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Thread #71362   Message #3750546
Posted By: GUEST,Dorothy's son a Guest
13-Nov-15 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Boomps-a-Daisy (Annette Mills)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boomps-a-Daisy (Annette Mills)
Not sure if anyone is still following this thread but in case you are I thought you might be interested to know that my mum remembers promoting this song in Blackpool in the show "On with the Show" on Blackpool's North Pier in 1939 when she was aged just 13 years of age. Lawrence Wright was the promoter and Annette Mills was one of his artists. There is a video of the dance being performed on the North Pier if you look on you tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfmDa4BlHk. If you do my mum called Dorothy is in it, the second blond haired girl coming into view on 45 secs. The first girl is called Betty and became mums partner in a double act that toured Britain in 1942 to the end of the war in 1945. We will be dancing the Boomps a Daisy at her 90th birthday party next week. Amazingly we knew nothing of any of her life on stage until about 8 weeks ago.