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1. I’m Going To See You Today 2:16 7. Mad About The Boy 5:08 12. The Music’s Message 3:05 16. Folk Song (A Song Of The Weather) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) (Noël Coward) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 1:29 With Richard Addinsell, piano With Mantovani & His Orchestra; Orchestra conducted by William Blezard (Michael Flanders-Donald Swann) HMV B 9295, 0EA 9899-5 introduced by Noël Coward 13. Understanding Mother 3:10 With piano Recorded 17 September 1942 Noël Coward Programme #4, (Joyce Grenfell) 17. Shirley’s Girl Friend 4:46 Towers of London, 1947–48 2. There Is Nothing New To Tell You 3:29 14. Three Brothers 2:57 (Joyce Grenfell) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 8. Children Of The Ritz 3:59 (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 18. Hostess; Farewell 3:03 With Richard Addinsell, piano (Noël Coward) Orchestra conducted by William Blezard (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) HMV B 9295, 0EA 9900-1 With Mantovani & His Orchestra Orchestra conducted by William Blezard Recorded 3 September 1942 Noël Coward Programme #12, 15. Palais Dancers 3:13 Towers of London, 1947–48 (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) Tracks 12–18 from 3. Useful And Acceptable Gifts Orchestra conducted by William Blezard Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (An Institute Lecture Demonstration) 3:05 9. We Must All Be Very Kind To Auntie Philips BBL 7004; recorded 1954 From The Little Revue Jessie 3:28 (Joyce Grenfell) (Noël Coward) All selections recorded in London • Tracks 5–9 previously unissued commercially HMV B 8930, 0EA 7852-1 With Mantovani & His Orchestra Transfers and Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration:Alan Bunting Recorded 11 May 1939 (3:04) Noël Coward Programme #13, Original records from the collections of David Lennick and CBC Radio, Toronto 4. Du Maurier 3:12 Towers of London, 1947–48 Joyce Grenfell also sings Narcissus (The Laughing Song) and I Don’t ’Arf Love You with From Sigh No More 10. Keepsake 3:12 Norman Wisdom on Naxos Nostalgia 8.120858 (see below) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) From Penny Plain With Mantovani & His Orchestra (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) Also available from Naxos Nostalgia … Decca F 8561, DR 9676-2 With Philip Green & His Orchestra Recorded 20 September 1945 Columbia DB 2918, CA 21830-2 5. The End Of The News 4:15 Recorded 27 July 1951 From Sigh No More 11. Maud (A Moment With Tennyson) 3:20 (Noël Coward) From Penny Plain With Mantovani & His Orchestra (Nicholas Phipps–Richard Addinsell) Noël Coward Programme #1, Assisted by Julian Orchard, with Towers of London, 1947–48 Philip Green & His Orchestra 6. I’m The Wife Of An Acrobat 3:53 Columbia DB 2918, CA 21831-1 C (Noël Coward) Recorded 27 July 1951 With Mantovani & His Orchestra M Noël Coward Programme #9, 8.120721 8.120837 8.120858 Towers of London, 1947–48 These titles are not for retail sale in the USA Y
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pianist/composer Richard Addinsell, known best Call the Tune, which evolved into the television woman’ roles, all of which were but preludes to Understanding Mother, Three Brothers, JOYCE GRENFELL Requests the Pleasure then and since as the composer of the popular series Face The Music, in which she appeared the three St Trinian’s box-office hits: Belles of Palais Dancers, Folk Song (A Song Of The Original 1939–1954 Recordings “Warsaw Concerto”, which was used as the from 1971 to 1975. St. Trinians (1954), Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s Weather) – written by Michael Flanders and theme of the film Dangerous Moonlight in Joyce’s first post-war stage revue was Sigh (1957) and The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s (1961). Donald Swann and with Joyce replacing their Joyce Grenfell is reported to have once said: of some of her verse in Punch, and for two 1941. Their writing partnership developed No More, which Noël Coward produced in 1954 proved to be a banner year for Joyce. chorus of ‘Bloody January again’ with the more “There is no such thing as the pursuit of years, 1937–39, she reviewed radio programmes quickly: two of their earliest songs were There August 1945, and for which he wrote much of Not only did the first St Trinian’s film open to appropriately genteel ‘Dear old January again …’ happiness, but there is the discovery of joy”. for The Observer. Is Nothing New To Tell You and I’m