Christopher Robins, boy treble, sings The Plough Boy 1952

You can buy the full disc from [email protected]. Christopher Robins was born in 1936 and from the age of three years was wont to sing around the family home. When he was eight years old he was sent for lessons, and joined the local church choir in Baildon. He later transferred to Bradford Cathedral, where, under the guidance of Dr. Charles Hooper and his deputy Kathleen Rhodes, his talent blossomed. Christopher had lessons with Robert Naylor of Bradford, and entered various music festivals during the late forties and early fifties. These competitions were popular in the North of England, and enabled him to gain confidence in solo singing. This experience and training resulted in his winning a number of festival competitions in 1952. One of these, The Huddersfield Boys' Open Event, featured the Boyce song, Tell me, lovely Shepherd, in an arrangement by Poston. The recording was taken later that same year at a local studio, with the sound 'cut' directly into a metal disk, in one take.