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Scout Performances Compilation The Gang´s All Here Part 1313 c1990
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This video can be watched in higher definition at • • Scout Performances Compilation (The ... • This is the last part of my series (13-4) on the gang show organised, produced and compered by Jack Seaton on behalf of the RAF gang shows and called The Gang´s All Here . • It was a very good show with lots of well known faces in it....Jim Davidson, Russ Conway, Reg Cooper, Cardew Robinson, Chubby Oates, Don Smoothey, Joe Black and Drew Miller. There are a few other faces that pop up, I need some help naming them all! • This was a charity performance so all of the acts would have given of their time freely and were not paid. It would have been performed around 1990. • When I have finished uploading all the segments I will put this entire show (in 13 parts) in a playlist called The Gang´s All Here . It will include all scenes from the show and not just the big name spots. So for all you scouts out there, enjoy. Perhaps this wonderful footage will give you some inspiration for your own gang shows in the future. • Ralph Reader´s war and post war years.... • Through the pre-war Gang Shows, Reader became friends with Air Commodore Archibald Boyle, the deputy director of RAF Intelligence. The German Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, attended the 1938 London Gang Show and invited Reader to visit the Hitler Youth Movement in Germany. Boyle persuaded Reader to become an Intelligence Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve with the rank of Flight Lieutenant, although the diplomatic situation had deteriorated before he could take up von Ribbentrop's invitation. • On the outbreak of war, Boyle sent Reader to France for undercover work, in the guise of running a concert party, for which some former Gang Show members were recruited into the RAF. The show was entitled Ralph Reader and Ten Blokes from the Gang Show and, besides allowing Reader to complete intelligence tasks, had a positive effect on morale. • On returning to England, Reader was ordered to expand the Gang Shows, while his visits to RAF stations allowed Reader to monitor subversive propaganda which was a concern of the RAF high command. Reader eventually raised twenty-four RAF Gang Show units and two female WAAF units with a total establishment of nearly four hundred serving personnel. The RAF Gang Shows toured nearly every theatre of war, from Iceland to Burma. • By 1944, Gang Show units were estimated to have travelled 100,000 miles and entertained 3,500,000 servicemen. Some of those who served in the RAF Gang Shows would later become well known entertainers, such as Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Dick Emery and Cardew Robinson. For Reader´s services to the Royal Air Force he was awarded an MBE (Military Division) in 1943. • After the war Reader set up his own production company, Ralph Reader Limited, which revived many shows he had produced before the war. The first postwar Gang Show ran for three weeks at the Blackpool Opera House and broke the theatre's records. He also rebegan producing the London Gang Show in 1950, and wrote more songs and musical plays for the Scout Association. He produced the Gang Show annually until 1974, and his association with it continued until his death. • He published an autobiography, It's Been Terrific in 1953, with a second volume, Ralph Reader Remembers, in 1974. He was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1957 for services to the Boy Scouts Association . • In the 1970s he was appointed to the post of Chief Scout's Commissioner, and in 1975 was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. He died in 1982, one week short of his 79th birthday. • He was the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre. • Vaudeville Funtimes Playlists… • Variety Performances… • • Variety Performances • Chubby Oates Stand Up… • • Chubby Oates Stand Up • Panto Performances… • • Panto performances • Chuby Oates Blue Stand Up... • • Chubby Oates Blue Standup • The gangs All Here... • • The Gang´s All Here • The Importance of Being Earnest (Hinge and Bracket)... • • The Importance of Being Earnest (Hin... • Uptown at the Downtown... • • Uptown at the Downtown 1982 • Queen Mothers 90th Birthday... • • Queen Mother´s 90th Birthday (A Royal... • Chubby Oates telly, Radio and Monologues... • • Chubby Oates Telly, Radio and Monologues • Female Impersonation... • • Female Impersonation
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