| Main Performers | Noni and Horace,
Harry Moore,
Cornalla and Eddie,
Uncle Dick,
Will Hay - performers,
Carmen Hill - vocal,
R Arnold Greir,
J W Lamb - organ |
| Set List | 'Rule Britannia',
'Childhood's Memories (Jack Payne, BBC Orchestra),
'Nursery Rhymes' (Jack Payne, BBC Orchestra),
'Where Go The Boats ?' (Carmen Hill),
'Young Night Thought' (Carmen Hill),
'Good And Bad Children' (Carmen Hill),
'Marching Song', R L S, Graham Peel (Carmen Hill),
'Constantinople' (Jack Payne, BBC Orchestra),
'Dance Music' (Jack Payne, BBC Orchestra),
'Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be?' (Carmen Hill),
'The Cuckoo' (Carmen Hill),
'Land of Hope And Glory', Elgar,
'The Chortle',
'All Join in and Be Happy', Jack Payne, Reg Connelly,
'It Don't Do Nothing But Rain' (Jack Payne, BBC Orchestra),
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
| Performance Notes | The strange name of this event comes from the Daily Mirror's 'Pip, Squeak and Wilfred' newspaper cartoon which ran from 1919-1956 drawn by Bertram Lamb and Austin Bowen Payne. The cartoon also featured in the Sunday Pictorial in the early years. It concerned the adventures of an orphaned family of animals. Pip, who assumed the "father" role, was a dog, while the "mother", Squeak, was a penguin. Wilfred was the "young son" and was a rabbit with very long ears.
In 1927, the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred club began and was named the Wilfredian League of Gugnuncs (WLOG). The club organised many competitions and events for thousands of members, especially at the British South Coast Seaside resorts. "Gugnuncs" is a combination of two baby-talk words used by Wilfred, who as a toddler-aged child cannot speak yet. Nunc being his version of Uncle. There was a WLOG member's badge in blue enamelled metal, featuring the long ears of Wilfred. Among the WLOG rules was one to never eat rabbit.
The Gugnunc parties were held between 1927-1929 at the Royal Albert Hall raising funds for childrens hospitals and charities.
The Handley Page H.P.39 biplane (1929) was nicknamed the Gugnunc. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1928/34) |