My Music, page 4

Last Edited: 30-Jan-2017 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
NOTE: This edition has been compiled and written by Eric Langford and Charlie Rooke. The 2008 edition was edited by Sandy Finlayson. Earlier versions were compiled and edited by John Lucas. Special thanks for research and recordings are due to Keith Wickham, Martin Hood and Alexander Lucas.

Series 1 through 10
Series 11 through 16
Series 17 through 26
Series 24 through 28, TV, Miscellany
    25, 26, 27, 28, TV, Miscellany

Series 24 through 28, TV
Broadcast
Date
Series-
Episode
Contents
Cast
Parameters
27 Nov 1989
Recorded
12 Oct 1989
24-1
#481
TS466
161839
  • Walton/Richard III, The Everly Brothers, Ravel/Bolero (isn’t a
    bolero), Applause
  • People Talking About Music (archive excerpts): Pablo Casals,
    Violinist talking about Sir Thomas Beecham, Chaliapin (mentioned
    in another story about Beecham), Maggie Teyte
  • Piano Medley
  • Dance Band Vocalists: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Vera Lynn,
    Peggy Lee
  • Words from Songs: “Country Folks Would Lie”, “My Quiet
    Upbringing”, “Meander in Search of a Gander”, “Walk My Way”
  • Music that Starts with the Same Five Notes: Caruso, Florrie
    Forde, Andy Stewart, Vic Damone
  • Final Songs: I’ll Be Your Sweetheart, Toy Trumpet, Nothing,
    The Sunshine of Your Smile
Held in Archives
Steve Race says ‘We’re Back!’ indicating first of new series
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
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CBC
27:06, 12764, S
04 Dec 1989
Recorded
12 Oct 1989
24-2
#482
TS467
161840
  • Butterworth/A Shropshire Lad (1912), Lorraine Craig singing
    with NYJO – National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Sammy Davis, Jr
    singing Talk to The Animals from Dr Doolittle, Tony Award –
    named after Antoinette Perry
  • Song Lyrics: pelvic girdle/The Physician (by Cole Porter),
    You stand there shouting What O/Nobody Loves a Fairy When
    She’s Forty, On n'm-ma no mayé ni/Pira-Pira suru no wa/Nan
    gia na/Toko tonyare tonyare na?/Miya sama (from The
    Mikado), Beside a garden wall + A little rain must fall/This Is
    No Laughing Matter
  • Middle Bits sung as the person who made the song famous:
    Maurice Chevalier, Sally (Gracie Fields), Paul Robeson,
    Vaughn Monroe
  • Three Blind Mice Sung as a Round for Charity
  • Doats/Mairzy Doatsyou only want it, We look cute when
    we’re dressed in shorts/We’re a Couple of Swells, Your face
    was a hymn/Bless You, I’ve no use for dough/With Plenty of
    Money and You
  • Rattle’s Porgy and Bess at Glyndebourne (of course, John
    was at the first night and the rehearsal), Summertime/
    Cynthia Haymon, Camellia Johnson as the Strawberry
    Woman/Catfish Row/South Carolina, Damon Evans as
    Sportin’ Life/Jonah/Methuselah There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’
    Soon for New York/Sounds like Bernstein at the end, Crowd
    have seen a buzzard (a bad omen), Willard White as Porgy,
    Libretto and writer
  • Suggestions for what Beethoven has to send back
  • Final Songs: I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, The Red
    Lark, What Did It Cost King Solomon to Keep 600 Wives,
    True Love (Cole Porter)
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
TS467
27:40, 25996, S
11 Dec 1989
Recorded
19 Oct 1989
24-3
#483
TS468
161841
  • The King’s Singers with the ECO/RCO (Amsterdam), The
    Thunderer (Sousa March), 5GB Is Calling (Daventry Radio
    Transmitter), Spooky Takes a Holiday
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Mozart K452, Köchel Numbers,
    Miss Moffat, Valentine and Valaida Snow, George Elrick
  • Piano Medley
  • How Old is the Composer?
  • Tapped Rhythms: Bach/Cello Suite No. 3, Orpheus in
    the Underworld, Iolanthe, Paganini/Caprice No. 24
  • Well Known Voices: John Gielgud, Yehudi Menuhin, Rex
    Harrison, Count Basie
  • Final Songs: My Baby Just Cares for Me, Drigo’s
    Serenade, Any Dirty Work Today, All the Things You Are
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
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CBC
27:31, 12962, S
18 Dec 1989
Recorded
19 Oct 1989
24-4
#484
TS469
161842
  • Brahms/Symphony No. 4, Madame Pompadour, Road to
    the Isles, Big Band Signature Tunes
  • Miscellaneous Musical Questions: Composer Birthplaces,
    How Deep is the Ocean? Joseph Haydn at Oxford,
    Keyboards on Organs
  • Serenades: Vaughan Williams/Serenade to Music,
    Serenade to a Wealthy Widow, Donkey Serenade, Penny Serenade
  • Words from Songs: diamond rings/St. Louis Blues, crabapple
    face/The Pessimistic Character, Ever since Heaven knows
    when/Change Partners, confectionery/Sugar
  • Spotting through Records and CDs: Stanley Holloway, Ella
    Fitzgerald, Val Doonican, Julie Andrews
  • Musical Montage: Vera Lynn/Shirley Bassey/Sammy Davis, Jr/
    Tom Jones/Frank Sinatra
  • Theme Songs for Smokers and Non-Smokers
  • Final Songs: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, Excerpt from
    Girl of the Golden West, I’m Knitting a Singlet for Cecil, In an
    Old Fashioned Town
Held in Archives
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CBC
27:26, 12922, S
25 Dec 1989
--
no program
No broadcast – replaced by ‘Smash of the Day: ITMA’

