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Brucie Boy and Norman Wisdom....
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gentler times
And a shed load of talent.... flippantly displayed...
Thanks for sharing, I'm going to have to watch the whole programme!
I know acts that worked with Bruce he was very very talented , he was a very good musician , singer, dancer , comic , compere and game show host he was the total package !!!.................which cannot be said for the current so called entertainers we see on TV .
I watched that show in the 60's ..............yes I'm that old !!.......................It was a must see show on a Sunday night !! The Nation watched that popular show with artist's coming from all over the world to appear on the wonderful Palladium theatre show !!!
they say the legend Danny Kaye was scared stiff but once on stage he too was brilliant ,,,and wowed the Audience !!
Norman Wisdom was also brilliant ,I've seen all his films and was knighted by the Queen after receiving his award he turned away from the Queen
did his famous walk/tripping over !!! on purpose .....the Queen laughed !!!
That was our Norman for you .
ps he was also a fine musician !!
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This Scot, with massive chip on the shoulder, has got to grudgingly admit that both Brucie and Norman were extremely talented artists.
I thoroughly I enjoyed the post, Dingo, and enjoyed many Sunday Nights at the London Palladium. I don't recall Brucie with an accordion but might have missed this broadcast if it was in the later months of '61 as I was luxuriating in the Antarctic.
Our Brucie had a good conceite of himself, like many in the profession. There's a local story that he was motoring from Edinburgh and when he reached the local town of Musselburgh he realised his 'Sunday Night' was just going to be broadcast on the television and he stopped, knocked on a door and asked if he could watch the show.
I thoroughly I enjoyed the post, Dingo, and enjoyed many Sunday Nights at the London Palladium. I don't recall Brucie with an accordion but might have missed this broadcast if it was in the later months of '61 as I was luxuriating in the Antarctic.
Our Brucie had a good conceite of himself, like many in the profession. There's a local story that he was motoring from Edinburgh and when he reached the local town of Musselburgh he realised his 'Sunday Night' was just going to be broadcast on the television and he stopped, knocked on a door and asked if he could watch the show.
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I'm a generation or two younger, so I only really knew him as a gameshow host who would throw in a bit of tap-dancing now and then. It was a surprise to see what a range of talent he had.
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Been here for ages!
Credit where credits due: it's losthobos!
Great stuff! Did you know Norman Wisdom became a cultural icon in Albania, because his films were seen as anti-capitalist?
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