Jackdaw

I remember that before he got the host's job on the show,he appeared on it and other TV shows as a light comedian.
I can't remember too much about him after he left the show,but I'm sure that he suffered from heart disease which finally killed him after a long period of ill health.My guess would be that he died in the eighties.

Cheers

Jacky

Jackdaw

Check.
Iv'e just found on 45-rpm site that he died in 1967 at the age of 38.If that's true,it's yet another example of time playing its tricks on my deteriorating memory!

Cheers

Jacky

Marky B

Thanks for your answers,sorry for not replying sooner. Keeping on with quiz shows,when tributes were made to Ronnie Barker last week on the Jeremy Vine Show,its presenter Brian Hayes (standing in for Vine) referred to Nicholas Parsons as Sir Nicholas Parsons. I can't recall him ever getting a knighthood and I thought it was a bit ironic since the great RB never got one.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Steve Crook

Nicholas Parsons was awarded an OBE in 2004. But no knighthood that I know of.
If he got one he'd never survive the barracking on Just a Minute.

Knighthoods aren't often awarded just for TV work. There usually has to be a healthy dose of film or theatre work as well and doing a lot of charity work helps.

Steve

chas41n

Who were the group who sang "The Fox" whilst knocking the bloke with the glasses about. Also what happened to The Three Monarchs.

David Brent

Sounds like Freddie and the Dreamers but I do not recall a song from them titled "The Fox".
I remember The Three Monarchs - they were the guys with the mouth organs wern't they? I remember them as being very good too.
I think they retired. Not a lot of call for mouth organ groups these days.

Dave.

Dame Starry

Oh, when I was a little girl I loved 'The Three Monarchs' - especially Cedric; didn't he have a lisp?
The members were Eric York, Jimmy Prescott and Les Henry ('Cedric').
Les Henry actually turned down an offer to work on a project with Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe after they were all demobbed together. Les joined the Monarchs and Secombe and Milligan's 'project' became 'The Goon Show'.
'The Three Monarchs' split up in 1981 and Les Henry went solo. Sadly, I've just discovered that Les died on January 12th this year aged 86.
There are obituaries in The Times online and The Stage online.
I can't find out what happened to the other two.

Starry x.

hankoler

Was cedric the one with the goaty beard and squeaky voice,i used to like them as well when i was younger.

Mr Cosmo

Never mind what happened to him after Sunday Night At The London Palladium, what happened to him before that?
Did he ever do anything else? The IMDb only has him listed as the host of the Palladium show and that only from 1960-61

Don Arroll's story is a sad one. He was a Glasgow born comedian who made a name for himself and then got the prestigious Paladium gig when he was in his early 20s. Sadly his wife died in a car crash and I think also his daughter was killed. Despite this blow he continued and he was popular in theatres and in particular the Glasgow Alhambra 5 past 8 shows. In 1966 he remarried, but he suffered a heart attack in 1967 and died aged just 38 leaving behind his daughter from his first marriage and his wife and new baby daughter.

He was also a pretty fair singer and I like to think that he would have come back into the TV limelight in the 1970s.

mr cosmo

Dame Starry

Yes, hankoler, if I remember he had a lisp as well. It was him who used to make me laugh when I was little.

I still hanker after those days of variety when the whole family could sit down and have a laugh together. Where did they go?

Oh God - I must be getting old!

Starry x.

hatpeg

As a child I remember this from Bruce Forsyth, he receited it to eventually get to catchphrase.
We loved the cowboy shows and all receited it at school the next day

It went:
Bronco Layne had a pain so they sent for Waggon Train,
Waggon Train was too slow, so they sent for Ivanhoe,
Ivanhoe killed a man ,so they sent for big Cheyanne,
Big Cheyanne was having tea, so they sent for Laramie
Laramie lost his cargo so they sent for Wells Fargo,
Wells Fargo lost their hunter ,so they sent for Billy Bunter,
Billy Bunter was too large, so they sent for I'M IN CHARGE!

David Brent

I also remember host Norman Vaughan's catchphrase - "Swinging" (thumbs up) and "Dodgy" (thumbs down). He also added "Elsie" (making a womans curved shape with his hands) and "Tanner" (holding his hand out for sixpence).
Elsie Tanner of course was then a well-known character in the soap 'Coronation Street'.

Everyone got into the habit of making the hand gestures for - Swinging, Dodgy, Elsie Tanner. One after the other.
It may not sound much but those expressions and hand signs swept Britain at the time.
In its time 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' was not so much a television program as an institution. Everyone but everyone seemed to watch it.

Dave.

Dame Starry

I remember Norman Vaughan in the Cadburys Roses adverts too, "Roses grow on you!"
Sad that he died after a car crash at the age of 75 five years ago.
I remember driving on the A4 with a powder blue RR next to me one morning - and, I believe, it was him in it.
It's amazing who you see on the A4 when you're driving to Chiswick every morning: Duncan Preston in a black Saab convertible, Eric Clapton in an electric blue Mercedes and, one afternoon, Paul Daniels in his Roller - registration
MAG 1C - and I don't know how he could see over the steering wheel!
And I've strayed off of the subject - as usual!

Starry x.

donna

silly question really does anyone remember, the people on here put me to shame, I was just thinking about the London Palladium, the night the Beatles were on and they disappeard at the end when the guests had to go on the revolving stage, does anyone remember any other things from the Palladium.

Gazza

That was Sunday Night at the London Palladium with the Tiller Girls and Beat the Clock with Bruce Forsyth.