--
01 Jan 1990
Recorded
26 Oct 1989
24-5
#485
TS470
161843
  • Walton/Scapino Overture, Barber/The School for Scandal (play by
    Sheridan), Rossini/Il signor Bruschino, Mendelssohn/Midsummer
    Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
  • Musical History: Lablache and Malibran, Sir Henry Cole, Maria
    Taglione, Paderewski
  • Piano Medley
  • Cryptic Opera Headlines: Thaïs, Lucia di Lammermoor, Oedipus
    Rex, Faust
  • Dick Powell Songs: Song of the Marines, Fish out of Water, I’ve
    Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, Speaking of the Weather
  • Whom Would You Like to Take Out to Dinner?
  • Final Songs: There’s a Small Hotel, Pavanne, Our Avenue, O Gin
    I Were a Baron's Heir
Held in Archives
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Race/Race
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CBC
27:47, 13084, S
08 Jan 1990
Recorded
26 Oct 1989
24-6
#486
TS471
161844
  • Vivaldi/Faithful Shepherd Sonata, The Laird o'Cockpen, The
    Wexford Carol, Viol Consort
  • Musical Facts: Edward Elgar and Beatrice Harrison, Lady’s
    Professions, Composers in Films, Changed Film Titles
  • Piano medley
  • Why Have There Been So Few Women Composers?
  • Four Quintets: String Sextet, Django Reinhardt, The Trout
    Quintet, Stéphane Grappelli
  • Words from Songs: Knavish, Lollapalooza, The Rubicon, Why
    Should We Spend Money on a Show
  • Final Songs: Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me; Overhead the
    Moon is Beaming; The Thousand Islands Song; Wings of Love
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
CBC
27:20, 12878, S
15 Jan 1990
Recorded
02 Nov 1989
24-7
#487
TS472
161845
  • Various questions: Why take a bunch of crooks with you to a
    Mozart rehearsal, If you were a fiddler would you give your
    nut a twist before playing (tightening the bow), Who feels
    safely anchored in The Red Sea (i.e. all the C’s are red on
    the harp), Where does a Bassoonist keep his butt (it’s the
    lowest joint on the instrument)
  • Words: God and love very hard to sing (Thomas Beecham), We
    went dancing in our childhood, rhyming schemes in Tin Pan Alley,
    I Can’t Dance I Won’t Dance, Memphis in June (Hoagy
    Carmichael)/Johnny Angel with George Raft
  • Arpeggios: Invitation to the Dance, Under the Bridges of Paris,
    The Blue Danube, In The Mood/Joe Loss, Auf Wiedersehen
  • Collective Nouns: Watch of Nightingales, Ostentation or Muster
    of Peacocks, Exaltation of Skylarks, Murmuration of Starlings
  • Words from songs: twinkle in my eye/[Got a??] Brand New Suit;
    Hold on, desist, whoa, stop!/Woodman, Spare That Tree; about
    as fur as they c’n go!/Kansas City (from Oklahoma!); When
    today is a long time ago/When the Children Are Asleep; Authors
    who used much better?? words/Anything Goes; warning voice
    repeats in my ear??/I’ve Got You under My Skin; as I saw you
    go??/We’ll Meet Again; I want to settle down one day/I’m a One
    Man Girl
  • Ethnic Music: Sounds Latin American, but in fact from Pinner,
    Mood Music – Metal Man (electronic), Background music for newsreel
    Melody on the Move, Theme to My Word! (Alpine Pastures),
  • Final Songs: Get Out and Get Under, Oh Maiden My Maiden, Are
    You Lonesome Tonight (parody), Love Walked In
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
CBC
27:43, 13058, S
22 Jan 1990
Recorded
02 Nov 1989
24-8
#488
TS475
  • John Dowland, Musical Instruments, Alfredo from La traviata,
    Jazz Pianists
  • Song Identifications: Charleston, Crazy Rhythm, Little Man
    You’ve Had a Busy Day, Camelot
  • Musical Criticism: Beethoven/Violin Concerto, Die Meistersinger
    von Nürnberg, Romeo and Juliet, Beethoven/Symphony No. 3
  • Popular Songs: Clementine, Chloe, Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,
    Anything Goes
  • Best way to listen to music
  • Music By the Cambridge Buskers: Praetorius, Minute Waltz,
    The Thieving Magpie, Origin of Busker
  • Occupational disorders related to music
  • Final Songs: Music, Maestro Please; Bach/Willst du dein Herz
    mir schenken (Aria di Giovannini) BWV518; Don’t Do Your Courting;
    Nature Boy
Held in Archives
Not broadcast by BBC7 so not from Series 25. Opens with Steve Race
saying "We've been together 23 years" (January 1990 if measured
from date of first broadcast)
Amis, Muir
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ABC
27:10, 12875, m
03 Apr 1990
Recorded
16 Nov 1989
25-1
#489
TS474
  • Chabrier/Joyeuse March, Duke Ellington/Things Ain’t What They
    Used to Be, Vernon Midgley/Fly Home Little Heart, Cinema Organ
  • Miscellaneous questions: The Maltings, Stardust, Cheltenham
    and Bath Pump Rooms, Stardust
  • Piano medley
  • Musical lists: Widecombe Fair, The Baby’s Name, Brass band
    instruments in the Floral Dance, The Girls at Maxim’s
  • Der Rosenkavalier Composed 1911, Difficult horn parts, Der
    Rosenkavalier/The Presentation of the Rose, Sondheim/A Little
    Night Music
  • Connection between King Arthur and the Indian Queen, Purcell,
    Cox, Box and Ivanhoe (Sullivan), Cox, Box and Roberts (Writers)
  • Final songs: I’ve Gotter Motter, Fauré/Pavane, op. 50, When I
    Get My Bolshevik Blood Up, Old Father Thames
Held in Archives
TS473 and TS474 disc order is reverse of BBC7 broadcast order. We've
used the BBC R7 order but there is no proof either way.
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC7 Master
26:31, 24923, S
10 Apr 1990
Recorded
16 Nov 1989
25-2
#490
TS473
  • Alexander Glazunov, Nola, Iris Williams, Alma Cogan, Ruggiero
    Leoncavallo, William Byrd, Gaetano Donizetti, Ferdinand (“Jelly
    Roll”) Morton
  • Quotes: William Byrd, Samuel Johnson, The Mikado, Flotsam
    and Jetsam
  • Four quartets: Janáček/String Quartet No. 2 (“Intimate
    Letters”), Benny Goodman, Gigli and others in Rigoletto, Hit the
    Deck, Cantabile
  • Five notes in minor scale: Smetana/Vltava; Grieg/In the Hall of
    the Mountain King; Legend of the Glass Mountain; Brother, Can
    You Spare a Dime; Berlin/Russian Lullaby
  • Simonetta Puccini protested a performance of Madama
    Butterfly: the panel offer theories (answer: the heroine
    appeared in the nude)
  • Final Songs: J'attendrai, Black Is the Color of My True Love’s
    Hair, Five Little Fags, You Are My Honeysuckle
Held in Archives
TS473 and TS474 disc order is reverse of BBC7 broadcast order
Amis, Muir
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BBC7 Master
27:07, 25479, S
17 Apr 1990
Recorded
23 Nov 1989
25-3
#491
TS476
  • Haydn/Austria/Chinese, string basses, tuba, Roland Kirk
  • Biblical questions: Genesis, Exodus, Obadiah, Joshua, Jonah and
    the whale, Ezekiel saw the wheel, Jude
  • Five notes: Romeo and Juliet, Easthope Martin/Evensong, I Am
    a Courtier, Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 5
  • Tonic Sol-fa: The immovable Dough, Do-re-mi, The Lost Chord,
    Irving Fazola
  • Classical/serious/good/concert music?
  • Recent records: Ibert/Divertissement, Mendelssohn/Bee’s
    Wedding, Rodgers and Hammerstein/Pipe Dream, Randy Newman/
    It’s Lonely at the Top (King’s Singers)
  • Music as Burglar Alarm:
  • Final Songs: Nellie Dean, Polka from Façade, Since Charlie Did
    His Courting in a Chalk Pit, The Moment I Saw You
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC7 Master
26:43, 25108, S
24 Apr 1990
Recorded
23 Nov 1989
25-4
#492
TS477
  • Debussy/Gardens in the Rain, Sinatra/Garden in the Rain, I Left
    My Heart in an English Garden, Garden in Granada
  • Answers in the Words of a Song: Flo the Kangaroo, If Life is a
    Song, The Little Sweep, So Lay Your Cards on the Table
  • Piano Medley
  • Up Market Versions of Well-Known Songs
  • Water Music: Delius/Summer Night on the River, Wagner/Rhine
    Maidens, Mozart/Così fan tutte, Adelaide Hall/Transatlantic Lullaby
  • Music starting with the same three notes: Oneden Line/
    Spartacus, By the Fireside, Everything’s in Rhythm, If You Feel a
    Little Blue
  • Play for Actors and Orchestra - Mnemonic for EGBDF
  • Final Songs: If I Had a Talking Picture, Bonnie at Morn, One of
    the Best, Stardust
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
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BBC7 Master
27:03, 25418, S
01 May 1990
Recorded
30 Nov 1989
25-5
#493
TS478
  • Music Masters: Liszt, Hoagy Carmichael, Holst, Bing Crosby/
    Connie Boswell
  •  Words about Music: Debussy, Mozart, George II, La Volta
  • Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Paradise, Melancholy Baby, I Still
    Get Jealous
  • Honegger
  • Tito Gobbi: Leoncavallo/Zsa Zsa, William Tell, Adriana
    Lecouvreur, Fedora
  • Letter: sending his six sons (Mozart)
  • Final Songs: Goodbye Sally, Salut d’amour, I Can See That
    You Are Married, If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC7 Master
26:51, 25240, S
08 May 1990
Recorded
30 Nov 1989
25-6
#494
TS479
  • Shostakovitch/Symphony No. 5, op. 47; London Bridge Is Falling
    Down/The Girl I Left behind Me/When It’s Night Time in Italy It’s
    Wednesday over Here; La Périchole; Sunny Havana One Step
  • Misquotations about Music From: Twelfth Night – If music be the
    food of love…, Congreve – Music hath charms…, Merchant of
    Venice – The man that hath no music…, Richard II
  • Mood Music with made up Commentary
  • Music Starting with the Same Four Notes: Theme from Murder on
    the Orient Express, Theme from The Girlfriend, Lilac Time, When
    April Sings
  • Top Music Man on the Musical Productivity List
  • Piano Jazz: Fats Waller, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
    Court, State Street Special, Count Basie
  • Songs by a Prison Choir: Go Down Moses, Please Release Me,
    This Nearly Was Mine, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
  • Final Songs: Everybody’s Doing It, Sussex Mummers’ Carol, The
    Tears Shed in London Tonight, Where or When
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC7 Master
27:10, 25538, S
15 May 1990
Recorded
07 Dec 1989
25-7
#495
TS480
Recorded at Paris Studios, Lower Regent Street, London
  • Berg/Violin Concerto, Grumiaux in Shakespeare, Rampal plays
    Shankar, Flute in Shakespeare
  • Place Names: Paris, Camelot, The Battery, Fairbanks
  • Piano Medley
  • Mystery Lyric Writer: Cole Porter
  • Orchestral Music: Bach/Musical Offering, Trumpet Voluntary,
    Jeremiah Clarke, Handel/Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  • Music Starting with the same notes: Strauss/Tritsch-
    Tratsch-Polka, op. 214, You Are My Lucky Star,
    Armstrong-Gibbs/Dusk, Grofé/Grand Canyon Suite
  • Tunes for Elephants
  • Final Songs: A Foggy Day (in London Town), Mozart/Don
    Giovanni, Love ’Em and Leave ’Em Joe, Turn Ye to Me
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir
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Race/Race
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BBC7 Master
27:14, 25594, S
22 May 1990
Recorded
07 Dec 1989
25-8
#496
TS500
Recorded at Paris Studios, Lower Regent Street, London
  • Birthday greetings: Michael Tippett, Pinky and Perky, La
    Cinque Année, Congratulations and Celebrations
  • One Letter Alteration: I’m in the Wood for Love, Enema
    Variations, Tennessee Hernia Ford, Whether
  • [UK edit] Desert Island Discs Luxury Items chosen by the panel
  • [UK edit] Richard Strauss/Alpine Symphony
  • [TS edit] Beginnings and Endings: Brahms/Piano Concerto No. 2,
    Oh What a Lovely War, Maiden and Nightingale, movie company
    fanfares
  • [TS edit] Commissionings, helping hands (Duke Ellington’s satire
    of Nutcracker Suite), César Franck/Sonata for Violin and Piano,
    phonofiddle
  • A Night at the Opera: Force of Destiny, Battle at the Met, Elixir
    of Love, The Merry Widow
  • Final Songs: My Old Dutch, The Rose, He Treated Me More Like
    a Friend, For You Alone
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO236685 (as 06 Feb 1995)
Although announced by Steve Race as the 500th edition of My Music, we
have only identified 495 prior episodes
Two seasons of repeat broadcasts (from S23 and earlier) were broadcast
in Summer 1990 and Spring 1991
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BBC7 Master
27:14, 25533, S
TS Disc
[Different edit]
27:16, 25573, s


