War Changed His Tune
ARTHUR RISCOE, the comedian whose engaging leer was ‘so popular with English variety audiences and whose fruity voice was sometimes heard on recorded NZBS programmes, died the other day in London at the age of 57. A Yorkshireman, he emigrated in his teens to Tasmania where he worked for 8s. 6d. a week on a sheep farm. Later he worked up to £4 a week with an Australian concert party, and by his middle thirties was being paid £300 a week in the north of England. Arthur Riscoe wrote his one song hit, "Goodbye Sally, I’m Saying Goodbye," for one of his shows with Leslie Henson. It sold 20,000 copies a week, but after Dunkirk the line "Cheer me on my way, right through the Siegfried Line" had
to be cut.
J. W.
GOODWIN
(London)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 17
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139War Changed His Tune New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 17
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