Going the material. Among the material Joyce great reviews, but Joyce was to star in Joyce – Shirley’s Girl Friend and Hostess. The Those who were fortunate enough to have seen Joyce had by then developed a great talent To See You Today; the latter was to become performed were Coward’s The End Of The Grenfell Requests The Pleasure, which opened show, as does this record, concluded with the or heard Joyce Grenfell perform will each have for mimicry, as well as an ability to write songs, Joyce’s signature tune. In contrast to the broad News and her own Du Maurier, which had at the Fortune Theatre on 2 June and ran for 276 charming farewell that Joyce Grenfell spoke to discovered their own joy, from the side-splitting, sketches and monologues. Her performance of comedic persona which Joyce would nothing to do with cigarettes, but was about a performances, followed by an eight-week run on the audience at the end of each performance. hysterical joy of laughter to the wistful joy of one such monologue, then titled “How to Make demonstrate in later years in a succession of famous Punch cartoonist of that name. Broadway. Once again Richard Addinsell wrote “I wish I could invite you all back for supper, times and loves remembered and perhaps lost. a Boutonnière out of Empty Beech Nut Husk very funny films, her gentle yet riveting Fifteen years earlier, in 1932, Noël Coward almost all the music and Joyce provided the but …” To remember her is to smile, as she would have Clusters”, came to the attention of producer performance of these songs touched a million had written a highly successful revue, Words and majority of the lyrics. The show’s structure was So here’s Joyce, her songs and her humour. wished. Herbert Farjeon, who invited her to perform it heartstrings and launched not a few tears Music, and in 1947–48 Joyce recorded several a series of keenly-observed character studies of You’ll have to provide your own supper. As the daughter of a successful architect in his new revue, The Little Revue, which among the population of a wartime Britain with numbers from the exceptionally strong score: a wide range of females, with support from Paddy father, Paul Phipps, and Nora Langhorne, an opened on 21 April 1939 (with “How to Make a so many loved ones away from home. I’m The Wife Of An Acrobat, Mad About The Stone, Irving Davies and Beryl Kaye, and an Pip Wedge American whose sister was Lady Astor, Joyce Boutonnière out of Empty Beech Nut Husk Joyce first got involved in radio in 1943, Boy, Children Of The Ritz and We Must All Be orchestra under the direction of William Blezard. Former Assistant Editor, NME, TV Exec (UK Irene Phipps was ‘born into money’ in London Clusters” now retitled as Useful And when she collaborated with Stephen Potter on a Very Kind To Aunt Jessie. 1947 was also the Of 27 items that made up the programme, and Canada); current Canadian Rep, Robert on 10 February 1910. As Nancy Astor’s niece, Acceptable Gifts). When war broke out in series of radio programmes for the BBC, titled year in which she starred in and wrote material seven are heard here: The Music’s Message, Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk) she spent many happy times in her childhood at 1939, Joyce was an early volunteer to appear in How. Originally intended as straightforward for a Max Adrian Revue, Tuppence Coloured. In the Astor family home at Cliveden on the concerts organized for the troops by ENSA documentaries on the right way to do such 1951, Richard Addinsell wrote the music and Producer’s Note Thames. After going to private schools and to (Entertainments National Service Association), things as talk to children, give a party, travel, and Joyce and her cousin Nicholas Phipps provided Joyce Grenfell first recorded in 1939, and did two more sessions in 1942 and 1945. All of these finishing school in Paris, she met Reggie Grenfell first around Britain and later in the Middle East make friends, the series developed a satirical the lyrics for a ‘sequel’ revue, Penny Plain, discs are extremely rare, the few known copies are in less than perfect condition, and aside from when she was only seventeen, and married him and India. She was rewarded for her efforts in style, thanks to Joyce’s impish sense of humour. including Maud (A Moment With Tennyson), participating in a Noël Coward medley in 1947, she made no more records before 1951. But even two years later, a marriage that was to last until 1946, when she was awarded an OBE. How was initially largely improvised and only for which Phipps supplied the lyrics and