For your entertainment and edification, ladies and gentlemen, an eclectic, not to say incongruous, company of artistes, under the benign chairmanship of Mr Les B Fair, presents the story of the British Music Hall, from its origins in street song and raucous carouse to its final flowering in the mid-twentieth century.
The quality of this recording isn’t up to Hosiprog’s usual standards, for which I apologise. Dennis Rookard made it in 1978, nearly twenty years before Hosiprog began.
For the occasion, the performers all adopted pseudonyms, three of them parodying the names of real Victorian artistes - W B Fair, Geordie Ridley, and W G Ross.
The chairman is actually John M Garrett, whose book “Sixty Years of British Music Hall” is one of the most important on the subject. All of us were active in the mid-Essex folk clubs in the 1970s and '80s.
Happy days!
Roger Johnson (“The Original Coster Brava”)
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