[78-L] Churchill's Secret Cabinet

[Don Chichester]

I was named after Winnipeg.  Considerably after.
 
dc
 
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:26:59 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Churchill's Secret Cabinet
> 
> I believe that information is still classified.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 7/13/2013 10:19 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> > Surely it's not going to go full circle and be revealed that Winston Churchill was named after Winnipeg!
> >
> > db
> >
> >
> >
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 9:09:34 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Churchill's Secret Cabinet
> >>
> >>
> >> Oddly enough, that's the common link. I can never remember Norman Shelley's
> >> name till I look up the Winnie The Pooh recording he made for Argo.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 7/13/2013 8:59 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> >>> Yes, when I saw Sterling Holloway, I was surprised. The voice of Winnie the
> >>> Pooh?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:16 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Er..Sterling (testicles never descended) Holloway? Try Norman Shelley.
> >>>>
> >>>> dl
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 7/13/2013 2:31 AM, Sammy Jones wrote:
> >>>>> I believe Mike Biel is doing research on this very topic.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>    From what I remember, many think some of Churchill's wartime broadcasts
> >>>> are
> >>>>> thought to *possibly* be by Sterling Holloway because the PM couldn't
> >>>> make
> >>>>> it to the studio for the broadcast (no broadcats could originate from the
> >>>>> British House of Commons).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here's an article I just found:
> >>>>> http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/Observer291000.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is important to remember that many of the audio clips from Churchill's
> >>>>> famous speeches that are floating around were made long after the fact by
> >>>>> Churchill for Decca, which may explain why they sound differently from
> >>>>> others recorded during the war.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have several lacquer recordings of Churchill from BBC shortwave
> >>>> broadcats
> >>>>> made by an American radio station during the war.  Now I've got to dig
> >>>> them
> >>>>> out and listen again!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sammy Jones
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> David Burnham wrote:
> >>>>>> I just listened to the complete broadcast and it was very interesting.
> >>>>>> ?They talk about there being a large number of Harry Lauder recordings
> >>>> but
> >>>>>> every example they played was from the single 12 inch disc, "Harry
> >>>> Lauder
> >>>>>> Medley". ?I wish they had identified the music they were playing
> >>>>>> throughout, it sounds like it may be from Vaughan-Williams but I
> >>>> couldn't
> >>>>>> recognize it. ?I have heard that most, if not all, of the recordings of
> >>>>>> Winston Churchill's speeches made during the war were in fact read by an
> >>>>>> actor and are not Churchill's voice at all. ?The recording from 1909
> >>>>>> sounds like a different voice than the recordings from 1941 but there's
> >>>> no
> >>>>>> mention of this in the text. ?I do agree that though there have been
> >>>> many
> >>>>>> great orators in the 20th century, he was perhaps the greatest.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> db?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ________________________________
> >>>>>>> From: Sammy Jones<sjones69 at bellsouth.net>
> >>>>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> >>>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 2:16:55 AM
> >>>>>>> Subject: [78-L] Churchill's Secret Cabinet
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Right now on BBC Radio 4's website, a documentary on Winston
> >>>> Churchill's
> >>>>>>> record collection - including homemade lacquers of some of his
> >>>> speeches.
> >>>>>>> I've only had time to listen to the first 15 minutes, but it seems
> >>>>>>> fascinating.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Only a few days left to listen:
> >>>>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3r0
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sammy Jones
> >>>>>
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