The Beverley Sisters, the Glossary

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1. 83 relations: Alyn Ainsworth, BBC Radio, Bedford, Bethnal Green, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924), Birmingham Mail, British Newspaper Archive, Burma Star, Cabaret, Cecil Madden, Chipping Barnet, Christmas music, Close and open harmony, Columbia Graphophone Company, Daily Mirror, Danny Kaye, David Beckham, Decca Records, Desert Island Discs, Eamonn Andrews, EMI, England national football team, Eric Winstone, Evening Chronicle, Gay bar, Glenn Miller, Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Gracie Fields, Greenfields (song), Greensleeves, Guinness World Records, Hippodrome, London, I Dreamed, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Irving Berlin, K-tel, Lewis Gilbert, Light entertainment, List of Christmas hit singles in the United Kingdom, List of Decca Records artists, Little Donkey, Live television, London Palladium, London Recordings, Lupino family, Malt drink, Max Bygraves, McCarthy Stone, ... Expand index (33 more) »

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Alyn Ainsworth

Alyn Ainsworth (24 August 1924 – 4 October 1990) was a British musician, singer and conductor of light entertainment music.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the public service broadcast outlet British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927).

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Bedford

Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England.

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Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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William Ambrose Wright (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Birmingham Mail

The Birmingham Mail (branded the Black Country Mail in the Black Country) is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, England, but distributed around Birmingham, the Black Country, and Solihull and parts of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.

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British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.

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Burma Star

The Burma Star is a military campaign medal, instituted by the United Kingdom in May 1945 for award to British and Commonwealth forces who served in the Burma Campaign from 1941 to 1945, during the Second World War.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Cecil Madden

Cecil Charles Madden, MBE (29 November 1902 – 27 May 1987), was an English pioneer of television production.

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Chipping Barnet

Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north-northwest of Charing Cross, east from Borehamwood, west from Enfield and south from Potters Bar.

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Christmas music

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.

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Close and open harmony

A chord is in close harmony (also called close position or close structure) if its notes are arranged within a narrow range, usually with no more than an octave between the top and bottom notes.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

Columbia Graphophone Co.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.

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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer.

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David Beckham

David Robert Joseph Beckham (born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.

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Eric Winstone

Eric Winstone (born 1 January 1913, London – died 2 May 1974, Pagham, Sussex) was an English big band leader, conductor and composer.

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Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle, now referred to in print as The Chronicle, is a daily newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne covering North regional news, but primarily focused on Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding area.

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Gay bar

A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBTQ+ communities.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904; disappeared December 15, 1944; declared dead December 16, 1945) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces.

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Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II

The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II was the international celebration held in 2002 marking the 50th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952.

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Gracie Fields

Dame Gracie Fields (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was a British actress, singer and comedian.

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Greenfields (song)

"Greenfields" is a song written by Frank Miller, Richard Dehr, and Terry Gilkyson (The Easy Riders) and performed by the Brothers Four.

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Greensleeves

"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hippodrome, London

The Hippodrome is a building on the corner of Cranbourn Street and Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, London.

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I Dreamed

"I Dreamed" is a popular song with music by Charles Grean and lyrics by Marvin Moore.

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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a Christmas song with music and lyrics by British songwriter Tommie Connor and first recorded by American singer Jimmy Boyd in 1952.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter.

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K-tel

K-tel International Ltd is a Canadian company which formerly specialized in selling consumer products through infomercials and live demonstration.

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Lewis Gilbert

Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

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Light entertainment

Light entertainment encompasses a broad range of television and radio programming that includes comedies, variety shows, game shows, quiz shows and the like.

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List of Christmas hit singles in the United Kingdom

The following is an incomplete list of Christmas songs which have appeared in the official singles chart in the United Kingdom.

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List of Decca Records artists

Decca Records is a recording label.

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Little Donkey

Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol, written by British songwriter Eric Boswell in 1959, which describes the journey by Mary the mother of Jesus to Bethlehem on the donkey of the title.

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Live television

Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho.

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London Recordings

London Recordings (or London Records and London Music Stream) is a British record label that marketed records in the United States, Canada, and Latin America for Decca Records from 1947 to 1980 before becoming semi-independent.

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Lupino family

The Lupino family is a British theatre family which traces its roots to an Italian émigré of the early 17th century.

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Malt drink

A malt drink is a fermented drink in which the primary ingredient is the grain or seed of the barley plant, which has been allowed to sprout slightly in a traditional way called "malting" before it is processed.

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Max Bygraves

Walter William "Max" Bygraves (16 October 1922 – 31 August 2012) was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer.

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McCarthy Stone

McCarthy & Stone Limited, trading as McCarthy Stone, is a developer and manager of retirement communities in the United Kingdom.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Ovaltine

Ovaltine (also known by its original name Ovomaltine) is a brand of milk flavoring product made with malt extract (blue packaging in the United States), sugar (except in Switzerland), and whey.

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Peter Stringfellow

Peter James Stringfellow (17 October 1940 – 7 June 2018) was an English businessman who owned several nightclubs.

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Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label founded by Dutch electronics company Philips and Dutch-American music corporation Universal Music Group.

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Poole

Poole is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England.

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.

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Rosemary Clooney

Rose M. Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress.

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Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which King Charles III is life-patron).

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Sisters (song)

Sisters is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1954, best known from the 1954 film White Christmas.

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls were an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").

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Stars on Sunday (TV series)

Stars on Sunday was a religious request programme produced by Yorkshire Television (YTV) and broadcast on the ITV network between 1969 and 1979.

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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in northwest Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II.

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Tatler

Tatler (stylized in all caps) is a British magazine published by Condé Nast Publications.

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The Andrews Sisters

The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The Beverley Sisters and the Andrews Sisters are family musical groups, Female-fronted musical groups and Sibling musical trios.

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The Boswell Sisters

The Boswell Sisters were an American close harmony singing trio of the jazz and swing eras, consisting of three sisters: Martha Boswell (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connie Boswell (later spelled "Connee", December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988). The Beverley Sisters and the Boswell Sisters are family musical groups and Sibling musical trios.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Little Drummer Boy

"The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by American composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941.

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The Stage

The Stage is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry and particularly theatre.

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This Is Your Life (British TV series)

This Is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American series.

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Traditional pop

Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.

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Trio (music)

In music, a trio (from the Italian) is any of the following.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Val Parnell

Valentine Charles Parnell (14 February 1892 – 22 September 1972) was a British television managing director and presenter, actor and theatrical impresario.

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Variety Bandbox

Variety Bandbox is a BBC Radio variety show transmitted initially in the General Forces Programme and then the Light Programme.

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Victoria Beckham

Victoria Caroline Beckham (born 17 April 1974) is an English fashion designer, singer, and television personality.

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Willie Can

"Willie Can" Is a popular hit song written in 1955 by the American country and western songwriter Boudleaux Bryant and his wife Felice Bryant.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (commonly referred to as Wolves) is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, the Black Country, England.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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2006 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2006 in some Commonwealth realms were announced (on 31 December 2005) in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Grenada, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, and Saint Christopher and Nevis to celebrate the year past and mark the beginning of 2006.

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See also

Lupino family

• Ida Lupino
• Lupino Lane
• Lupino family
• The Beverley Sisters
• Wallace Lupino

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverley_Sisters

Also known as Babs Beverley, Beverley Sisters, Beverly sisters, Joy Beverley, Teddie Beverley, The beverly sisters.

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