which more rare and not for commercial issue are the recordings she made for a radio series around her death fifty years later. Their first home was Back home she was still able to fit in appear- later became scripted. Joyce sang, with assistance from Julian Orchard, 1947–48. The Noël Coward Programme, a set of thirteen half-hour shows produced by Harry Alan in a cottage on the Cliveden estate. ances in two more revues. The first, Diversion, Other radio series with which Joyce was and Keepsake, with Joyce’s lyrics. Towers (Towers of London), was offered for syndication around the world. It would appear that As a child, Joyce loved to sing with her which opened in October 1940 at Wyndham’s associated included Here’s Wishing You Well During the war, Joyce had performed in not many markets were interested, since the programmes didn't make easy provision for the guitar-playing mother, and to put on amateur Theatre, played in the afternoons, so that Again (1946), A Note With Music, which she several semi-documentary films promoting insertion of commercials and the material was pretty sophisticated, and the transcription discs are shows at home, but one term at the Royal audiences could be home before the air raid wrote and performed with George Benson and various aspects of the war effort. After the war, seldom found. The technical quality was mediocre even by standards of the time, since the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1927, while she was sirens sounded. A second edition of Diversion the George Melachrino Orchestra in 1947, and she was cast in small roles in four more pictures, individual songs were recorded on 78 RPM lacquers and dubbed into the final version, with still only seventeen, persuaded her that acting in played in 1941. Then in 1942 came Light and We Beg to Differ (1949), a panel show with four before earning the splendid role of Miss Gossage resultant wow and flutter. But they allowed for full-length versions of Coward's songs, and 25 of scripted plays had no appeal, because she found Shade, another Farjeon revue, after which Joyce women and two men discussing subjects which (‘Call me Sausage’) in The Happiest Days of Your them were by Joyce Grenfell. Five are in this collection. this field of endeavour ‘too restrictive’. Her first was off on her ENSA travels overseas. typified the ‘battle of the sexes’. Much later, in Life, where she co-starred with Alastair Sim. This professional income came from the publication It was in 1941 that Joyce had first met 1956, she participated in a radio show named made her much in demand for similar ‘gawky Original monochrome photo of Joyce Grenfell from the Tully Potter Collection 2 8.120860 3 8.120860 4 8.120860 120860bk Joyce:MASTER BOOK 3+3 NEW 6/10/07 2:58 PM Page 1
pianist/composer Richard Addinsell, known best Call the Tune, which evolved into the television woman’ roles, all of which were but preludes to Understanding Mother, Three Brothers, JOYCE GRENFELL Requests the Pleasure then and since as the composer of the popular series Face The Music, in which she appeared the three St Trinian’s box-office hits: Belles of Palais Dancers, Folk Song (A Song Of The Original 1939–1954 Recordings “Warsaw Concerto”, which was used as the from 1971 to 1975. St. Trinians (1954), Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s Weather) – written by Michael Flanders and theme of the film Dangerous Moonlight in Joyce’s first post-war stage revue was Sigh (1957) and The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s (1961). Donald Swann and with Joyce replacing their Joyce Grenfell is reported to have once said: of some of her verse in Punch, and for two 1941. Their writing partnership developed No More, which Noël Coward produced in 1954 proved to be a banner year for Joyce. chorus of ‘Bloody January again’ with the more “There is no such thing as the pursuit of years, 1937–39, she reviewed radio programmes quickly: two of their earliest songs were There August 1945, and for which he wrote much of Not only did the first St Trinian’s film open to appropriately genteel ‘Dear old January again …’ happiness, but there is the discovery of joy”. for The Observer. Is Nothing New To Tell You and I’m Going the material. Among the material Joyce great reviews, but Joyce was to star in Joyce – Shirley’s Girl Friend and Hostess. The Those who were fortunate enough to have seen Joyce had by then developed a great talent To See You Today; the latter was to become performed were Coward’s The End Of The Grenfell Requests The Pleasure, which opened