x F♮ begin
    Sullivan/The Lost Chord (lyric from a poem by Adelaide Procter);
    48 x D♮ begin I Got a Note (Harry Roy’s Band)
  • Whose real name was Leonard Stokes (It was not Leopold Stokowski)
  • Various: Date the modern music: Beethoven chamber music (1826),
    Origin of Continuo – short for Basso Continuo, Dramatic Programme
    Music Respighi/Roman Festivals, Cor Anglais – Sibelius/The Swan
    of Tuonela
  • Final Songs: Underneath the Arches, John whistles Moszkowski/
    Spanish Dance No. 2, Down by the Ohio, Reverie
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS429
27:25, 25761, S
27 Jan 1987
Recorded
26 Feb 1986
21-9
#444
TS430
(157335)
  • Gamelan music (Java and Bali etc.); Words of Dinner for One,
    Please James to the tune of I’m in the Mood for Love; Brian Boru’s
    March (High King of Ireland) played by James Galway; Culture Club
  • What is Tablature, Breathing and Phrasing out of place in Bagpipes,
    Khachaturian/Spartacus, “My name is Betsy Booth and I sing” from
    Love Finds Andy Hardy with Mickey Rooney and Anne Rutherford
  • Piano Medley
  • Song Lines: you should marry me/My Very Good Friend the Milkman,
    Jelly Roll Blues/Darktown Strutters’ Ball, I want to be there when
    the band starts playing/Darktown Strutters’ Ball, perchance/Isn’t
    It Romantic
  • Oratorio – Heard in 1540 in the Oratory and nowhere else, Leading
    You Down The Aisle – wrong usage as it means wing not gangway
    – Frank disagrees Steve gets shirty, My Old Dutch –- based on the
    face of an old dutch clock apparently, GI Jive (GI = Government Issue)
  • What does YMSO stand for?
  • Final Songs: September Song, Barbara Allen, If They Babied Me Now
    Like They Babied Me Then, Birdcatcher’s Aria from the Magic Flute
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS430
26:48, 25183, S
03 Feb 1987
Recorded
26 Feb 1986
21-10
#445
TS431
157336
  • Milhaud/Le Boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof), Spoof film clip
    with Pete Atkin/Tony Shrayne/Steve Race, Rimsky-Korsakov/Le Coq
    d’or, I Love You, You Love Me/Anthony Quinn
  • Conductor Most Worth Looking At: Beecham, Walter Susskind,
    John Barbirolli, Joe Loss, Billy Cotton et al.
  • Identifying piano pieces from left hand only: Well-Tempered Clavier,
    Air on the G String, On the Road to Mandalay, Honky Tonk Train Blues
  • Tracks from Ian Wallace’s double album “Celebration” – Limehouse
    Reach, Spanish Lady (Herbert Hughes)/Spike Hughes, Margate 1940
    (Betjeman)
  • Provide the line after: A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare
  • Final Songs: Don’t Bring Lulu, Schubert/Wayside Rose, I Always Go
    Home Alone, Maid of the Mountains: Paradise for Two (Piano), A
    Bachelor Gay
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS431
26:28, 24870, S
12 Feb 1987
Recorded
05 Mar 1986
21-11
#446
TS432
157337

From St John’s, Smith Square
  • Identification: Oliver Knussen/Where the Wild Things Are, Music
    from Mr Hulot’s Holiday/Tati, A Scale song: Marilyn Hill-Smith/Der
    Schätzmeister by Carl Michael Ziehrer (The Pawnbroker’s Valuer),
    Mr Billy Sunday (Mentioned in “Chicago” played by Tommy Dorsey),
    an evangelist and Prohibitionist
  • Piano Medley
  • Mysterioso Pizzicato; Panel Suggest Musical Mysteries
  • Album “The Sea”: Charles Ives, Finish the Haydn song; High on
    the giddy bending mast the seaman furls the rending sail and
    fearless of the rushing blast…, Thomas Allen singing, finish the
    song (sung by Sarah Walker) Now the dancing sunbeams play on
    the green and grassy sea come and I will lead the way…
  • Spotting Through (short bits of a record): Peter Pears and
    Benjamin Britten, King’s singers, Geraint Evans, Rudy Vallée
  • Final Songs: Every Time We Say Goodbye, Polka (Façade), Annie
    Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Dusk (Piano), At Dawn
Held in Archives
Replaced on 10 Feb 1987 by Memorial Service for Harold Macmillan; My
Music broadcast in the ‘repeat slot’ on 12 Feb 1987
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS432
27:12, 25562, S
17 Feb 1987
Recorded
05 Mar 1986
21-12
#447
TS433
157338
  • 16th Century piece – Gesualdo Prince of Venosa, Peter Sellers/
    I’m So Ashamed, David Lloyd/The Magic Flute, Irving Berlin’s
    first recorded song/Harry Carlton – Denis hums Smile and Show
    Your Dimple (Easter Parade)
  • Identify old records: Instruments: The Tubaphone, Trumpet
    mouthpiece, Band name: The Tennessee Happy Boys, Composer:
    Gershwin, Singer: Fred Douglas, Pianist; Sir Landon Ronald
  • Practising is a bad habit (quote from Fritz Kreisler) discuss
  • Final Songs: Did You Ever See a Dream Walking, Non più
    andrai, I Was in the Mood, Song of the Vagabonds with John,
    Frank and Ian as Chorus (much hilarity as Ian gets words wrong)
Held in Archives
Archive description of 21-12 matches TS433
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS433
26:03, 24485, S
24 Feb 1987
Recorded
12 Mar 1986
21-13
#448
TS434
157339
  • Who’s Missing? (The singers in Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde),
    Barbara Streisand, Thomas/Mignon, Victoria Wood
  • Dances: Poor Little Angeline/The Palais Glide, St Bernard’s Waltz,
    The Hokey-Cokey (Cokey-Cokey), The Paul Jones
  • Soprano Tunes Up for an Aqueduct Date – suggest story behind
    this headline (it’s a racehorse and a race track in the US)
  • Namesakes; John Hargreaves, Frank Crummett, Ian Campbell,
    Dennis King (Hollywood actor and singer)
  • Lead-ins: Get on (board, little children); When they (sound the
    last all-clear) [Frank suggests (begin the beguine)]; When you
    (walk through a storm)/You’ll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel);
    There is no (greater love); I’ve grown a(ccustomed to her face)
    from My Fair Lady; Dan (Cupid hath a garden) from Edward
    German/Merrie England; Here’s the Japanese (Sandman); I Kiss Your
    Little (Hand, Madame); My yiddishe (momme)
  • Final Songs; A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, The Leafy [Cool-]
    Kellure, The Withered Weeping Willow, ’Til There Was You
Held in Archives
On its own on TS disc - end of a run of 13 shows
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS434
27:05, 25459, S
03 Mar 1987
Recorded
12 Mar 1986
21-14
#449
TS441
158927
  • Holst/Mars/Boult first conducted it at the Queen’s Hall, 18th Century
    Concerto in F for Jew’s Harp and Mandola, Arthur Sullivan/De Ballo
    Overture, Goody Goody/Johnny Mercer
  • Oxford Dictionary of Music: Next Entry after Die Walküre – Ian
    Wallace, Indian Tabla, Cox and Box – Sullivan’s work before he met
    Gilbert, Box and Cox – composers of popular songs in the ’30s.