02 Dec 1991
Recorded
11 Jul 1991
26-1
#497
TS481
  • Berlioz/Symphonie Fantastique, Date of Good Bye Sally, Date of
    MacCunn/Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Who Started
    Signature Tunes?
  • What Have They In Common? They have all narrated Peter and
    the Wolf
  • Nautical Questions: Flying Dutchman, Little Buttercup (Bumboat
    Woman)/H. M. S. Pinafore, Glamorous Night, My Ship/Lady in
    the Dark
  • Words from Songs: Frosty wind made moan/In the Bleak
    Midwinter, Greta Garbo has had me to tea/I Can’t Get Started,
    later on all tired and sleepy/Totem Tom-Tom, the early bright/
    I’ll Be Seeing You (Sinatra/Sy Oliver) [also Boogie Woogie
    Bugle Boy]
  • Beggar’s Opera: Kiri Te Kanawa, Alfred Marks, Warren Mitchell,
    Angela Lansbury
  • Final Songs: Why Haven’t I Told You?; John whistles Brahms/
    Waltz No. 15, in A Flat major, op. 39; You Ought to Know
    Better, a Big Girl Like You; Come to the Fair
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO206948 (as 30 Mar 1993)
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ABC RN
26:34, 12519, m
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BBC WSRA
28:20, 6705, m
09 Dec 1991
Recorded
11 Jul 1991
26-2
#498
TS482
  • Rheinberger/Organ Concerto No. 2, Shakespeare, Offenbach/
    The Tales of Hoffmann, Giant
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Scat Singing/Porgy and Bess, Dinner
    at Eight, Rigoletto, Age of Mandy
  • Piano Medley
  • Doctor of Music
  • Brass Band Instruments: Euphonium, Cornet, Soprano Cornet,
    Trombone
  • Final Songs: Down the Road, Away Went Polly; A Fairy Went
    a-Marketing, Little Nell, Tonga
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO206950 (as 30 Mar 1993)
Amis, Muir
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US NPR
26:58, 12724, m
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BBC WSRA
28:52, 6831, m
16 Dec 1991
Recorded
18 Jul 1991
26-3
#499
TS483
  • Schubert Trio, Warsaw Concerto, Samuel Pepys, The King’s
    Singers
  • Music Starting with the Same Four notes: St. Louis Blues;
    Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?; I’m Just a
    Girl Who Can’t Say No; Sunday, Monday, and Always
  • Lines from Songs: What the blankety-blank?/When the
    Guards Are on Parade, Coal fatigue for you/When the
    Sergeant Major’s on Parade, asbestos/I Won’t Dance, his
    kisses got gin/Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man, jam and spice/My Ship
  • The Three Tenors, Nessun dorma, E lucevan le stelle,
    Memory, Date of O sole mio
  • Final Songs: I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do, It’s
    Been a Long Lonely Year, It’s Hard to Be Humble, Gentle
    Maiden/Bonnie Mary of Argyle
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO2263319 (as 06 Apr 1993)
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ABC RN
26:49, 12634, m
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BBC WSRA
28:44, 6798, m
23 Dec 1991
Recorded
18 Jul 1991
26-4
#500
TS484
500th
episode
by our
count
  • Brahms/Piano Concerto No. 2, Jerusalem, Marriage of Figaro/
    Jessye Norman, Four Others
  • Piano Medley
  • Words of Songs: The little German band, My sacroiliac,
    Reprise in a different key, More than one tree
  • Thoughts on being moved to tears by music
  • Copland/Simple Gifts, Ohio and Mississippi River, Anyone can
    Whistle, For You For Me
  • Final Songs: Just Like the Ivy, Melody from Carmen, Men of
    Harlech parody, A Gordon for Me
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO263320 (as 06 Apr 1993)
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ABC RN
26:33, 12510, m
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BBC WSRA
28:55, 6844, m
30 Dec 1991
Recorded
25 Jul 1991
26-5
#501
TS487
  • Coates/Convent Garden [today’s Covent Garden], Jonas
    Hanway, Sir Arthur Bliss/Cello Concerto, Kitten on the
    Keys wrong way ’round
  • Geographical Question: where My Music has been
    recorded, Groucho Marx quote, polka, what does a piano
    tuner carry?
  • Songs Involving Stars: Fritz Kreisler wrote Stars in My
    Eyes, Stars Fell on Alabama, Estrellita, A Handful of Stars
  • Words from Songs: O rose, thou art sick/Britten/
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (lyric from William
    Blake/The Sick Rose); the whole rigmarole/How to Handle
    a Woman; nicer than lemon squash you are/Joshu-ah;
    Joel McCrae/Watch the Birdie
  • Trees: Dorothy Squires
  • Were you good at music in school?
  • Final Songs: Don’t Bring Lulu, Try to Remember, Please
    Don’t Send Me Down a Baby Brother, Can I Forget You
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO263454 (as 13 Apr 1993)
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ABC RN
27:11, 19183, m
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BBC WSRA
28:43, 6797, m
06 Jan 1992
Recorded
25 Jul 1991
26-6
#502
Not
taken
by TS
  • The Golden Years of the Music Hall: Dan Leno/The Tower
    of London; George Formby, Sr/Unknown Song; Harry
    Champion/I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am; (Sir) George
    Robey/And That’s That; Little Tich (Harry Relph)/
    Unknown Song
  • Same First Five Notes: John Lewis/The Golden Striker;
    Silent Night (Stille Nacht, Franz Xaver Gruber (music)
    and Joseph Mohr (lyrics); I Can’t Believe That You’re in
    Love with Me (Jimmy McHugh (music) and Clarence
    Gaskill (lyrics); In the Gloaming (Annie Fortescue Harrison
    (aka Lady Arthur Hill, music) and Meta Orred (lyrics);
    Theme from the TV show The Liver Birds starring Nerys
    Hughes and Polly James
  • Cigar Box Rhythms: Dukas/The Sorcerer’s Apprentice;
    Irving Berlin/White Christmas; Mozart/Eine Kleine
    Nachtmusik; Valentine (made famous by Maurice
    Chevalier, music by H. Christine and lyrics by Albert Willemetz
  • Drawing Room Ballads: Come Into the Garden, Maud (music
    by Michael William Balfe, lyrics from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s
    poem, Maud); Mother o’ Mine (music by Frank E. Tours,
    lyrics from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, Mother o’ Mine); Thora
    (music by Stephen Adams, words by Fred E. Weatherly); the
    song appears to be Passing By (1875) (music by Edward
    Purcell Cockram (aka Edward Cockram Purcell, his real name),
    words ascribed to Robert Herrick (1592-1674)); however,
    the same words (“There is a lady sweet and kind”) appear in
    Thomas Ford’s Music of Sundry Kinds (1607) so some
    attribute the lyrics to Ford and some to Anonymous.
  • Final songs: E. W. Rogers/Skylark, Skylark; John whistles
    Billy Mayerl and Austin Groom-Johnson/Bats in the Belfry;
    “We used to kiss goodnight upon her doorstep”
  • [title unknown]; Steve plays Brubeck/One Moment Worth
    Years; Irving Berlin/Always
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO263455 (as 13 Apr 1993)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC WSRA
28:20, 6726, m
13 Jan 1992
Recorded
01 Aug 1991
26-7
#503
TS488
  • Emma Kirkby/Monteverdi, Sullivan/The Lost Chord, Begin
    the Beguine, The fire remains an ember
  • Musical Stories: Ravel/Mother Goose, Scheherazade,
    Debussy, Handel/Water Music
  • The Road to Mandalay: Based on a poem by Kipling
    (“Mandalay”), located in Burma, Composer, Song Facts
  • What Do You Regret?
  • World Music: Traditional Arabic Music; Arabesque;
    Oud; Number of Players
  • Final Songs: A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Humoresque,
    Romeo, Brigg/Fair, She Moved through the Fair
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO263570 (as 20 Apr 1993)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:11, 19173, S
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BBC WSRA
28:50, 6824, m
13 Jan 1992
Recorded
01 Aug 1991
26-8
#504
TS486
  • William Walton/Viola Concerto, Pink Panther Theme/
    Recorders, Mendelssohn/Scottish Symphony, Nellie
    Lutcher/Jack Jackson
  • Leopold Godovski’s son married George and Ira
    Gershwin’s sister, I Got Rhythm/The Surrey with the
    Fringe on Top/They’ll Never Believe Me, Philharmonic–
    origin of word (Greek, Love of Harmony), Près de la
    Table – Near the Table – a Harpist (near the sounding
    board)
  • Piano Medley
  • What’s the panel’s first recollection of each other?
  • Odd one out – Cécile Chaminade/Cleo Laine/Ruby
    Braff/Amy Woodford-Findon, Audition piece for John’s
    whistle, Dedication – Elgar to fiancée Alice, What is a
    Tarantella?
  • Final Songs: The Galloping Major, Amazing Grace,
    You are My Girlski, The Perfect Wife (Mozart)
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO263571 (as 20 Apr 1993)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:05, 19194, S
------------
BBC WSRA
28:50, 6824, m
06 Oct 1992
Recorded
07 Nov 1991
27-1
#505
Not
taken
by TS
  • Prokofiev: March in B♭ Major (op. 99); Peter and the
    Wolf (1936); Gavotte from The Classical Symphony;
    Peter and the Wolf narrator is Sting (Gordon Sumner);
    Sting sang “Spread a Little Happiness” from the
    musical Mr Cinders first recorded by Binnie Hale (1929)
  • Standout Letters We Get: a blind man who sent a
    copy of 1826 Reminiscences by Michael Kelly (aka
    O’Kelly or Ochelli); a lady in South Africa; falling rose
    petals; a regular MM listener
  • Same First Four Notes: Tin Roof Blues; Pestalozza-
    Tiochet/Ciribiribin; Richard Murdoch song lyrics; My
    Hero (from Straus-Stange/The Chocolate Soldier);
