Hooray for Hollywood BBC Proms

Good evening and welcome to the Royal Albert Hall

for an evening of unashamed glitz and glamour,

as the BBC Proms celebrate the golden age of Hollywood musicals.

In their heyday, the film studios employed

some of the great tunesmiths and musicians of the day

and the songs they wrote were made famous by legendary stars

like Judy Garland and Gene Kelly

and of course, the incomparable Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Tonight, those songs have been lovingly and expertly recreated

by Geordie conductor, John Wilson

and he's going to whisk us back in time to an era

when glamorous heroines and handsome heroes

danced and sang their way to happiness.

So dust off your dancing shoes, brush off your tails

and get ready for an evening of glorious Technicolor for the ears.

APPLAUSE

And here is conductor John Wilson to get tonight's Prom underway

with his own Hooray For Hollywood overture,

a whistle-stop tour through movie musicals,

including tunes by George Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren

and Jerome Kern.

MUSIC: "Hooray For Hollywood Overture" by John Wilson Orchestra

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hooray for Hollywood,

played by John Wilson and his orchestra, led by Andrew Haveron.

With the orchestra on stage are the Maida Vale singers

and waiting backstage are six international soloists

ready to conjure up a little vocal stardust.

One, two, two...

MUSIC: "42nd Street" by Harry Warren

# In the heart of little old New York, you'll find a thoroughfare

# It's part of little old New York that runs into Times Square

# A crazy quill that Wall Street jazz built

# If you've got a little time to spare, I'd like to take you there

# Come and meet those dancing feet

# It's the avenue I'm taking you to, 42nd Street

# Hear the beat of dancing feet

# It's the song I love the melody of, 42nd Street

# Little nifties in the 50s innocent and sweet

# Sexy ladies from the 80s who are indiscreet

# Oh, they're side by side, they're glorified

# Where the underworld will meet the elite, 42nd Street. #

CLARINET SOLO

TRUMPET SOLO

# Come and meet those dancing feet

# From the avenue I'm taking you to 42nd Street

# Hear the beat of dancing feet

# It's the song I love the melody of, 42nd Street

# Little nifties from the 50s Innocent and sweet

# Sexy ladies from the 80s Who are indiscreet... #

# A big parade goes on for years

# It's a rhapsody of maitre d's

# Naughty, 40, naughty, swarthy,

# 42nd...

# Street. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Annalene Beechey singing 42nd Street.

Now, when Frederick Austerlitz teamed up with Virginia McMath,

musical magic was born.