  • Piano Medley
  • I am doing what Bach would have done if he were alive today –
    suggestions
  • Seasons: Spring – Frühling from R. Strauss/Four Last Songs (vocalist
    Elisabeth Söderström); Summer - Summertime (vocalist Dionne
    Warwick); Autumn - Autumn Leaves (performer Acker Bilk); Winter -
    Thank You for Christmas (vocalist Rod McKuen)
  • Final Songs: You Were Meant For Me, Der Gang, My Friend Elizabeth,
    The Wee Cooper o’Fife
Held in Archives
Archive description of 21-14 matches TS441
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS441
27:28, 25820, S
10 Mar 1987
Recorded
19 Mar 1986
21-15
#450
TS436
158772
  • Opera Surnames: Arabella Waldner, Lucy Ashton, Floria Tosca, Dolly
    Gallagher Levi (Hello Dolly)
  • First full length English biography of a musician – Handel (by Rev
    John Mainwaring), What an odd pretty thing a Newgate Pastoral
    might make (Comment by Swift – apparently became Gay’s Beggar’s
    Opera 11 years later), “A Hallelujah which he has trumped up…”
    Charles Jennens about Handel’s chorus, Who first wrote
    cross-hands piano music – Domenico Scarlatti
  • Piano Medley
  • The Airedale Symphony Orchestra – suggestions for their repertoire
  • Alphabet round – surnames of singers
  • Final Songs: A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Brahms/Waltz, Plain Old
    Fashioned Drunk, The Nearness of You.
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS436
27:13, 25576, S
17 Mar 1987
Recorded
19 Mar 1986
21-16
#451
TS437
158773
  • Identification: Purcell/Chaconne in G Minor, The Beggar’s Opera
    sequel (Polly), Chopin/A Major Polonaise (“Military”) – Paderewski
    on performers’ nerves (sign of a guilty conscience), Mel Tormé/
    Just in Time
  • Places and names: Greenwich/Henry VIII, Waldegrave Road,
    Teddington/Noël Coward, 287 Kennington Road SE11/Charlie Chaplin,
    17 Bruton St London W1/The Queen (Denis and Frank used to work
    7 floors up at 36 Bruton St)
  • Cigar Box tapping: Ride of the Valkyries, See Me Dance the Polka,
    Lilac Time (Schubert/Rosamunde), Dizzy Fingers
  • Jazzing the Classics: Pilgrim’s Chorus from Tannhäuser, Pat Flowers,
    Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt, More Pat Flowers and discussion of
    whether audiences should be given what they want or what you
    think they should have
  • “Seized by debauchery” – what music or performers excite the most.
  • Final Songs: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off, Azulão, Play Me a
    Hurtin’ Tune, Once in the Year
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS437
27:27, 25805, S
24 Mar 1987
Recorded
26 Mar 1986
21-17
#452
TS438
158774
  • Beethoven/Triple Concerto, Charles Boyer/I Believe, Auber/Fra
    Diavolo, Fanny Brice/Becky Is Back in the Ballet
  • Hats off gentlemen, a great genius (Schumann said about Chopin),
    Chopin/George Sand, Why 24 Chopin Preludes?, Catalani (gave
    Chopin a gold watch at age of 8)
  • What regrets do the panel have?
  • Reference in songs: caddy/My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Tiddle-um-
    pom-pom/Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, I hang suspended/Stranger
    in Paradise, Leave my bed/River Stay Away from My Door,
    it grows and smells/Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
  • Kings: Tippett/Priam, Hetty King/Down by the Riverside, Dave
    King/Memories are Made of This, I’m in the Mood for Love/James
    Moody/King Pleasure, King Kong/Carl Denham (character in King Kong)
  • Final Songs: Try a Little Tenderness; Londonderry Air; Teas, Light
    Refreshments, and Minerals; There’s a Long Long Trail a-Winding
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS438
27:24, 25747, S
31 Mar 1987
Recorded
26 Mar 1986
21-18
#453
TS439
158775
  • Peter Dawson/Dancing Time (old record), Peter Dawson –
    pseudonyms, Peter Dawson/Catherine/Bessie Jones/Tchaikovsky/
    Symphony No. 6, Reginald De Koven/Armourer’s Song
  • Five Notes: Verdi/Il trovatore, Act II; Green-Heyman/Out of
    Nowhere; Gershwin/By Strauss; Ellington/I Got It Bad and
    That Ain’t Good
  • Ella and Oscar – what LP title would make you rush out and buy
    an album?
