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12. You Were Meant For Me 2:13 17. Boy Meets Girl 2:46 NORMAN WISDOM Don’t Laugh at Me (Arthur Freed–Nacio Herb Brown) (Roberts–Hennesy) Original 1951–1955 Recordings With Wally Stott’s Orchestra With Ruby Murray and Norrie Paramor’s Philips PB 372 Orchestra Norman Wisdom, the comedian who became happened to catch one of these ‘performances’, Recorded late 1954 Columbia DB 3715, mx CA 23430-9A the J. Arthur Rank organization’s top box office and enlisted Private Wisdom’s services in the 13. So Nice To Dream 2:56 Recorded 6 December 1955 attraction in the early 1950s, and the singer regimental concert party – and he also played (Park–Wilkinson) 18. Impossible 2:15 who sold thousands and thousands of records saxophone with the dance band. With Wally Stott’s Orchestra (Julien) over several decades, didn’t even become a Norman left the army in 1939, but with the Philips PB 299 With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra show business professional until he was 31. outbreak of war in September he was soon Recorded late 1954 Columbia DB 3700, mx CA 23406-8A Yet within six years he was able to buy himself back in uniform, this time in the Royal Corps of Recorded 14 November 1955 a brand new Rolls Royce, and in 2002 he was Signals. Many of his wartime messages, 14. Please Opportunity 3:44 dubbed Sir Norman Wisdom by Her Majesty the however, were musical and comedy ones, as he (Norman Wisdom) 19. Two Rivers 2:50 Queen. spent much of his time entertaining the troops From the film One Good Turn (Martin–Roberts–Norrie Paramor) Norman Wisdom was born in London on and refining the clowning talents that were to With Wally Stott’s Orchestra With Ruby Murray and Norrie Paramor’s 4 February 1915. By the time he was nine, his carry him to starry heights in the years ahead. Philips PB 372 Orchestra parents had split up, and after spending some It was reported that his billing for these Recorded late 1954 Columbia DB 3715, mx CA 23429-9A years in care, he went to sea at the age of concerts was as ‘Dizzy Wizzy’! 15. Take A Step In The Right Direction Recorded 6 December 1955 fourteen for a short spell as a cabin boy. A year On demobilization in 1946, Norman audi- 2:02 20. I Don’t ’Arf Love You 2:35 later he joined the army as a band boy with the tioned for the famed Windmill Theatre, and (Norman Newell) (K. Mortimer) Royal Hussars; with his regiment, he spent was turned down, but his persistence finally From the film One Good Turn Norman Wisdom & Joyce Grenfell with some time in India, and learned to play six earned him a spot on the bill at Collins’ Music With Wally Stott’s Orchestra Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra instruments – piano, saxophone, clarinet, Hall in Islington. His act combined his musical Philips PB 381 Columbia DB 3161, mx CA 22293-2B trumpet, drums and xylophone. He also honed skills with his natural flair for physical comedy, Recorded late 1954 Recorded 27 August 1952 the boxing skills he’d learned earlier, and and for the next two years he managed to keep 16. I’ll Always Love You 2:19 eventually became flyweight champion for his working, first in pantomime in Brighton and (Norman Wisdom–de Rance) Transfers & Production: David Lennick regiment. then in a revue, Let’s Make Hay, at the Metro- With Wally Stott’s Orchestra Digital restoration: by Alan Bunting Improbably, those pugilistic skills were to politan Theatre in London. His shtick included Philips PB 381 Thanks to David Ades have a direct effect on his future career in wearing a very crumpled suit, and a cap worn Recorded late 1954 entertainment. For relaxation from his army sideways with the peak turned up, and he chores, Norman would practise shadow-boxing named this character The Gump. in the gym, and his innate sense of humour His first film, made in 1948, was A Date prompted him to add pratfalls, grimaces and all with a Dream, where he played a member of a kinds of clowning around. One of his officers wartime concert party. His big break came Original monochrome photo of Norman Wisdom from Mary Evans Picture Library

