Hubert Gregg(1914-2004)

At his first school in Bournemouth he used to stand outside the Pavilion Theatre, listening to the Follies shows and learning the songs. At nine, he entered a song contest at the Rank Cinema in Sydenham and sang 'Eat More Fruit'. In 1939, while in the army at Lincoln, a friend came back from leave and remarked about the blackout. Hubert said 'I'm going to get lit up when the lights go up in London' and thought it would make a good song. He'd previously done odd lyrics. Three years later, it was featured in a West End show. After the war, he read a lot of Jerome K Jerome on the radio in 'Let's Go Jeroming'. He did 18 years of 'Thanks For the Memory' and in the 60's wrote the musical version of 'Three Men in a Boat'.