Additional important news about the historic importance of Daventry, for those of you who have been following, from a regular reader.....
The comedy duo Flotsam and Jetsam, a 1920’s/1930’s forerunner to Flanders and Swann, recorded their most famous song “Little Betty Bouncer” in 1927, which contains the lines:-
It’s the voice that announces with a lot of passion in it
“The Daventry Shipping Forecast will follow in a minute”.
Little Miss Bouncer
Loves an announcer
Down at the BBC..
Flotsam was Bentley Collingwood Hilliam, a Yorkshire-born pianist, with the tenor voice (and the songwriter), and Jetsam was Australian concert basso cantante (with a three-octave range), Malcolm McEachern.
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