Step forward, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

APPLAUSE CONTINUES

MUSIC: "Top Hat" by Irving Berlin

# I just got an invitation through the mail

# Your presence requested this evening

# It's formal A top hat, a white tie and tails

# Nothing now could take the wind out of my sails

# Because I'm invited to step out this evening

# In top hat, white tie and tails

# Oh, I'm puttin' on my top hat

# Tyin' up my white tie

# Brushin' off my tails

# I'm dudin' up my shirt front

# Puttin' in the shirt studs

# Polishin' my nails

# I'm steppin' out, my dear

# To breathe an atmosphere that simply reeks with class

# And I trust that you'll excuse my dust

# When I step on the gas

# For I'll be there

# Puttin' down my top hat

# Tyin' up my white tie

# Dancin' in my tails. #

MUSIC: "A Fine Romance" by Jerome Kern

# A fine romance with no kisses

# A fine romance, my friend, this is

# We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes

# But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes

# A fine romance You won't nestle

# A fine romance You won't wrestle

# I've never mussed a crease in your blue serge pants

# I never had the chance

# This is a fine romance

# A fine romance, my good fellow

# You take romance I'll take Jell-O

# You're calmer than the seals in the Arctic Ocean

# At least they flap their fins to express emotion

# A fine romance with no quarrels

# With no insults and all morals

# You're just as hard to land as the Ile de France

# I never get the chance

# This is a fine romance. #

MUSIC: "A Fine Romance" by Jerome Kern

# Some day when I'm awfully low

# And the world is cold

# I will feel a glow Just thinking of you

# And the way you look tonight

# Oh, but you're lovely With your smile so warm

# And your cheeks so soft

# There is nothing for me But to love you

# Just the way you look tonight

# With each word Your tenderness grows

# Tearing my fears apart

# And that laugh That wrinkles your nose

# Touches my foolish heart

# Lovely

# Never never change

# Keep that breathless charm

# Won't you please arrange it?

# Cos I love you

# Just the way you look tonight. #

MUSIC: "They All Laughed" by George Gershwin

# The odds were 100 to 1 against me

# The world thought the heights were too high to climb

# But people from Missouri never incensed me

# Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned

# For from history I had learned

# How many, many times The worm had turned

# They all laughed at Christopher Columbus

# When he said the world was round

# They all laughed when Edison recorded sound

# They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother

# When they said that man could fly

# They told Marconi wireless was a phoney

# It's the same old cry

# They laughed at me wanting you

# Said I was reaching for the moon

# But oh, you came through

# Now they'll have to change their tune

# They all said we never would be happy

# They laughed at us and how!

# But ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh now?

# They all laughed at Rockefeller Center

# Now they're fighting to get in

# They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin

# They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat

# Hershey and his chocolate bar

# Ford and his Lizzie kept the laughers busy

# That's how people are

# They laughed at me wanting you

# Said it would be hello, goodbye

# But oh, you came through

# Now they're eating humble pie

# They all said we'd never get together

# Darling, let's take a bow

# But ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh now? #

MUSIC: "Shall We Dance?" by George Gershwin

# Drop that long face Come on, have your fling

# Why keep nursing the blues?

# If you want this old world on a string

# Put on your dancing shoes Stop wasting time

# Put on your dancing shoes

# Watch your spirits climb

# Shall we dance or keep on moping?

# Shall we dance and walk on air?

# Shall we give into despair?

# Or shall we dance with never a care?

# Life is short We're growing older

# Don't you be an also-ran

# You gotta dance, little lady Dance, little man

# Dance whenever you can. #

# They all said we'd never get together

# They laughed at us and how!

# But ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh now? #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

John Wilson's tribute to Fred and Ginger,

sung there by Matthew Ford and Clare Teal.

MUSIC: "Strike Up The Band" by George Gershwin

# We must have music in the land

# Rum-ta-ta-tum-tum-tum!

# For everybody loves a band

# Rum-ta-ta-tum-tum-tum!

# A good old rousing melody is a joy and inspiration

# A hundred million folks agree that a tune can stir a nation

# So music master take command

# Rum-ta-ta-tum-tum-tum!

# Our hearts will beat to the beat of the band

# Let the drums roll out

# Let the trumpets call

-# While the people shout

-# Hooray!

# Strike up the band

# Hear the cymbals ring

# Calling one and all

# To that happy swing

# Strike up the band

# Yankee doo doodle-oo, doodle-oo

# We'll come through like you do doodle-oo, doodle-oo

# For that red, white and blue Doodle-oo

# Lend a hand

# With the flag unfurled

# We can face the world

# Hey, leader, strike up the band

# Let the drums roll out

# Let the trumpet call

# While the people shout

# Strike up the band

# Hear the cymbals ring

# Calling one and all

# To that happy swing

# Strike up the band

# And we'll all give a cheer as we stand

# To the man with the stick in his hand

# He's the man who's command of the band

# Makes the band grand

# And you can't go wrong with a happy song

# Hey, leader!

# Hey, leader!

# Hey, leader, strike up the band... #

# With the flag unfurled

# We can face the world

# Hey, leader, strike up the band! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Can't Help Singing" by Jerome Kern

# Ahh-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ahh-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Hummingbird, mockingbird Listen to me

# I got no nest

# I got no tree

# But I'm as happy as heaven is wide

# I got a song bubbling inside

# Can't help singing of a promise that April is bringing

# I am floating along on the crest of a song

# There are bells in my heart and they're ringing

# Can't help glowing

# There's a spark in my heart and it's growing

# I don't care what they say

# Love affects me this way

# And I gotta keep singing all day

# Ahh-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ahh-ah-ah-ah-ah

# I'm floating along on the crest of a song

# There are bells in my heart and they're ringing

# Ahh!

# Ahh-ah-ah-ah-ah

# I don't care what they say

# Love affects me this way

# Ah-ah

# Gotta keep singing

# Ah-ah-ah

# Gotta keep singing

# Ahh-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Singing all day. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "You'll Never Know" by Harry Warren

