Harry S. Pepper

"[6] Pepper worked many times with Stanley Holloway, whose stage career began in 1910 when he travelled to Walton-on-the-Naze to audition for the White Coons Show.

[7] Following his years with the White Coons, Pepper became an assistant to Jimmy Glover, musical director at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Gorham tells the story that when Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Carpendale interviewed Pepper for a job, he asked him "How old are you?"

"[11] From 1937 to 1939 Pepper produced a weekly one-hour magazine programme on the BBC Home Service called Monday Night at Seven, working closely with Ronnie Waldman as the main presenter.

Pepper's notable songs include "Hear My Song, Violetta", adapted from a German tango called Hoer mein Lied, Violetta (Rudi Lukesch/Othmar Klose);[16] the English lyrics for "I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg" (1935), and the words and music for "Goodnight, God Bless".

[19][20] In 1943, in Bangor, Gwynedd, Pepper married Doris Arnold (1904–1969),[21] a pianist who had become a BBC Radio presenter and producer, more than ten years after they had revived the White Coons show for BBC Radio with Stanley Holloway, Joe Morley, C. Denier Warren, and Jane Carr.