show, as does this record, concluded with the or heard Joyce Grenfell perform will each have for mimicry, as well as an ability to write songs, Joyce’s signature tune. In contrast to the broad News and her own Du Maurier, which had at the Fortune Theatre on 2 June and ran for 276 charming farewell that Joyce Grenfell spoke to discovered their own joy, from the side-splitting, sketches and monologues. Her performance of comedic persona which Joyce would nothing to do with cigarettes, but was about a performances, followed by an eight-week run on the audience at the end of each performance. hysterical joy of laughter to the wistful joy of one such monologue, then titled “How to Make demonstrate in later years in a succession of famous Punch cartoonist of that name. Broadway. Once again Richard Addinsell wrote “I wish I could invite you all back for supper, times and loves remembered and perhaps lost. a Boutonnière out of Empty Beech Nut Husk very funny films, her gentle yet riveting Fifteen years earlier, in 1932, Noël Coward almost all the music and Joyce provided the but …” To remember her is to smile, as she would have Clusters”, came to the attention of producer performance of these songs touched a million had written a highly successful revue, Words and majority of the lyrics. The show’s structure was So here’s Joyce, her songs and her humour. wished. Herbert Farjeon, who invited her to perform it heartstrings and launched not a few tears Music, and in 1947–48 Joyce recorded several a series of keenly-observed character studies of You’ll have to provide your own supper. As the daughter of a successful architect in his new revue, The Little Revue, which among the population of a wartime Britain with numbers from the exceptionally strong score: a wide range of females, with support from Paddy father, Paul Phipps, and Nora Langhorne, an opened on 21 April 1939 (with “How to Make a so many loved ones away from home. I’m The Wife Of An Acrobat, Mad About The Stone, Irving Davies and Beryl Kaye, and an Pip Wedge American whose sister was Lady Astor, Joyce Boutonnière out of Empty Beech Nut Husk Joyce first got involved in radio in 1943, Boy, Children Of The Ritz and We Must All Be orchestra under the direction of William Blezard. Former Assistant Editor, NME, TV Exec (UK Irene Phipps was ‘born into money’ in London Clusters” now retitled as Useful And when she collaborated with Stephen Potter on a Very Kind To Aunt Jessie. 1947 was also the Of 27 items that made up the programme, and Canada); current Canadian Rep, Robert on 10 February 1910. As Nancy Astor’s niece, Acceptable Gifts). When war broke out in series of radio programmes for the BBC, titled year in which she starred in and wrote material seven are heard here: The Music’s Message, Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk) she spent many happy times in her childhood at 1939, Joyce was an early volunteer to appear in How. Originally intended as straightforward for a Max Adrian Revue, Tuppence Coloured. In the Astor family home at Cliveden on the concerts organized for the troops by ENSA documentaries on the right way to do such 1951, Richard Addinsell wrote the music and Producer’s Note Thames. After going to private schools and to (Entertainments National Service Association), things as talk to children, give a party, travel, and Joyce and her cousin Nicholas Phipps provided Joyce Grenfell first recorded in 1939, and did two more sessions in 1942 and 1945. All of these finishing school in Paris, she met Reggie Grenfell first around Britain and later in the Middle East make friends, the series developed a satirical the lyrics for a ‘sequel’ revue, Penny Plain, discs are extremely rare, the few known copies are in less than perfect condition, and aside from when she was only seventeen, and married him and India. She was rewarded for her efforts in style, thanks to Joyce’s impish sense of humour. including Maud (A Moment With Tennyson), participating in a Noël Coward medley in 1947, she made no more records before 1951. But even two years later, a marriage that was to last until 1946, when she was awarded an OBE. How was initially largely improvised and only for which Phipps supplied the lyrics and which more rare and not for commercial issue are the recordings she made for a radio series around her death fifty years later. Their first home was Back home she was still able to fit in appear- later became scripted. Joyce sang, with assistance from Julian Orchard, 1947–48. The Noël Coward Programme, a set of thirteen half-hour shows produced