# You'll never know Just how much I miss you

# You'll never know Just how much I care

# And if I tried

# I still couldn't hide my love for you

# You oughtta know

# For haven't I told you so

# A million or more times?

# You went away And my heart went with you

# I speak your name In my every prayer

# If there is some other way

# To prove that I love you

# I swear I don't know how

# You'll never know

# If you don't know now

# How I miss you

# I speak your name In my every prayer

# If there is some other way

# To prove that I love you

# I swear I don't know how

# You'll never know

# If you don't know

# Now. #

APPLAUSE

Clare Teal, Caroline O'Connor and Sarah Fox

with a medley of songs from wartime musicals

when the likes of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Harry Warren

were writing to boost national morale.

MUSIC: "This Heart Of Mine" by Harry Warren

# Maybe it was the music Or the glamorous sky of blue

# Maybe it was the mood I was in

# Or maybe it was really you

# Really you

# This heart of mine

# Was doing very well

# The world was fine

# As far as I could tell

# And then quite suddenly I saw you

# And I dreamed of gay amours

# At dawn I'll wake up singing sentimental overtures

# This heart of mine is gaily dancing now

# I taste the wine Of real romancing now

# Somehow this crazy world has taken on a wonderful design

# As long as life endures

# It's yours, this heart of mine... #

# This heart of mine Was doing very well

# The world was mine as far as I could tell

# And then quite suddenly I met you and I dreamed of gay amours

# At dawn I woke up singing sentimental overtures

# This heart of mine is gaily dancing now

# I taste the wine of real romancing now

# Somehow this crazy world has taken on a wonderful design

# As long as life endures it's yours, this heart of mine

# Somehow this crazy world

# Has taken on

# A wonderful design

# As long as life endures it's yours

# This heart of mine

# Mine. #

APPLAUSE

Matthew Ford and the Maida Vale Singers singing This Heart of Mine,

a song written especially for Fred Astaire

when he starred in Ziegfield Follies.

The John Wilson Orchestra conducted, of course, by John Wilson.

John Wilson will return to the stage in a few minutes for the second half of tonight's Prom.

He first fell in love with film musicals as a young boy

watching Saturday afternoon matinees on television at home in Gateshead -

an antidote to endless sport, he says.

This is the third time he's brought the magic of musicals to the Proms

and his fascination and admiration remains a lifelong passion.

The enduring appeal of these movie musicals, for me, is simply the tunes.

First-class tunes, brilliantly played and sung perfectly.

Here you get some of the best songs of the last century in the most stylish settings.

I chose 42nd Street because I needed a good, sparky opener.

You get these extended routines which involve the chorus and the soloists

and it makes for a very satisfactory set piece.

# I just got an invitation through the mail... #

Fred Astaire had more hit songs written for him than any other performer.

More than Frank Sinatra, more than Ella Fitzgerald or any of those great jazz singers.

Irving Berlin loved Fred Astaire's interpretations of his songs

because he didn't deviate from the melody he'd composed.

# Tying up my white tie

# Brushing off my tail #

Top Hat, White Tie and Tails is one of his signature tunes.

It's a very early example of the extended dance routine.

We start the second half with a sequence from A Star Is Born.

Judy Garland gives one of her best performances in one of Harold Arlen's best songs

with a terrific lyric by Ira Gershwin in The Man That Got Away.

It was an absolute no-brainer. We had to include that.

# And all because

# Of the man that got away... #

I'm including Triplets, which was from The Band Wagon.

The sequence starts - Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan.

They are all dressed up as babies and they hate each other.

# We hate each other very much

# We hate our folks... #

I've chosen to end the concert with Put On Your Sunday Clothes from Hello Dolly!

I think that musical is kind of the last big movie to come from the old studio system.

