Ambrose and Anne
"OUR ANNIE"-that’s what the troops in Malta called blonde, blue-eyed Anne Shelton when she sang to them every week for three years in the BBC’s programme Calling Malta. Anne has been singing on the air since she was 15, but she finds it easier nowadays than during the war years when, right through the London and provincial blitzes, she travelled from whatever part of England she was appearing in to broadcast from the BBC studio every Sunday night. She owes her rapid rise to stardom to her lovely voice-and a BBC programme. When she was only 15 she appeared as a "new voice" in the "May We Introduce" section of Monday Night at Eight. Bert Ambrose, the famous band-leader, was listening that night and was electrified at the new voice and the way it was used. He rang up next day and asked Anne to go to his office for an audition. The result
of that audition was an invitation to sing with Ambrose and his band the next night-and Anne has been broadcasting with Ambrose ever since. Ambrose and Anne, a new BBC programme, is scheduled for broadcasting by three stations next week: IYA, Saturday, 9.30 p.m.; 3YA, Thursday, 4.0 p.m.; and 4YA, Tuesday, 7.30 p.m,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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210Ambrose and Anne New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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