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Gracie Fields - 1978 Royal Variety Performance

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Uploaded by on Jan 16, 2010

The final performance given by Gracie Fields, at the age of 80 twelve months before she died.

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  • Dame Gracie put Rochdale on the map and the town is extremely proud of her. It now needs another superstar like her to lift it out of the doldrums.

  • My main memory of this show was the National Anthem at the end. A stage awash with "singers". Harry Secombe and Gracie effectively sang it as a duet.

  • Gracie Fields was a true Icon and I am one of her many fans, I did somthing about my fascination by compiling cds Ramona Requests 1930-52, and The latest one The Real Gracie Fields hits and rarities 1928-60, A lot of material on this 105 track 4 set cd is Radio and a few tv soundtracks. A true fan shares material to preserve an Icons standing mission complete for me, thanks so much for sharing this FABULOUS.

  • @yasminx16 Me too, I get very teary watching her sing and seeing old clips of the performers who kept the troops' spirits up. It was a totally different generation back then.

  • There was secret with that performance , The microphone she is standing in front off couldn`t be make to work when she sang that final song.

    What you heard was raw talent that very few could master in those days and none today.

    Gracie was a true artiste in every sense of the word, and would never let her public down

  • I hate all the crap, I just want to hear her sing it

  • She did an open air performance on a yacht not long after this appearance but had contracted pneumonia and died.Its great to see a working class performer become a star.

  • What class!

    I'm 20 and absolutely in awe of such beautiful performers who sung their lungs out sustaining Britain through such terrible times.

  • I recently performed Gracie Fields song Wish Me Luck As You Wave me Goodbye, please take a look and i hope you enjoy it , i know i loved it.

  • She was an absolute legend, an all-round brilliant enteratiner and singer.

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