by Harry Alan in a cottage on the Cliveden estate. ances in two more revues. The first, Diversion, Other radio series with which Joyce was and Keepsake, with Joyce’s lyrics. Towers (Towers of London), was offered for syndication around the world. It would appear that As a child, Joyce loved to sing with her which opened in October 1940 at Wyndham’s associated included Here’s Wishing You Well During the war, Joyce had performed in not many markets were interested, since the programmes didn't make easy provision for the guitar-playing mother, and to put on amateur Theatre, played in the afternoons, so that Again (1946), A Note With Music, which she several semi-documentary films promoting insertion of commercials and the material was pretty sophisticated, and the transcription discs are shows at home, but one term at the Royal audiences could be home before the air raid wrote and performed with George Benson and various aspects of the war effort. After the war, seldom found. The technical quality was mediocre even by standards of the time, since the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1927, while she was sirens sounded. A second edition of Diversion the George Melachrino Orchestra in 1947, and she was cast in small roles in four more pictures, individual songs were recorded on 78 RPM lacquers and dubbed into the final version, with still only seventeen, persuaded her that acting in played in 1941. Then in 1942 came Light and We Beg to Differ (1949), a panel show with four before earning the splendid role of Miss Gossage resultant wow and flutter. But they allowed for full-length versions of Coward's songs, and 25 of scripted plays had no appeal, because she found Shade, another Farjeon revue, after which Joyce women and two men discussing subjects which (‘Call me Sausage’) in The Happiest Days of Your them were by Joyce Grenfell. Five are in this collection. this field of endeavour ‘too restrictive’. Her first was off on her ENSA travels overseas. typified the ‘battle of the sexes’. Much later, in Life, where she co-starred with Alastair Sim. This professional income came from the publication It was in 1941 that Joyce had first met 1956, she participated in a radio show named made her much in demand for similar ‘gawky Original monochrome photo of Joyce Grenfell from the Tully Potter Collection 2 8.120860 3 8.120860 4 8.120860 120860bk Joyce:MASTER BOOK 3+3 NEW 6/10/07 2:58 PM Page 1
pianist/composer Richard Addinsell, known best Call the Tune, which evolved into the television woman’ roles, all of which were but preludes to Understanding Mother, Three Brothers, JOYCE GRENFELL Requests the Pleasure then and since as the composer of the popular series Face The Music, in which she appeared the three St Trinian’s box-office hits: Belles of Palais Dancers, Folk Song (A Song Of The Original 1939–1954 Recordings “Warsaw Concerto”, which was used as the from 1971 to 1975. St. Trinians (1954), Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s Weather) – written by Michael Flanders and theme of the film Dangerous Moonlight in Joyce’s first post-war stage revue was Sigh (1957) and The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s (1961). Donald Swann and with Joyce replacing their Joyce Grenfell is reported to have once said: of some of her verse in Punch, and for two 1941. Their writing partnership developed No More, which Noël Coward produced in 1954 proved to be a banner year for Joyce. chorus of ‘Bloody January again’ with the more “There is no such thing as the pursuit of years, 1937–39, she reviewed radio programmes quickly: two of their earliest songs were There August 1945, and for which he wrote much of Not only did the first St Trinian’s film open to appropriately genteel ‘Dear old January again …’ happiness, but there is the discovery of joy”. for The Observer. Is Nothing New To Tell You and I’m Going the material. Among the material Joyce great reviews, but Joyce was to star in Joyce – Shirley’s Girl Friend and Hostess. The Those who were fortunate enough to have seen Joyce had by then developed a great talent To See You Today; the latter was to become performed were Coward’s The End Of The Grenfell Requests The Pleasure, which opened show, as does this record, concluded with the or heard Joyce Grenfell perform will each have for mimicry, as well as an ability to write songs, Joyce’s signature tune. In contrast to the broad News and her own Du Maurier, which had at the Fortune Theatre on 2 June and ran for 276 charming farewell that Joyce Grenfell spoke to discovered their