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With A Little Bit O’Luck

The story of Stanley Holloway
The man, the music, the monologues

With a little bit o'luck With her head tucked underneath her arm
Brahn boots My word you do look queer
London pride Get me to the church
       
Dave switches between being the narrator and the man himself on Stanley’s roller coaster ride to fame, meeting on the way old friends such as Sam Small and Albert Ramsbottom .

The great classic monologues and songs are revisited. “Sam, Pick Oop Tha’ Musket”,“The Lion and Albert” and “Three Ha’pence a Foot” all feature along with“My Word You Do Look Queer”, "Brahn Boots", "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" and from "My Fair Lady".”Get Me To The Church On Time” and “With A Little Bit O’Luck”

Sealey gave a highly-polished and engaging performance, interspersing a broad range of famous and lesser known Holloway masterpieces. With a great talent for characterisation and impressive comic timing, he breathed new life into the more familiar pieces……he should be congratulated for keeping Stanley’s story alive with such tremendous enthusiasm. “With A Little Bit O’Luck”, he’ll be back with another show soon!”

Mark Lillycrop, Newbury Journal

A lot of happiness was generated – and good memories for many of a “gentler” style of entertainment from a “gentleman”.
Chief Administrator, Church Stretton Arts Festival


“A very smooth, relaxed and professionally crafted act”
Promoter, Warwickshire Live & Local Rural Touring
Dave Sealey
 
Dave Sealey
 
Dave Sealey
The show is a two hour concert performance with an interval. It is completely self contained and requires a two hour get-in and set-up period. A 13amp power supply by the stage is needed. It is suitable for small theatres, arts centres, village halls and mid-size function rooms.

Dave’s involvement in the entertainment world stretches right back to the early 1960’s. His first recording contract was with EMI when he cut his debut single at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. At that time, he was fronting a rock band called “The Chances Are”. A couple of years later he transformed himself from rock singer to ballad singer and picked up his second record deal with Dick James Music. This time he was accompanied by fifty-piece orchestras and backing vocalists including The Ladybirds (formerly The Vernon’s Girls), The Mike Sammes Singers and on one famous occasion Elton John.

In 1972 he formed a double act with his brother Al that was to change his life. They called themselves “Cosmotheka”, the name of an old London Music Hall and specialised in the more neglected comedy material from that wonderful tradition. The act took them all over the world, from Port Stanley Town Hall to the deserts of Oman, from Hong Kong breakfast television to the Rocky Mountains. They made countless radio recordings, including six national Radio2 series, and their numerous television appearances included “Roy Hudd’s Hall Of Fame”, The “Bob Monkhouse Show”, “Chas and Dave’s Christmas Knee’s-Up” and “The Good Old Days”.

Since the tragic death of his brother Al, in 1999, Dave, forming his own production company, Comotheka Presentations, has not only created his one man Stanley Holloway show but also works in various collaborations. Two, in particular, have been highly successful – “Pop Goes The Century”, with fellow eccentrics Andrew Frank and Dave Brown and the laugh-a-minute review “Back to Back” with Malcolm Stent and Don MaClean. He raises roofs at clubs and festivals throughout the UK with a rich, rib-tickling mix of songs, stories, original titles and monologues and he appears on stage in pantomimes and musicals.
 
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