Syd Lawrence Orchestra 1970's Morcambe & Wise Show - Royal Variety Show - Sez Les

[@janerobinson1548]

After years of looking for our Dad close up I found him. Brom Harvey. The trumpeter next to the drummer. we lost Dad to cancer 35 years ago, and like Norman Browns son , we miss him still. great days of music.

[@gilljames6370]

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[@gilljames6370]

Yes

[@yomogiwitch]

My Dad Norman brown sadly passed on January 23rd 2024. 💔

[@gilljames6370]

I was there with SLO as his front of house helper at the concerts.Got Vera Lynn's autograph too that day ⁹

[@sarahelan2498]

So happy to have come across this. I remember going to see the Syd Lawrence Band in Guildhall, Winchester with my Mother, when I was probably 12 years old, and enjoying it so much. So much so, that I went up and asked for their autographs!

[@gilljames6370]

I probably gave you a programme and even sold you a recording on tape in those days I travelled with Syd Lawrence in his car that would have been a Rolls Royce Gill

[@luiscaprara3504]

Impressionado com a perfeição da reprodução dos arranjos de G. Miller.

[@leedsman54]

Thank you for bringing the Syd Lawrence orchestra from the deepest corner of my memory! I remember seeing them on Les Dawson’s show in the seventies quite regularly.

[@mitchmichaelcoburn1577]

A few bars in, my dad, Alec Coburn, on guitar.

[@jeremyhaines3847]

This is lovely and fantastic

[@yomogiwitch]

oh wow! I only just found this now, my dad Norman Brown was tenor sax player in the Syd Lawrence Orchestra for many years, you can see him soloing on Pennsylvania 65000. I miss him terribly and our talks about music, he is now in a care home suffering from Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.

[@mikethomas7038]

Very sorry to hear that Sam. I played in bands with your dad and he did some recordings i think with the Andy Prior orchestra I was in at the time. Fantastic sax player & quite a legend amongst fellow musos! My trumpet teacher Dave Browning was also in Syd's band. Best wishes to you and Norman!

[@mikethomas7038]

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[@jamesshubert4866]

You're very lucky to have found a video of your dad playing. I'm extremely jealous. My dad played professionally in the 20's and 30's in a midwest (Chicago, Ill.) band; I remember he and my mom telling stories about band life, but unfortunately there wasn't any video back then.

[@gilljames6370]

Norman was a great friend of my partner Frank Dixon So sad to here news, those were the days Gill .

[@yomogiwitch]

Unfortunately, my Dad Norman brown sadly passed on January 23rd 2024. 💔@@mikethomas7038

[@alanwitton5039]

Fabulous stuff

[@Thursdaym2]

I went to their first ever rehearsal as a mix of BBC northern dance orchestra and Granada band members, then followed them each week as they increased their book.

[@jackiecampbell7903]

great times!!

[@grahamselley6922]

Lovely

[@caravanadventures5312]

The trumpet player on the left on the Royal Variety is Johnny Lawton I think,

[@largejannerkernow5359]

Tight.👍

[@MARKMANIATT]

If I didn’t know better I would swear the drummer on the Royal Variety Clip is my old a dear friend, Geoff Myers?

[@kathryngraves4108]

🎶 💗

[@yomogiwitch]

unfortunately my Dad Norman brown sadly passed on January 23rd 2024. 💔

[@highpath4776]

Looks like the Sez Lez recordings were done in one day, and then spliced into some of the endings of the show over the series ?

[@gilljames6370]

Yes there was a days rehearsal and then a live recording in the evening with the guest appearance of some very high class performers. I was in the audiece every week when I was a driver for a member of the SLO