# Put on your Sunday clothes There's lots of world out there... #

Everyone in Yonkers is going to New York for the day and they're getting on the train.

You basically see the emptying out of the town onto this train during the concert.

It could only happen in a musical.

Singing and dancing are primary human impulses,

even if you are not very good at singing or dancing,

it's something we have a need to do as human beings.

And...what's wrong with that?

The second half of tonight's Prom charts the Hollywood musical

from the Fabulous 50s to its final flourish at the end of the 1960s.

We begin with Judy Garland, the ultimate Hollywood star,

known as much for her troubled life as her tremendous talent.

In the film A Star Is Born, she gave what many regard

as her finest screen performance, with truly memorable songs.

Among them Gotta Have Me Go With You

and the heartbreaking The Man That Got Away.

APPLAUSE

And here, once again, to conduct his orchestra, is John Wilson.

MUSIC: "A Star Is Born - Main Title" by Harold Arlen

MUSIC: "Gotta Have Me Go With You" by Harold Arlen

# What a spot this

# Not so hot this

# Hey there shy one

# Come be my one

# Please don't rush off

# Want no brush-off

# I can't compel you to buy what I'd sell you

# But I'd like to tell you like so

# You want to have bells that'll ring

# You want to have songs that'll sing

# You want your sky a baby blue

# You gotta have me go with you

# Hey, you fool, you

# Why so cool, you?

# When I'm ready to go steady

# You want to have eyes that'll shine

# You want to have grapes on the vine

# You want a love that's truly true

# You gotta have me go with you

# Why the hold out?

# Have you sold out?

# Time you woke up

# Time you spoke up

# This line I'm handin' you

# Is not a handout

# As a team we'd be a standout No doubt!

# You want to live high on a dime

# You want to have two hearts in rhyme

# You gotta have me

# Go with you

# You gotta have me

# You gotta have me

# You gotta have me

# All the time

# Ba-ba ba-ba

# Ba-ba ba-ba

# Ba-ba ba ba ba ba

# Ba-ba ba-ba ba ba ba

# Ba-ba ba ba bah bah bah!

# Doo wah

# Boo bee doo wah

# Why the hold out?

# Have you sold out?

# Time you woke up

# Time you spoke up

# You want your sky a baby blue

# You gotta have me go with you

# Why the hold out?

# Have you sold out?

# Time you woke up

# Time you spoke up

# This line I'm handing you

# Is not a handout

# As a team we'd be a standout

# You want to live high on a dime

# You wanna have two hearts in rhyme

# You gotta have me

# Go with you

# All the time. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "The Man That Got Away" by Harold Arlen

# Doo, do, do doo

# Da da da

# Da da da

# The night is bitter

# The stars have lost their glitter

# The winds grow colder

# And suddenly you're older

# And all because

# Of the man

# That got away

# No more his eager call

# The writing's on the wall

# The dreams you dreamed

# Have all gone astray

# The man that won you Has run off and undone you

# That great beginning Has seen the final inning

# Don't know what happened

# It's all a crazy game

# No more that all-time thrill

# For you've been through the mill

# And never a new love will

# Be the same

# Good riddance Goodbye

# Every trick of his

# You're on to

# But fools will be fools

# And where's he gone to?

# The road gets rougher

# It's lonelier and tougher

# With hope you burn up

# Tomorrow he might turn up

# There's just no let-up

# The livelong night and day

# Ever since this world began

# There is nothing sadder than

# A one-man woman

# Looking for the man that got

# Away

# The man that got

# Away. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Secret Love" by Sammy Fain

# Once I had a secret love

# That lived within the heart of me

# All too soon my secret love

# Became impatient

# To be free

# So I told a friendly star

# The way that dreamers often do

# Just how wonderful you are

# And why I'm so in love with you

# Now I shout it

# From the highest hills

# Even told the golden daffodils

# At last my heart's an open door

# And my secret love's

# No secret

# Any more #

# Now I shout it

# From the highest hill

# Even told

# The golden daffodils

# At last my heart's an open door

# And my secret love's

# No secret

# Any more. