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Performance TitleA Grand Celebrity Concert, in aid of London Fire Service Benevolent Fund
Performance Date2 August 1942
Performance DaySunday
Main PerformersPouishnoff,
Billy Mayerl - pianos,
Douglas Byng,
Dennis Noble,
Vera Lynn,
Joan Hammond,
Count John McCormack - vocals,
Jack Warner,
Stanley Holloway - actors
Max Miller,
G S Melvin - comedians
Nervo and Knox,
Harold Fielding,
Eddie Leslie,
Jean Adrienne,
Robert Irwin,
Elsie and Doris Waters,
Troise and His Mandoliers
Secondary PerformersGerald Moore - piano
Orchestra or BandMantovani and His Orchestra,
London Fire Force Broadcasting Dance Orchestra,
London Fire Force Military Band
ConductorsEddie Franklin,
Mantovani,
T Kingston-Jarvis
Performance NotesThe concert raised money to alleviate distress amongst members of the London Fire Service and their dependents. The Fund was started in September 1940 when the Blitz brought inevitable casualties and hardships.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1942/87)
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1942/87A Grand Celebrity Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Sunday August 2nd 1942, in aid London Fire Service Benevolent Fund2 August 1942
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
EsokagoififiolA Grand Celebrity Concert, in aid of London Fire Service Benevolent Fund1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6364Lane; Lupino (16 June 1892-10 November 1959); English actor and theatre manager
DS/UK/6366Mayerl; Billy (1902-1959); English pianist, composer, bandleader
DS/UK/6367Byng; Douglas (1893-1987); English comic singer-songwriter
DS/UK/2948Gert and Daisy (fl 1950s)
DS/UK/6368Miller; Max (1894-1963); British comedian
DS/UK/6369Warner; Jack (1895-1981); OBE; English actor
DS/UK/6370Melvin; George Spence (1886-1946); Scottish comedian
DS/UK/6371Holloway; Stanley Augustus (1890-1982); OBE; English actor
DS/UK/2689Noble; Dennis (1898-1966); British baritone, teacher
DS/UK/3507Lynn; Dame; Vera (20 March 1917-18 June 2020); CH DBE OStJ; English singer
DS/UK/1553Hammond; Dame; Joan Hilda Hood (1912-1996); DBE, CMG; Australian operatic soprano, singing coach, champion golfer
DS/UK/349McCormack; John Francis (1884-1945); Papal Count; Irish tenor
DS/UK/211Pouishnoff; Leff Nicolas (1891-1959); Ukrainian pianist and composer
DS/UK/6301Moore; Gerald (1899-1987); British pianist
DS/UK/3741Mantovani; Annunzio Paolo (1905-1980); English-Italian conductor
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