Malcolm Neville Lockyer, (b: 5 October 1923, London d. 28 June 1976). Trained as an architect, his interest in dance music dated from the age of 12, and he played semi-professionally until called up for war service as a musician in the Royal Air Force at the age of 19.

He played with Sid Phillips and his Quintet, and in 1944 he joined the Buddy Featherstonhaugh Sextet and recorded with them for Radion and HMV Records. After leaving the RAF, he worked as pianist with Ambrose, Cyril Stapleton and Robert Farnon.

He started with BBC radio in 1945, and during his career he worked on almost 6, 000 broadcasts and formed his own orchestra in 1951. A prolific composer (often under the pseudonym Howard Shaw), his biggest successes were ‘Friends and Neighbours’ (for the 1954 BBC television series), ‘Fiddler’s Boogie’ and ‘The Big Guitar’ (for the BBC television series Stranger Than Fiction - 1955).

He scored over 30 feature films and the television series The Pursuers and The Pathfinders. Together with Reg Owen he made a collection of albums for Top Rank with the Knightsbridge Strings and the Cambridge Strings. He succeeded Harry Rabinowitz as conductor of the BBC Revue Orchestra in 1960, and was associated with many radio shows, among them Mid-day Music Hall, Take It from Here and Beyond Our Ken. When the Revue and Variety orchestras were amalgamated in 1966 to form the new Radio Orchestra, he became associate conductor.

His connection with Glenn Miller began in 1944, when he was stationed in Bedford at the same time as the famous American band leader. He was able to study at first-hand how that unmistakeable sound was achieved. Shortly before his death in 1976 he conducted the Million Airs Orchestra in 26 highly-successful Glenn Miller Tribute Concerts.

On this week’s show is his march The Pathfinders played by the Wingates Temperance Band MD: John Harrison in 1975..

With another year having gone by, it is almost time for the old boys of Rastrick Grammar School to meet for another annual Old Rastrickians' Association dinner. I am sure many of its members will be thinking just how quick they come around. Even after so many of these annual gatherings, it is still an occasion they all look forward to.

Born in Bicester in 1931, Anthony Hedges studied music at Keble College, Oxford, and gained a first-class honour’s degree and a post-graduate degree in composition. After National Service as solo pianist and arranger with the Royal Signals Band. He spent the next five years as a lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of music. In 1962 he moved to Hull University where, until his retirement in 1995,

He has also written much music for children and amateurs as well as having composed for film, stage, ballet and television. His works have been performed by many major British orchestras and heard worldwide in many hundreds of broadcast and public performances. A prolific composer, much of his output has resulted from commissions - over 60 to date.

Today we feature one of the few pieces he has written form brass bands.

Jessa is a versatile singer specialising in vintage songs from 1900s-1940s as well as musical theatre, light classical and classic pop.
Jessa's flawless, effortless vocals, friendly manner and versatile repertoire result in a busy schedule of performing. She devises and performs her own one-woman shows in venues from theatres and arts centres to cafes and care homes, adapting and refining programmes to suit the audience. For different events, Jessa can perform with a range of accompaniments, from live piano accompaniment to backing tracks or a range of instrumentalists to suit the occasion and venue.

We are very pleased to hear Jessa on Sunday Bandstand for the first time. She is featured on the Shepherd Group Brass Band CD and is accompanied by the band and conducted by Richard Wilton. She will be appearing on future shows.

Lawrence Wright (15 February 1888 – 19 May 1964) was a British popular music composer and publisher. He was born in Leicester and opened a music shop in the city in 1906. A short time later his first song, "Down by The Stream", was published, and by 1912 he had established the Lawrence Wright Music Co in Denmark Street, London. Wright went on to write (or co-write) over 600 songs under his own name and as Horatio Nicholls, including the World War I propaganda song "Are We Downhearted? No!” and would receive an Ivor Novello Award in 1962 for Outstanding Contribution to British Popular Music. He was one of the very rare composers of popular music in this period to make a substantial amount of money - it had not been unusual to see composers who had written dozens of hits die in poverty

In 1927, Wright appeared in a short film made in the De Forest Phonofilm with excerpts of his revue Sensations of 1927.

His 1927 collaboration with Edgar Leslie, "Among My Souvenirs", has been covered by artists including Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, and Connie Francis.Wright founded Melody Maker magazine in 1926. He moved to Blackpool in the early 1920s and became a show promoter. Running "On with the Show" on the North Pier for a record-breaking 32 years (1924 - 1956). He lived in a mock castle house, later called the Castle Casino, on Blackpool's North Promenade. After he began using a wheelchair, he moved to a bungalow in Carlin Gate. After being sold, many items of memorabilia were discovered at the address including posters, bills, letters, sheet music and musical scores.