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Serenade" by Sigmund Romberg

# Overhead, the moon is beaming

# White as blossoms on the bough

# Nothing is heard

# But the song of a bird

# Filling all the air

# With dreaming

# Could my heart

# Yet still it's beating

# Only you

# Can tell it how

# Beloved

# From your window

# Give me greeting

# Hear my eternal vow

# Soft through the trees

# Sighs the echo of my longing

# While all around you

# My dreams of rapture throng

# My soul, my joy

# My hope, my fear

# Your heart must tell you

# That I am near

# Lean from above

# While I pour out my love

# For you know to my heart

# You are loved

# Oh, hear

# My longing cry

# Oh, love me

# Or I die... #

# Overhead

# The moon is beaming

# White as blossoms on the bough

# Nothing is heard

# But the song of a bird

# Filling all the air

# With dreaming

# Could my heart

# Yet still its beating

# Only you

# Can tell it how

# Beloved

# From your window

# Give me greeting

# I swear

# My love

# My love. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

One, two, two...

MUSIC: "Clap Yo' Hands" by George Gershwin

# Come all you children, gather around, gather around, you children

# And we will lose that evil spirit called voodoo

-# Bud-ela baa-bee-bo-bee!

-Bah!

# Nothing but trouble If he has found you

# If he has found you, children

# But you can chase that hoodoo With the dance that you do

# Let us lead the way

# Jubilee today

# He'll never hound you Step on the ground, you children

# Clap your hands, slap your thighs

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# Everybody come along and join the jubilee

# Clap your hands, slap your thigh

# Don't you lose time Don't you lose time

# Come along and shake your shoes Time now for you and me

# On the sands of time you are only a pebble

# But then the trouble must be treated just like a rebel

# Send it to the Devil Clap your hands, slap your thighs

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# Everybody come along and join the jubilee

# So ring-a them bells

# Ring-a them bells out

# Ring-a them, ring-a them Ring-a them, ring-a them

# Bells... #

Well, Mr Matthew, how we doing?

Why, Miss Claire,

we two are the most friendly vibrations you ever did see.

# Hey diddle-diddle The cat and the fiddle

# The dish ran away with the spoon

-Why, Miss Claire...

-Uh-huh?

-Do you know why the chicken crossed the road?

-No, why did the chicken cross the road?

-Why, to get to the second floor, woman.

Oh, man, you're a genius. # Roses are red The violets are blue

(BOTH) # The dresses has gotta be showed

BOTH: # So, let's get this show on the road!

# Clap your hands, slap your thighs Gimme that beat, boy, beat, boy

# Gimme that Gimme that crazy knocked out beat!

SHE SCATS

# If you wanna get to the promised land

# You got to clap your hands... #

# Clap your hands, slap your thighs Gimme some heat, man

# Heat, man, heat, man Gimme some, gimme some

# Gimme some Gimme some Dixieland beat!

# When you hear that Dixie land You got to clap your hands

# Clap your hands

# Clap your hands

# Hallelujah, hallelu Hallelu, Hallelujah!

BOTH: # Come along and join the jubilee! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Matthew Ford and Clare Teal singing the joyous Clap Yo' Hands from Funny Face.

Before that, we heard Charles Castronovo singing Serenade from The Student Prince.

APPLAUSE CONTINUES

MUSIC: "Overture from Gypsy" by Jule Styne

APPLAUSE

The Overture to Gypsy kicking off John Wilson's journey

through the great musicals of the 1960s.

And featuring Mike Lovatt on trumpet. What a solo!

APPLAUSE CONTINUES

MUSIC: "One Hand, One Heart" by Leonard Bernstein

# Make of our hands

# One hand

# Make of our hearts

# One heart

# Make of our vows

# One last vow

# Only death

# Will part

-# Us now

-# Make of our lives

# One life

# Day after day

# One life

BOTH: # Now it begins

# Now we start

# One hand

# One heart

# Even death

# Won't part

# Us now

# Make of our lives

# One life

# Day after day

# One life

# Now it begins

# Now we start

# One hand

# One heart

# Even death

# Won't part

# Us now. #

APPLAUSE

Charles Castronovo and Sarah Fox

singing One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story.

