Gigs - Comments by Steven Warner

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Steven Warner 28th Aug 2023		Live Music Grand Celebrity Concert @ Royal Albert Hall (1943)	The concert, billed as GRAND CELEBRITY CONCERT, was in aid of the London Fire Service Benevolent Fund, with Dennis Noble, the Western Brothers, Anne Shelton, Renee Houston and Donald Stewart, Rawicz and Landauer, and Harry Fryer and his Orchestra. The concert was introduced by Gerry Wilmot and broadcast live on the B.B.C. Forces Programme. Petula is not credited as appearing, but in the first chapters of her life story Petula refers to the concert and the date: I shall never forget how scared I was before I was due to go on to the vast stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and where under the great dome I sang before 8000 people. I was barely ten years old! I'll never forget the occasion, as Pop was on duty that night and couldn't be with me to cheer me up. But the following morning Mr. Harry Fryer with whose orchestra I was then singing, wrote to Pop: "She was a sensation, and I thought you would like to know this. I am only sorry you weren't able to be there to see how she stole the show". The day that letter was written – 21st June 1943 – was certainly a red-letter day for me. By the same post came a letter asking me to go to Elstree Studios for my first screen test! The concert was broadcast on the BBC's Forces Programme : https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/30d7102250514f71afed96f9a47b4f67

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