Norman Long (1932)

Norman Long sings The Barrows in the Walworth Road. Brief introduction to Norman Long s act is done by an unidentified man wearing rollerskates with a cushion tied to his bottom. He makes a joke about slowmotion, saying he told a girl a story and it was three hours before she smacked his face There s slow motion for you London (probably Pathe Studio). M, S of Norman Long, sitting at a piano. He introduces a song called The Barrers in the Walworth Road, but first tells us a little cockney story to get us in the mood. The story involves a London man who was asked if he d had a good time after a visit to the country he said there was two pound ten to collect on the empties. He then goes into his song, sung in a cockney accent (a bit Dick Van Dyke) about all the things you can buy from the barrows in the Walworth Road. (Visuals cut out about 4 seconds before the end of the number; track continues. ) The unidentified link man reappears, wearing a hat with pompoms attached and a kind