We Are The Ovaltineys - (From 1930s Broadcast)
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2019
- By clicking on the relevant link, you will be taken back to a broadcast from Radio Luxembourg featuring the opening and closing songs from the Ovaltineys.
It has been pointed out to me that the earlier broadcasts featured Jack Payne and his Band as the Ovaltineys Orchestra. The first vocalist heard is Brian Lawrance and Billy Scott-Coomber leads the closing chorus.
The League of Ovaltineys was one of the most popular childrens programmes broadcast to Britain in the second half the of 1930s. By the end of the decade there were over five million Ovaltineys.
For obvious reasons the League of Ovaltineys broadcasts ceased in 1939.
There were post war re-launches but they did not attract the same popularity of those heady pre-war days. This recordings is so redolent of the 1930s.
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My Mother was so overwhelmed when she stumbled upon this video as she is in the group picture, along with her brother and sister
My Mother is the blonde...
bottom row centre.
Thank you so much on behalf of my dear late Mother...
It truly meant the world to her.
So glad she saw it before her recent passing 🙏❤️🌹
May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
I'm 79 and my big brother (Born 1935) was an Ovaltiney. I learnt the words listening to him practise....
Malcolm Dale Same here! I was born in 1935
Where did you live at that time.?
Ahh the Ovaltineys & the beautiful echo of the 1930s
My mother & grandparents would burst into this song quite often when I tined our Grundig radio to 208.
A much more wholesome time for children to have been brought up in spite of the deprivations they had i think.
Radio Luxemburg, Ovaltineys, the Stargazers, listening with headphones to a crystal set, memories..... Such simple pleasures. Many thanks.
I remember back in the 70's my mum done some shopping and she bought a tin of Ovaltine and I saw something on the tin. And I looked at it again and it look's like a record! So I peel it off until I realize it was a record and I looked at the title and I played it on the record player and it was the same song I heard on ITV Advert. And it is strange that I still got it somewhere hahaha.. God Bless Ovaltineys 1930's
There was a nice authentic mid-1930s dance band version of the Ovaltineys tune that was much later used in the backing to a TV ad (as a car drives home in the rain), which I think originally came from a 78 rpm promo record. I once had a dub of it on an Ovaltine promotional 45rpm from the 70s, but somebody "borrowed" it and it never got returned. :-)
My dear old mum and her twin brother were in the Ovaltineys and may well have been in this recording, but I have no way of finding out when exactly they were on the radio. Luckily I found this recording on a website some years ago and played it to her a couple of years before she died. It brought back wonderful memories for her.
Wow, that’s lovely Graham, are they in that photo
@@Kevin-1969 - when the recording first appeared on the internet it was just the audio without any photos. Sadly I'll never know if she would have recognised herself and her brother in the photo as she was no longer around when the photo appeared..
@@probablygraham thanks Graham, beautiful story. I started watching the adverts and found this.
@@Kevin-1969 - thanks for the kind words. I'll always have the memory of my mum's face when she heard the recording on the internet ☺️
This recording was 1937-1938, this was in London The BBC Orchestra? We went every Sunday. I was 8 my Brother Bernard was 7 and my Sister Jeanne was 6. The Costumes make us look older. We had to practice for a while before the Recording. We were living in St Johns Wood, or St Marylebone at the time. I am now 93 years YOUNG. As you can see I am keeping up with TECHNOLOGY. I am living now in Sydney Australia, my Sister Jeanne is living in Bury St Edmunds in UK.
Great to hear this - that's Billy Scott-Coomber singing with the children - and it's not widely known, that at this time, (late 1935/6), the backing band was that of Jack Payne.
Please excuse the delay in replying but I was not aware of this until you mentioned it. It is indeed Jack Payne's band (as Ovaltineys Orchestra), in the earlier broadcasts. An informal picture of part of his band is shown in Radio Pictorial w/c 1.2.35). Incidentally, the first vocalist heard is Brian Lawrance. The final chorus is led by Billy S.C. Many thanks for your comment.
@@jackpaynefan Please excuse delay in replying, but that is me Beryl, front row middle, my Brother Bernard behind me, my Sister Jeanne behind him. The year must have been between 1937-1938. I still remember it well. When I found this on You Tube, I informed my Sister in England, and she also remembers it. My Brother sad to say passed away in 2006 in Norfolk, I live in Sydney Australia. I am 93, Jeanne 90. This bring back happy memories. At the time we were living in St Johns Wood. Or was it St Marylebone? HAPPY DAYS INDEED.
Forgot to mention our Sir Name- Brewer
@@berylallen1911 How interesting that you could see yourself as well as your brother and sister. It's good to put names to some of the faces in the photograph. Many thanks for sharing your memories. Sending good wishes to you and your sister.
Me, Bernard, Jeanne. Me in front Bernard behind me, Jeanne behind Bernard.
Love you Mum...❤
God bless you
Rest in Heavenly peace 🙏🌹
Before my time but my mum remembers it. Brilliant
Fantastic not a Gangster Rapper in sight,
Very nice !! until another War came along!!
I SODDING WELL HATE THE 21st CENTURY !!!! (let's go back to the early 1970's even the late 1960's as a 6 year old).