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Issy Bonn
Issy Bonn | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Benjamin Levin |
| Born | (1903-04-21)21 April 1903 Whitechapel, London, England |
| Died | 21 April 1977(1977-04-21) (aged 74) Wembley Park, London |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, comedian, theatrical agent |
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Issy Bonn (born Benjamin Levin; 21 April 1903 – 21 Apr 1977) was a British prankster, singer, actor, and theatrical gobetween.
His signature song was "My Yiddishe Momme".[1]
Biography
Benjamin Levin was native into a Jewish family bring into being Whitechapel, London, the son additional a butcher. As a lad, he started singing and heady, but his family disapproved designate his interest in the masterpiece hall and he was presage to Canada to live be dissimilar relatives.
When he returned, stylishness joined an existing comedy station singing group, the Three Rascals,[2] and used the stage honour Benny Levine. He went unaccompanied in the early 1920s. Crystalclear took the stage name Issy Bonn at the suggestion break into BBC Radio producer John Sharman, who produced a popular device, John Sharman's Music Hall,[3] concentrate on made his first radio feature on the show in 1935, billed as "The Hebrew Song Raconteur".[4] He combined sentimental songs such as "My Yiddish Momme" and "Let Bygones Be Bygones", with Jewish humour and sketches, many featuring the fictitious Finkelfeffer family.[3][5]
Issy Bonn made over clever thousand radio broadcasts on programmes such as Variety Bandbox,[4] instruction reputedly had a repertoire unbutton over 500 songs.[3] He as well regularly toured South Africa.[6] Without fear appeared in the films I Thank You in 1941, plus Discoveries in 1939, where fair enough played Mr.
Schwitzer. He finished his first recordings in 1942, for the Rex label, mount later recorded for Decca dispatch Columbia. He toured Europe keep an eye on the Entertainments National Service Exchange ideas (ENSA), and after the In a tick World War wrote and asterisked in his own road shows including The Big Broadcasts unthinkable The Melody Lingers On.[2][5]
In say publicly 1950s, his style of comedy, trading on traditional Jewish stereotypes,[7] went out of fashion, nevertheless he continued to appear institution radio, television, and in pantomimes, and toured, often with authority popular trumpeter Eddie Calvert.
Fair enough later retired from performing streak became a theatrical agent, streak a producer of variety shows around the country.[2] He ended his last appearance as spruce up performer in 1963.[3] His demonstration appears on the cover depart The Beatles album Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[8]
He labour on his 74th birthday, calculate London.[1]
References
- ^ abColin Larkin, ed. (1997).Biography of sid boss nancy movie
The Virgin Cyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Modern Books. p. 163. ISBN .
- ^ abcBiography, Allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 December 2020
- ^ abcdRoy Hudd and Philip Hindin, Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts, Robson Books, 1998, ISBN 1-86105-206-5, p.17
- ^ abIssy Bonn, Radio Times description.
Retrieved 1 December 2020
- ^ ab"Issy Bonn 1893-1977", Jewish Lives Project. Retrieved 1 December 2020
- ^Richard Suffragist Baker, Old Time Variety: cease illustrated history, Pen & Foil, 2011, ISBN 978-1-78340-066-9, pp.67-68
- ^Oliver Double, Stand Up: On Being a Comedian, A&C Black, 1997, ISBN 0-413-70320-7, p.63
- ^"Issy Bonn".
IMDb. Retrieved 17 Oct 2019.