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1. I’d Like To Put On Record (That I 6. Narcissus (The Laughing Song) 2:55 later in 1948 when David Nixon, a fellow Wisdom box office hits for Rank, and won a Love You, Love You, Love You) 2:07 (Ethelbert Nevin, arr. Norrie Paramor & variety performer with a conjuring act, asked British Film Institute Award. From the film Trouble In Store Joyce Grenfell) Norman to be his assistant for a few tricks. Norman recorded two songs from Trouble (David Arkell–Mischa Spoliansky) Joyce Grenfell & Norman Wisdom, with For this work, Norman wore his Gump suit, in Store. The first, recorded in 1952, and With Wally Stott’s Orchestra & Chorus Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra and the act – and the suit – worked so well that which became forever associated with him, Philips PB 223, mx AA 26095 1H Columbia DB 3161, mx CA 22294-2B he and Nixon were hired for a 1949 summer was Don’t Laugh At Me, which he wrote with Recorded early 1954 Recorded 27 August 1952 show, Buttons and Bows, in Blackpool. June Tremayne. It was backed with Once In 2. London Melody 2:36 7. The Heart Of A Clown 3:08 There followed his West End debut in a Love With Amy, a song from the Broadway hit (Robert Farnon–Patricia Nash) (Steve Nelson–Jack Rollins–Francis Kane) revue, Sauce Piquante, at the Cambridge Where’s Charley, which Norman had seen on a With The Eight Stars & Bob Farnon’s With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra Theatre in 1950, and another pantomime, recent visit to New York. Some years later, Orchestra Columbia DB 3084, mx CA 22174-1A Cinderella, in Birmingham that Christmas. It Norman played the lead when the show came Decca F 9738, mx DR 16219-1 Recorded April 1952 was his next show that triggered Norman’s first to London. Don’t Laugh At Me had a slow Recorded 22 June 1951 recording; in March 1951 he went into London sales start, but as Norman’s popularity grew, 8. My Little Dog (Where’s He Gone) 4:02 Melody, one of several Ice Shows being prod- the record sales built, and hit its peak in April 3. Once In Love With Amy 3:04 (Norman Wisdom–June Tremayne) uced in the early Fifties by Claude Langdon at 1954 when the disc got as high as third on the From Where’s Charley With Wally Stott’s Orchestra London’s Empress Hall, Earls Court. For the sales charts. (Frank Loesser) Philips PB 223 show, Norman wrote himself a song, Beware, The second Trouble in Store song was With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra & Chorus Recorded early 1954 which became his first recording for Decca, Norman’s first recording for Philips, in Columbia DB-3133, mx CA 22266-1A 9. Young At Heart 2:44 backed with the title song, London Melody, February 1954. The Dutch company had just Recorded 16 July 1952 (Carolyn Leigh–Johnny Richards) which, along with the rest of the score, had acquired the U.S. Columbia record catalogue, 4. Beware 3:00 With Wally Stott’s Orchestra been written by Robert Farnon and Patricia and had hired EMI A & R man Norman Newell (Norman Wisdom) Philips PB 259 Nash. He later re-recorded Beware, backed to build a British pop component. Norman With Bob Farnon’s Orchestra Recorded March 1954 with The Heart of a Clown, for Columbia, Wisdom was one of the first artists lured to the Decca F 9738, mx DR16218-1 10. Just To Be With You 2:49 who had signed him early in 1952. new UK label, and the Trouble in Store song Recorded 22 June 1951 (Spencer–Nelson) Norman had become much in demand for I’d Like To Put On Record was the first of 5. Don’t Laugh at Me 3:29 With Wally Stott’s Orchestra appearances on radio and television, which many recordings for the label. Yet it was the From the film Trouble In Store Philips PB 259 further enhanced his national popularity, but it second side, My Little Dog (Where’s He (Norman Wisdom–June Tremayne) Recorded March 1954 was while he was starring in 1951 in Paris To Gone) that got the most attention. With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra Piccadilly, a revue at the Prince of Wales Norman had written the song to give 11. They Didn’t Believe Me 2:50 Theatre in London’s Coventry Street, that the himself a chance to take full advantage of the Columbia DB 3133, mx CA 22267-1A (Michael E. Rourke–Jerome Kern) Recorded 16 July 1952 powers that be at the J. Arthur Rank organiza- ‘pathetic little chap’ image that he had With Wally Stott’s Orchestra tion decided to give him a leading role in his developed, and it became a regular request Philips PB 299 first major film feature, Trouble in Store. This favourite on BBC radio programmes. (As Recorded mid-1954 was to be the first of a series of Norman publicist for Philips Records at the time, the

