old radio programmes in pre TV days

@numberplease - Sorry! His name has never come my way...

Victor Sylvester redux... It's odd that Sylvester, whose music, let's face it, was almost devoid of any musical interest, should have been the most successful British bandleader...

He certainly used fine musicians; during the war,when Oscar Grasso was not available, Alfredo Campoli was the muted violinist, under the pseudonym Alfred Campbell...

You can get all these pre1960s memories and music on Angel Radio.

Here's a link to it.

http://ukoldieschat.boards.net/

Edmundo Ros and his Latin American Band

I remember most of the programmes mentioned, but the most evocative for me is the cricket commentary.
Warm summer days in the late fifties, reading my comics and books in the garden with the radio sounds wafting through the open window. For some reason the name of Jim Laker sticks in my mind.
And never getting a comprehensible answer to the question 'But Dad. What is silly mid-on?'

Going well back now,remember

We three,in harmony,
working for the BBC

Ramsbottom,Enoch and me.

Ah @Poppikok - that was Happidrome, with Harry Koris (Mr Lovejoy), Cecil Fredericks (Ramsbottom) and Robbie Vincent (Enoch - "Let me tell you-o-o").

Broadcast from Bangor in the early days of WWII, it featured every available Variety star, in the framework of the imaginary Happidrome variety theatre, run by the three staff members. The 'We Three' sig tune was a parody version of My Echo, My Shadow and Me, by Dick Robertson and Sammy Mysels, a popular hit by The Inkspots.

Ramsbottom: I say, do you know anything about love, Guv'nor?

Lovejoy: I should do - I drove a taxi for five years...

I found this on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=987Cr8K8nPI