  • Beethoven: Für Elise (Bagatelle No. 25, in A minor), Fidelio/Prison
    Governor (Don Pizarro), Fidelio Overtures – Leonore 1, 2 ,3; John
    whistles Für Elise with Steve plucking a violin
  • Jessye Norman/I’m Old Fashioned, Joan Morris/Humphrey Bogart/
    Maltese Falcon, Franz Lehár/Giuditta, Blue Mink
  • Final Songs: You Always Hurt the One You Love, Schubert/Trio
    op. 100, I’m One of the Lads of Le Touquet, April in Paris
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS439
27:26, 25783, S
07 Apr 1987
Recorded
02 Apr 1986
21-19
#454
TS440
158776
  • Gounod/Ballet Music from Faust, Poulenc/Mouvement perpétual
    No. 1, Glazunov/The Seasons, Ron Goodwin’s music for
    Miss Marple movies
  • Bigophone – Named after M. Bigot – kind of kazoo, Arctophile –
    Love of bears, Puccini/The Girl of the Golden West, Frenchy/
    Destry Rides Again/See What The Boys in the Back Room Will Have
  • Which songs at the end of the show have caused the most comments
  • Chromatic tunes: Rimsky-Korsakov/Song of India, A Fine Romance/
    Swingtime, Wolf-Ferrari/Intermezzo from Jewels of the Madonna,
    Dorothy Lamour/Hurricane/Moon of Manakoora
  • Preceeding line: Girls were made to love and kiss (And who am I to
    interfere with this?)/Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss; Succeeding
    lines: (How do you feel) when you marry your ideal? Ever so
    goosey, goosey, goosey, goosey/Ever So Goosey; Eskimo bells up
    in Iceland are ringing/Inka Dinka Doo; Park Avenuing it/Truckin’
    (Fats Waller)
  • Church Music: Beethoven/Missa Solemnis, Toccata from Widor/
    Symphony No. 5, Tam o’Shanter Overture/Malcolm Arnold,
    Julio Iglesias (church in Spanish)
  • Final Songs: Button Up Your Overcoat, Her Eye So Alluring
    (Un’aura amorosa) from Così fan tutte, Aren’t You Kind of Glad We
    Did? The Bold Fisherman – roll of thunder from outside the theatre
    during this song
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS440
27:32, 25875, S
14 Apr 1987
Recorded
02 Apr 1986
21-20
#455
TS435
158771
  • All The Cambridge Buskers: The Cuckoo, Arrival of the Queen of
    Sheba, Handel/Water Music, Pachelbel/Canon
  • Band Call: Tromobone playing Fingal’s Cave at 10.58 to signify the
    pub was open
  • Second Thoughts. Immoral, Revolutionary, Obscene – critic on The
    Mikado when it opened
  • Descending Major Scale: Brahms/Intermezzo in E♭, op. 117, No. 1,
    If I Loved You/Carousel, Hora Staccato, Laurel & Hardy
  • Thumbprints: Stravinsky/Symphony in Three Movements (1945),
    Bugle Call Rag (Duke Ellington), King’s Singers/There’s Nae Luck
    aboot the Hoose, Cantabile/Blondel
  • One Letter Misprints; Is There Life beyond the Gravy, Ascot
    Garotte, A Shropshire Dad, When I Wore a Big Red Nose, etc.
  • Final Songs: Skylark, Skylark; The Rose; In Our Little Garden Suburb;
    Nicola (Piano); Skylark
Held in Archives
Archive description of 21-20 matches TS435
Steve Race says “’Til We Meet Again” at the end, implying end of a series.
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS435
27:28, 25812, S
29 Oct 1987
Recorded
14 Oct 1987
22-1
#456
TS442
158928
From the Paris Studios
  • Wagner, Sleeping Beauty changed to Sleeping Princess by Diaghilev
    because dancer’s nose stopped her being a beauty, The Flying
    Dutchman Overture - where would you find Sentimental Overtures
    (This Heart of Mine), “Modest” Mussorgsky
  • Who was Edward Fitzgerald – Victorian writer and critic, Victor
    Lazlo’s wife – Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, Michael Gough/C.
    Denier Warren/Fanny, Film version of Fanny (no songs)
  • Piano Medley
  • Film Star’s Singing Voices: Elsa Lanchester, Adolphe Menjou,
    Walter Pidgeon, Lilli Palmer, Ben Lyon
  • Trade Unions Ballet or Operas
  • Final Songs: Pardon Me Pretty Baby, Massenet/Élégie, General
    Dirty Dick, Beautiful Garden of Roses
Held in Archives
Steve Race says “We’re back” in a way that implies the first episode of
the series
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS442
29:08, 27328, S
05 Nov 1987
Recorded
14 Oct 1987
22-2
#457
TS443
158929
From the Paris Studios
  • Smetana/Overture to The Bartered Bride, Takes Two to Tango/
    Pressed on a square record, Zerlina/Don Giovanni/Masetto, Takes
    Two to Tango/Louis Armstrong – why does it take two to tango?
