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Thread #10366   Message #2769636
Posted By: MGM·Lion
20-Nov-09 - 02:27 AM
Thread Name: WWII songs
Subject: RE: WWII songs
'Lewes Saturday Folk Club in Lewes, Sussex, UK, has a night with the excellent verse and prose reader Roger Brasier:

'THE DAY WAR BROKE OUT
An evening of humour, nostalgia and pathos to mark the 70th. anniversary of the start of World War Two. '

Must have been a great evening. Does everyone recognise its title? It was the opening catchphrase of the v popular N Country radio comedian Robb Wilton right thru the War. I remember his first broadcast when the War had just ended, & he brought the house down by beginning, "The day Peace broke out..."