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This CD is an extremely RARE addition to our archives. Derek Barsham had a truly superb voice of the old nostalgic 'head tone style' which was the envy of the world and enabled boys to sing soprano long after the mutation.
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Stories have grown up surrounding Derek's career. Legends can't be verified but even the bare facts tell a remarkable story. Almost certainly, the last-surviving professional boy soprano of the 1940's, he sang with all the great stars of the day, and even in front of the captured Nazi deputy, Rudolph Hess at a private performance in gaol. And one of his broadcast songs "Nymphs & Shepherds" is believed to have been used as a signal to the Allied troops just a few days after the D-Day landings in June 1944. Derek Barsham was most broadcast boy soprano of all time, just outshining his immediate successor Billy Neely in this respect, who was probably the most recorded. He was on the air almost weekly from 1944 to 1947, and his performance of "Land of Hope and Glory" followed immediately Winston Churchill's announcement of V.E. Day in June 1945. This has, sadly, been lost, but many songs remain for our enjoyment and are now available for the first time on a special CD as a tribute to this famous "Boys Brigade Boy Soprano."
Enjoy this nostalgic programme!