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Drake returned to television in 1963 with The Charlie Drake Show, a compilation of which won an award at the Montreux Festival in 1968. The centrepiece of this was an extended sketch featuring an orchestra performing the 1812 Overture, in which Drake appeared to play all the instruments; as well as conducting and one scene in which he was the ...
He won a BAFTA for the 1977 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show and the Rose d'Or for the Charlie Drake 1812 Overture in 1968. His final series for the BBC was The Les Dawson Show in 1981–1982, before his retirement at the age of 60.
The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, [1] is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia 's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.
A short extract from the song also appears in the video for the 1812 Overture featuring Charlie Drake playing both the conductor and all the musicians. A Brazilian Portuguese version of the song was recorded in 1963 by Roberto Carlos.
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Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "On television Charlie Drake has occasionally revealed himself as a comedian with a real talent for the kind of frantic knockabout that characterised the early Sennett comedies (one remembers particularly an inspired performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812, with Drake as conductor and every member of the orchestra). Here ...