  • Noël Coward’s Diary. Quotes about Peter Grimes, Ivor Novello, Big
    Ben (Operetta), Gay’s the Word
  • Cities mentioned in songs: Granada, New York, Amsterdam,
    Valencia, New Orleans
  • “Music is for fun -- it has no other justification” Discuss: (Sir
    Thomas Armstrong quoted from a speech at a girls’ school)
  • Mood Music: Roman Legions, The Good Old Days, Sherwood Green,
    Gothic Towers
  • Repeated words in titles: Parto parto/Mozart/La Clemenza di Tito,
    Ethel Smith/Tico Tico, Sing Sing Sing/Benny Goodman,
    Sucu-Sucu/Nina and Frederik
  • Final songs: Love and Marriage, It Ain’t Necessarily So, My
    Mother Said Always Look under the Bed, Her Name Is Mary
    (Piano), Marie
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS443
29:01, 27270, S
12 Nov 1987
Recorded
21 Oct 1987
22-3
#458
TS444
158930
From the Paris Studios
  • The Timeless Moment (Vince Hill singing, Norman Newell
    words)/Mahler/Adagietto Symphony No. 5, Feelings/Maurice
    Albert, Gérard Souzay/Queen Mab/Romeo and Juliet/Gounod,
    Tchaikovsy/On The Isle of May
  • Piano Medley
  • Song Titles With Place Names; Bach’s Jakarta and Fugue, Rite of
    Tring, I Moscow Where the Wild Geese Go, Highgate a Kick out
    of You, Troon is Bustin’ Out All Over…etc
  • Comic Songs from the 1920s; Vamp Till Ready, Walter Van Brunt/
    Everything’s at Home except Your Wife, Arthur Osmond/Dirty Dog
    – Harold Portobello/Harry Lauder, Eddy Collis/Kit-Kat Band led by Al
    Starita, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
  • Interview with Malcolm Messiter – Who was Pasculi – an oboist,
    Literally play it in your sleep, The Cadenzas are horrific – what is a
    cadenza, Circular breathing – what other uses are there
    for the technique?
  • Final Songs: You’re a One Man Girl; Gavotte from Mignon; Oh, She
    Was Wonderful; A Cornish Lullaby
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS444
29:08, 27382, S
19 Nov 1987
Recorded
21 Oct 1987
22-4
#459
TS445
158931
  • George Dyson/Hierusalem, Irving Caesar, Robert Tear/Edward Elgar/
    Pleading, Jack Payne
  • Film Themes: Around the World in 80 Days, Gone with the Wind,
    La Ronde, Separate Tables
  • Are You a Good Dancer?
  • Mood Music; Battle Rally, The Great Gates of Rome, Egyptian Queen,
    “Attention Shoppers”
  • Music That Has the Same Two Notes: Les Biches; Dear Old Pals;
    Salut d’amour (a present from Elgar to his fiancée); Chick, Chick,
    Chick, Chick, Chicken
  • Lines from Songs: We’ll make a bonfire/Blaze Away, He’s wanted
    on the telephone/Change Partners, The waiter hollered/One Meat
    Ball, there aren’t so many girls today who have one/She Had to
    Go and Lose It at the Astor
  • Final Songs: The Japanese Sandman, Say Love If Ever Thou
    Didst Find, The Seaside Posters ’round the Home, The Blessings
    of the Seasons
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS445
29:00, 27259, S
26 Nov 1987
Recorded
11 Nov 1987
22-5
#460
TS446
158932
From the Paris Studios
  • Mozart/Piano Concerto No. 23, in A major (K488)/played by
    Solomon, Mozart/List of conquests of Don Giovanni, Entrance of
    Otello in Act 4 of Otello, Tony Martin/Cyd Charisse/You Stepped
    Out of a Dream
  • Cigar Box tapping: Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville;
    I Whistle a Happy Tune/The King and I; Silly, Silly Horseman
    (Dummer, dummer Reitersmann) from Léhar/The Merry Widow;
    Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City/Oklahoma!
  • Beethoven’s Hallelujah Chorus (from Christ on the Mount of
    Olives), Who is above Rachmaninov (or Rakmaninov) in the
    Oxford Dictionary of Music (Rake’s Progress or Steve Race?),
    Laura Lemon/My Ain Folk, Mark Lemon - founded Punch (with
    Henry Mahew)
  • Piano Medley
  • Suggestions for Muir String Quartet repertoire
  • Gypsies: Pablo Marin Sarasate, Django Reinhardt/Lambeth Walk,
    The Gypsy Baron, The Gypsy/Dorothy Squires, Victor Herbert/
    Gypsy Dream Girl (aka Gypsy Love Song)
  • Lines from songs; You certainly know the right thing to wear/
    Moonlight Becomes You, God bless you please/Mrs Robinson,
    wander through the alphabet/”A” You’re Adorable, the moment
    I can feel that you feel that/When I Fall in Love, Well whatta ya
    know it’s mornin’ already/Along the Navajo Trail
  • Final Songs: I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Danish Folk
    Song – Lord Peter’s Stable Boy, Seven and Six, Autumnal Medley
    (Piano), Autumn Leaves
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS446
28:47, 27046, S
03 Dec 1987
Recorded
11 Nov 1987
22-6
#461
TS447
160714
  • Amédée-Ernest Chausson, There’s a Long Long Trail a-Winding/Piano
    and Greenwich Time Signal, A Night in Venice/Strauss, Buddy Greco –
    lyric writers sending themselves up
  • Chromatic Scale – earliest reference (Chinese Stone Chimes 2000
    B. C.), The Laird of Coll – lamenting the Execution of Charles I,
    Earliest Known Chanter – 3200-3500 B.C., Henry Briggs cut down
    a large harp to make a Clarsach, a Scottish Harp
  • Piano Medley
  • Strange words set to music: Paumanok/Sea Drift/Walt Whitman/
    Delius, anticipating/Try a Little Tenderness, singular anomaly/The
    Mikado, solitaire/It Never Entered My Mind
  • Songs you would avoid singing in case you broke down in tears
  • Final Songs: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Emily, Dirty Songs,
    The Road to Mandalay
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS447
27:18, 25659, S
10 Dec 1987
Recorded
25 Nov 1987
22-7
#462
TS448
(160715)
  • Weber/Invitation to the Dance, T. G Sheppard/Clint Eastwood,
    Wagner/Overture to Lohengrin, Chopin/George Sand – Played by
    Patricia Morrison in the film with Dirk Bogarde
  • Musical Evenings in the Theatre; Tetrazzini, T. S. Eliot’s reaction
    to My Fair Lady: Shaw greatly improved by music West Side Story/
