File B110 - Story of Bell Singers

1 audio reel (1 hr., 3 min., 37 sec.)

File consists of a recording of an unscripted documentary on the Leslie Bell Singers, narrated by Leslie Bell. The recording includes excerpts from performances over 21 years [1939-1960]:

• Where or when
• [Along the trail] (from first recorded music by the Leslie Bell Singers, [1939], accompanied by Dorothy Wright)
• When day is done ; Echo song ; Underneath the spreading tree ; [sung to WWII troops, recorded later]
• There's no place like home [sung at Trenton]
• Excerpt from letter to Leslie Bell and the Leslie Bell Singers from Dr. Finn
• [Folk song as broadcast on NBC "Concerts of Nations", post-WW2]
• Edward G. Robinson speaking on Canada-U.S. economic relations ; Quand j'étais chez mon père [from "A Program of Canada"]
• Opening theme ; Can't help singing ; The bells of St. Mary's ; Ave Maria (Schubert) [from C.G.E. Showtime]
• Come, Josephine in my flying machine [Washington, D.C. concert, July]
• God of our fathers [Maple Leaf Gardens fundraising concert for Winnipeg Red River flood relief, with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, May 1950]
• Glorious is the land [from a federal election broadcast for the Toronto Daily Times]
• My bonnie lass / Thomas Morley
• Hosanna
• The little white hen
• Sometimes I feel like [a motherless child] (with Joy Sullivan)
• I grabbed for the engine (and I caught the caboose) (Leslie Bell Quartet)
• I cain't get offa my horse
• Were you there?
• I'm looking over a four leaf clover (Maple Leaf Gardens sing-along with Mitch Miller)
• Drink to me only with thine eyes.

See Leslie Bell's manuscript arrangements: Ave Maria (Schubert) (OTUFM 39-A-2-61d); Can't help singing (OTUFM 39-A-2-114); Come, Josephine in my flying machine (OTUFM 39-A-2-153); Drink to me only with thine eyes (OTUFM 39-A-2-200); Echo song (OTUFM 39-A-2-209); Quand j'étais chez mon père (OTUFM 39-A-2-663); Glorious is the land (OTUFM 39-A-2-265); (OTUFM 39-A-2-269); Hosanna (OTUFM 39-A-2-332); I cain't get offa my horse (OTUFM 39-A-2-344); I grabbed for the engine (and I caught the caboose) (OTUFM 39-A-2-351); Opening theme (OTUFM 39-A-2-109); The bells of St. Mary's (OTUFM 39-A-2-802); Sometimes I feel like [a motherless child] (OTUFM 39-A-2-742); The little white hen (OTUFM 39-A-2-843); Underneath the spreading tree (OTUFM 39-A-2-935); Were you there (OTUFM 39-A-2-978); When day is done (OTUFM 39-A-2-981); Where or when (OTUFM 39-A-2-989).

Title from audio reel box.