own joy, from the side-splitting, sketches and monologues. Her performance of comedic persona which Joyce would nothing to do with cigarettes, but was about a performances, followed by an eight-week run on the audience at the end of each performance. hysterical joy of laughter to the wistful joy of one such monologue, then titled “How to Make demonstrate in later years in a succession of famous Punch cartoonist of that name. Broadway. Once again Richard Addinsell wrote “I wish I could invite you all back for supper, times and loves remembered and perhaps lost. a Boutonnière out of Empty Beech Nut Husk very funny films, her gentle yet riveting Fifteen years earlier, in 1932, Noël Coward almost all the music and Joyce provided the but …” To remember her is to smile, as she would have Clusters”, came to the attention of producer performance of these songs touched a million had written a highly successful revue, Words and majority of the lyrics. The show’s structure was So here’s Joyce, her songs and her humour. wished. Herbert Farjeon, who invited her to perform it heartstrings and launched not a few tears Music, and in 1947–48 Joyce recorded several a series of keenly-observed character studies of You’ll have to provide your own supper. As the daughter of a successful architect in his new revue, The Little Revue, which among the population of a wartime Britain with numbers from the exceptionally strong score: a wide range of females, with support from Paddy father, Paul Phipps, and Nora Langhorne, an opened on 21 April 1939 (with “How to Make a so many loved ones away from home. I’m The Wife Of An Acrobat, Mad About The Stone, Irving Davies and Beryl Kaye, and an Pip Wedge American whose sister was Lady Astor, Joyce Boutonnière out of Empty Beech Nut Husk Joyce first got involved in radio in 1943, Boy, Children Of The Ritz and We Must All Be orchestra under the direction of William Blezard. Former Assistant Editor, NME, TV Exec (UK Irene Phipps was ‘born into money’ in London Clusters” now retitled as Useful And when she collaborated with Stephen Potter on a Very Kind To Aunt Jessie. 1947 was also the Of 27 items that made up the programme, and Canada); current Canadian Rep, Robert on 10 February 1910. As Nancy Astor’s niece, Acceptable Gifts). When war broke out in series of radio programmes for the BBC, titled year in which she starred in and wrote material seven are heard here: The Music’s Message, Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk) she spent many happy times in her childhood at 1939, Joyce was an early volunteer to appear in How. Originally intended as straightforward for a Max Adrian Revue, Tuppence Coloured. In the Astor family home at Cliveden on the concerts organized for the troops by ENSA documentaries on the right way to do such 1951, Richard Addinsell wrote the music and Producer’s Note Thames. After going to private schools and to (Entertainments National Service Association), things as talk to children, give a party, travel, and Joyce and her cousin Nicholas Phipps provided Joyce Grenfell first recorded in 1939, and did two more sessions in 1942 and 1945. All of these finishing school in Paris, she met Reggie Grenfell first around Britain and later in the Middle East make friends, the series developed a satirical the lyrics for a ‘sequel’ revue, Penny Plain, discs are extremely rare, the few known copies are in less than perfect condition, and aside from when she was only seventeen, and married him and India. She was rewarded for her efforts in style, thanks to Joyce’s impish sense of humour. including Maud (A Moment With Tennyson), participating in a Noël Coward medley in 1947, she made no more records before 1951. But even two years later, a marriage that was to last until 1946, when she was awarded an OBE. How was initially largely improvised and only for which Phipps supplied the lyrics and which more rare and not for commercial issue are the recordings she made for a radio series around her death fifty years later. Their first home was Back home she was still able to fit in appear- later became scripted. Joyce sang, with assistance from Julian Orchard, 1947–48. The Noël Coward Programme, a set of thirteen half-hour shows produced by Harry Alan in a cottage on the Cliveden estate. ances in two more revues. The first, Diversion, Other radio series with which Joyce was and Keepsake, with Joyce’s lyrics. Towers (Towers of London), was offered for syndication around the world. It would appear that As a child, Joyce loved to sing with her which opened in October 1940 at