I remember listening to BBC on the BBC in the forties and seeing him live at "The Empire" in Edinburgh. Something in the jungle of wool I laughingly refer to as my memory, tells me he was Canadian.
A CD is available here
My favourite song, performed by the resident comic in the group, was, "The Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me"

The song I best remember Shirley Abicair for, was "Little Boy Fishing"

Eddie