File B106 - C.G.E. radio : overseas transcriptions

1 audio reel (1 hr., 1 min., 38 sec. ; 1 hr., 10 sec.)

File consists of recordings friom C.G.E. radio broadcasts, featuring the Leslie Bell Singers, conducted by Leslie Bell with orchestra, conducted by Howard Cable and soloist Joy Sullivan. Songs include:

• [Medley] including Joyous New Year ; the Wassail song ; Auld Land Syne
• If I were a bell
• Pioneer scene medley (including Long, long ago ; Sigh no more, ladies ; Whispering hope ; Ol' Dan Tucker ; Home sweet home)
• Tina
• Pale moon
• Excerpts from Carmen (includes Gypsy song ; Toreador song)
• Spring in my heart
• The Skye boat song (with male soloist)
• That's amore (with male soloist)
• Christopher Robin medley (including Halfway down ; Hoppity ; They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace ; Brownie ; Vespers)
• Papa won't you dance with me
• So in love (with male soloist)
• Wizard of Oz : a musical fairy tale (including Somewhere over the rainbow ; Follow the yellow brick road ; If I only had a brain ; If I only had a heart ; If I were King of the forest ; We're off to see the wizard ; Ding dong the wicked witch is dead ; The merry land old land of Oz)
• Couldn't hear nobody pray
• [Nursery rhyme medley] (Girls and boys come out to play ; Pop goes the weasel ; Sing a song of sixpence ; Twinkle twinkle little star ; Oh dear what can the matter be ; Go in and out the window ; London Bridge is falling down ; Mother, Mary, may I go out to play ; Lazy Mary ; Farmer in the Dell ; Three blind mice)
• Fooba wooba John
• The little white duck
• A frog a-courtin' he did ride
• Petty harbour bait skiff
• Can't you dance the polka?
• Youpe! Youpe!
• Echo song
• Gloria in excelsis Deo
• When day is done
• [Newfoundland medley] (including The Sealing cruise of the lone flier ; Walking alone on the shore ; Reilly the fisherman ; Lukey's boat ; She's like the swallow ; Bonavist harbour)
• To people who have gardens
• Red river valley
• [Medley] Sweethearts ; Gypsy love song (Slumber on, my little Gypsy sweetheart) ; Tramp tramp tramp ; Zing zing
• The very thought of you
• Missa Papae Marcelli, op. 96. Benedictus / Palestrina
• The Huron carol.

See Leslie Bell's manuscript arrangements: A frog a-courtin' he did ride (OTUFM 39-A-2-6); Auld Lang Syne (OTUFM 39-A-2-57); Bonavist harbour (OTUFM 39-A-2-98); Buckingham Palace (OTUFM 39-A-2-106); Can't you dance the polka? (OTUFM 39-A-2-115); Christopher Robin medley (OTUFM 39-A-2-136); Couldn't hear nobody pray (OTUFM 39-A-2-161); Fooba Wooba John (OTUFM 39-A-2-244); Gloria in excelsis Deo (OTUFM 39-A-2-264); Gypsy song (OTUFM 39-A-2-289); Halfway down (OTUFM 39-A-2-291); Hoppity (OTUFM 39-A-2-331); If I were a bell (OTUFM 39-A-2-393); Medley of nursery rhymes (OTUFM 39-A-2-542); Merry old land of Oz (OTUFM 39-A-2-549); Missa Papae Marcelli, op. 96 (OTUFM 39-A-2-555); Newfoundland folk tunes (OTUFM 39-A-2-586); Ol' Dan Tucker (OTUFM 39-A-2-612); Papa won't you dance with me (OTUFM 39-A-2-637); Petty harbour bait skiff (OTUFM 39-A-2-645); Pioneer scene medley (OTUFM 39-A-2-649); Red river valley (OTUFM 39-A-2-668); She’s like the swallow (OTUFM 39-A-2-714); So in love (OTUFM 39-A-2-731); Spring in my heart (OTUFM 39-A-2-760); That’s amore (OTUFM 39-A-2-799); The Huron carol (OTUFM 39-A-2-836); The little white duck (OTUFM 39-A-2-842); The very thought of you (OTUFM 39-A-2-891); The Wassail song (OTUFM 39-A-2-965); To people who have gardens (OTUFM 39-A-2-915); Toreador song (OTUFM 39-A-2-917); Tramp tramp tramp (OTUFM 39-A-2-921); Vespers (OTUFM 39-A-2-949); When day is done (OTUFM 39-A-2-981); Whispering hope (OTUFM 39-A-2-996); Wizard of Oz (OTUFM 39-A-2-1012); Youpe! Youpe! (OTUFM 39-A-2-1027); Carmen suite, trombone part (OTUFM 39-A-1-3).

Title from audio reel box.

The Leslie Bell Singers performed on the C.G.E. television show for its first two seasons [1952-1954]. Prior to that, they performed on the C.G.E. radio show.