Kitten On The Keys

[Coppit]

Can anyone recall a BBC radio programme with this title form the middle of the 20th century. For some reason, the name Kay Kendall comes to mind but I must be mistaken.

[woofgang]

Its a piece of music....maybe it was the opening music

[Chinajan]

It was Kay Cavendish's signature tune

[Buenchico]

Quote:
"KAY CAVENDISH (1910-2000), whose real name was KATHLEEN DOROTHY CAVENDISH MURRAY, was, in addition to being a talented sportswoman, a pianist classically trained (she won a gold medal at the Royal Academy) who fulfilled classical engagements at, among other places, the Wigmore Hall and Queen's Hall. But, around 1930, she became part of a close harmony trio The Cavendish Three, which toured Britain and broadcast, notably on ITMA, shortly after the war began. Kay entertained for ENSA and appeared on a variety of BBC variety programmes; but she is best remembered for "Kay on the Keys", a programme of piano and vocal solos, mixing (light) classical, jazz and popular music which ran to over 400 weekly broadcasts. Kay was a brilliant improviser and her signature tune, Kitten on the Keys, derived from a student exercise of hers."

Source:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/garlands/73.htm

[Coppit]

Thanks all. I can reel off dozens of names from the BBC Saturday Night Variety show of the 1940s etc etc but memory let me down this time.