    Newman-Loesser/Moon of Manakoora -- Dorothy
    Lamour sang it, probably wearing a sarong; Nicholls-
    Leslie/Shepherd of the Hills
  • MI-5 Reunion -- What Did They Sing? John Cage/
    Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds (of
    silence!); Come Spy with Me; With Cat-Like Tread
    (from The Pirates of Penzance); Can’t Help Buggin’
    that Man of Mine; Le Carré-oca (atrocious pun by
    Frank); The Song that Came in from the Cold; Am
    I Blue?
  • Academy Award-Winning Songs Sung by Sinatra:
    The Days of Wine and Roses (from the movie of
    the same name with Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick);
    Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s with
    Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard); The
    Continental (from The Gay Divorcee with Fred
    Astaire, Ginger Rogers); In the Cool, Cool, Cool
    of the Evening (from Here Comes the Groom with
    Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman)
  • First Note or Word: Stravinsky/Le Sacre du
    printemps (aka The Rite of Spring); “shrimp”:
    Howard-Weston/Shrimp Boats; Debussy/
    [Prelude à] l’après-midi d’un faune; “salmon”:
    Salmon’s Rocking My Dreamboat, Salmon-
    chanted Evening
  • Final Songs: That’s My Weakness Now; Shallow
    Brown; Hazel Adair-Peter Link-Steve Race/
    Southend (from the TV show Compact); Roses
    of Picardy
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO237646 (as 08 Jan 1995)
Steve Race refers to their having been “more than 500
different editions”
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
Unidentified
Radio 4 (1992),
Radio 2 (1995)
or World
Service (1995)?
28:50, 13603, m
13 Oct 1992
Recorded
07 Nov 1991
27-2
#506
TS489
  • Cherubini/Anacreon, Cinderella’s glass slipper, Doctors
    in Music, 20th Century-Fox and Cinemascope
  • Overhearing comments on musicians
  • Piano Medleys
  • Enigma Variations, Georges Seurat, Ian Wallace LP
    played at 45 rpm, J. Fred Coots
  • A cello is tuned to CGDA; Find a mnemonic: catgut
    droning away, conductor guns down alto, chalybeate
    gargling diminishes acne, curried goat delicious awful,
    crystallized greengages dreadfully acid, comic gorillas
    dance appallingly, chorus girls don’t argue
  • Final Songs: I’m on a Seesaw, Whistle Down the Wind,
    Little Sophie, Love is a Very Light Thing
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO237805 (as 08 Jan 1995)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:14, 12828, m
------------
BBC WSRA
28:14, 6683, m
20 Oct 1992
Recorded
14 Nov 1991
27-3
#507
TS490
  • The Creation (Haydn/The Creation and Milhaud/La
    Création du monde); The Flood (Stravinsky/The Flood and
    Britten/Noye’s Fludde); The End of the World (Messiaen/
    Quartet for the End of Time), Allier/Entente Cordiale March,
    Floradora (an island!), Musical brothers except the Ellingtons
  • Piano Medleys
  • Louis Spohr did something not done before (conducting with
    a baton)
  • Scherzo from Chopin/Piano Sonata No. 2, op. 35 (“Funeral
    March”); what is a “scherzo”? played by Vladimir Horowitz;
    Joseph Horowitz/Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Spotting through a record: Gracie Fields, The Ink Spots,
    Alan Jones, Blossom Dearie
  • Steve’s engagement diary contains the initials “RAH”
    (meaning, obviously, “Royal Albert Hall”): What is an un-
    obvious explanation for these initials? Rachel Alice Harbottle,
    reserve Ascot hospitality, rehearse amateur horn-players,
    ring Anita Harris, run and hide
  • Final Songs: What’ll I Do?, Caro nome, Mrs Binns’s Twins,
    Love Is the Sweetest Thing (Steve), The Very Thought of You
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO237767 (as 15 Jan 1995)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:11, 19180, S
------------
BBC WSRA
28:50, 6821, m
27 Oct 1992
Recorded
14 Nov 1991
27-4
#508
TS485
  • Bernstein/Candide, Voltaire (author of Candide, 1759), Nicolai
    Gedda (his adoptive father was named Ustinov), Dr Pangloss
  • Identifying songs from rhymes: besought her to/She cursed
    Cole Porter too (Nina from Argentina), glamorous/amorous
    (Too Marvelous for Words), high/eye/sky (Oh, What a
    Beautiful Morning), fight the foe/got to go/oh, dear no (The
    King’s Horses)
  • 32 bar song – question after each 8 bars – As Time Goes By/
    Casablanca, Bogart/Bergman/Claude Rains/Sydney
    Greenstreet/Peter Lorre, Play It Again Sam, Victor Laszlo/Ilsa
  • Suitable music for a man with a pipe listening to on
    headphones on a walk in the country: Beethoven’s Pastoral/
    Michael Flanders’s lyrics, Pipe Music, My Music, Cassette of
    birdsong
  • English Guitar Quartet – Ricercare style, Purcell/Oberon and
    Titania (from Midsummer Night’s Dream), Handel – what
    would have been said if he’d met Bach, Vivaldi – why was he
    so vain? (his red hair?)
  • First notes and first words – Elgar/Introduction and Allegro;
    Where’er/Where’er You Walk (from Handel/Semele);
    Greensleeves (arr. Vaughan Williams); Gary/Gary, Indiana
    (from The Music Man)
  • Final Songs: The Sun Has Got His Hat On, Cilea/Federico’s
    Lament, Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine
    (Parody), Any Old Coat and Any Old Hat
Held in Archives
[Unconfirmed: World Service Radio Archive XO237889 (as 21 Jan 1995)]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:14, 19210, S
03 Nov 1992
Recorded
21 Nov 1991
27-5
#509
TS491
  • Schubert/Trout Quintet/Schnabel, Chopin/Piano Concertos,
    Monteverdi/1610 Vespers, Noël Coward and Benjamin Kubelsky
    (aka Jack Benny)
  • Manny Curtis, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston/The Story of a
    Starry Night (based on Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 6),
    recording by Glenn Miller, 1941, with vocalist Ray Eberle
    (his brother, Bob Eberly, sang with Jimmy Dorsey)
  • Colours in Music: brown chord, blue note, Ketèlbey/Wedgwood
    Blue, Blue Orchids, Silver Threads among the Gold
  • What tune ought a musical bra play?: John: Anything by Max
    Reger “or any of his descendants (Janet, for example)” [Janet
    Reger was a well-known English lingerie designer]; Frank: “A
    sleeping, walking, eating, talking, livin’ bra” [probably after the
    Cliff Richard lyric, “a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, living
    doll”]; Ian: The hills are alive with the sound of music; Denis:
    The Theme from The Odd Couple
  • First words or chords: Debussy/La cathédral engloutie; massa/
    Stephen Foster/Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground [Originally
    Massa’s in de Cold Ground]; Ouverture to Rossini/The Barber of
    Seville; hold that tiger/Tiger Rag, picture/Tea for Two
  • Final Songs: You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me, The Whistler
    and His Dog, What Percy’s Picked Up in the Park, Make Believe
    (Steve), Long Ago and Far Away
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO237918 (as 21 Jan 1995)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:15, 12838, m
------------
BBC WSRA
28:54, 6840, m
10 Nov 1992
Recorded
21 Nov 1991
27-6
#510
TS492
  • Crossovers: Frederica von Stade; Yesterday; My Way/Anthony
    Newley; Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
  • Audiences for musical events:
  • Piano Medley
  • Heavenly Singing: William Byrd, George II, Allegri/Miserere,
    song for airline safety announcements
  • Refashioning the human body: gills, ignition too near the
    exhaust, overdrive switch, another pair of arms
  • Final Songs: Other People’s Babies; O, Mistress Mine
    (music by Steve Race); Are You Lonesome Tonight;
    Oi, Marie
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO236455 (as 21 Jan 1995)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
ABC RN
27:07, 19135, S
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BBC WSRA
28:51, 6828, m
17 Nov 1992
Recorded
05 Dec 1991
27-7
#511
  • Sir Malcolm Arnold/Concerto for Three Hands; Delius/Sea
    Drift (based on Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly
    Rocking); Berlioz/Rob Roy Overture; Rossini/William Tell Overture
  • Nigel Kennedy Quotes: Brahms/Violin Concerto No. 2; Vaughan
    Williams/The Lark Ascending; Led Zeppelin/Black Dog; Peter
    Gabriel/Shock the Monkey
  • Music Played while You’re Waiting on Hold: It Ain’t Necessarily
    So; Why Are We Waiting; See the Conquering Hero Come;
    Home on the Range; the Theme from The Sting
  • First Chords/First Words: de Falla/Miller’s Dance from The
    Three-Cornered Hat; “sometimes”: “Sometimes I wonder …”
    (Carmichael-Parish/Stardust), Youmans-Caesar/Sometimes
    I’m Happy (Sometimes I’m Blue), “Sometimes between long
    shadows on the grass …” (Metcalf-Young Glen/Absent),
    Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (traditional spiritual);
    Gershwin/Rhapsody in Blue; “another”: Grey-Ayer/Another
    Little Drink; Another Op’nin’, Another Show (Cole Porter/Kiss
    Me Kate), “Another bride, another groom …” (Donaldson-
    Kahn/Makin’ Whoopee from Whoopee!)); (for the audience)
    “overhead”: “Overhead the moon is beaming …” (Romberg/
    Serenade from The Student Prince)
  • Final Songs: Noel Coward/Dear Little Café from Bittersweet;
    The Old Sow Song (aka The Old Sow); Leigh/Mary Ann,
    She’s After Me; Steve plays Lane-Harburg/How Are Things
    in Glocca Morra?; Lane-Lerner/On a Clear Day You Can
    See Forever