Wyndham’s associated included Here’s Wishing You Well During the war, Joyce had performed in not many markets were interested, since the programmes didn't make easy provision for the guitar-playing mother, and to put on amateur Theatre, played in the afternoons, so that Again (1946), A Note With Music, which she several semi-documentary films promoting insertion of commercials and the material was pretty sophisticated, and the transcription discs are shows at home, but one term at the Royal audiences could be home before the air raid wrote and performed with George Benson and various aspects of the war effort. After the war, seldom found. The technical quality was mediocre even by standards of the time, since the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1927, while she was sirens sounded. A second edition of Diversion the George Melachrino Orchestra in 1947, and she was cast in small roles in four more pictures, individual songs were recorded on 78 RPM lacquers and dubbed into the final version, with still only seventeen, persuaded her that acting in played in 1941. Then in 1942 came Light and We Beg to Differ (1949), a panel show with four before earning the splendid role of Miss Gossage resultant wow and flutter. But they allowed for full-length versions of Coward's songs, and 25 of scripted plays had no appeal, because she found Shade, another Farjeon revue, after which Joyce women and two men discussing subjects which (‘Call me Sausage’) in The Happiest Days of Your them were by Joyce Grenfell. Five are in this collection. this field of endeavour ‘too restrictive’. Her first was off on her ENSA travels overseas. typified the ‘battle of the sexes’. Much later, in Life, where she co-starred with Alastair Sim. This professional income came from the publication It was in 1941 that Joyce had first met 1956, she participated in a radio show named made her much in demand for similar ‘gawky Original monochrome photo of Joyce Grenfell from the Tully Potter Collection 2 8.120860 3 8.120860 4 8.120860 120860bk Joyce:MASTER BOOK 3+3 NEW 6/10/07 2:58 PM Page 2
1. I’m Going To See You Today 2:16 7. Mad About The Boy 5:08 12. The Music’s Message 3:05 16. Folk Song (A Song Of The Weather) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) (Noël Coward) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 1:29 With Richard Addinsell, piano With Mantovani & His Orchestra; Orchestra conducted by William Blezard (Michael Flanders-Donald Swann) HMV B 9295, 0EA 9899-5 introduced by Noël Coward 13. Understanding Mother 3:10 With piano Recorded 17 September 1942 Noël Coward Programme #4, (Joyce Grenfell) 17. Shirley’s Girl Friend 4:46 Towers of London, 1947–48 2. There Is Nothing New To Tell You 3:29 14. Three Brothers 2:57 (Joyce Grenfell) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 8. Children Of The Ritz 3:59 (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 18. Hostess; Farewell 3:03 With Richard Addinsell, piano (Noël Coward) Orchestra conducted by William Blezard (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) HMV B 9295, 0EA 9900-1 With Mantovani & His Orchestra Orchestra conducted by William Blezard Recorded 3 September 1942 Noël Coward Programme #12, 15. Palais Dancers 3:13 Towers of London, 1947–48 (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) Tracks 12–18 from 3. Useful And Acceptable Gifts Orchestra conducted by William Blezard Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (An Institute Lecture Demonstration) 3:05 9. We Must All Be Very Kind To Auntie Philips BBL 7004; recorded 1954 From The Little Revue Jessie 3:28 (Joyce Grenfell) (Noël Coward) All selections recorded in London • Tracks 5–9 previously unissued commercially HMV B 8930, 0EA 7852-1 With Mantovani & His Orchestra Transfers and Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration:Alan Bunting Recorded 11 May 1939 (3:04) Noël Coward Programme #13, Original records from the collections of David Lennick and CBC Radio, Toronto 4. Du Maurier 3:12 Towers of London, 1947–48 Joyce Grenfell also sings Narcissus (The Laughing Song) and I Don’t ’Arf Love You with From Sigh No More 10. Keepsake 3:12 Norman Wisdom on Naxos Nostalgia 8.120858 (see below) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) From Penny Plain With Mantovani & His Orchestra (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) Also available from Naxos Nostalgia … Decca F 8561, DR 9676-2 With Philip Green & His Orchestra Recorded 20 September 1945 Columbia DB 2918, CA 21830-2 5. The End Of The News 4:15 Recorded 27 July 1951 From Sigh No More 11. Maud (A Moment With Tennyson) 3:20 (Noël Coward) From Penny Plain With Mantovani & His Orchestra (Nicholas Phipps–Richard Addinsell) Noël Coward Programme #1, Assisted by Julian Orchard, with Towers of London, 1947–48 Philip Green & His Orchestra 6. I’m The Wife Of An Acrobat 3:53 Columbia DB 2918, CA 21831-1 C (Noël Coward) Recorded 27 July 1951 With Mantovani & His Orchestra M Noël Coward Programme #9, 8.120721 8.120837 8.120858 Towers of London, 1947–48 These titles are not for retail sale in the USA Y
