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Happy birthday Elsie

06Dec12

Today, December 6, is Elsie Griffin’s birthday. Not much remembered anymore, she was a huge star in her day and was the first to record and perform two of the most famous songs of the First World War. Born in Bristol on December 6 1895, she was performing in various amateur choirs from an early […]

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