Listen
to “Our Gracie” sing The Grandest Song
Of All before a
live
audience
at
the Theatre
Royal,
Drury Lane, London,
6 May 1940,
just days before the
Nazi Blitzkrieg
on
France began.
Fred Godfrey, according to British Library, ASCAP, and published
sheet music; Performing Right Society also credits Harry Parr-Davies
— London: Chappell, 1940.
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Recordings
Wally Banks (Rex 9811, 1940)
Gracie Fields (Regal Zonophone MR-3288, 1940)
Sydney Lipton & His Grosvenor House Dance Orch.; Chips Chippendall,
vocal (Columbia FB-2433, 1940)
Joe Loss & His Band; Chick Henderson, vocal (HMV BD-5599, 1940)
Vera Lynn (Decca F-7459, 1940)
Jack Payne & His Band; Robert Ashley, vocal (Decca F-7509, 1940)