Desmond Carrington-New Series

[Sandra]

Yes,Matt Monro AND Frank Sinatra in one show must be good!


Cassette retrieved,played and enjoyed thankyou Lena and Harry(Always knew letter openers had more than one use)

[Lena & Harry Smith]

We enjoyed Desmonds final Friday night programme with Vera Lynn's interview from Four years ago, when she talked of first singing on the stage at the age of Seven
Desmond played some of her recordings during the interview
She was just Eighteen when she travelled to Egypt, India and to Burma in WW2 and living in tents.
Her concerts varied in numbers and often she would sing and entertain to up to 6000 servicemen and women, and sometmes to One or Two wounded soldiers confined in a tent with just her pianist to accompany her and a songsheet.
She sang with Ambrose, Charlie Kunz, Billy Cotton.
Her big hit Auf Wiedersehen was popular in the USA, and she enjoyed her recording in Nashville.
She said that her last public appearance at Buckingham Palace to celebrate 50 years of the ending of the WW2 couldn't have been a finer time when she sang those memorable wartime songs with thousands of people joining in.
We'd go along with that.

Glad you managed to get your mum's cassette out for her Sandra.