Choirmaster George Mitchell hated the limelight, yet was responsible for a worldwide show business phenomenon - the George Mitchell Choirs and ultimately the Black and White Minstrel Show, which won the first-ever Golden Rose of Montreux, becoming the world's Best Light Entertainment show. Sold to television companies worldwide, including many in Africa and the Caribbean, it was the first television show to invade and capture the live theatre, running on the London stage, the provinces, Australia and New Zealand from 1962 until 1987. George remains the only artiste simultaneously to hold 1st, 2nd and 4th places in the album charts. Yet, twenty years later, the BBC airbrushed the show from history. But deeply embedded in the world consciousness, it refused to die and is part of the world's collective consciousness, its 'racial' aspect now unthinkingly defining a show that was so much more, as indeed was George's career. Recent documentaries have retold the story, concentrating on the perceived racial aspect. None has told the full unbiased story, not just of the Minstrels but of George and his singers, at the top of the tree for fifteen years before the Minstrels. Now, thanks to unprecedented access to their archives and with the full co-operation of George's widow, the story of these singers' forgotten role in British light entertainment can be told, set against a backdrop of post-war Britain and rising racial tensions. Appealing to entertainment, history and biography lovers, the book reclaims George's rightful place in the history of entertainment.

Minstrel Magic: George Mitchell - a Lovely Man. The Story of the George Mitchell Choirs, the Black and White Minstrel Show and how they took show ... yet became the show the BBC tried to ban.

Biographies & Memoirs

Pritchard, Eleanor

Arts & Literature

Saron Publishers

June folds socks. She comments on Dallas. She shops in the supermarket. She sits in the pub. Frank sees her but he doesn't know why; nobody else does. Set in Airdrie, Scotland in the 1980s, Frank is a touching, bittersweet and gently humorous novel that explores how a father and daughter cope in grief. For Frank, holding on for longer is the least painful way to let go.For Julie, it means losing herself in the music of the decade and seeking out a family of her own. But who is holding on to whom? And for how long?

Frank (Life and Soul)

Literature & Fiction

Hamill, Julie

Genre Fiction

From Heart and Soul: A Collection of Poems

Marshall, John

Poetry

Secrets. For years, Frank has kept a secret about his late wife, June, from their daughter, Jackie. Mrs Morrisson knows it, and, back in the day it was the top gossip in the small town of Airdrie. Jackie's friend Daniel has a secret too, and it's getting harder and harder for him to keep it. As she investigates her mother's past, Jackie finds that they have more in common in their love life than she realised. Determined to do the right thing by her young daughter, June, Jackie searches her soul for the solution to life as a single mum. Will Jackie be able to give Daniel the support he needs? And who is the new 'priest' that's causing temperatures to rise?

Jackie (Life and Soul)

Exploring New Market Street Usk

History

Barrow, John

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Good Cop Bad Cop

Moore, Kevin

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

A War Time Log: The Prisoner of War Diary of John Davies Jones

Jones, John Davies

Leaders & Notable People

Our Land of Darkness: Welsh Myth, Legend and Ghost Stories

Cunningham, Nic

Notes From the Superhorse Stable

Jarrett, Nigel

Literary

Sharp Scratch: After forty years of surgery, my luck ran out . . .

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jay, Deborah

Diseases & Physical Ailments

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