Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields, DBE (born Grace Stansfield, 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979), was an English actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall. She spent the later part of her life on the isle of Capri, Italy. Fields was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "services to entertainment" in 1938, and in 1979, seven months before her death, she was invested a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II.
Life and work
Early life
Fields was born Grace Stansfield, over a fish and chip shop owned by her grandmother, Sarah Bamford, in Molesworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire. She made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905, joining children's repertory theatre groups such as 'Haley's Garden of Girls' and the 'Nine Dainty Dots'. Her two sisters, Edith and Betty and brother, Tommy, all went on to appear on stage, but Gracie was the most successful. Her professional debut in variety took place at the Rochdale Hippodrome theatre in 1910 and she soon gave up her job in the local cotton mill, where she was a half-timer, spending half a week in the mill and the other half at school.
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Gracie Fields
ALBUMS
- Northern Sweetheart released: 2007
- The Best of Gracie Fields released: 2000
- Volume 1: Sing as We Go released: 2000
- Favourites released: 2000
- Our Gracie released: 1967
- the Gracie Fields Collection released:
- Sing as We Go released:
Northern Sweetheart
Released 2007- Would A Manx Cat Wag Its Tail
- I Took My Harp To A Party
- In My Little Bottom Drawer
- What Can You Give A Nudist
- The Punch And Judy Show
- They All Make Love But Me
- Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
- I'm Playing With Fire
- We're Living At The Cloisters
- Sally
- Singin' In The Bathtub
- The Clatter Of The Clogs
- Walter Walter
- Because I Love You
- Fred Frannakapan
- I Lift Up My Finger And I Say 'Tweet Tweet'
- The Little Pudden Basin
- The Biggest Aspidistra In The World
The Best of Gracie Fields
Released 2000- Come Back to Sorrento
- Papa, Won't You Dance With Me?
- The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
- If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake
- When I Grow Too Old to Dream
- Bluebird of Happiness
- Pedro the Fisherman
- If I Can Help Somebody
- Serenade of the Bells
- Count Your Blessings
- Red Sails in the Sunset
- McNamara's Band
- Bless This House
- Forever and Ever
- Little Old Lady
- A Letter to a Soldier
- I Took My Harp to a Party
- At the End of the Day
- How Are Things in Glocca Morra
- Now Is the Hour
Volume 1: Sing as We Go
Released 2000- Sing as We Go
- The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
- Rochdale Hounds
- What's the Good of Birthday? (The Birthday Song)
- In a Little Lancashire Town
- She Fought Like a Tiger for 'Er 'Onour
- One of the Little Orphans of the Storm
- Little Pudden Basin
- Water, Walter
- The Trek Song
- I Took My Harp to a Party
- He Forgot to Come Back
- Home
- I Never Cried So Much in All My Life
- A Nice Cup of Tea
- Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton?
- Look to the Left and Look to the Right
- Clogs and Shawl
Favourites
Released 2000- Ave Maria
- Remember Me?
- Sally
- That Old Feeling
- The First Time I Saw You
- Isle of Capri
- Now Is the Hour
- Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye)
- Fall In and Follow the Band
- Goodnight, My Love
- Just One More Chance
- The Holy City
- Looking on the Bright Side
- Walter, Walter (Lead Me to the Altar)
- Love in Bloom
- My Blue Heaven
- Just a Dancing Sweetheart
- Red Sails in the Sunset
- The Sweetest Song in the World
- I Never Cried So Much in All My Life
Our Gracie
Released 1967- Sing as We Go
- I Took My Harp to a Party
- Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers
- One Day When We Were Young
- Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton
- Ave Maria
- Sally
- The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
- Three Green Bonnets
- In My Little Bottom Drawer
- If I Should Fall in Love Again
- Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye
the Gracie Fields Collection
- The Organ, The Monkey And Me
- Gipsy Lullaby
- Trees
- Smilin' Through
- The House Is Haunted
- How Changed Is the Old Place Now
- Come Back To Sorrento
- The Biggest Aspidistra In The World
- Bless This House
- Red Sails In The Sunset
- Now Is the Houor
- Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
- Home
- How Deep Is The Ocean
- At The End Of The Day
- Pedro The Fisherman
- Medley: 1 Sally 2 Charmaine 3 You're More than All the World To Me
- Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton
- You're Driving Me Crazy
- Count Your Blessings
Sing as We Go
- Sally
- Sing as We Go
- Oh Sailor Behave
- In My Little Bottom Drawer
- Just One More Chance Just One More Chance Just One More Chance Just One More Chance Just One More Chance
- Laugh at Life
- It Isn't Fair
- I Took My Harp to a Party
- The Bargain Hunter
- The Mockingbird Went Cuckoo
- Mary Rose
- Over the Garden Wall
- My Lucky Day
- Stop and Shop at the Co-Op Shop
- There's a Lovely Lake in London
- We've Got to Keep Up With Joneses
- Walter, Walter (Lead Me to the Altar)
- All for One and One for All
- The Bleeding Heart
- He's Dead but He Won't Lie Down
- The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
- Gracie Fields and Sandy Powell's Party
Born: 1898-01-09
Died: 1979-09-27
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by: Gracie FieldsNow is the hour
For me to say goodbye
Soon I'll be sailing
Far across the sea
While I'm away
Oh please remember me
When I return
I'll find you waiting here
Now is the hour
For me to say goodbye
Soon I'll be sailing
Far across the sea
While I'm away
Oh please remember me
When I return
I'll find you waiting here
While I'm away
Oh please remember me
When I return