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO236686 (as 22 Jan 1995)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
Unidentified
Radio 4 (1992),
Radio 2 (1995)
or World
Service (1995)?
28:32, 10117, m
24 Nov 1992
Recorded
05 Dec 1991
27-8
#512
  • Dame Ethel Smythe/March of the Women; Javanese court
    gamelan/The End of the Golden Rain; Soave sia il vento
    from Mozart/Così fan tutte, Fiordiligi sung by Dame Kiri Te
    Kanawa; George Shearing/Falling in Love with You Again
    written by, sung by, played by Shearing
  • Seeing a Conductor’s Face: A good or a bad idea? The
    panel comment
  • First Time on My Music: Carl Nielsen; Symphony No. 4
    (op. 29); Maskarade; Third Movement of Symphony No. 4
    is labeled Poco adagio quasi andante -– what does this
    mean?; Symphony No. 4 by BBC Symphony was recorded
    in Abbey Road Studio #1
  • What Piece Are You Currently Enjoying?: Monteverdi/
    Confitebor tibi Domine; lots of Mozart; a Mendelssohn
    Octet; And the World Goes ’Round a revue (John Kander-
    Fred Ebb); The Swingle Singers
  • Final Songs: These Foolish Things; Coward/Don’t Put Your
    Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington; How Can a
    Guinea Pig Show He’s Pleased?; On the Road to Mandalay
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive XO236687 (as 22 Jan 1995)
At end Steve Race says “until we meet again”, indicating last of
a series
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
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Edis
Unidentified
Radio 4 (1992),
Radio 2 (1995)
or World
Service (1995)?
28:39, 13519, m
06 Dec 1993
Recorded
20 Oct 1993
28-1
#513
TS493
  • Verdi/Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore, Wagner/Prelude to Die
    Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Dame Janet Baker sings Che
    farò senza Euridice from Gluck/Orfeo ed Euridice, Britten/
    Albert Herring
  • Fats Waller, Nat King Cole, Cleo Laine and John
    Dankworth, Fred Ahlert
  • Reizenstein/Variations on The Lambeth Walk (pastiches of
    Chopin, Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart)
  • Libretto Writers: Garnett/Aspects of Love, Leroux/
    Phantom of the Opera, Wilder/Sunset Boulevard
  • Final Songs: All Alone, Copland/Rodeo, He Led Me Up the
    Garden, Old-Fashioned Town
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO336830 (as 04 Feb 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
28:28, 26756, S
13 Dec 1993
Recorded
20 Oct 1993
28-2
#514
Not
taken
by TS
  • Poulenc/Gloria in G major, Duke Ellington/The Nutcracker
    Suite, Tornami a dir che m’ami from Donizetti/Don Pasquale,
    Fred and Adele Astaire sing Swiss Miss from Lady Be Good
  • Mendelssohn/Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”), Musical Muirs,
    Ballroom Dances/Quick Step/Slow Fox Trot, Musical Alarm
    Clocks
  • Beginnings and Endings: Brahms/Piano Concerto No. 2, in
    B♭ major, op. 83; Oh, What a Lovely War; The Lady and
    the Nightingale; Film Studio Themes
  • Songs for the Prime Minister
  • Piano Medley
  • Second Verse of God Save the Queen
  • Final Songs: After You’ve Gone, Master Kilby, Faye and
    Ichabod, Laura
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330076 (as 19 Jan 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
29:18, 27530, S
20 Dec 1993
Recorded
27 Oct 1993
28-3
#515
TS494
  • Grainger/Blithe Bells (after Bach/Sheep May Safely Graze
    BWV208); New York, New York; Ian Partridge (Ralph
    Vaughan Williams/Ten Blake Songs, thus lyrics by William
    Blake; Barry Manilow
  • Comment on Tchaikovsky/Romeo and Juliet
  • World Music from: The Andes, Brazil, Kenya, Jamaica
  • Musical Quotations from: Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton,
    Ernest Newman, Sir Thomas Beecham
  • Music Starting with the same four notes: Charpentier/
    Depuis le Jour (from Louise), Mr Brown goes off to town on
    the 8.21 (from The Dad’s Army Theme), Charles Williams/
    The Dream of Olwen (from While I Live), Harry Warren,
    Mack Gordon/I Know Why (and So Do You) (from Sun
    Valley Serenade)
  • Comments on Orchestral Music
  • Final Songs: C'est magnifique, Bilbo's Last Song (duet with
    Ian and John), They’re Moving Father’s Grave, The Old
    Songs
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330190 (as 23 Jan 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
29:27, 27671, S
27 Dec 1993
Recorded
27 Oct 1993
28-4
#516
TS495
  • Joplin/Maple Leaf Rag (played by the Labèque sisters),
    Layton and Johnstone, Laurel & Hardy, Peter Reeves and
    Fenella Fielding singing The Laughing Grains from Pieces
    of Eight
  • Palace Matters: They’re Changing Guard at Buckingham
    Palace/A. A. Milne (words) and Harold Fraser-Simson
    (music), Origin of (musical) royalties, Were Duke
    Ellington and George Gershwin Victorians? Marriage of
    Princess Flavia/Prisoner of Zenda
  • Dvořák/Cello Concerto, Jacqueline du Pré, Irish Traditional
    Music, Music from Israel
  • Music for the District Nurse
  • Maria Callas, Cleo Lane, Felicity Lott, Mel Tormé
  • Final Songs: Dream, I Wonder as I Wander, I Shan’t
    Mend Your Waistcoat Any More, Limehouse Reach
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330290 (as 29 Feb 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
28:50, 27103, S
03 Jan 1994
Recorded
03 Nov 1993
28-5
#517
TS496
  • Dvořák/Symphony No. 8, Tom Jones, Plácido Domingo and
    Katia Ricciarelli, Post Horn Gallop
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Mozart’s K3, Domestic servants
    in The Turn of the Screw, Comments by P. G. Wodehouse,
    Robins and Roses
  • Memory Test from Last Week’s Episode
  • Music in Various Minor Keys: E Minor (Elgar/Cello Concerto,
    Chopin/Prelude in E minor, Brahms/Symphony No. 4);
    A minor (Grieg/Piano Concerto); G minor (Purcell/When I
    Am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas), Elgar/
    Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Mozart/Symphony
    No. 40, Mozart/When a Maiden Takes Your Fancy (Wer
    ein Liebchen hat gefunden from Die Entfuhrung aus dem
    Serail)); B minor (Gershwin/Summertime)
  • Song Lyrics: And are terrible/Faery Song (from Rutland
    Boughton/The Immortal Hour, Windmill End/Flanders
    and Swann/Slow Train, The rank is but the guinea’s
    stamp/A Man’s a Man for A’ That, Signor Caruso/I
    Want to Sing in Opera
  • Final Songs: Get Out and Get Under the Moon, John
    whistles Borodin/String Quartet in D (And This Is My
    Beloved from Kismet), Will You Love Me When I’m
    Mutton?, The Gentle Maiden (solo by Steve), Maria
    Marì (Oi, Marie)
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330566 (as 02 Jan 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
28:59, 27229, S
10 Jan 1994
Recorded
03 Nov 1993
28-6
#518
TS497
  • Shostakovich/Hamlet, Prelude to The Sound of Music,
    Grieg/Holberg Suite, Ellington/Prelude to a Kiss
  • Miscellaneous Questions: György Ligeti, Thurber, Michael
    Tippett comment on music, Buddy Rich comment on
    country and western music
  • Drink to Me Only: Ben Jonson Writer, Original poem/To
    Celia, Celia sent the wreath back, Ben Jonson buried in
    Westminster Abbey
  • Tapped Rhythms: Beethoven/Piano Concerto No. 4, in
    G major, op. 58; Smash Bang Wallop; Trumpeter, What
    Are You Sounding Now; Hernando's Hideaway
  • Musical Mr’s: Mr Cinders, Mr Florist, Mr Snow, Mr Jackson
  • Plucked Sting Instruments: Schubert/Arpeggioni Sonata,
    Sitar, Sapateado, Hammer Dulcimer
  • Answers in the Words of a Song: Darling, je vous aime
    beaucoup, Don’t Bring Lulu, What is Mimi’s real name in
    La Bohème? (Answer: Lucia – “Mi chiamano Mimi ma il
    mio nome è Lucia.”), Learn to Croon
  • Final Songs: In a Shady Nook, King Henry, Don’t You
    Worry, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330544 (as 14 Feb 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
29:25, 27636, S
17 Jan 1994
Recorded
10 Nov 1993
28-7
#519
TS498
  • Bernstein/Trouble in Tahiti: What a Movie, Tennyson/Britten,
    Dora Bryan, George Shearing and Robert Farnon
  • Scat Singing in an Opera/Porgy and Bess, Mouth Music/
    Scotland, Traditional Welsh Singing, Rap Singing
  • Musical Sisters: Sister Angelica, Sister Kate, Sister
    Josephine/Jake Thackray, The Singing Nun
  • Musical People You Have Met:
  • Brother Can You Spare a Dime, Shostakovich, Deanna
    Durbin, Harry Champion
  • Final Songs: What Will I Do?, John whistles a selection
    from Ravel/Rapsodie Espagnole, What’s The Use of
    Kissing a Girl Only Once a Night?, Bonny Mary of Argyle
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330655 (as 15 Feb 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
29:29, 27706, S
24 Jan 1994
Recorded
10 Nov 1993
28-8
#520
TS499
final
original
radio
episode
  • Delius/Violin Concerto, Elisabeth Welch, Schubert/Symphony
    No. 9, in C major, D944 ("Great"), Nina Simone
  • What Would You Take Mozart to Hear or See?
  • Clapping Between Movements, Music You Don’t Ever Want
    to Hear Again, Where Are All the Bass Singers?, When Did
    Musical Comedies Become Musicals?
  • Playing Records at the Wrong Speed: Maurice Chevalier,
    Ian Wallace, George Formby, Mae West
  • Mnemonic for GBDFA
  • Final Songs: Who’s Sorry Now?, The Blonde in the Gondola,
    The Whistle, Moon River
Held in Archives
World Service Radio Archive reference XO330779 (as 22 Mar 1996)
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Edis
BBC R7
28:03, 26355, S