In 1930 he composed Amy, Wonderful Amy, a song about Amy Johnson.

On this week’s show we feature the poplar brass band march compilation Cavalcade of Martial Songs which was arranged for band by Gordon Mackenzie.

It was reported that Roy Roe one of the best soprano cornet players of his generation recently passed away. A segment in the second half of this week's show is dedicated to Roy and his years playing with the Band of the Yorkshire Metals during the 1970s. 

This was a period in the band's history when along with Roy the band went through a purple patch culminating with the 1978 National Brass Band Championships at the Royal Albert Hall in London when the band was crowned champions.

This show has a 1979 recording of the test piece and then three other pieces including a solo, a duet and a cornet section feature and closing with an arrangement of the National Emblem march which you will not have played by any other UK style brass band. The segment opens with the band's signature march.

To read about Roy's outstanding brass band career please have a look at the Bandstand Memories section on my website.

Enjoy the show

In this photograph taken in 2010 (courtesy of 4barsrest) shows Roy chatting with James Shepherd at the North West Regional Finals.

I have only just heard that the highly respected soprano cornet player, adjudicator and band trainer has sadly passed away.  I will be featuring solos and band performances that featured Roy in Sunday Bandstand next week. A few years ago I wrote a story about Roy's life in brass bands. I have made this story available once agin to remind us all what a talented player Roy was for so many years at the highest level of brass banding. Please read the story which I wrote in conjunction with Roy and the following is that story reprinted and unedited.

Peter Masseurs (24.7.1944 -  5.1.2019 ) was a  Dutch trumpet player . 

When he was twelve, he began playing trumpet, inspired by his musician and friend who also played trumpet.  He studied trumpet at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, where he graduated with the Prix ​​d'excellence .

After his study, in 1963, he went to play in the Marine Band of the Royal Navy. In March 1970 he became the first trumpet player of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra . From 1982 until his retirement in 2009 he was one of the two solo trumpeters of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He was also principal subject teacher in the trumpet at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam .

He played the solo concerts of Joseph Haydn , Henri Tomasi and Bernd Alois Zimmermann and the trumpet solo in the First Piano Concerto by Dmitri Shostakovich . In September 2002 he gave the world premiere (also on CD) of the concert for flugelhorn by Willem Jeths . This assignment work for the KCO was written especially for him. Besides Jeths other composers wrote for him, among them Otto Ketting and Martijn Padding ( One Trumpet). He also recorded a CD with works for trumpet solo (in the series Soloists from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ).

He performed as a soloist with many orchestras in the Netherlands and Europe and also played in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Asko Ensemble , the Schönberg Ensemble , the Viotta Ensemble, the Amsterdam Bach soloists and the Ebony Band.

In 2005 he recorded the Alexander  Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto with the Hepworth Persimmon Homes) Band. He was also involved in other recordings with the and his friend Huug Steketee.

Peter is featured on this week’s show in a lighter piece with the Hepworth (Persimmon Homes) Band which was composed by Huug Steketee

A long day today spent in the recording studio. My successful policing story book which was published three years ago is going to be an audio book. We have recorded the opening introduction which means just another 158 pages to go. The production will have short segments of music betwen the chapters which I am having specially composed for the production.

I will be posting further updates as the project progresses.. 

Getty Herschel Huffine (25,08.1889 - 12,02.1947) was an American music composer, trombonist and tuba player. He was born in Bowling Green Kentucky, the eldest of 4 children

He was employed at an axe handle factory and, when the local town band was organized in 1907, he joined and played the valve trombone. He was a self-taught musician. During the next 5 years, he taught himself tuba as well as the basics of harmony, counterpoint and composition. He spent his mature years as a tuba player in professional bands and circus bands. It is said he worked for C.L. Barnhouse as a music engraver. In 1919 he settled in Binghamton, New York playing in the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Factory band playing the tuba, as well as filling in on trumpet, trombone, and string bass based on information from Endicott-Johnson Co.

The Endicott-Johnson shoe band where he was a a member played his famous march, "Them Basses", at the graveside. Sunlife (Stanshawe) Band close our show this week with this march.

He died in Binghamton on February 12, 1947. The Endicott-Johnson shoe band, of which Getty Huffine was a member at the time of his death, played his famous march, "Them Basses", at the graveside.

Compositions

• Basses on a Rampage March - pub. Karl King 1927
• The Bear Cat March - pub. C.L. Barnhouse 1924
• Dull Razor Blues - pub. Karl King 1929
• I B M March - pub. Karl King 1928
• The Syncopator March - pub. Karl King 1929
• Them Basses March - pub. Fillmore 1924
• Triple Cities March - pub. King 1930 (Binghamton, Endicott, Johnson City)

The Sunlife (Stanshawe) Band conduc ted by Roy Newsome in 1979 close this week's show.