Philip Green and his Gob Music 'The March Hare' 1956 78 rpm

Details
Title | Philip Green and his Gob Music 'The March Hare' 1956 78 rpm |
Author | OldiesAL |
Duration | 2:57 |
File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufYzxlkvl0U |
Description
Philip Green was a British film and tv composer.
He started out in the 1930's playing in dance bands and signed to EMI in 1933 aged 21. He conducted large orchestras and small bands throughout Europe. He broadcast on Radio Luxembourg from 1935 to 1939.
He became arranger for Decca and accompanied many of their top starts including Donald Peers, Gracie Fields and Anne Shelton .
During his career he composed for 150 films including the 1956 comedy 'The March Hare' starring Peggy Cummings, Terrance Morgan and Cyril Cusack.
The plot follows an Irish baronet who loses his fortune and ancestral home on a fixed horse race and his plot to win The Derby with a useless horse called The March Hare.
Green won an Ivor Novello award for The Year's Outstanding Contribution to the Score of a Stage Play, Film, TV Programme or Radio Production at the 1957 awards which were in only their 2nd year.
Green's 'Gob Music' is nothing more than a male choir who sing but mostly make the sounds of the music with their mouths (gobs).
He composed for many tv shows including The Golden Shot.
he retired to Ireland were he composed church music, he composed a full St Patrick's Mass which was recorded in 1971, the following year he composed and recorded the Mass Of St Francis Of Assisi. 'Suffer Little Children was released as a single from this work and reached #3 in the Irish charts and is still used as a hymn in Catholic churches to this day
Philip Green died in 198 aged 71.