Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune

Subject: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: Pied Piper
Date: 22 May 03 - 06:36 AM

Hi folks.
I'm trying to find the music that used to accompany Workers Playtime on the Steam radio Home Service; can anyone help?

All the best PP

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: bradfordian
Date: 22 May 03 - 07:41 AM

Sound clip here but is it sheet music you are after?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: Pied Piper
Date: 22 May 03 - 10:51 AM

Thanks For that Bradfordian, is it raining there too?

All the best PP

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: GUEST,Bradfordian at work(?)
Date: 22 May 03 - 10:55 AM

No, PP, being a worker, it is now my playtime. (Or can we not play at work any more?)

Brad

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: Pied Piper
Date: 22 May 03 - 11:56 AM

Brad I wasn't having a dig, I just wondered.
PP

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 May 03 - 05:38 PM

I'm not familiar with Workers' Playtime. I take it you're not talking about the Billy Bragg album, but rather about some radio show. Can you tell a little more about it, for those of us on the other side of the pond?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: Gareth
Date: 22 May 03 - 06:54 PM

Yes Joe - Originated on the BBC during World War 2, Basicaly a lunchtime concert at a factory - If my memory serves which it may not here, Arthur Askey was the original compere.

Light music, poular tunes of the day - Intended to provide a phycological (SP) boost to the UK equivalent of "Rosie the Riviter"

Try this synopsis Click 'Ere ULR = http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/workersplaytime.htm

Now there was a similar program called " Music Whilst you Work ", again of wartime origin, which was basically light popular music   but "piped" in for playing over PA systems. This lasted until the late 1960's

The author and respected Naval Commander Nicholas Monseratte in his biography "3 Corvettes" had some very caustic comments on the standard of Broadcasting. But then as the radio was piped up from the 'Lower Deck' he had no choice as to what he had to listen to whilst in port.

For general information BBC broad casting in the 40's was the Home Service, Overseas Broadcasting (now the World Service) and the Light (Light entertainment Broadcasting) followed later by the Third Channel (Classical and Highbrow).

I must confess I can recall listening to "Workers Playtime" on an old 'Bakelight set' in the late 1950's.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Workers Playtime tune
From: bradfordian
Date: 23 May 03 - 03:31 PM

Ooops, your age is showing Gareth. :o)