    Bernstein/Arthur Laurents, Shearer and Gibbons – MGM composer &
    sound man and Art Director
  • Songs that order you to do something; Climb Every Mountain, Give
    Me the Simple Life, Send In the Clowns, Take the A Train, Go Tell
    It on the Mountain, Teach Me Tonight, Catch a Falling Star,
    Give Me a Little Cozy Corner
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte (Mozart’s Librettist), Metastasio (Librettist),
    Elly Ameling, Marriage of Figaro (original story by Beaumarchais)
  • EGBDF – suggestions for mnemonics
  • Final Songs: You’re The Cream in My Coffee, (John whistles
    something), If Adam ’Ad ’Em So Can I, She’ll Be Waiting Up
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS448
28:19, 26615, S
17 Dec 1987
Recorded
25 Nov 1987
22-8
#463
TS449
160716
  • Shepherds (Manchester Children’s Choir), Guy Mitchell/Mitch Miller/
    My Truly Truly Fair, Donkey Serenade/Alan Jones/Jack Jones,
    Harry James/Trumpet Blues
  • Various: Second Touch – playing on two keyboards simultaneously,
    Curley River – Curlew River (Britten’s Church Parable), British public
    not liking constant singing in a show, Uncle Matthew – Nancy
    Mitford’s Uncle was inspiration for the character in The
    Pursuit of Love
  • Piano Medley
  • Explanation of a Quote – “The Lady’s great daring…” Tetrazzini
    had failed to include Home Sweet Home in a show, Dame Nellie
    Melba’s advice to Clara Butt “Sing them muck, that’s all they
    understand”
  • Banks: George Butterworth/The Banks of Green Willow, No more
    money in the bank/Let’s Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)
    (originally “and Go to Bed”), The Banks of Allan Water, The banks
    wheron the wild thyme grows (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Banks
    of the Ohio/Joan Baez
  • 35” of music and one piece of info from each of the panelists:
    Composer; Carl Nielsen (Quintet for Woodwind), First Instrument;
    Bassoon, Number of instruments: 5, Bassoon Player or Flute
    player; James Galway
  • Final Songs: Vivan Ellis medley (piano), She’s My Lovely, Poor
    Tom Bowling, ’Ops (Hops), A Brown Bird Singing
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS449
27:24, 25748, S
24 Dec 1987
Recorded
09 Dec 1987
22-9
#464
TS450
160717
From the Paris Studios
  • Identify Instruments: Treble Shawm, Nakers, Northumbrian Small
    Pipes, Forte Piano (The Fritz), Handbells
  • Similar Names in Opera: Lucio Cilla by J.C. Bach, Thimbles used
    on washboard, Quote relating to Olympia in Tales of Hoffmann,
    Broadway Melody of 1938/Ebsen
  • Questions about My momma done tol’ me (Blues in the Night);
    Blowin’ ’cross the trestle (open braced framework for supporting
    a bridge); lyrics: Johnny Mercer, music: Harold Arlen; Natchez
    (Mississippi), Mobile (Alabama), Memphis (Tennessee), St. Joe
    (i. e. St. Joseph, Missouri)
  • Changing any song into a Strauss waltz – Bolero, Take It from
    Here, When the Sgt Major’s on Parade, The Continental, Roses
    of Picardy
  • Pubs and Inns: The Walk to the Paradise Garden, The Inn of the
    Sixth Happiness (Arnold), The White Horse Inn, Old Bull and
    Bush/Florrie Forde
  • Final Songs: A Lovely Day to Be Caught in the Rain, T’aime pour
    mon amis (written for John Amis by Malcolm Arnold, believe it or
    not), Unrequited Affection, Down Below
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS450
27:26, 25779, S
31 Dec 1987
--
no program
replaced by Episode 5 of ‘Murder at the Red October’

--
07 Jan 1988
Recorded
09 Dec 1987
22-10
#465
TS451
160718
  • Glazunov/The Seasons (Ballet), Bax/The Garden of Fand, Mozart/
    Don Giovanni, Tico Tico/Brazil/El Cumbanchero
  • Miscellaneous: Aagesen – Żywny (start and end of Grove’s Dictionary
    of Music), Buxtehude’s daughter to marry J. S. Bach if he took the
    post of Organist at Lubek but he wouldn’t, “Heard the Tweedledum
    and Tweedledee of two musicians” written in a letter by John Byrom
    in 1766 - Pump Room at Bath – Tweedledum and Tweedledee, What
    does a piano tuner need – tuning fork, key and dampener
  • Piano Medley
  • Piano Glasses – sort of large round spectacles that have plain glass
    in them worn by Harold Lloyd – actually named because of sight-
    reading distance, How do you get rid of a song that’s going round
    and round in your head?
  • Hollywood stars – Carmen Miranda, Molly Picon, Deanna Durbin/The
    Kiss, Alice Faye/Stowaway
  • A suitable piece of music for a dentist
  • Final Songs: Whispering, Angels Guard Thee, My Pal Harry, The Days
    of Wine and Roses (piano), Moon River
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS451
27:59, 26293, S
14 Jan 1988
Recorded
16 Dec 1987
22-11
#466
TS452
160719
  • Bacchus and Ariadne/Ballet Score/Roussel, Always have an Ace in
    the Hole/Ella Fitzgerald/“I am [very??] sorry not to have learned
    to play at cards. It is very useful in life….” (Dr Johnson), Ivor
    Novello/Glamorous Night/Careless Rapture/Crest of the
    Wave, Muggsy Spanier/I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
  • Mr Cousin’s House in Cecil Court June 1764 – Mozart appearing as a
    child, Tickets cost half a guinea, Spring Garden Concert Room – was
    near Admiralty Arch, Beethoven/Symphony No. 9 premiered at The
    Argyle Rooms near the Palladium, Oldest surviving concert room –
    Holywell music room in Oxford (1748)
  • Five notes: Spelling CABBAGE, La Vie en rose, I’m Going to Maxim’s,
    La Petite Tonkinoise, Homing, Garden in Granada, Colonel Bogie March
  • Musical description of a surgical operation: Marin Marais/Tableau of a
    Bladder Operation
  • Song Words: Reprise/April in Paris, Mirth giving/I Want to Be Happy,
    Which and wherefore and how/Puzzle Corner, Weatherwise/Come
    Fly with Me
  • Animals: Praetorius/Ballet des coqs, Art Tatum/Tiger Rag, T. S.
