Main Performers | John Gielgud, Webster Booth, Anne Ziegler - actors, Vera Lynn, Howell Glynn, George Formby, Evelyn Laye, Ord.Tel.McIntyre, Roderick Jones - vocals, Eileen Joyce, Rawicz and Landauer - pianos |
Secondary Performers | Ivor Newton, Vivian Ellis - pianos, Reginald Foort - organ, |
Orchestra or Band | HM Royal Marines Massed Bands, Geraldo and His Concert Orchestra |
Choirs | Naval Ratings Choir from HMS Collingwood |
Conductors | Major F J Ricketts, Lieutenant T Francis, Captain F Vivian Dunn, Geraldo |
Set List | Overture, 'Plymouth Hoe', Ansell (HM Royal Marines Massed Bands), Webster Booth and Anne Ziegler, 'Piano Concerto in A Minor' (1st Movt), Grieg (Eileen Joyce, Geraldo and His Concert Orchestra), 'An American Rhapsody', H Wood (HM Royal Marines Massed Bands), Vera Lynn INTERVAL - Organ Music (Reginald Foort) Recitation - Poem 'A Seaman's Prayer', J Masefield (John Gielgud), Recitation - Poem 'Sea Fever', J Masefield (John Gielgud), Sea Shanties, 'Johnny Comes Down To Hilo', Howell Glynn (Naval Ratings Choir, Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines), 'A'Rovin', Howell Glynn (Naval Ratings Choir, Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines), George Formby, 'My Heart is With a Convoy', V Ellis (Evelyn Laye, Vivian Ellis), Grand Finale: Overture, 'Orpheus in The Underworld', Offenbach (Rawicz and Landauer, Geraldo and His Concert Orchestra), Webster Booth and Anne Ziegler 'Night On The Bare Mountain', Moussorgsky (Geraldo and His Concert Orchestra), Sea Shanties: 'Blow The Man Down' (Ord Tel. McIntyre, Howell Glynn, Naval Ratings Choir), 'What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?' (Ord Tel. McIntyre, Howell Glynn, Naval Ratings Choir), 'Shenandoah' (Ord Tel. McIntyre, Howell Glynn, Naval Ratings Choir), 'Rio Grande' (Ord Tel. McIntyre, Howell Glynn, Naval Ratings Choir), 'Spanish Ladies' (Ord Tel. McIntyre, Howell Glynn, Naval Ratings Choir), Finale: 'Song of Liberty', E Elgar (Roderick Jones, HM Royal Marines Massed Bands, Naval Ratings Choir, Geraldo and His Concert Orchestra, Reginald Foort) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1941/67) |