Old Master
SOMETHING happened to a BBC All Join In session from 3YA the other night. These programmes consist of familiar numbers played and sung by various orchestras and artists, but with one particular personality of the entertainment world in charge of each. They are as a rule pleasant enough to the one-ear listener, but hardly merit the attention of both organs. But on this occasion the compére was Leslie Henson, in whose voice rasps the dust of every music hall since 1902, and who is himself an epitome of several decades of entertainment history. Well, the artists went through their programme much as usual, playing "Apple Blossom Time" and "Pedro the Fisherman" and other amiable noises; and Mr. Henson jollied them along in a self-sacrificing manner; only there was in the air a certain tension. Then, something happened. The compére announced that he was going to sing a song himself. And he did. For five or ten minutes there was nothing in the world but Leslie Henson, his songs, his stories, his reminiscences, his i a |
RADIO VIEWSREEL (continued from page 15) He swallowed up All Join In into his own personality. Before the legion of ghosts evoked by Leslie Henson and one mention of George Grossmith, the sentimental commercial songs of to-day crumbled and were as nothing. I am sorry, and I cannot altogether account for it, but it was so. Then Mr. Henson permitted the orchestra to finish off for themselves; and they pleget "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 15
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