    Eliot/Cleo Laine/Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, Mancini/The Pink
    Panther
  • Songs for the bride and groom.
  • Final songs: I Don’t Love Her, Dalla sua pace/Don Giovanni, I’d Like
    to Live to Ninety-Nine, Roses of Picardy
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS452
28:14, 26534, S
21 Jan 1988
Recorded
16 Dec 1987
22-12
#467
TS453
160720
  • Heart’s Delight, Monteverdi/1610 Vespers, Gershwin/The Man I Love
  • Piano medley.
  • Schmaltz: Queen Victoria quote
  • Cyril Ritchard/The Whitehall Warriors, Irene King/Billy Turner’s Band,
    Dolly Elsie/Billy Cotton’s Band, Benny Lee/Lew Stone’s Band
  • Signature tune for an accountant
  • Four starting notes: Some Enchanted Evening, A Little Street
    Where Old Friends Meet, And I’ll Be Happy, You’ll Be Mine in Apple
    Blossom Time, Blaze Away
  • When My Sugar Walks down the Street, Delibes/Naïla, You’ve Got
    That Thing, The Spanish Lady
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS453
27:21, 25703, S
27 Dec 1988
Recorded
07 Dec 1988
special
#468
--
Special Christmas Edition
Held in Archives
Not taken by TS
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
MISSING
03 Jan 1989
Recorded
05 Oct 1988
23-1
#469
TS454
160721
  • Giuseppe Di Stefano/Boito, Ella Fitzgerald/One Room Bridal Suite,
    Schumann/Ich grolle nicht/Fritz Wunderlich, Kiri Te
    Kanawa (words by W. B. Yeats)
  • Three notes: Sibelius/Symphony No. 2, in D; I Can’t Give You
    Anything but Love Baby (1928); Somebody’s Playing an Old
    Violin; Twelfth Street Rag (1909)
  • Miscellaneous: Tubby Hayes/Tenor Sax, Sparky the Magic Piano,
    Father Willis: Built Organs, Kollege of Musical Knowledge –
    Ish Kabibble – Kay Kyser
  • Which piece music do you not like for no good reason?
  • RAF Central Band: R. Strauss/Festmusik der Stadt Wien, Dinicu/
    Hora Staccato, Rimsky-Korsakov/Entry of the Nobles,
    Gershwin/Strike Up the Band
  • One-letter misprints
  • Final Songs: Young and Healthy, When We Are Young, Underneath
    the Bed, The Lights of Home
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS454
27:29, 25833, S
10 Jan 1989
Recorded
05 Oct 1988
23-2
#470
TS455
160722
  • Tallis/Spem in Alium (in 40 parts), Albert Sammons (Elgar/Violin
    Concerto) and Albert Ammons (Shout for Joy), The Year 1919,
    An 11 o’clock song
  • Words from songs: Oh my poor feet/Britten/The Little Sweep,
    milkman’s on his way/Good Morning and Lullaby of Broadway, on
    the whatnot, near the ’atstand in the ’all/The Biggest Aspidistra
    in the World, Shadow boxing/I’m Beginning to See the Light
  • 78 RPM Records: Sir Harry Lauder, Layton and Johnston, Will Oakland,
    Norman Blair/Just Plain Folk
  • “Tito Burns Sextet”: How might this have come about?
  • Question Songs: How Deep Is the Ocean? How ’Ya Gonna Keep ’Em
    Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?), Who Is Sylvia?,
    What Do You Do on a Rainy Night in Rio?
  • Blues Music: Soprano Saxophone, Honky Tonk Train Blues, Basin
    Street Blues, Limehouse Blues
  • Final Songs: Don’t Have Any More, Mrs Moore; Whistler and His
    Dog; Goodnight Little Girl, Goodnight; Annie Laurie
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
CJRT
29:03, 13681, S
17 Jan 1989
Recorded
12 Oct 1988
23-3
#471
TS456
160723
  • Donald Swann/Guide to Britten (send up of Benjamin Britten),
    Thank God I’m Old (from Barnum), Walter Busterkeys (aka Liberace),
    “Fools rush in…” begins Fools Rush In (and also Glad to be Unhappy!)