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1. I’m Going To See You Today 2:16 7. Mad About The Boy 5:08 12. The Music’s Message 3:05 16. Folk Song (A Song Of The Weather) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) (Noël Coward) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 1:29 With Richard Addinsell, piano With Mantovani & His Orchestra; Orchestra conducted by William Blezard (Michael Flanders-Donald Swann) HMV B 9295, 0EA 9899-5 introduced by Noël Coward 13. Understanding Mother 3:10 With piano Recorded 17 September 1942 Noël Coward Programme #4, (Joyce Grenfell) 17. Shirley’s Girl Friend 4:46 Towers of London, 1947–48 2. There Is Nothing New To Tell You 3:29 14. Three Brothers 2:57 (Joyce Grenfell) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 8. Children Of The Ritz 3:59 (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) 18. Hostess; Farewell 3:03 With Richard Addinsell, piano (Noël Coward) Orchestra conducted by William Blezard (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) HMV B 9295, 0EA 9900-1 With Mantovani & His Orchestra Orchestra conducted by William Blezard Recorded 3 September 1942 Noël Coward Programme #12, 15. Palais Dancers 3:13 Towers of London, 1947–48 (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) Tracks 12–18 from 3. Useful And Acceptable Gifts Orchestra conducted by William Blezard Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (An Institute Lecture Demonstration) 3:05 9. We Must All Be Very Kind To Auntie Philips BBL 7004; recorded 1954 From The Little Revue Jessie 3:28 (Joyce Grenfell) (Noël Coward) All selections recorded in London • Tracks 5–9 previously unissued commercially HMV B 8930, 0EA 7852-1 With Mantovani & His Orchestra Transfers and Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration:Alan Bunting Recorded 11 May 1939 (3:04) Noël Coward Programme #13, Original records from the collections of David Lennick and CBC Radio, Toronto 4. Du Maurier 3:12 Towers of London, 1947–48 Joyce Grenfell also sings Narcissus (The Laughing Song) and I Don’t ’Arf Love You with From Sigh No More 10. Keepsake 3:12 Norman Wisdom on Naxos Nostalgia 8.120858 (see below) (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) From Penny Plain With Mantovani & His Orchestra (Joyce Grenfell–Richard Addinsell) Also available from Naxos Nostalgia … Decca F 8561, DR 9676-2 With Philip Green & His Orchestra Recorded 20 September 1945 Columbia DB 2918, CA 21830-2 5. The End Of The News 4:15 Recorded 27 July 1951 From Sigh No More 11. Maud (A Moment With Tennyson) 3:20 (Noël Coward) From Penny Plain With Mantovani & His Orchestra (Nicholas Phipps–Richard Addinsell) Noël Coward Programme #1, Assisted by Julian Orchard, with Towers of London, 1947–48 Philip Green & His Orchestra 6. I’m The Wife Of An Acrobat 3:53 Columbia DB 2918, CA 21831-1 C (Noël Coward) Recorded 27 July 1951 With Mantovani & His Orchestra M Noël Coward Programme #9, 8.120721 8.120837 8.120858 Towers of London, 1947–48 These titles are not for retail sale in the USA Y
5 8.120860 6 8.120860 K JOYCE GRENFELL Requests the Pleasure 8.120860 o o aei h ntdSae MadeintheEU Not for SaleintheUnitedStates ൿ www. NOTES ANDFULLRECORDING DETAILS INCLUDED Transfers &Production: DavidLennick •DigitalRestoration: Alan Bunting 1939–1954 Original Recordings Hostess;Farewell 18. Shirley’sGirlFriend 17. FolkSong(AOfTheWeather) 16. PalaisDancers 15. Brothers Three 14. UnderstandingMother 13. TheMusic’sMessage 12. Maud(AMomentWith Tennyson) 11. Keepsake 10. .We MustAllBeVery KindTo AuntieJessie 9. OfTheRitz Children 8. MadAboutTheBoy 7. I’mTheWife OfAnAcrobat 6. TheEndOfNews 5. DuMaurier 4. UsefulAndAcceptableGifts 3. IsNothingNewTo There Tell You 2. I’mGoingTo SeeYou Today 1. Joyce Grenfell & Ꭿ Total Time:61:54 07NxsRgt nentoa t.Design: RonHoares Ltd. 2007 NaxosRightsInternational naxos.com 3:12 3:12 3:13 2:57 3:03 5:08 4:46 3:05 3:59 4:15 3:10 3:05 3:53 2:16 8.120860 3:29 3:20 1:29 ADD 3:28 R qet the equests P
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