• Stompin' at the Savoy
  ...la Fitzgerald|Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[w:Louis Armstrong|Louis Armstrong]] (1956), [[w:Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] (1957),<ref>Harrison et al, p. 160.</r ...w:Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day|Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day]]'', 1956
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• Ying Tong Song
  | released = {{Start date|1956|09|20|df=y}} ...highest position was No. 3 in the [[UK Singles Chart|UK Singles Chart]] in 1956<ref name=chart /> (the original [[A-side and B-side|A-side]] was "[[Major B
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• The Goodies discography
  ...es]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Betts|first=Graham|title=Complete UK Hit Albums 1956-2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/collinscompleteb0000bett/page/150 15 |style="text-align: left"|''The Goodies Sing Songs From The Goodies'',<br><small>(reissued as ''[[The World of the Goodies]]''
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• Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
  ...cography, Performances on Video|url=http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/nice_work_if_get_it_p.html|access-date=2021-08-04|website=greatamericanso ...ork City |isbn=978-0-19-993739-4 |pages=295–297}}</ref> It was one of nine songs the Gershwin brothers wrote for the movie ''[[w:A Damsel in Distress (1937
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• Barbara Lyon
  ...pers.com]]}}</ref> was a [[w:singing|singer]] of [[w:popular music|popular songs]] and [[w:actress|actress]], born in the United States but primarily active ...in her own [[w:television program|TV series]], ''Dreamtime With Barbara'' (1956).<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=1&q=dreamtime+with+barba
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• The Goodies and the Beanstalk
  ...[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie. ==Songs and music==
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...the war years with their irreverent comedy style, and Flanagan and Allen's songs also contributed to their success. All their films were directed by [[Marce ...d all the others. The Gang made a television series, ''The Gang Show'', in 1956. The Gang was understudied by [[Peter Glaze]].
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...ef> was an English comedian, actor and vocalist of [[popular music|popular songs]].<ref name="Dead">[http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2002.html Thedeadrockst ...ve King Show''.<ref>Theatre Programme, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Blackpool, 1956. Cyril Critchlow Collection, Blackpool Central Library, Vol. 48 p. 38.</ref
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• Lizbeth Webb
  ...h Guétary, "This Is My Lovely Day", became one of the BBC's most requested songs of all times,<ref name=GuardianObit/> and the song's popularity, and that o ...ar, in Korea in 1953 (while under enemy attack) and in Cyprus and Libya in 1956, where she met her second husband, who was head of the British military for
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• Songs and monologues of Stanley Holloway
  ...of one of his 1957 albums containing recordings of his old "concert party" songs commented, "what a fine voice he has and how well he can use it – diction |1956
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• Max Bygraves
  ...on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. He made twenty ''[[Royal Variety Performance]]'' appearances and presented ...hat he could punch lines, which was absolutely great for us. We'd give him songs with very short lines and he'd punch them out marvellously. Give him a long
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• Ted Ray (comedian)
  ...new characters included Mrs Dipper and Roger Curfew, the paying guest with songs by [[John Hanson]] and the King's Men. ...he glamour girl who would do anything, but "Not until after six-o'clock!" Songs came from the Beaux and the Belles, and [[Bob and Alf Pearson]] provided th
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• Douglas Byng
  ...as "Bawdy but British", Byng was famous for his female impersonations. His songs are full of sexual innuendo and double entendres. Due to the prejudices of ...ef name=baker/> where he first performed the cabaret [[w:Drag queen|drag]] songs for which he is best remembered, described by the critic [[w:Sheridan Morle
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• Suzette Tarri
  ...roles as a [[soubrette#Theatre|theatrical soubrette]], singing light comic songs, and by 1913 was regularly accompanied by her husband, the Scottish singer ...esident of the [[Concert Artistes Association]].<ref>''The Stage Year Book 1956'', p.25</ref>
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• Bud Flanagan
  | children = Buddy Flanagan (1926–1956) ...Miss You" sang of missing one's sweetheart during enforced absences. Other songs such as their most famous "[[Underneath the Arches (song)|Underneath the Ar
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• Ray's a Laugh
  ...omedy. However, it started off as an American-style three-'spot' show with songs and music.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Krutnik |first1=Frank |url=https://books. In the first two series, songs came from an act known to listeners as the Beaux and the Belles, who were a
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• Arthur Haynes
  ...w'', a comedy sketch series produced by [[Associated Television|ATV]] from 1956<ref name="lostshows">[http://lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=95227f6e- On 21 February 1956, Haynes appeared in the first edition of [[Associated Television|ATV]] vari
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• Nicholas Phipps
  | caption = in ''[[The Iron Petticoat]]'' (1956) ...films between 1940 and 1970. He wrote [[West End theatre|West End]] plays, songs and sketches for [[revues]], and film scripts.
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• Jimmy James (comedian)
  ...Jockeys, a singing group, as "Terry, the blue-eyed Irish boy" with popular songs of the day<ref name="SunSun"/> and gained experience with a number of other ...tton Conyers, played by members of the Casey family and more famously from 1956 to 1959 by a young [[Roy Castle]].<ref name="SunSun"/> Eli Woods's real nam
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• Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record
  ...adio]] comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]'', recorded a number of hit comic songs and became known internationally through his many film characterisations, a ...of albums containing sketches and comic songs;{{sfn|Hall|2006|p=254}} the songs were undertaken in a variety of comic characters.{{sfn|Lewis|1995|p=79}}
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