1956: "March Hare" - Jack Coles Orchestra
Details
| Title | 1956: "March Hare" - Jack Coles Orchestra |
| Author | wordsmith52 |
| Duration | 1:36 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=uj86JUmA3NU |
Description
A UK radio band name of Jack Coles playing the "March Hare" - a jig type number from the 50s composed for the 50s film of the same name. It was heard a lot on the BBC radio in the 50s and early 1960s, but hardly, if ever, nowadays.
Its composer, British musician Philip Green, (19 July 1911 - 6 October 1982), was a film and television composer and conductor. The March Hare (1956) won an Ivor Novello Award. The film is a 1956 British comedy film directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Martita Hunt and Cyril Cusack. It follows the efforts in Ireland to turn a seemingly useless racing horse into a Derby-winner. It is based on a novel by T. H. Bird with the screenplay by Gordon Wellesley and others.
See http://www.mastersofmelody.co.uk/ for a wide range of further music and words from historic radio broadcasts and programmes.