Television Episodes
My Music was first recorded by BBC Television as an experiment on March 7th 1974. However, the first television broadcast (of the 200th recorded radio edition) did not take place until September 21st 1977. From 1977 to 1986 My Music was recorded simultaneously for both radio and television – although the subsequent editing differed to accommodate the requirements of the respective media (television episodes were scheduled for 25 minutes rather than 30 minutes). Generally speaking, a radio series of some 26 episodes would result in some 13 television episodes, the television series being broadcast later in the year than its radio equivalent. During its ten year television run, produced throughout by Douglas Hespe, over 130 editions were broadcast on the BBC2 channel.

Broadcast
Date
Series-
Episode
Contents
Cast
Parameters
21 Sep 1977
Recorded
13 Jan 1977
TV1-1
TV#001
Rounds from the same recording session as the 200th radio edition
From the Commonwealth Institute
We identify S12E07 as the 200th radio edition
From the radio Series 12 recording sessions
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Hespe

28 Sep 1977
TV1-2
From the Commonwealth Institute


05 Oct 1977
TV1-3
From the Commonwealth Institute

12 Oct 1977
TV1-4



19 Oct 1977
TV1-5



26 Oct 1977
TV1-6



02 Nov 1977
TV1-7



09 Nov 1977
TV1-8



16 Nov 1977
TV1-9



23 Nov 1977
TV1-10



30 Nov 1977
TV1-11
#TV011



23 Sep 1978
TV2-1
#TV012
From the radio Series 13 recording sessions


30 Sep 1978
TV2-2



07 Oct 1978
TV2-3



14 Oct 1978
TV2-4



21 Oct 1978
TV2-5



28 Oct 1978
TV2-6



04 Nov 1978
TV2-7



11 Nov 1978
TV2-8



18 Nov 1978
TV2-9



25 Nov 1978
TV2-10



02 Dec 1978
TV2-11



09 Dec 1978
TV2-12



16 Dec 1978
TV2-13



23 Dec 1978
--
No program, Replaced by 'Hansel and Gretel’


30 Dec 1978
--
No program, Replaced by 'Chaplin Double Bill'


31 Dec 1978
TV2-14
TV#025



18 Jul 1979
TV3-1
TV#026
From the radio Series 14 recording sessions
RT: What famous song does Nicklausse sing? [Ans=A Doll with
Enamel Eyes from The Tales of Hoffman]


25 Jul 1979
Recorded
08 Feb 1979
TV3-2
TV#027
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 14-12
From the Westminster Theatre
RT: What do the words ‘Al Coda’ mean? [matches TS253, which
we identify as 14-12]


