(Diverse Autoren) Hattie Jacques, Bill Owen, Clive Dunn, Stella Moray, John Rutland.
- Covent Garden in the morning
- Oh! The fairies!
- She was poor, but she was honest (Stella Moray)
- If it wasn’t for the houses in between (Maurice Browning)
- The honeysuckle and the bee (Margaret Burton)
- When I take my morning promenade (Patsy Rowlands)
- The bird on Nellie’s hat (Hattie Jacques)
- The muffin man (John Rutland)
- I’ve got rings on my finger (Josephine Gordon)
- He’s going there every night (Joan Sterndale Bennett, Josephine Gordon)
- Wot cher! (Robin Hunter)
- Mother’s advice (Daphne Anderson)
- Waiting at the church (Hattie Jacques)
- My old dutch (Clive Dunn)
- From Marble Arch to Leicester Square (Joan Sterndale Bennett)
- The future Mrs ‘Awkins (Bill Owen)
- Are we to part like this, Bill? (Stella Moray)
- Good-bye Dolly Gray (Men)
- Dear old pals
Label-Information:
To several generations the Players’ Theatre under the arches in Villiers Street London was the outstanding exponent of Victorian music-hall, with its flair and taste for period, and its bevy of first-class performers. This Decca recording from the 1960s is undoubtedly the finest ever done, with a stellar cast led by such Players’ favourites as Hattie Jacques, Stella Moray, Clive Dunn and Bill Owen. Within its unique atmosphere, the songs of the music-hall are caught on the wing, ranging from the raunchy ‘Waiting at the church’ and the timid confessions of ‘The Muffin man’ to the coy sexuality of ‘When I take my morning promenade’. In newly remastered sound, and with the crystalline accompaniment of Peter Greenwell and Geoffrey Brawn, this disc is offered in tribute to a sadly vanished landmark of London theatre.
