...sitting in the theatre on the first night of Blonde Bombshells of 1943, with Shirley on one side and Kathy on the other.  It got even better when our onstage band played the first number and Kathy grasped my arm in excitement and whole-hearted approval.

At the end of the show with Dilys Laye and John Woodvine as the senior citizens presiding over the story, and the eight-piece Blonde Bombshells of 1943 swinging Trummy Young's 'T'Aint Whatcha Do', every foot in the audience was tapping...