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Harry Roy and Elizabeth Brooke

Popular dance band leader, Harry Roy, pictured with his first wife, Elizabeth Brooke at the time of their marriage on 6th August 1935. Elizabeth was the second daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (H.H. the Rajah of Sarawak). Harry Roy (1900 -1971), British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s to the 1960s. He performed several songs with suggestive lyrics, including "My Girl's Pussy" (1931), and "She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor" (1939) and "When Can I have a Banana Again?" (1943)

Picture No
14154777
Media ID
48868615
Size
506px x 600px (5.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by G.P.A. in The Sketch, 7 August 1935, page 275
Date
1935

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