  • Aleatory music, harmonium – varying the volume, bouche fermée,
    meaning of “to vamp”
  • Maria Callas: Donizetti/Lucia di Lammermoor, Gluck/Orfeo/Che farò
    senza Euridice, Thomas/Mignon/Polonaise, Gounod/Romeo and
    Juliet Waltz song
  • Lines from songs: we own a telephone/Tea for Two; Don’t come up
    any higher/ River Stay ’Way from My Door; As an old native-born
    Californian would say/It’s a Most Unusual Day; On a cold observation
    car/Fare Thee Well, Annabelle; I may act gay/I Surrender Dear
  • Piano medley
  • Final songs: Just in Time, John whistles Mozart, Dear Matilda,
    Shenandoah
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS456
27:28, 25818, S
24 Jan 1989
Recorded
12 Oct 1988
23-4
#472
TS457
160724
  • Nessun dorma/Giuseppe Di Stefano, Grappelli and Menuhin, Robert
    White, Up and Down for Tricks
  • Quotations from Books: Date 1817, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Taylor
    Coleridge, Thomas Urquart/translation of Rabelais
  • Tunes turned into Strauss Waltzes: I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her
    Face, My Music Signature Tune, Old Black Magic, Begin the Beguine
  • Identifying a W. S. Gilbert Quotation about himself and Sullivan
  • Film Music: Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Mae West, James Cagney
  • Favorite Dances
  • Final Songs: Happy Feet, From Morn ’til Night, She’s One of the Back
    Row Girls, When I Was One and Twenty
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
CJRT
27:42, 13050, S
31 Jan 1989
Recorded
19 Oct 1988
23-5
#473
TS458
160725
  • Till the End of Time - Messiaen/Quartet for the End of Time, Handel/
    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from the oratorio Solomon),
    Coates/Who’s Been Sitting in My Chair/The Three Bears Suite, The
    Singers Unlimited (four of them)
  • Song words: The charms about you will carry me through/Cheek to
    Cheek; some nuts and a programme/The Spaniard That Blighted My
    Life; Red, white, and blue/There’ll Always Be an England; it’s mind
    over matter/Wake Up and Live
  • Food in music (Piano Medley): Champagne, Lemon Drops, Boiled
    Beef and Carrots, Double Gins, Coconuts, Potato, Tomato, Here
    Comes Cookie, Coffee
  • Pogonophobia: Hatred of hair (Aquarius), Cathisophobia: Fear of
    sitting down (Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat), Catoptromancy:
    Divination by Mirrors, Lobsterscope: Skaters Waltz – Slotted disc
    rotated in front of a light to simulate slow motion
  • Cleo Laine sings Sondheim: Anyone Can Whistle, Here’s to the
    Ladies Who Lunch (Company), Send In the Clowns (A Little Night
    Music), Perfect Relationships (Company)
  • Letter to Denis: Only one woman in ten can whistle/Women in
    audience whistle “An English Country Garden”
  • Final Songs: Make Believe, Walking the Dog, He Left Her Behind
    Alone, Limehouse Reach
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
CJRT
27:32, 12973, S
07 Feb 1989
Recorded
19 Oct 1988
23-6
#474
TS459
160726
  • Dvořák/New World Symphony 3rd Movement, Walton/Agincourt/
    Quote from Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Villa-Lobos/Bachianas
    Brasileiras No. 5 and football teams (Aston Villa and Lobos/
    Wolves so Wolverhampton Wanderers), Irene Dunn/Lovely to Look At
  • Critic on Overture to Tannhäuser conducted by Wagner; John Scott
    Trotter, Conductor of Bing Crosby records; Nelson “Bunch” Keys (son
    (John) Paddy Carstairs); Vic Schoen, Conductor of Andrews Sisters
  • Syncopated Piano: Billy Mayerl, Hors d’oeuvres (Sid Phillips),
    Temptation Rag, Strut Miss Lizzie (Sid Phillips)
  • Make Up a Next Line For: One Sunday after supper, my wife she
    said to me… Line sung by “Perkin Tate” (anagram for Pete Atkin!)
  • Spotting Through: Vera Lynn, Hutch, Gracie Fields, Carroll Gibbons
  • Words from Songs: you’ll spread your wings/Summertime, you want
    to go to war/Alexander’s Ragtime Band, the caddy/My Heart Belongs
    to Daddy, the right of way/It’s a Good Day, Brown paper packages/
    My Favourite Things
  • Songs etc. Suitable for Sailors and Seamen
  • Final Songs: You Should See Me Dance the Polka, Searching for
    Lambs, What’s The Use of a Pair of Kilts, Goodnight Sweetheart
    (piano), The Very Thought of You
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS459
26:38, 25033, S
14 Feb 1989
Recorded
26 Oct 1988
23-7
#475
TS460
161833
  • Verdi/Otello (opens in a Cyprus Port); Sammy Davis, Jr doing Nat
    King Cole impression, then James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart and Vaughn
    Monroe
  • Information: Where is the loud pedal in relation to Middle C, Why
    “loud” pedal? (sustains notes), John Jasper – Character in Dickens’s
    Edwin Drood, Advice: When you feel your voice seizing up, what do
    you do? – call your agent, gargle with vinegar, inhale camphorated
    oil. How do you play a tamboule? (with a fork - it’s a Greek
    hors d’oeuvre)
  • Piano Medley
  • Singin’ in the Rain, Debbie Reynolds, You Were Meant for Me, Make
    ’Em Laugh – Slip on a banana peel, the world’s at your feet
  • Words of songs: Cannot be denied/Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, When
    you don’t I really burn/Undecided, I think I heard him say that on a
    rainy day/Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe, I’ll hold out my hand/For All
    We Know
  • CFAD – mnemonic
  • Final Songs: At Trinity Church, Oh Bitter Bitter Is the Beauty of the
    Night, Our Clara’s Clicked Again, If I Didn’t Care
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Atkin
CBC
28:12, 13285, S
21 Feb 1989
Recorded
26 Oct 1988
23-8
#476
TS461
161834
  • Avalon (Al Jolson) – Puccini sued over the tune and won,
    Argentinian Singer – Raúl Giménis, Ernesto – nephew in
    Donizetti/Don Pasquale, Frank Sinatra/18.9.41/Tommy Dorsey
  • Who was Goldberg? The Goldberg Variations
