Programme 23
 

On

Resonance

104.4 fm

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The search for a Gramophone Man - what to do when your spring runs down - a spring song with 'Proms' connections - a spring poem that became a song - a silly Byng spring song

Title

Performer

Label

Ser

Mx

Rec Date

Composer

Caravan

Bohemian Band

Edison Bell Winner

3741

7503 O

Nov 1922

Gene Williams

The Catch Record

Leslie Holmes (and his smiling voice)

Imperial

2797

6281-3

Le Clerq

Spring Song

New Queens Hall Orchestra cond: Henry Wood

Columbia

9844

WAX4734

Feb 1929

Mendelssohn

Valgovind's Song in the Spring

Diana Humphrey

Poppy Records

HXP501

N/A

7 Nov 2003

Laurence Hope (author)

Temple Bells - from "Four Indian Love Lyrics"

Peter Dawson

HMV

B4319

0B4316 II Blum

Nov 1932

Amy Wodforde-Finden, Laurence Hope

Spring

Douglas Byng

Zonophone

5553

Yy18294 I W

17 Jan 1930

Byng

A Decca 22 portable gramophone

Philip Knighton "The Gramophone Man" mending it

Sir Henry Wood conducting the Queens Hall orchestra

 

USEFUL REFERENCES:

The Gramophone Man - Philip Knighton

3c, South Street, Wellington, Somerset TA218NR - Tel: 01823 661618

The Queens Hall

http://www.nqho.com/orchestra/queens.html

Laurence Hope's Poems

http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/HXP501/hxp501.htm

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