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  • ...as "Bawdy but British", Byng was famous for his female impersonations. His songs are full of sexual innuendo and double entendres. Due to the prejudices of ...ef name=baker/> where he first performed the cabaret [[w:Drag queen|drag]] songs for which he is best remembered, described by the critic [[w:Sheridan Morle
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  • ...ss Conway]], and several songs recorded by [[Tommy Steele]] ("A Handful of Songs", "Butterfingers" and "[[Little White Bull]]").<ref name="nyt"/> By the mid ...Roper's book, and some of it in Colin Chambers'</ref> He also wrote comedy songs for the Sunday lunchtime BBC radio programme ''[[Billy Cotton|The Billy Cot
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  • ...terview on stage in part of the second half. He also performed a number of songs.
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  • [[Category:Songs about occupations]] [[Category:British songs]]
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  • ...rejoiced in their more bawdy side, and this was reflected in his choice of songs and exuberant stage performances. He recorded a track called "Old Codger" w * ''George Melly Sings Songs Of Frank Crumit'' (Decca DFE 6557) (1959): "[[Abdul Abulbul Amir]]" / "Get
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  • ...um called ''Father, Dear Father'' (1969) in which Cargill sang a medley of songs. The female voice on the album was not Noel Dyson (Nanny) but that of June
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  • ...[Richard Rodney Bennett]]. The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a [[cover version]] of [[The Troggs]]' "[[Love Is All Around]]" [[Category:1994 LGBT-related films]]
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  • ...took the form of 1930s film and show tunes – reminiscent of the way period songs were also used in ''[[Secret Army (TV series)|Secret Army]]''. [[Category:1990s British LGBT-related television series]]
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  • Humphries had written and performed songs and sketches in university revues, so after leaving university he joined th Humphries [[emcee]]d a programme of [[Weimar Republic]] [[cabaret]] songs performed by chanteuse [[Melissa Madden Gray|Meow Meow]] and accompanied by
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