MUSIC: "Triplets" by Arthur Schwartz

# Three little unexpected children

# Simultaneously the doctor brought us

# And you can see that we'll be three forever and A-E-I-O

# You wouldn't know how agonizing being triple can be

# Each one is individually the victim of the clinical day E-I-O

# Every summer we go away to Baden, Baden, Baden

# Every winter we come back home To Walla, Walla, Walla

# We do everything alike

# We look alike

# We dress alike, we walk alike we talk alike

# And what is more we hate each other very much

# We hate our folks

# We're sick of jokes on what an art it is to tell us apart

# If one of us gets the measles another one gets the measles

# Then all of us gets the measles and mumps and croup

# How I wish I had a gun a widdle gun

# It would be fun to shoot the other two and be only one

# Mrs Whifflepoofer loves to talk to Mrs Hildendorfer

# Of the fatal natal day the had her silly Willy

# Mrs Hassencooper loves to talk to Mrs Goldenwasser

# Of her major operation when she had her twins

# But when Mother comes along she silences the others

# She accomplished something that is very rare in mothers

# MGM has got a Leo but Mama has got a trio

# She is proud but says three is a crowd

# Oh, we do everything alike

# We look alike

# We dress alike, we walk alike we talk alike

# And what is more we hate each other very much

# We hate our folks

# We're sick of jokes on what an art it is to tell us apart

# We eat the same kind of vittles we drink the same kind of bottles

# We sit in the same kind of highchair, highchair, highchair

# How I wish I had a gun a widdle gun

# It would be fun to shoot the other two and be only one. #

Triplets from The Band Wagon, the 1953 film, sung there by Mathew Ford Caroline O'Connor, and Sarah Fox.

By the end of the 1960s, the studio system had all but collapsed

and the days of the big Hollywood musical were over,

but not before classics like Hello Dolly, Dr Dolittle and Mary Poppins

left us a glorious musical legacy.

MUSIC: "Jolly Holiday" by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman

# Ain't it a glorious day? Right as a morning in May

# I feel like I could fly... #

None of your larking about.

# Have you ever seen The grass so green

# Or a bluer sky?

# Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary

# Mary makes your heart so light... #

You haven't changed a bit, have you?

# When the day is grey and ordinary

-# Mary makes the sunshine bright... #

-Oh, honestly!

# Oh, happiness is blooming all around her

# The daffodils are smiling at the doves

# When Mary holds your hand you feel so grand

# Your heart starts beating like a big brass band... #

You ARE light-headed.

# It's a jolly holiday with Mary

# No wonder that it's Mary that we love... #

# Oh, it's a jolly holiday with you, Bert

# Gentlemen like you are few... #

Vanishing breed, that's me.

# Though you're just a diamond in the rough, Bert

# Underneath your blood is blue... #

Common knowledge.

# You never think of pressing your advantage

# Forbearance is he hallmark of your creed... #

True.

# A lady needn't fear when you are near

# You're sweet gentility is crystal clear

# Oh, it's a jolly holiday with you, Bert

# A jolly, jolly holiday with you... #

Waiter! Oh, waiter!