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present writer helped to milk this image by Party at Windsor Castle, and had starred twice Some Notes on the Music Directors on these Recordings borrowing the scruffiest available mongrel in shows at the London Palladium. The second from Battersea Dogs’ Home, and giving the of these, Painting the Town, co-starred When Philips got into the record business in and later becoming famous for his many light Daily Mirror an exclusive photo shoot of Ireland’s singing sensation, Ruby Murray, and January 1954, one of the two staff arranger/ music compositions, like “Portrait of a Flirt”, Norman with His Little Dog). Columbia heralded his return to their label conductors hired by Norman Newell was “Jumping Bean” and “Journey Into Melody”. In 1952, before leaving EMI for Philips, with several recordings, including two duets Wally Stott (the other was Geoff Love, known Bob arranged and conducted Norman’s London Norman had been teamed with comedienne with Ruby Murray, Boy Meets Girl and Two to many only as a jazz trombonist, but an Melody and Beware for Decca. (The thriving Joyce Grenfell for a duet on Narcissus, an Rivers, and Impossible, a little-known song accomplished arranger who gained later fame Robert Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk) is ingenious combination of nineteenth century that deserved a wider hearing the first time with his recordings as Manuel and his Music of an excellent source of information on the American composer Ethelbert Nevin’s familiar around, and finally gets its chance here. the Mountains). Wally, who had played Farnon body of work). tune and Grenfell and Wisdom’s gentle While Norman Wisdom’s recording career saxophone and done many arrangements for When Norman Newell left Columbia to start dialogue and occasional la-la-la moments of tailed off in the Sixties, he continued to make Geraldo for several years before leaving to go the Philips Popular Music division, experienced song. This too developed an enduring stage appearances as well as a series of modest freelance, arranged and conducted all the orchestra leaders Norrie Paramor and Ray popularity with British radio listeners. It was but very successful films. In 1966 he went to Philips tracks in this CD set. Martin took over the Columbia A & R reins, backed with a novelty tune, I Don’t ’Arf Love the U.S. where he starred on Broadway in Bob Farnon first made his mark with British and between them handled many of the cond- You, which again had Norman duetting with Walking Happy, a Sammy Cahn–Jule Styne audiences as Captain Robert Farnon, leader of ucting chores for the label, including sharing the irrepressible comedienne. musical based on Hobson’s Choice, appeared the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary the accompaniments to the Norman Wisdom Norman’s 1954 Rank film One Good Turn with Noel Coward in a TV musical adaptation Forces which came to London in the summer recordings made between 1955 and 1964. spawned two more song recordings, Please of Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, and made of 1944. Bob stayed on in London after the war, Opportunity (backed with the standard You one film, The Night They Raided Minsky’s conducting the Geraldo Orchestra for a time Pip Wedge Were Meant For Me) and Take A Step In (retitled The Night They Invented Striptease The Right Direction, which had another for UK release). Wisdom composition, I’ll Always Love You, He continued his acting career well into his on the reverse. Other tracks to come out of eighties, including appearances on Coronation Norman’s comparatively brief association with Street and in the BBC TV series Last of the Philips were Young At Heart, Just To Be Summer Wine. With You, They Didn’t Believe Me and So Nice To Dream. Pip Wedge By 1955, Norman Wisdom had been invited Former Assistant Editor, NME, TV Exec (UK to appear in two Royal Variety Shows, had and Canada); current Canadian Rep, Robert entertained the Royal Family at their Christmas Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk)