  • Mounting Thirds: Holst/The Perfect Fool, I Loves You Porgy, You
    Will Remember Vienna, Young and Foolish
  • Malcolm Arnold/Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril, op. 104 (they were
    a piano duo), Quote about Wagner – E. F. Benson, Dinner
    Engagement at Aldeburgh – Sir Lennox Berkeley, Who had 24
    fiddles? – Louis XIV
  • James Galway: Tune From County Derry/Londonderry Air/Danny
    Boy and more titles for the same tune, Khachaturian/Sabre
    Dance, Ron Grainer/Robert and Elizabeth, Henry Mancini/Theme
    from The Thorn Birds
  • Film Titles in songs: I Know Where I’m Going, High Society, From
    Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront
  • Final Songs: Everything’s In Rhythm with My Heart, Yes We
    Have No Bananas (In German), Put Away the Chip Chopper
    Charlie, This Is All I Ask (I Will Stay Younger Than Spring)
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS461
27:26, 25786, S
28 Feb 1989
Recorded
02 Nov 1988
23-9
#477
TS462
161835
  • Haydn/Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons; Sibelius/Valse triste –
    quote about it from Sibelius himself who didn’t like the title;
    Norman Bailey sings the final line of Bless This House as “Bless
    us all that one day we may dwell O Lord! with Thee!” (but the line
    should have “we one day” ); Who are Flo Ziegfeld, Flo Desmond,
    not “Flo Scampi” but Flos Campi (music by Vaughan Williams)
  • Piano Medley
  • Four Notes: Ai nostri monti ritorneremo (from Verdi/Il trovatore),
    I’ve Got Sixpence; Mario Lanza/Overhead the Moon Is Beaming;
    Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
  • Song Lyrics: “nessa”/It Ain’t Necessarily So; brawla, brawla sooit/
    The Hut-Sut Song; Enchanted city of Columbine and Pierrot/
    Goodnight Vienna; I was hasty, wasn’t I/I’ll Never Say “Never
    Again” Again, the hollow/The Hippopotamus Song
  • Bad juxtapositions, Appropriate messages on a singing answering
    machine, Plot of Il trovatore, Music suitable for playing in a loo
  • Final Songs: I’m Bidin’ My Time, John whistles music from Delibes/
    Sylvia, You Only Want It ’Cause You Haven’t Got It, The Oyster Girl
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS462
26:02, 24474, S
7 Mar 1989
Recorded
02 Nov 1988
23-10
#478
TS463
161836
  • Schoenberg/Cabaret Song/Jill Gomez, Wackford Squeers/
    Cheeryble Brothers/Lord Berners’s  music for the 1947 film of
    Nicholas Nickleby, Plácido Domingo, Manhattan/Dinah Washington
  • “Completely Acapulco” (a capella), There’s that thrush again (Keats
    to Fanny Brawne), Learning music by reading about it is like making
    love by mail (Isaac Stern), The flute is too exciting (Aristotle)
  • Buildings: British Museum, Little White House, Tower of Pisa/Louvre
    Museum/Colosseum, Winchester Cathedral
  • Words: knavish/National Anthem, incidentally/I’ve Got My Eyes on
    You, irreplaceable/Embraceable You, granulated/Sugar
    (Peggy Lee version)
  • Films: Harry Lime Theme/Anton Karas/Third Man/Karol Reed, The
    Big Country, Never on Sunday/Melina Mercouri/Manos Hadjidakis,
    Spellbound/Miklos Rozsa/Hitchcock/Gregory Peck
  • Cigar Box Tapping: Brahms/Symphony No. 1, Mahler/Symphony
    No. 3, Fascinating Rhythm, Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing,
    Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, The Skirt Dance
    (Mademoiselle from Armèntieres)
  • Final Songs: Second-Hand Rose, Oh Mistress Mine (Shakespeare,
    arr. Race), I’ll Promise You, My One and Only Highland Fling
Held in Archives (dated with repeat date of 27 Jul 1989)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
CBC
27:15, 12841, S
14 Mar 1989
Recorded
09 Nov 1988
23-11
#479
TS464
161837
  • Debussy/Mandoline (performed by Sarah Walker), Love in Bath/
    Beecham’s Ballet Music The Great Elopement/Handel, Ravel/
    Daphnis et Chloé, Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City/Oklahoma!
  • Quote “as long as the rhythm is working” – Edmund Rubbra/Symphony
    No. 10, Clara Butt – The Light of the World - Arthur Sullivan, Charles
    and Mary Lamb
  • Piano Medley
  • Words: Milk punch or whiskey/Madame Butterfly, My heart begins to
    pound and pound/Always, A full octave higher than the score/76
    Trombones, Good riddance/The Man That Got Away
  • 1930s Jazz: Billy Cotton, Al Bowley, Henry Hall, George Elric, The
    Night Club Kings: Arthur Young, Ray Noble, Bill Harty, Spike Hughes
  • Final Songs: That’s My Weakness Now, John whistles Elgar/Chanson
    de matin, Positively Absolutely, Loch Lomond
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Atkin
TS464
27:25, 25764, S
21 Mar 1989
Recorded
09 Nov 1988
23-12
#480
TS465
161838
  • Mozart/D Minor Piano Concerto K466: In Lent 1795 played by
    Beethoven in the interval of La Clemenza di Tito, Alberti – Broken
    chords accompaniment named after him, Copland/Appalachian
    Spring – Holst/Jupiter, Hoboken – Ryom – catalogued works by
    Haydn and Vivaldi, Säulensitz (seat behind a pillar or column),
    Ledger Lines (lines added above or below the stave), Tonic
    Sol-fa TTTTTTTTTT – Sabre Dance, Opera synopsis: As the beer
    is carried forward he falls lifeless – Tannhäuser
  • Two notes: Rimsky-Korsakov/Capriccio Espagnol, Sydney Baines/
    Destiny Waltz, Elizabeth Welch/Ivor Novello/Trefor Jones, Music,
    Music, Music/Teresa Brewer (1950)
  • What panel would like to take as an Educational Course
  • Hollywood singers and actors: Jeanette MacDonald, James Stewart
    (singing Easy toLove), Ramon Novarro, Al Jolson in Go into Your Dance
  • Final Songs: If You Were The Only Girl in the World, Little Willie
    Wagtail, The Girlfriend of a Boyfriend of Mine, Yesterdays, Smoke Gets
    in Your Eyes
Held in Archives
Steve Race says (at 23m12s) “In this last programme of the present series…”
Amis, Muir
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TS465
27:25, 25765, S

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