"The Life and Times of the British Music Hall"

[Magersfontein]

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 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") https://timespast.ning.com/group/hosiprog/forum/topics/the-life-times-of-the-british