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Thread #79364 Message #2336363
Posted By: GUEST,Charles Cooke
09-May-08 - 05:12 AM
Thread Name: History - BBC's 'Singing Together'
Subject: RE: History - BBC's 'Singing Together'
i was a primary school, pupil in Doncaster in the 1960s+ and listened to Singing Together at 11.00 on Monday morning. i loved it. My elder brother was for a time in the choir that recorded the programmes and i joined a spin off "The Danensian Choir" as soon as i was old enough. The Choir was formed by William "Pip" Appleby, who was Doncaster Schools Music Co-ordinator and Organist at the Parish Church. I knew him well and grew up in the Choir to be one of his "Elder and betters". he retired in about 1971 and died not long afterwards. i still have a little thank you present he gave me for looking after younger boys in the choir on one of our trips to Ely cathedral. An earlier poster on this thread, Ralph Bacon, who was also in the recording Choir, was my Form master at the Grammar School.