Sing-Along-A-John

m.facebook.com/groups/4600044… #BOTD Pat Dailey 17 January 1934, surviving member of much-loved double act DAILEY & WAYNE. Pascal O'Brien left Dublin by boat, before his 13th. birthday, arriving in England in 1946. Within 5 years, he was touring theatres, impersonating Al Jolson.

Delighted the film I made of #PaulOGrady in 2021, unveiling a Blue Plaque to honour #FredBarnes - the biggest star of @musichallsoc you've never heard of - is finally available to watch here youtu.be/cddpkZl3iWA?si… via @YouTube

@ChrisdeB @musichallsoc Monday, @ChrisdeB & I've tweeted today with the link.

Now on #GeneralRelease, the film l made for @musichallsoc, of the #BluePlaque unveiled 18 October 2021, by #PaulOGrady - to recognise the "wavy-haired, blue-eyed adonis" who lived in #MaidaVale 100 years ago viz. #FredBarnes youtube.com/watch?v=cddpkZ…

#DOTD 1 year ago, on 25 January 2022, #WynCalvin who - during his 96 years - clocked up 76 years in Show Business! Here's a film I produced of a Celebratory Lunch hosted by @musichallsoc starring #PaulOGrady, #DuggieBrown & #SirIanMcKellen youtu.be/ZavggAcZKGA via @YouTube

youtu.be/QkiNnBWtGlY Thanks to @BBCNWT's legendary Chief Reporter, #DaveGuest, this 3-minute film about #TheGoldenGarter (Manchester's sister club to London's @TalkOfTheTown) made it, last week, into the lunchtime news! What a way to start this New Year!

#BOTD 100 years ago, comic soprano JOAN TURNER - whom I first saw in a 1966 #MidnightMatinee at the Granada Cinema, Harrow. A year later, I was at the @salfordvictoria for the first performance of her one-woman show. In 1970, she danced to my piano-playing with #ShepsBanjoBoys

#OTD 50 YEARS AGO, the highlight of my career in #ShowBusiness, with #ShepsBanjoBoys in a 6-month run (April, May, June, July, August & September) at the @LondonPalladium, in the stage version of #JohnnieHamp's 'THE COMEDIANS'. #Trailer #TheComedians50AnniversaryPartTwo #Fall2022

In the company of @andyholl and @whatifbutthen - who shot this, downstage of the #JohnBratby original - I had a wonderful catch-up and #VideoShoot with, former Head of Light Entertainment at #GranadaTelevision AKA @GranadaReports, the now 90-years' young #legendary #JohnnieHamp.

🔴 Even though I'm thousands of miles away from @coachnhorsesw1, it was like I'd walked into 29 Greek Street, Soho, last night and @mister_meredith, @baz_dave, @LiliDavies, @tomcarradine, @KateGarnerMusic or @michaelroulston had got the crowd belting out this #singalong standard.

#OTD 50 years ago, w/c 14 February 1972, I was pianist with resident support cabaret act - #ShepsBanjoBoys - who warmed up the 1,400-strong audience for all 6 performances in the week when he made his DEBUT at the #GoldenGarter, the incomparable #KenDodd. youtu.be/0aXDEs1K64M

🔴 Thrilled @musichallsoc have uploaded their latest film, starring @ventriloquist29, @barrycryer80 & #RoyHudd paying tribute to the incomparable #KenDodd. Filmed October 2017, you can watch it now via @YouTube, by clicking link below 👇👇👇👇👇 youtu.be/0aXDEs1K64M 👆👆👆👆👆

Delighted this @musichallsoc film is now trending via @YouTube with a timely bonus @ 2'20" when #RoyHudd & @barrycryer80 serenade #KenDodd with their self-penned parody of 'My Heart Belongs To Daddy', reworked by Cryer/Hudd as 'My Heart Belongs To Doddy'. youtu.be/0aXDEs1K64M

Happy 60th. birthday TODAY to my dear friend @DavidBensonSays! Known best for his non-singing one-man shows about @KENNETHWILLlAMS & @frankiehowerd and, most recently, @DadsArmyRadio, with @RealJackLane - here's the boy himself, giving his Al Jolson! 👇 youtu.be/u7AHgXOCKyQ 👆

@musichallsoc Born 10 years before the #WavyHairedBlueEyedAdonis, whose career he rescued with this #PackageShow, #LewLake gave #FredBarnes second top billing at a time when Barnes had been forced to vacate the 5-storey mansion where #PaulOGrady unveiled a @musichallsoc #BluePlaque last year.

Lew Lake born #OTD 10 January 1875, Shoreditch. Started out in #MusicHall, formed double-act with Bob Morris, developed Bloomsbury Burglars sketch. Successful writer & producer of revues, managed Collins Music Hall, Islington in later life. 'Stick It, Jerry!' 'Splinters'.

So excited that my friend @andyholl is bringing his talk about @TichLittle to the @musichallsoc event in London on Thursday 17 February. I know it'll be really special. I've booked my ticket. I can't wait.

@alex_tranter How exciting, @alex_tranter!

UPCOMING ROMEO DATES

To @HarlequinTheat, to see @SiBashDame give his #WidowTwankey, only for Facebook to alert me that #OTD, 1 year ago, I uploaded my most complex video edit thus far. At the time of posting this, it had 998 views. 👇👇👇👇👇 twitter.com/singalongajohn… ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

@YoungAlison4 @citizenstheatre @musichallsoc I think this is just delightful, @YoungAlison4. Fancy your great-grandparents treading the boards!

On #pantoday and #yearoflove here's my great grandparents, Larry & Violet, who married in Glasgow in January 1906 during the run of 'Simple Simon' at the Royal Princesses (now @citizenstheatre).

🎄Time to recycle the lovely @LondonPalladium pantomime story, remembered by @mrparrotface about confusion between #LambertAndRoss and #BartlettAndRoss, as prompted by @AlanKelloggs this time, last year.🎄 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… ☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