01 Aug 1979
Recorded
08 Feb 1979
TV3-3
TV#028
Rounds from radio edition 14-11
From the Commonwealth Institute
RT: What is a Kemp’s Jig? [matches TS252, which we identify as
radio 14-11]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:21, 248728
08 Aug 1979
Recorded
22 Feb 1979
TV3-4
TV#029
Rounds from radio edition 14-15
RT: What is blue and beautiful but unhooded? [Ans = Christopher
Robin’s nanny’s dressing gown; matches TS256, which we identify
as 14-15]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
23:35, 240746
15 Aug 1979
TV3-5



22 Aug 1979
Recorded
25 Jan 1979
TV3-6
TV#031
Rounds from radio edition 14-8 with one non-radio round
Matches TS248 or TS249. TV 3-9 is identifiable as TS248. Therefore
TV 3-6 is TS249, which we identify as 14-8.
‘Spelling Bee’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Took
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
23:55, 254429
29 Aug 1979
Recorded
15 Feb 1979
TV3-7
TV#032
Rounds from radio edition 14-13 with one non-radio round
RT: If an Ambulance man with his two notes wanted to play ‘The
lost Chord’ how far would he get?
[matches TS254, which we identify as S14E13]
‘Musical Objects’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:32, 250513
05 Sep 1979
Recorded
01 Feb 1979
TV3-8
TV#033
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 14-10
RT: Who would you pair, musically speaking, with Ethel Bartlett?
[matches TS251, which we identify as 14-10]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe

12 Sep 1979
Recorded
25 Jan 1979
TV3-9
TV#034
Rounds from radio edition S14E07 with two non-radio rounds
RT: What was the first thing Beecham always did on arriving
at the conductor’s podium?
[matches TS248, which we identify as S14E07]
‘Conducting with a Baton’ and ‘Songs for Swinging Zookeepers’
are not radio edition rounds
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Took
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:33, 250720
19 Sep 1979
TV3-10



26 Sep 1979
TV3-11



03 Oct 1979
Recorded
22 Mar 1979
TV3-12
TV#037
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 14-19
RT: What did the princess of Cyprus do for only two nights
in Vienna?
[matches TS260, which we identify as 14-19]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe

10 Oct 1979
TV3-13
TV#038



01 Jul 1980
TV4-1
TV#039
From the radio Series 15 recording sessions


08 Jul 1980 TV4-2
TV#040



15 Jul 1980 TV4-3
TV#041



22 Jul 1980 TV4-4
TV#042



29 Jul 1980
Recorded
31 Jan 1980
TV4-5
TV#043
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 15-10
From the Commonwealth Institute
RT: How old was Mozart?
[matches TS279, which we identify as 15-10
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe

05 Aug 1980
TV4-6
TV#044



12 Aug 1980
TV4-7
TV#045
RT: Where can I find the Dew Fairy?


19 Aug 1980
TV4-8
TV#046



26 Aug 1980
TV4-9
TV#047



02 Sep 1980
Recorded
17 Jan 1980
TV4-10
TV#048
Rounds from radio edition 15-6
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
RT: What is a paradiddle?
[matches TS275, which we identify as 15-06]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:40, 251845
09 Sep 1980 TV4-11
TV#049



16 Sep 1980 TV4-12
TV#050



23 Sep 1980 TV4-13
TV#051



Recorded
24 Jan 1980
Unallocated
TV4-*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-8 with one round from 15-7
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:31, 250454
Recorded
31 Jan 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-9 with one round from 15-10
and one nonradio round
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
‘Caribbean Steel Drums’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
23:38, 243068
Recorded
21 Feb 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-12 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:53, 254153
Recorded
28 Feb 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio editions 15-13 and 15-14 with three non-radio rounds
From the Commonwealth Institute
‘Event Photographs’, ‘Middle Bits’ and ‘Music Representing the Human Race’
are not radio edition rounds
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:42, 252321
Recorded
06 Mar 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-15 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
with a Baton’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:27, 249746
Recorded
06 Mar 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-16 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:33, 250683
Recorded
13 Mar 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-17 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
‘Relive your Musical Life’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:42, 252362
Recorded
13 Mar 1980
Unallocated
TV4*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 15-18 with two non-radio rounds
From the Commonwealth Institute
‘Opera for Televison’ and ‘Photographs’ are not radio edition rounds
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:54, 254202
07 Jul 1981
TV5-1
TV#52
From the radio Series 16 recording sessions


14 Jul 1981
Recorded
02 Feb 1981
TV5-2
TV#53
RT: Where in a song do the following words appear: ‘Check your
Personality’? [Ans = Thoroughly Modern Millie, suggesting TS306, which
we identify as 16-11. However, the TV version of 16-11 (see below)
does not include the relevant round.]


21 Jul 1981
TV5-3
TV#54



28 Jul 1981
TV5-4
TV#55



04 Aug 1981
TV5-5
TV#56
RT missing


11 Aug 1981
TV5-6
TV#57



18 Aug 1981
Recorded
19 Jan 1981
TV5-7
TV#58
Rounds from radio edition 16-8
RT: ‘The party’s over’, ‘I hear you calling me’, ‘Three meals a day’
and ‘Shenandoah’ are the four nostalgic songs [matches TS303,
which we identify as 16-8]
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
25:12, 257360
25 Aug 1981
TV5-8
TV#59



01 Sep 1981
TV5-9
TV#60



08 Sep 1981 --
No program -- Replaced by 'Monsieur Mitterrand Takes Over'


15 Sep 1981
Recorded
23 Feb 1981
TV5-10
TV#61
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 16-18
RT: In an anniversary more than half the musicians wore their
carnations on the right instead of the usual left. Why? [matches
TS313, which we identify as 16-18]


22 Sep 1981 TV5-11
TV#62



29 Sep 1981 TV5-12
TV#63



06 Oct 1981 TV5-13
TV#64
From the Commonwealth Institute


Recorded
12 Jan 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-5 with one non-radio round
‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:40, 251963
Recorded
26 Jan 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-9 with one non-radio round
‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:06, 246133
Recorded
26 Jan 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-10 with one non-radio round
‘Musical Objects’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:32, 250472
Recorded
02 Feb 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-11 with one non-radio round
‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
23:10, 236404
Recorded
02 Feb 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-12
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:29, 249974
Recorded
16 Feb 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-16 with two non-radio rounds
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
‘Photographs’ and ‘Nationality’ are not radio edition rounds
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:17, 248015
Recorded
23 Feb 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-17 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute, London

‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
24:11, 247002
Recorded
02 Mar 1981
Unallocated
TV5*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 16-20 with one non-radio round
‘Photographs’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
23:48, 243,131
[-intro]
27 Dec 1981
Recorded
18 Nov 1981
special
My Music For Christmas
From the same recording session as the radio edition of 23 Dec 1981
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe

16 Jul 1982
TV6-1
TV#66
From the radio Series 17 recording sessions
RT: The first of 13 programmes


23 Jul 1982
Recorded
19 Jan 1982
TV6-2
TV#67
Rounds from radio edition 17-5 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
RT: Where would you find a Small Bore? [matches TS327, which we
identify as 17-5]
‘LP Covers’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
20:58, 214186
[truncated]
30 Jul 1982
TV6-3
TV#68



06 Aug 1982
Recorded
05 Jan 1982
TV6-4
TV#69
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 17-1
RT: What can you tell me about A=440? [matches TS323,
which we identify as S17E01]


13 Aug 1982
TV6-5
TV#70



20 Aug 1982
TV6-6
TV#71



27 Aug 1982
TV6-7
TV#72



03 Sep 1982
TV6-8
TV#73
RT: What complaint did Smetana have in common with Beethoven?
[Ans=Deafness]


10 Sep 1982
TV6-9
TV#74



17 Sep 1982
TV6-10
TV#75



24 Sep 1982
Recorded
24 Mar 1982
TV6-11
TV#76
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition S17-14
From the Commonwealth Institute
RT: Where would you find a new deck of bicycles? [matches TS336,
which we identify as 17-14]


30 Sep 1982
TV6-12
TV#77
Thursday - an “extra” in the broadcast sequence


01 Oct 1982
TV6-13
TV#78



Recorded
19 Jan 1982
Unallocated
TVS6-*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 176 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
“Captions for Photograph” is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
21:01, 214629
[-b-e]
Recorded
16 Feb 1982
Unallocated
TVS6-*
episode
Rounds from radio edition 17-19 with one non-radio round
From the Commonwealth Institute
‘Music for an Energy Crisis’ is not a radio edition round
Amis, Muir
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Hespe
BBC TWO
MP4 VIDEO
17:56, 183137
[truncated]
27 Dec 1982
special
TV#079
My Music For Christmas
From Sadlers Wells Theatre
There was no 1982 Christmas broadcast on Radio 4? But there was a
Sadlers Wells Tercentanary edition on 15 Jan 1983?


