Compilation of a dozen or so popular entertainers of the past. Including Gracie Fields, Billy Cotton, Morton Fraser, Max Wall, Charlie Kunz, Robb Wilton, Ted Ray, Jimmy Wheeler, Arthur Askey, Max Miller and others.
Great professional entertainers,unlike many today these artists honned their skills on the toughest audiences and have thoroughly earned their place in the history of entertainment. Thank you.
There will never be anybody like them again, i remember watching Arthur Askey every week, he used to say hello playmates...they were my era, god bless them all.
I have just found this channel while flipping hrough RU-vid. Wonderful. I remember as a kid in the 50's and 60's seeing some of these very shows and the Harmonica Gang sticks in my mind vividly, my late Father loved them. I carry around with me on an iPod radio shows of Jimmy Clitheroe, The Navy Ark, Men From The Ministry as well as a few others,I lie not when I tell you theu have been all over the World with me and still bring me endless pleasure and remind me of when life was tougher but yet simpler.
Its seems like only yesterday? At 86 i can remember the Radio comedians like Workers playtime with Avril Angers. Wilfred Pickles.and Doris his wife at the piano Have a Go Joe youve been on radio.......If you had your life over again would you change anything plus giving questions for Money. Plus "The day war broke out my missis said to me"Rob Wilton .No TV then after the war.We used to gather round the Steam Radio on Sunday evenings after a special Sunday tea and listen to the show" Palace of Varieties (I think)🙏🥰🇬🇧 Or just after Paul Temple or Dick Barton special agent starring DIck Jock and Snowy After the gruelling War years they were a great tonic we looked forward to and never missed👏🤣👍
if you are a music lover, respect the best of all eras, today it was robbie williams,tonight its the very good old days, let the spirit of music always live on...
We're fortunate to be able to still see these performers through the medium of RU-vid. My only quibble would be that the addition of each one's name as he or she came onscreen would have helped in identifying the artist. Not being British, I only recognised Gracie Fields, Max Miller and Tessie O'Shea. But what a pleasure it was to see them all here.
What a fascinating compilation so many people we remember so fondly, never seen the Norman Evans with the Panda before, ah ! So many of these folks also appeared on TVs The Good Old Days, recently rerun on BBC4 just great to see them, and remember many of these folks also kept people's spirits up in the war, 'Bless 'em all', to coin a phase
I can't believe just how these wonderful stars brought back so many happy memories for me.... I am now In Heaven ! ha-ha Thankyou so very much for posting this lovely film !
What great nostalgia the World was a much nicer place and people actually talked to each other. Lovely simple comedy. I'm a child again and tittering away like a good un
Glenn Johnson Grand stuff here,many i remember from TV when growing up in the 50`s.How brilliant to see footage of G.H.Elliot singing "Sue sweet Sue",although from the 30`s.Thanks for the upload.
There's my friend Johnny Stafford in the Morton Fraser Harmonica Gang. Wonderful harmonica player and all round entertainer. See him at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon on Dec 1st 2013 at 2.30pm in COMEDY IN MUSIC with Jean Martyn, Don Reid and Mavis Lane.
Wonderful. Compared to todays rubisshy offerings! Todays so-called entertainers should watch this and learn how to entertain without swearing and using filth.
Here is the full list on this film......in order of appearance........ Gracie fields.... Billy cotton band show..... Charlie Chester..... Max wall.... Charlie kunz...... Rob Wilton.... Ted Ray/Jimmy Wheeler.... Max Miller.... Arthur askey.val doonican...... Tessie o Shay.... Norman Evens... Dennis nordan...GH Elliot....
what a wonderful compilation and despite the comments of foulmouthed kevvome, our gracie could reach and sustain notes the so called singers of today can only dream about. good clean humour and talent, all missing nowadays
Really brings back great memories of the small black and white flickering screen and being told as a kid not to get closer than 6ft from the set because of "rays". My favourite was Max Wall - an absolute comic genius.
