JOHN EAST’S SALUTE TO LAUREL & HARDY

John East discusses Laurel & Hardy’s career and plays dialogue excerpts from some of their performances. Discusses biographical details, their successes and the demise of their careers, comic innovations, off-screen difficulties.

Recalls personal experience of meeting Laurel & Hardy in London at the age of sixteen.
Second half of side 2 music - Laurel & Hardy’s music box with Ronnie Hazlehurst and the GG Band.
-–Another fine mess with the Barbers
-–The Stan & Ollie Serenade with the Bost Serenaders
-–Trail of the Lonesome Pine form “Way Out West”
-–Honolulu Baby - from “Sons of the Desert”