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present writer helped to milk this image by Party at Windsor Castle, and had starred twice Some Notes on the Music Directors on these Recordings borrowing the scruffiest available mongrel in shows at the London Palladium. The second from Battersea Dogs’ Home, and giving the of these, Painting the Town, co-starred When Philips got into the record business in and later becoming famous for his many light Daily Mirror an exclusive photo shoot of Ireland’s singing sensation, Ruby Murray, and January 1954, one of the two staff arranger/ music compositions, like “Portrait of a Flirt”, Norman with His Little Dog). Columbia heralded his return to their label conductors hired by Norman Newell was “Jumping Bean” and “Journey Into Melody”. In 1952, before leaving EMI for Philips, with several recordings, including two duets Wally Stott (the other was Geoff Love, known Bob arranged and conducted Norman’s London Norman had been teamed with comedienne with Ruby Murray, Boy Meets Girl and Two to many only as a jazz trombonist, but an Melody and Beware for Decca. (The thriving Joyce Grenfell for a duet on Narcissus, an Rivers, and Impossible, a little-known song accomplished arranger who gained later fame Robert Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk) is ingenious combination of nineteenth century that deserved a wider hearing the first time with his recordings as Manuel and his Music of an excellent source of information on the American composer Ethelbert Nevin’s familiar around, and finally gets its chance here. the Mountains). Wally, who had played Farnon body of work). tune and Grenfell and Wisdom’s gentle While Norman Wisdom’s recording career saxophone and done many arrangements for When Norman Newell left Columbia to start dialogue and occasional la-la-la moments of tailed off in the Sixties, he continued to make Geraldo for several years before leaving to go the Philips Popular Music division, experienced song. This too developed an enduring stage appearances as well as a series of modest freelance, arranged and conducted all the orchestra leaders Norrie Paramor and Ray popularity with British radio listeners. It was but very successful films. In 1966 he went to Philips tracks in this CD set. Martin took over the Columbia A & R reins, backed with a novelty tune, I Don’t ’Arf Love the U.S. where he starred on Broadway in Bob Farnon first made his mark with British and between them handled many of the cond- You, which again had Norman duetting with Walking Happy, a Sammy Cahn–Jule Styne audiences as Captain Robert Farnon, leader of ucting chores for the label, including sharing the irrepressible comedienne. musical based on Hobson’s Choice, appeared the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary the accompaniments to the Norman Wisdom Norman’s 1954 Rank film One Good Turn with Noel Coward in a TV musical adaptation Forces which came to London in the summer recordings made between 1955 and 1964. spawned two more song recordings, Please of Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, and made of 1944. Bob stayed on in London after the war, Opportunity (backed with the standard You one film, The Night They Raided Minsky’s conducting the Geraldo Orchestra for a time Pip Wedge Were Meant For Me) and Take A Step In (retitled The Night They Invented Striptease The Right Direction, which had another for UK release). Wisdom composition, I’ll Always Love You, He continued his acting career well into his on the reverse. Other tracks to come out of eighties, including appearances on Coronation Norman’s comparatively brief association with Street and in the BBC TV series Last of the Philips were Young At Heart, Just To Be Summer Wine. With You, They Didn’t Believe Me and So Nice To Dream. Pip Wedge By 1955, Norman Wisdom had been invited Former Assistant Editor, NME, TV Exec (UK to appear in two Royal Variety Shows, had and Canada); current Canadian Rep, Robert entertained the Royal Family at their Christmas Farnon Society (www.rfsoc.org.uk)