Couldn’t say the « chocolate cream » joke nowadays! 😡 I was born in the 50s....but vaguely remember some of these 😆😆 Oh I wish my mom + dad were still here! They’d love this!! Anyone know how I can get to listen to Ted Ray + Mrs Hoskins?? Thanks for these timeless clips......folk could say funny stuff and NO PC do gooders then!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕💕🇬🇧
Took these people took years and years to learn there trade. Programs like today Star Is Born, X Factor and such like and at the end of the program they say they are a star. You don't get people like this anymore because there are not that many places where they can perform and learn over time and that what it takes time. Ted Ray was one of my Favs
Norman Evans was wonderful. - Our Albert ( maybe not the right name) Has only been in the army for three weks and he has been promoted already. Yes, thev'e made him a Court Marshall.
I was born in 1949 I could hardly wait till the early 60s when music came alive, The Beatles for example. My parents would be watching these old music hall stars on the TV. I hate it, and would go to my bedroom and listen to radio Luxemburg.
(guest) . Unkind comment, Terry Denman. They were of their time, and were very popular. Everyone to their taste.....I.m 68 (at 2016), and I remember them, even the 'common', yelling "wakey- wakey" man, from childhood. Remember, t.v. was still in its infancy : we had a tiny 6 inch screen, black and white, with one channel! Some performers ( learning as they went along in the new medium) I found corny , even cringe- making, and Charlie Chester : creepy, imho.😕. But try to bear in mind a " helluva" lot of work went into those many acts. Could we do any better?😊.
Norman Evans with the panda puppet British Music Hall star Norman Evans here with his puppet Panda. This sketch is taken from 'Over The Garden Wall' - Mancunian Film Company (1950)
I saw most of these stars in the early 50's when the provinces had these touring shows. These artists were stars who had lasted and were loved, not like today with unintelligible songs and filthy jokes & language instead of innuendo. Those times were the best times and regretfully will never comer back.
Can't say I was particularly fond of this clip but I often wonder why people like your contributor 'kevvome' need to be so coarse and vile in expressing themselves with such filthy language. Disgusting, such comments should never be permitted. Someone should tell his mummy, I'd hate for him to be like that when he grows up.
did you ever get any more vids of your great great and i do mean GREAT grandfather? i remember an interview with him on late night line up - bbctv - very funny reminiscing about a trip to the south of france. i have a publicity photo of jim which we refer to as the Icon.
I saw Jimmy Wheeler in Brighton in 1958. I had been dragged along because my mother had the hots for Frankie Vaughan, who was top of the bill. Jimmy was very professional. Having only seen him on tv I was surprised to see he had red hair.
+Sylvia Moe To true. I find today's stand up comedian's offensive and boring. We seem to have gone backwards. There was so much talent in the old days. Television now consists of american sitcoms, old american movies and third rate game shows. We have lost so much! Joe.
I saw some of these when I was a kid in the 50s. Corny, definitely non-PC, but quite a lot of talent there (where was Simon Cowell ! ). But it was better than going outside and playing with a rock and a stick !
Wonderful clean funny top notch entertainment. However I would not want to watch every night. But I do love it. The comedians of the day I don't believe can be beaten.
The act at the end is I think G. H. Elliott ...the "chocolate coloured coon" ...Google his name and the word "grave" to bring up a photo of his headstone ....it'll shock the P. C. brigade!!!!
Each generation declares the one after it is going to the dogs. Oh how they hated jazz (1920s) and the blues (1930s), both seen as the Devil's music back then but now respected styles of music. Why can't each style of music be loved in and of itself without denigrating other styles?
Gracie Fields - a great three octave singing lesson.. added to class and sophistication- to all the semi naked vulgar pretenders out there in the 21st C
Christ? That's just a fantasy figure. Get educated buddy. ALL religions are BS, they were created to control others. Just because a lot of folks were programmed as children is no reason to continue with this crap.
