Christopher Robin Milne reputably recorded "Vespers" at some stage, though I don't know the catalogue number (presumably on HMV). It appears to have been received with some derision by his peers when he went to public school. Anybody know anything of this? I do have HMV B.2980, which is labelled as sung by one "Master Christopher Robin" and contains four songs from the "Now We Are Six" block - Down By The Pond, The Engineer, The Friend and Us Two. This was recorded in 1928, when CRM would have been eight. As it wasn't unknown for girls to impersonate boys unashamedly at that period (Joe Petersen being the obvious example in the early 30s), there's no guarantee that this is for real. Sure sounds like an eight-year-old, though.
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