CLICKS FINGERS

APPLAUSE

# When Mary holds your hand you feel so grand

# Your heart starts beating like a big brass band

# It's a jolly holiday with Mary

# No wonder that it's Mary that we love

# No wonder that it's Mary that we love

# No wonder that it's Mary that we love. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# When I look in your eyes

# I see the wisdom of the world in your eyes

# I see the sadness of a thousand goodbyes

# When I look in your eyes

# And it is no surprise

# To see the softness of the moon in your eyes

# The gentle sparkle of the stars in the skies

# When I look in your eyes

# In your eyes

# I see the deepness of the sea

# I see the deepness of the love

# The love I feel you feel for me

# Autumn comes, summer dies

# I see the passing of the years in your eyes

# And when we part there'll be no tears, no goodbyes

# I'll just look into your eyes

# Those eyes, so wise

# So warm, so real

# Isn't it a pity you're a seal?... #

# Something in your smile speaks to me

# Something in your eyes shows me the way

# And helps me to say the things that I could never say to you

# Something in your voice sings to me

# Something in your laugh makes me rejoice

# And there is no choice except

# To let my thoughts all stray to you

# And stray to you they do

# Something in you is rich and rare

# And there is something more

# Something in you is everything

# I've never known before

# Something of your charm clings to me

# Something of your warmth stayed in my heart

# And made me a part of you for just a little while

# So think of me

# As something in your smile. #

APPLAUSE

# Out there

# There's a world outside of Yonkers

# Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby

# There's a slick town, Barnaby

# Out there

# Full of shine and full of sparkle

# Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby

# Listen, Barnaby

# Put on your Sunday clothes There's lots of world out there

# Get out your brilliantine and dime cigars

# We're going to find adventure in the evening air

# Girls in white in a perfumed night

# Where the lights are bright as the stars

# Put on your Sunday clothes we're gonna ride through town

# In one of those new horse-drawn open cars

BOTH: # We'll see the shows at Delmonico's

# And we'll close the town in a whirl

# And we won't come home until we've kissed a girl

# Put on your Sunday clothes

# When you feel down and out

# Strut down the street and have your picture took

# Dressed like a dream Your spirits seem to turn about

# That Sunday shine is a certain sign

# That you feel as fine as you look

BOTH: # Beneath your parasol The world is all a smile

# That makes you feel brand new down to your toes

ALL: # Get out your feathers your patent leathers

# Your beads and buckles and bows

# For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday

# No Monday in your Sunday

# No Monday in your Sunday clothes

BOTH: # Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out

# Strut down the street and have your picture took

ALL: # Dressed like a dream Your spirits seem to turn about

# That Sunday shine Is a certain sign

# That you feel as fine as you look

# Beneath your parasol The world is all a smile

# That makes you feel brand new down to your toes

# Get out your feathers your patent leathers

# Your beads and buckles and bows

# For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes

# Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out

# Strut down the street and have your picture took

# Dressed like a dream Your spirits seem to turn about

# That Sunday shine is a certain sign

# That you feel as fine as you look

# Beneath your bowler brim The world's a simple song

# A lovely lilt that makes you tilt your nose

ALL: # Get out your slickers your flannel knickers

# Your red suspenders and hose

# For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes #

Ermengarde, keep smiling! No man wants a little ninny.

Ambrose, do a turn, let me see.

Mr Hackel, Mr Tucker, don't forget Irene and Minnie.

Just forget you ever heard a word from me!

ALL: # All aboard

# All aboard All aboard

# Aboard

# Put on your Sunday clothes There's lots of world out there

# Put on your silk cravat and patent shoes

# We're gonna find adventure in the evening air

# That Sunday sign is a certain sign that the girls are hot as a fuse

# Wow!

# Put on your silk high hat and add the turned-up cuff

# We'll wear a handmade grey suede buttoned glove

# You're gonna take New York by storm

# We'll join the Astors at Tony Pastor's

# And this I'm positive of

# That we won't come home

# No, we won't come home

# No, we won't come home

# Until we fall in

# Love! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Put On Your Sunday Clothes from Hello Dolly.

The final number in tonight's Prom.

The full chorus of the Maida Vale Singers,

joined by the entire company of soloists,

Caroline O'Connor, Sarah Fox, Clare Teal, Annalene Beechey,

Matthew Ford and Charles Castronovo.

Plus Stuart Matthew Price singing the role of Cornelius there.

And, of course, the John Wilson Orchestra...

APPLAUSE CONTINUES

..brought to their feet by their conductor, John Wilson.

And special mention should go to the marvellous work

of the Maida Vale Singers tonight and their chorus master, Christopher Dee.

As the audience cheer so loudly here,

I suspect we might just get an encore.