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1. I’d Like To Put On Record (That I 6. Narcissus (The Laughing Song) 2:55 later in 1948 when David Nixon, a fellow Wisdom box office hits for Rank, and won a Love You, Love You, Love You) 2:07 (Ethelbert Nevin, arr. Norrie Paramor & variety performer with a conjuring act, asked British Film Institute Award. From the film Trouble In Store Joyce Grenfell) Norman to be his assistant for a few tricks. Norman recorded two songs from Trouble (David Arkell–Mischa Spoliansky) Joyce Grenfell & Norman Wisdom, with For this work, Norman wore his Gump suit, in Store. The first, recorded in 1952, and With Wally Stott’s Orchestra & Chorus Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra and the act – and the suit – worked so well that which became forever associated with him, Philips PB 223, mx AA 26095 1H Columbia DB 3161, mx CA 22294-2B he and Nixon were hired for a 1949 summer was Don’t Laugh At Me, which he wrote with Recorded early 1954 Recorded 27 August 1952 show, Buttons and Bows, in Blackpool. June Tremayne. It was backed with Once In 2. London Melody 2:36 7. The Heart Of A Clown 3:08 There followed his West End debut in a Love With Amy, a song from the Broadway hit (Robert Farnon–Patricia Nash) (Steve Nelson–Jack Rollins–Francis Kane) revue, Sauce Piquante, at the Cambridge Where’s Charley, which Norman had seen on a With The Eight Stars & Bob Farnon’s With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra Theatre in 1950, and another pantomime, recent visit to New York. Some years later, Orchestra Columbia DB 3084, mx CA 22174-1A Cinderella, in Birmingham that Christmas. It Norman played the lead when the show came Decca F 9738, mx DR 16219-1 Recorded April 1952 was his next show that triggered Norman’s first to London. Don’t Laugh At Me had a slow Recorded 22 June 1951 recording; in March 1951 he went into London sales start, but as Norman’s popularity grew, 8. My Little Dog (Where’s He Gone) 4:02 Melody, one of several Ice Shows being prod- the record sales built, and hit its peak in April 3. Once In Love With Amy 3:04 (Norman Wisdom–June Tremayne) uced in the early Fifties by Claude Langdon at 1954 when the disc got as high as third on the From Where’s Charley With Wally Stott’s Orchestra London’s Empress Hall, Earls Court. For the sales charts. (Frank Loesser) Philips PB 223 show, Norman wrote himself a song, Beware, The second Trouble in Store song was With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra & Chorus Recorded early 1954 which became his first recording for Decca, Norman’s first recording for Philips, in Columbia DB-3133, mx CA 22266-1A 9. Young At Heart 2:44 backed with the title song, London Melody, February 1954. The Dutch company had just Recorded 16 July 1952 (Carolyn Leigh–Johnny Richards) which, along with the rest of the score, had acquired the U.S. Columbia record catalogue, 4. Beware 3:00 With Wally Stott’s Orchestra been written by Robert Farnon and Patricia and had hired EMI A & R man Norman Newell (Norman Wisdom) Philips PB 259 Nash. He later re-recorded Beware, backed to build a British pop component. Norman With Bob Farnon’s Orchestra Recorded March 1954 with The Heart of a Clown, for Columbia, Wisdom was one of the first artists lured to the Decca F 9738, mx DR16218-1 10. Just To Be With You 2:49 who had signed him early in 1952. new UK label, and the Trouble in Store song Recorded 22 June 1951 (Spencer–Nelson) Norman had become much in demand for I’d Like To Put On Record was the first of 5. Don’t Laugh at Me 3:29 With Wally Stott’s Orchestra appearances on radio and television, which many recordings for the label. Yet it was the From the film Trouble In Store Philips PB 259 further enhanced his national popularity, but it second side, My Little Dog (Where’s He (Norman Wisdom–June Tremayne) Recorded March 1954 was while he was starring in 1951 in Paris To Gone) that got the most attention. With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra Piccadilly, a revue at the Prince of Wales Norman had written the song to give 11. They Didn’t Believe Me 2:50 Theatre in London’s Coventry Street, that the himself a chance to take full advantage of the Columbia DB 3133, mx CA 22267-1A (Michael E. Rourke–Jerome Kern) Recorded 16 July 1952 powers that be at the J. Arthur Rank organiza- ‘pathetic little chap’ image that he had With Wally Stott’s Orchestra tion decided to give him a leading role in his developed, and it became a regular request Philips PB 299 first major film feature, Trouble in Store. This favourite on BBC radio programmes. (As Recorded mid-1954 was to be the first of a series of Norman publicist for Philips Records at the time, the

