Gracie Fields 'Shipyard Sally' Wish Me Luck

[Reint25]

This is a great song. And really suitable for a more modern (perhaps more slower) cover. Anyway, great melody.

[peaceman1234567]

She was 2 years older than me Gran

[lilsaprano123]

Hi I recentlyl sang a Gracie song Wish Me Luck , I am 13 and really enjoyed performing it. Its above if you like to view it. thank you.

[Romach33]

I love Gracie singing this, Have used it on a war tribute video on my channel :-) thanks for posting this :-)

[smoojah]

Jodie Prenger has a nice personality, however, I think that she would be a little too 'chunky' to play Gracie!

[Mayerling52]

love Gracie Fields! if they ever make a show Jodie Prenger would be great portraying her!!♥

[nightgrooveruk]

AWESOME THANK YOU ~ NAMASTE ~ 

[BrokenPromises3]

would you believe a 17 year old would be searching Gracie Fields on the You Tube? haha

[Eyoki777]

Can't believe all those rubbish stories about Gracie Fields fleeing the country during the war are still circulating. It was the press that persecuted her, pandering to a certain kind of reader. What's new? The same sort of thing goes on to this day.

[andieslandies]

Thanks so much for this, I've been familiar with the recording of the song for years and always wondered what film it was from!

[rhaps14]

dont know about a young gentleman im 63 now and love this clip thanks for uploading it

[jeremytilley1]

Gracie was one of the greatest singers ever. What a voice! What a range. Lovely to see her greatest hits back in the album charts recently.

[Smurchison]

one of the best singing voices ever

[auguritutto]

Its well intended and I like Gracie Fields but not much evidence of Clydeside accents in this vid. But as I say in spirit I am sypathetic. My fathers father was a ship worker on the Clyde.

[RedAliceJoyDOLtis]

Thank you for sharing this :D

[mitzi283]

my gran Suzannah Boswell was a friend of Gracies and was supposed to tour canada with her but broke her leg the evening before they were to get on the boat, due to a family farewell party . Too many drinks lol . My gran had wonderful voice and could sing sally better than Gracie.

[craigpaul69]

a true lancashire legend also she did not do a runner from the uk she was asked by churchill to tour and help get funds for the forces,thanks for the songs

[talmadge1926]

There were many of my grandmothers generation who loved Gracies. She were always down to earth and her public identified with her. And they never never forgave her for fleeing to America for the duration of the war. My Grandma would either turn off the TV if she appeared or she would leave the room. I was too young to understand this but have never forgotten the bitterness that came into her voice if anybody mentioned Gracie Fields, I have since learned that she was not alone in this.

[smoojah]

It just goes to show that newspaper smear campaigns are nothing new. Gracie had married Monty Banks and was touring Canada when Italy declared war. Monty was to be interned but the authorities let him go to America. British newspapers said she had fled Britain with all her jewellery and £100,000. Parliament found no evidence of wrong doing.

Too late, mud had been flung, and had stuck! Gracie raised over £470,000 for the Navy League and went on to tour Australia and the Far East. Was made C.B.E

[talmadge1926]

thanks for putting the record straight. Newspaper smears during the war did enormous damage to several great reputations. Gracie was one of them. Kirsten Flagstads fate was also sealed by a media crusade which the Norwegian government did nothing to negate

[1starryeyedkid]

@smoojah How come Churchill, if he was a personel friend [& indeed sent her on a war effort tour] not spring to her defence? How come more positive stories about her weren't printed in the press? Churchhill would have had the power in those days..

[smoojah]

Not my comment! I think the Churchill theory comes from the recent BBC transmission with Jane Horrocks as Gracie. Some of the facts are treated with a little artistic licence!!

[patc161]

@smoojah a little more than artistic licence with Jane Horrocks singing voice:-}

[fast1919]

you are compleatly wrong i e bbc 3 nov 23 rd on gracies life a fantastic woman

[jpandyaraja]

@talmadge 1926 your grandma , bless

her soul was wrong i am afraid....What

explains Gracie on the war fronts initially

if she was a coward ?

to what lenght would your grand mother go to make sure your grand father was not

interned ?

[lawsonrob]

I love this, but the Scottish accents are hilarious! :-)

[gf1001]

Can it be 30 years since Gracie died? her fans still love her I am only one of many, but my contribution to her memory and talent is out there via cds and ceramic pieces later in 2009. I dont care for chit chat or forums Im a doer not a talker, thanks for this it captures why Gracie was and is loved by many pity she has not got her own webpage . Many people claim to be great fans wonder what they are doing lol thanks for this.

[kopynd]

I know this song has nothing to do with the 70th anniversary of the second world war,but I think it is much better than that boring song,we'll meet again, by Vera Lynn

[pmt182]

what a great clip of that wonderful song with our gracie .....one of our truly greats !!!! i remember me mam loving her and it`s stayed with me still :0)

[gf1001]

As this is the top viewed upload. GOOD NEWS Gracie fans Jane Horrocks is to play Gracie in a biopic on BBC4 Later this year, should be done as its 30 years in September since Gracie died aged 81 in 1979.

[moonshinerman]

she always brings tears to my eyes with this song

[CloudedBuff]

Love their accents

[Georgewos]

I only know this song from a Vera Lynn CD Another great singer..

[kehkehbia]

Truely the end of an Era

[monmouth88]

My mum had this played at her funeral.....made the mood a bit lighter. Cheers Gracie. x

[gf1001]

Yes Hilda had good taste, bless her shes an Icon and the song a Classic, perhaps Gracie and Hilda were working class fun done good people I love em both.