MUSIC: "Hooray For Hollywood" by Richard Whiting

# Hooray for Hollywood

# That screwy, ballyhooey Hollywood

# Where any office boy or young mechanic

# Can be a panic

# With just a good-looking pan

# And any shop girl can be a top girl

# If she pleases the tired businessman

ALL: # Hooray for Hollywood

You may be homely in your neighbourhood

# Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom

# Be an actor

# See Mr Factor

# He'll make your kisser look good

# Go out and try your luck

# You may be Donald Duck

# Hooray for Hollywood

ALL: # Hooray for Hollywood

# Hooray for Hollywood

# That phoney, super coney Hollywood

# They come from Chillicothes and Paducahs

# With their bazookas

# To get their names up in lights

# All armed with photos

# From local rotos

# With their hair in ribbons and legs in tights

ALL: # Hooray for Hollywood

# You have no way of knowing who'll make good

# Maybe you'll be another Papa Dion

# Your name in neon

# If you get lucky you could

# Yes, buddy, you'll arrive

# If you can top his five

# Hooray for Hollywood

ALL: # Hooray for Hollywood

# That bully, wild and woolly Hollywood

# They hire cowboys and then hang their chaps up

# And doll their maps up And give them all that they lack

# Now ain't it funny

# They pay 'em money

# Shows what you can do if your horse can act

# Hooray for Hollywood

# They hire fellas whose physiques are good

# And then they tell them they're the perfect shape men

# To act like ape men

# And then convince them they should

# They make 'em grunt and yell... #

TARZAN YELL

# And people think they're swell... # ALL DO TARZAN YELL

ALL: # Oh, hooray for Hollywood

# It's really got me

# Hooray (ALL: Hooray)

# Hooray (ALL: Hooray)

# ALL: Hooray for Hollywood. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It had to be that as an encore, didn't it?

That was Hooray For Hollywood, from the 1937 film Hollywood Hotel.

It's kind of the film industry's anthem.

It's played at the Oscars

and award ceremonies around the world.

MUSIC: "No Business Like Show Business" by Irving Berlin

# There's no business like show business

# Like no business I know

# Everything about it is appealing

# Everything the traffic will allow

# Nowhere can you get that happy feeling

# When you are stealing that extra bow

# There's no people like show people

# They smile when they are low

# Yesterday they told you you would not go far

# That night you opened and there you are

# Next thing on your dressing room they've hung a star

# Let's go on with the show

# The costumes, the scenery the makeup, the props

# The audience that lifts you when you're down

# The headaches, the heartaches the backaches, the flops

# The sheriff who escorts you out of town

# The opening when your heart beats like a drum

# The closing when the customers don't come

# There's no business like show business

# Like no business I know

# You get word before the show has started

# That your favourite uncle died at dawn

# Top of that your pa and ma have parted

# You're brokenhearted

# But you go on

# There's no people like show people

# They smile when they are low

# Even with a turkey that you know will fold

# You may be stranded out in the cold

# Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold

# Let's go on with the show

# Let's go

# On with the show

# No business like show business there's no business

# The cowboys, the tumblers the wrestlers, the clowns

# The roustabouts that move the show at dawn.

APPLAUSE

# The music, the spotlight the people, the towns

# Your baggage with the labels pasted on

# People standing out in front on opening night

# And there's your billing right out there in lights

# There's no people like show people

# They smile when they are low

# Even with a turkey that you know will fold

# You may be stranded out in the cold

# Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold

# You go on with the show

# There's no business like show business

# Like no business I know

# Everything about it is appealing

# Everything the traffic will allow

# Nowhere can you get that happy feeling

# When you are stealing that extra bow

# There's no people like show people

# They smile when they are low

# Yesterday they told you you would not go far

# That night you open and there you are

# Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star

# Let's go on with the show

# Let's go on with the show

# No business like show business

# Let's go on with the show. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And I hardly need to tell you

that was There's No Business Like Show Business,

raising the roof here at the Royal Albert Hall.

Caroline O'Connor

singing the role made famous by Ethel Merman

in Annie, Get Your Gun.

The John Wilson Orchestra on their feet.

John Wilson taking yet another bow!

What a night it has been.

APPLAUSE CONTINUES

And I'm afraid that brings us to the end

of this incredible evening here at the Royal Albert Hall.

If you'd like to find out more about the musicians

and artists performing tonight,

there is more information on the Proms website.

Do take a look at that.

From me, Katie Derham,

thank you for watching. I hope you've enjoyed it.

Have a very good night.

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