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12. You Were Meant For Me 2:13 17. Boy Meets Girl 2:46 NORMAN WISDOM Don’t Laugh at Me (Arthur Freed–Nacio Herb Brown) (Roberts–Hennesy) Original 1951–1955 Recordings With Wally Stott’s Orchestra With Ruby Murray and Norrie Paramor’s Philips PB 372 Orchestra Norman Wisdom, the comedian who became happened to catch one of these ‘performances’, Recorded late 1954 Columbia DB 3715, mx CA 23430-9A the J. Arthur Rank organization’s top box office and enlisted Private Wisdom’s services in the 13. So Nice To Dream 2:56 Recorded 6 December 1955 attraction in the early 1950s, and the singer regimental concert party – and he also played (Park–Wilkinson) 18. Impossible 2:15 who sold thousands and thousands of records saxophone with the dance band. With Wally Stott’s Orchestra (Julien) over several decades, didn’t even become a Norman left the army in 1939, but with the Philips PB 299 With Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra show business professional until he was 31. outbreak of war in September he was soon Recorded late 1954 Columbia DB 3700, mx CA 23406-8A Yet within six years he was able to buy himself back in uniform, this time in the Royal Corps of Recorded 14 November 1955 a brand new Rolls Royce, and in 2002 he was Signals. Many of his wartime messages, 14. Please Opportunity 3:44 dubbed Sir Norman Wisdom by Her Majesty the however, were musical and comedy ones, as he (Norman Wisdom) 19. Two Rivers 2:50 Queen. spent much of his time entertaining the troops From the film One Good Turn (Martin–Roberts–Norrie Paramor) Norman Wisdom was born in London on and refining the clowning talents that were to With Wally Stott’s Orchestra With Ruby Murray and Norrie Paramor’s 4 February 1915. By the time he was nine, his carry him to starry heights in the years ahead. Philips PB 372 Orchestra parents had split up, and after spending some It was reported that his billing for these Recorded late 1954 Columbia DB 3715, mx CA 23429-9A years in care, he went to sea at the age of concerts was as ‘Dizzy Wizzy’! 15. Take A Step In The Right Direction Recorded 6 December 1955 fourteen for a short spell as a cabin boy. A year On demobilization in 1946, Norman audi- 2:02 20. I Don’t ’Arf Love You 2:35 later he joined the army as a band boy with the tioned for the famed Windmill Theatre, and (Norman Newell) (K. Mortimer) Royal Hussars; with his regiment, he spent was turned down, but his persistence finally From the film One Good Turn Norman Wisdom & Joyce Grenfell with some time in India, and learned to play six earned him a spot on the bill at Collins’ Music With Wally Stott’s Orchestra Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra instruments – piano, saxophone, clarinet, Hall in Islington. His act combined his musical Philips PB 381 Columbia DB 3161, mx CA 22293-2B trumpet, drums and xylophone. He also honed skills with his natural flair for physical comedy, Recorded late 1954 Recorded 27 August 1952 the boxing skills he’d learned earlier, and and for the next two years he managed to keep 16. I’ll Always Love You 2:19 eventually became flyweight champion for his working, first in pantomime in Brighton and (Norman Wisdom–de Rance) Transfers & Production: David Lennick regiment. then in a revue, Let’s Make Hay, at the Metro- With Wally Stott’s Orchestra Digital restoration: by Alan Bunting Improbably, those pugilistic skills were to politan Theatre in London. His shtick included Philips PB 381 Thanks to David Ades have a direct effect on his future career in wearing a very crumpled suit, and a cap worn Recorded late 1954 entertainment. For relaxation from his army sideways with the peak turned up, and he chores, Norman would practise shadow-boxing named this character The Gump. in the gym, and his innate sense of humour His first film, made in 1948, was A Date prompted him to add pratfalls, grimaces and all with a Dream, where he played a member of a kinds of clowning around. One of his officers wartime concert party. His big break came Original monochrome photo of Norman Wisdom from Mary Evans Picture Library

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