[matthewperry1982]

this is the song Hilda Odgen sang when left Coronation St in 1987

[WARBY1974]

God bless you Gracie,the world misses your smile enourmously :)

[IamBratacus]

WOW this is very cool to find Great Movies that was made in the times that I love to watch BLACK & WHITES with Great Actors and Actress :) thanks! will sub plus 5 star

[IamBratacus]

p.s. Im posting what song I have of Gracies that I added to my familys memorial day trip The Biggest Aspidistra in the world, only music I own of hers :)

[mrsthrale]

Sunday, July 27, 2008 -

Thank you!

Sally. Sally. Pride of out alley, don't ever wonder awy from the alley and me. Sally, Sally, pride of our alley: your more than the world to me.

Gracie Fields: she's the Cole Porter of love these Stars. Also: do they think we don't remeber Sir Henry Irving, and Mrs Campbell; and Richard Rogers?: Oscar Hammrstein? The media about Greer Garson, and WE LOVE Gloria Swanson and everybody! Pls - Please give us MORE INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[egapnala65]

Have this song on 78.Interesting to see it in context.

[gf1001]

Wonderful Gracie, Iris I have a radio recording of Gracie singing The Little Old Mill from 1949 . This is the correct tile hope this helps Iris.

[irisverygood]

I have to sing a music called 'The little old mill by gracie fields but i can t find anything about that song

[smoojah]

Are you sure that is the correct title for the lyrics?

[irisverygood]

yes

[beery52]

did gracie fields ever sing a song called

you cant black out the moon a ww2 song about

the black out in england my dad asked me about it he is 79 he remembers the song bit not the singer.

[barry6591]

Reading some of the earlier comments about Gracie's illness in 1939, I think the response she received to being in hospital showed how enormously popular she was. Figures relating to to the number of get well cards and letters she received varies, but they extended into the hundreds of thousands, to include one from the Queen, latterly the Queen Mother. Prayers were also said for her in churches and parliament adjourned early to hear the broadcast she made following her discharge from hospital.

[bearcub410]

THANK YOU SO MUCH .

[barry6591]

I have been a fan of Gracie Fields since I was a child in the 1970's and remember this song very well. My grandmother (now in her nineties) still talks about how immensely popular Gracie was and recalls her visiting Chorley in Lancashire before the war. Apparently the streets were crowded with people, delaying her arrival at the event she was attending. Gracie travelled through the streets that day in an open-topped car and sang, amongst other songs, 'The Biggest Aspidistra In The World".

[gruidae]

+10 smoojah, Thank you so much for these Gracis Fields clips.I first saw her in 1956 in The OLd Lady Shows Her Medals and have been and ardent fan ever since. I have LPs and CDs and this year I finally got to see some of her movies thank to region free DVDs. I still have not been able to find a copy of Shipyard Sally or Holy Matrimony-any idea where I might find these. Again,thank you so much it was great to see such a good quality video of "Our Gracie".

[higginbottomd]

Thanks smoojah for posting this clip. Gracie at her best and a great song.

[helennalee]

black and white films are always romantic!

[gf1001]

Gracies war record is outstanding she raised masses for the uk war effort before the Us even entered the war, cheek her war records before anyone leaves a negotive response, because you will end up looking a dick head.

[JMContino]

I am crying (and laughing) My deepest Thanks to YOUTUBE. This is my Great Auntie Gracie. I was born in Canada and she used to visit a lot when I was quite little. I certainly remember all the attention she gave me. What wonderful memories.

[smoojah]

I've just been going through the clips and thank you for your kind comment, you've brought a tear to my eye, being the sentimental sort! Best wishes Alan (Smoojah)

[Singaswego]

No she left because her husband would have been interned in the event Gracie worked tirelessly in America making money (huge amounts) for UK war charities - far soon as she was recovering from an operation for Cancer which nearly killed her. More of a patriot than many of the people she left behind.

[RTFishall]

She didn't hang about in Britain when war was declared did she?

[smoojah]

May be not, but check her record on entertaining the troops and the reasons why she left before commenting!

[gf1001]

One Of Gracies Finest films and songs from Shipyard Sally Land Of Hope And Glory being the other one which I have compiled for a cd called Requests 1930-52 for pickwick My other cd Ramona is the real Gracie Im sick of all the daft songs everyone attached to her. She was a brilliant singer , even as an old lady she could knock em dead GO GRACIE GO

[catonese2]

Are the CDs that you mention available to purchase and if so, from where? My favourite song by Gracie is "I,m sending a letter to Santa Claus" I wonder if that might be included on one of your CDs. With so many service people being posted abroad these days I wish that someone would record this song on a Christmas album today - it's more relevant and poignant than some of the stuff that we have to listen during the Christmas period. Alan

[Lynnnscot]

Brilliant thankyou

[bandersist]

So glad you posted this. Really love it!!

[lkijju]

thanks for the clip smoojah, know the song well, but never knew what led up to it.

[rego21a]

'Shipyard Sally' was the first of four full length films Gracie Fields made in yhr USA for Fox. Made in 1939 it possably is the best known of her American films.

[stoptheclocks7]

thank you! this is so nice :^ )

[Shuna3]

excellent thanks for ther lovely clip

[smoojah]

Thanks for your comments, I thought it was about time that Gracie was allowed to get to a 21st century audience!! Alan

[mic33george]

Quite right too!!

[operathephantom]

He most certainly does enjoy it! :D Thankyou ever so much, it is really appreciated!! -Seb