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iwarburton



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We now know that the Evening Prayer from Under Milk Wood was the last piece to be played on HBT but does anyone know what the first one was, on 15 November 1959?

It may have been the Allegro Diciso from Handel's Water Music, as this was used on a partial reconstruction of that first programme many years later but I can't be certain. Any offers?

Ian.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Responding to Cherskiy, yes sorry Richard Baker was in The Royal Navy.


Ian,

I have Alan Keith's book of 100BT and he says in the prelude "I'll begin, as the programme begins, with the signature tune" and the first chapter is The Londonderry Air. And in it he says his favourite arrangement is Percy Grainger's.

So that suggests that that tune has always been the signatute tune, and would have been the first played on 100BT???

But I expect you mean what came next?

When was the reconstruction done, and why?


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iwarburton wrote:
We now know that the Evening Prayer from Under Milk Wood was the last piece to be played on HBT but does anyone know what the first one was, on 15 November 1959?

It may have been the Allegro Diciso from Handel's Water Music, as this was used on a partial reconstruction of that first programme many years later but I can't be certain. Any offers?

Ian.


Yes. It was 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing' by The Nolans.


(Sorry. I'm in a pixyish mood today. Be interesting to know though)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes. It was 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing' by The Nolans.
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Yes, I did mean the first piece after the sig tune.

The reconstruction happened on one of the show's big anniversaries. Can't remember which one. I'm sticking by Handel unless anyone can suggest otherwise.

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John W



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought it was Tina Charles who did 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing' ?
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Ian,

In his book Alan Keith only briefly mentions Handel's Water Music, doesn't pick out any of the separate pieces but only mentions the shortened arrangement by Hamilton Harty which was more popular then than it is now.

I don't have a recording of Harty's arrangement, preferring the authentic performances, but I know the Allegro deciso was the final piece in Harty's arrangement, and is based on the Hornpipe in Handel's Suite No 2 of the Water Music.

I don't think anyone is going to dispute your conclusions from the reconstructed programme which presumably Keith was involved in anyway.


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Lady Boil De Spudswell



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John W wrote:
I thought it was Tina Charles who did 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing' ?
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No John, you're thinking of 'Lord' Charles who did 'Take Your Hand From My Bum, It's making My Eyes Water' - Top 10, 1975.
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I remember Lord Charles ...... London Palladium with Bruce Forsythe .....you ARE making me feel old now Sad
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I am hoping to see Ray Alan and Lord Charles in a couple of months at the City Varieties in Leeds!

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