10 Jun 1983
TV7-1
TV#080
From the radio Series 18 recording sessions


17 Jun 1983
TV7-2
TV#081
From the Westminster Theatre


24 Jun 1983
TV7-3
TV#082
RT: What musical work did Berlioz compare to the gamboling of
elephants? In Gracie Fields repertoire, can you identify Walter,
Albert and Fred?


01 Jul 1983
Recorded
09 Mar 1983
TV7-4
TV#083
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 18-11
From the Westminster Theatre
RT: In which song will you find a charcoal burner? [matches TS357,
which we identify as 18-11]


08 Jul 1983
TV7-5
TV#084
From the Fulcrum Centre, Slough


15 Jul 1983
TV7-6
TV#085
From the Westminster Theatre


22 Jul 1983
TV7-7
TV#086
From the Westminster Theatre


29 Jul 1983
TV7-8
TV#087
From the Westminster Theatre


05 Aug 1983
TV7-9
TV#088
From the Westminster Theatre


12 Aug 1983
TV7-10
TV#089
From the Westminster Theatre


19 Aug 1983
TV7-11
TV#090
RT: Is it true that every one of Chopin’s compositions involves a piano?


26 Aug 1983
TV7-12
TV#091
From the Westminster Theatre


02 Sep 1983
TV7-13
TV#092



21 Dec 1983
Recorded
30 Nov 1983
special
TV#093
My Music For Christmas
From the same recording session as the radio edition of 21 Dec 1983
From the Westminster Theatre


11 May 1984
TV8-1
TV#094
From the radio Series 19 recording sessions


18 May 1984
Recorded
25 Jan 1984
TV8-2
TV#095
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 19-6
RT: From which song come the words “I kissed her on the ship”
[matches TS379, which we identify as 19-6]


25 May 1984
Recorded
18 Jan 1984
TV8-3
TV#096
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 19-3
RT: Gentlemen, can you suggest an appropriate well-known song
to dedicate to a new baby? [matches TS376, which we identify as
19-3]


01 Jun 1984 TV8-4
TV#097
RT: You have five seconds in which to summarise the plot of Verdi’s
Aida [But see TV8-14]


08 Jun 1984 TV8-5
TV#098



15 Jun 1984
Recorded
15 Feb 1984
TV8-6
TV#099
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 19-11
RT: Who first recorded the song “This pullover”? [matches TS384,
which we identify as 19-11]


22 Jun 1984
Recorded
01 Feb 1984
TV8-7
TV#100
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 19-9
RT: Ian Wallace sings ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ at the close
[matches TS382, which we identify as 19-9]


29 Jun 1984 TV8-8
TV#101



06 Jul 1984
TV8-9
TV#102
The 100th TV appearance per RT but we have identified 101
prior TV episodes


13 Jul 1984 TV8-10
TV#103
RT: How did Birdland get its name?


20 Jul 1984 --
No broadcast - Replaced by 'The Proms'


27 Jul 1984 TV8-11
TV#104



03 Aug 1984
TV8-12
TV#105



10 Aug 1984
TV8-13
TV#106



17 Aug 1984
TV8-14
TV#107
RT: You have five seconds in which to summarise the plot of Verdi’s
Aida [But see TVS8-4]


24 Aug 1984
TV8-15
TV#108



31 Dec 1984
Recorded
28 Nov 1984
special
TV#109
Holiday Special
From the same recording session as the radio edition of 23 Dec1984
From the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall


26 Jul 1985
TV9-1
TV#110
From the radio Series 20 recording sessions


02 Aug 1985
TV9-2
TV#111



09 Aug 1985
TV9-3
TV#112
From the Westminster Theatre


16 Aug 1985
TV9-4
TV#113



23 Aug 1985
Recorded
12 Mar 1985
TV9-5
TV#114
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 20-21
From St John's, Smith Square
Peter Jones replaced Frank Muir
Matches TS416 or TS417. TVS9-6 is identifiable as TS417.
Therefore TV9-5 is TS416, which we identify as 20-21


30 Aug 1985
Recorded
12 Mar 1985
TV9-6
TV#115
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 20-22
From St John's, Smith Square
Peter Jones replaced Frank Muir
RT: Where in a song will I find a reference to cobblestones?
[Ans = Underneath the Arches; matches TS417, which
we identify as 20-22]


06 Sep 1985
TV9-7
TV#116
RT: The important question of what to sing in the bath tub is one
of the issues in tonight’s edition


13 Sep 1985 TV9-8
TV#117
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 20-4
From the Westminster Theatre
RT: Gentlemen, can you think of an appropriate song for your
car? [matches TS402, which we identify as 20-4]


20 Sep 1985
Recorded
23 Jan 1985
TV9-9
TV#118
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 20-3
From the Westminster Theatre
RT: In which song would you find the words ‘Swing together
and Swear’ [matches TS401, which we identify as 20-3]


27 Sep 1985
Recorded
20 Mar 1985
TV9-10
TV#119
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 20-23
From the Westminster Theatre
Benny Green replaced Denis Norden
RT: Where in a song will I find a reference to 'playing the fool'?
[matches TS418, which we identify as 20-23]


04 Oct 1985
Recorded
20 Mar 1985
TV9-11
TV#120
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 20-24
From the Westminster Theatre
Benny Green replaced Denis Norden
Matches TS418 or TS419. TV9-10 is identifiable as TS418.
Therefore TV9-11 is TS419, which we identify as S20E24


11 Oct 1985
TV9-12
TV#121



18 Oct 1985
TV9-13
TV#122



19 Dec 1985
Recorded
06 Nov 1985
special
TV#123
Holiday Special
Rounds from the same recording session as the radio edition of
22 Dec 1985
From the Westminster Theatre


11 Jul 1986
TV10-1
TV#124
From the radio Series 21 recording sessions


18 Jul 1986
TV10-2
TV#125
From the Westminster Theatre


25 Jul 1986
TV10-3
TV#126
RT: Musical instruments from the clavichord to the kazoo and
composers from Gounod to Gershwin are featured


01 Aug 1986
TV10-4
TV#127



08 Aug 1986
TV10-5
TV#128
RT: With which instrument does the breathing not necessarily
coincide with the phrasing?


15 Aug 1986
TV10-6
TV#129



22 Aug 1986
TV10-7
TV#130



29 Aug 1986
TV10-8
TV#131
Rounds from the same recording session as radio edition 21-15
RT: What would you expect to hear the Airedale Symphony
Orchestra playing? [matches TS436, which we identify as 21-15]
The last in the series per RT, but…


04 Sep 1986
TV10-9
TV#132
… a change of day to Thursday and not noted as a repeat in RT


11 Sep 1986
TV10-1
TV#124
Thursday; not noted as a repeat in RT



Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date Title Cast Parameters
1974  B sides of TS version of Lillian Baylis Concert at Sadler's Wells
Issued as a two LP set, these were used on the back sides to
automatic playing of the My Music sides on automatic turntables
  1. Ian Wallace Entertains - from Sadlers wells
  2. Peter Pears on Britten's Operas

  1. Ian Wallace
  2. Peter Pears


27:53, 26138, S
26:30, 24838, S 

Promotional Trailers for My Music from TS Discs
  1. My Music - Trailers 121888 & 121889 (CN715)
  2. My Music - Trailers 129746 & 129747 (CN1447)
Steve Race


7:52, 7381, S
10:20, 9682, S
BBC R3
03-Jul-2012
An Evening With John Amis (90th Birthday)
John Amis, Louise Fryer

149:08, 139813, S

Conversations with Alan Farley
Alan Farley hosted Friday evenings on KALW (San Francisco) which
included one episode each of My Word and My Music, a short
excerpt of something else between them and longer interviews
  • Denis Norden
  • Ian Wallace
  • John Amis
Alan Farley
KALW

  • 30:32, 14318, M
  • 35:33, 16668, M
  • 34:06, 15983, M

Articles and Obituaries
  • Article about Denis Norden
  • Article about Frank Muir
  • Article about Ian Wallace
  • John Amis Obituary
  • Article about John Amis
  • Letter from Steve Race to Sandy Finlayson
  • Article about Steve Race

DOC, DOCX and JPG
files