Berlington Bertie

[Shanniquitie]

wow thank you for this

[bazzbazzley]

Now compare Julie Andrews...?????

[DoctorScuba]

shes a most talented fellow!

[joandtom2010]

Hi

I'm making a documentary on music hall. Do you know where this footage originally coms from? I'd love to use it.

thanks

tom

[kehkehbia]

She dont half sound like a bloke!

I thought it was a young man singing to begin with.

Fantastic

[jclmitch]

is this the full version

[SullivanNiall]

No! There are 4 verses and 4 separate choruses. She only sings the first and last chorus. Anita Harris did much the same at the 1981 Royal Variety Show, As it was the year of Charles and Di's wedding, Anita made a real meal of the line "I've just had a banana with Lady Diana". I do the full version.

[craigowler]

Britain`s Got Talent, it did have!

Class Act

[flamencoexpress]

Amazingly atmospheric film. It looks like it could be in Wilton's..

[truocmle]

I've just had a banana with Lady Diana?!Smutty lot these Edwardians weren't they.

[hometown812]

Not meant to be .. Lady Diana was Lady Diana Cooper and the banana was used as it rhymed!

[holmsatlarge]

edwardians were a naughty bunch.

[martasun4]

thank you for this little treasure!!!

[junetungsubutra]

This video was since the Victorian times!

It was recorded in the victorian times!

My teacher did this in the yr 5 production!

[rego21a]

In fact this was originally one of Vesta Tillys songs "Burlington Bertie" was a music hall song composed by Harry B. Norris in 1900 and first sung by Vesta Tilley.

[echoesofhopecharity]

Vesta's was different: "A girl wants a brooch or a new diamond ring

And thinks a seal jacket is just now the thing

Or sees a new bonnet she likes oh! So much

Her simple remark is 'Now who can I touch?'

(Chorus) What price Burlington Bertie,

the boy with the Hyde Park drawl,

What price Burlington Bertie,

the boy with the Bond Street crawl?.." etc

[rego21a]

Yes, the original song "Burlington Bertie" was parodied and new lyrics were written for Ella Shields by her Husband the song becomming "Burlington Bertie from Bow"

[truocmle]

hi junetungsubutra, sorry to disappoint, but this clip was actually filmed between 1936 and 39, when King George VI was on the throne. The first film with sound was not released until 1927, when Queen Vic had been pushing up daisies for 28 years.

[SullivanNiall]

@truocmle There was a big revival of these pre WWI songs and artists in the 1930s. Partially a nostalgia for better times during the Depression; partially the fact, in some artists' cases, that they had lost their savings in the Great Crash, and had to come out of retirement to make ends meet. Maybe we'll see another revival of these songs in the current Depression, though I doubt it.

[Freols]

She got the lyrics wrong ffs.

[Erosmonkey]

Interesting. Nice vintage clip. Thanks.

By the way, was your screen name inspired by Gracie Allen by any chance?

[qvide]

Delighted to see this clip, thanks. Please could tell us where and when it was recorded?

[rego21a]

U.K. Films

Ella Shields, on stage before a military audience.

UK Films

Started trading

1936 (Great Britain) Ended trading

1939

Ella Shields, on stage before a military audience, sings 'Burlington Bertie'. As she repeats the chorus, the words of the song are superimposed (80 ft).

British

Activities

Took over Baxter and Barter Productions in 1936

[bearcub410]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[pygmalion64]

Thank you so much for this clip. I've been searching everywhere for it!

Eliza x