• Alte Kameraden
  ...|italic=no|Alte Kameraden}}'''" ("Old Comrades") is the title of a popular German military [[march (music)|march]].<ref name="Teike">{{cite news |date=2 June ...march as "Alte Kameraden". A publisher purchased the song from him for 25 German Goldmark.<ref name="Hohenstein" /> In 1895, the Nowaweser Kapelle Fritz Kö
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• Flanagan and Allen
  ...Miss You" sang of missing one's sweetheart during enforced absences. Other songs, such as their most famous, "[[Underneath the Arches (song)|Underneath the ...2 095), in which they performed some of the earlier team's more best known songs in their own style, without attempting to imitate the originals.
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• Chesney Allen
  ...Miss You" sang of missing one's sweetheart during enforced absences. Other songs such as their best-known "[[w:Underneath the Arches (song)|Underneath the A
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• The Lumberjack Song
  ...the A&E DVD release of this special quote the original English lyrics.) A German translation of the angry letter featured at the conclusion of the BBC TV ve ...r papa"-variant of the song, rhyming with the word "BH" (''beːˈhaː''), the German abbreviation for "Büstenhalter".
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• ISIRTA plays, A-C
  * Song: [[ISIRTA songs|"I'm Gonna Live"]] * '''Song:''' "[[ISIRTA episodes and songs|Nigel Carter-Smith’s Society Band]]" ― Bill Oddie
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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 ...who owned a lace factory there. Byng studied music and [[w:German language|German]], but following the trade of his brother he concentrated on fashion. After
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• Lizbeth Webb
  ...ally performed two or three live broadcasts daily during the height of the German air-raids. She was also a regular on programmes such as ''Happidrome'', '' ...ps, she took part in propaganda broadcasts of German light music, often in German, working with [[Mischa Spoliansky|Mischa Spoliansky]], and sketches with up
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• Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
  ...ed in his diary for 16 June 1978 that during a script meeting, "Eric's two songs—'Otto' and the 'Look on the Bright Side' crucifixion song—are rather co ...com/news/entertainment-arts-30143250 |title=Monty Python tune tops funeral songs |work=BBC News |date=21 November 2014 }}</ref>
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• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  ...rol Cleveland]] in numerous supporting roles and [[Neil Innes]] performing songs. Also present for the shows and participating as an 'extra' was Python supe ...ss, the Pythons originally planned to release a film consisting of the two German shows redubbed and re-edited, but this proved impractical, and so ''Hollywo
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• Carry On Christmas Specials
  ...', B. T. Batsford: London, 1996. {{ISBN|0-7134-7967-1}} pp 93-94</ref> The songs reappeared in the 1973 stage show ''[[Carry On (film series)#Stage shows|Ca | [[Peter Butterworth]] || Carol Singer (2001 BC), Old Man, Darts Player, 2nd German Soldier, Friar Tuck
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...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 ...und|guineas]] (£105). The song was an affectionate pastiche of the sort of songs Flanagan had sung during the war.
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• Lili Damita
  ...Opéra de Paris]].<ref name=hs>{{cite book|last1=Tyler|first1=Don|title=Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era|date=2007|publisher= ==Early career in revue, modeling and German film==
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• Violet Carson
  Carson was born on German Street in [[w:Ancoats|Ancoats]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]]. Her father Wi ...hall style songs to light operatic [[aria]]s. She began in a show called ''Songs at the Piano'' and was a regular member of ''[[Children's Hour]]'' on the [
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...in London, the third child of [[Arthur Frankau]], son of Joseph Frankau, a German [[Jew]] who came to London from [[Frankfurt]] in the late 1830s and started ...|via=rateyourmusic.com}}</ref> Despite, or because of, this flavour in his songs, Frankau sold over 100,000 records in 1932. In 1934, Frankau began a comedy
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• Hotel Sahara
  ...he French. The Germans and the British lurk in the vicinity. Then both the German leutnant and the British major come up with the same idea, to disguise the * [[Anton Diffring]] as a German Soldier
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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 |By [[Edward German]]. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Re
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• Ronnie Hazlehurst
  | known_for = British television theme songs ...l as conducting the British entry, he also conducted the [[Telegram (song)|German entry]].<ref name="Times"/><ref name="Carlton"/> To conduct the British ent
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• Oh! What a Lovely War
  ...ng popular songs of the time, many of which were parodies of older popular songs, and using allegorical settings such as Brighton's [[West Pier]] to critici ...to overrule their countries' military mobilisation schedules. The German [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|invasion of Belgium]] leaves [[Edward Grey, 1st
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• Arthur Haynes
  ...a million tiny frogs and said nothing would get him into that. Just then a German aircraft started firing near them and Haynes dived straight into the trench
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  ...soldiers returning from [[Dunkirk evacuation|Dunkirk]] and sees his first German plane. His regiment is equipped with the obsolete [[BL 9.2-inch howitzer]]. ...ry aside—a long discussion of setting up musical shows, including names of songs, instruments and players. It is while playing jazz that he meets his lifelo
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