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2 unusual facts about Command Performance


Command performance

Royal Command Performance, any theatrical or musical performance requested by a monarch.

Command Performance Records, record label which later merged with ABC Records.


Alan Kendall

With the Bee Gees, Kendall appeared on The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, a Command Performance for the Queen of the United Kingdom, as well as numerous other live performances.

Hristo Shopov

He recently played the Russian premier in the upcoming Command Performance starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren.

Irson Kudikova

Some of her music is featured in the Dolph Lundgren film Command Performance.

Vance Colvig

In the 1940s, he became a writer for such radio shows as Breakfast in Hollywood, Command Performance and Bride and Groom.


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Eileen Southern

Johnson had played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, where he received a silver bugle in appreciation.

Eliot Fisk

In 1996 he appeared in a command performance in the Palacio de los Cordova in Granada, Spain, for then U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Juan Carlos and their families.

George Alex Stevens

His first successful song was "The Huntsman", sung by Dan Leno at a Royal Command Performance before King Edward VII in 1901.

Graham Townsend

He toured extensively throughout Europe and in Australia for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Canadian government, and gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II.

Greg Frewin

A command performance for Prince Rainier in Monte Carlo along with over 35 TV appearances world wide attest to this magician's notoriety, Greg is recognized by his peers all over the world as "The International Grand Champion of Magic".

Harvey Lembeck

President Lyndon Johnson chose this company to give a command performance at the White House.

Oswald Stoll

In 1912, he founded the Royal Variety Performance (originally Royal Command Performance) a now-annual charity show which benefits the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund.

Beginning with the first event in 1912, and continuing until 1926, Stoll was instrumental in presenting the Royal Variety Performance (originally Royal Command Performance) a now-annual charity show benefiting the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund.

Pamela Polland

Polland's achievements as an artist and performer in Hawaiian music are such that she was requested to appear at Tony Curtis's 81st birthday party as well as a command performance for Anthony Hopkins.

The Frozen Deep

The first of these, on 4 July, was a command performance at the Royal Gallery of Illustration for Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their family; among the other guests were King Leopold I of Belgium, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and his fiancée Princess Victoria, along with literary lights William Thackeray and Hans Christian Andersen.

The Royal Regiment of Canada

International commitments include: performances for the United Nations in Cyprus; the Military Musical Pageant, held at Wembley Stadium, in London, England; a command performance for the colonel-in-chief, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace; and, being selected as the official band to accompany the veterans and the official party to the United Kingdom and France to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the raid on Dieppe August 19, 1942.

Vilhelm Herold

However, he also sang throughout Europe, including a command performance for King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace in 1905.

Will Marion Cook

He produced several concerts and organized many choral societies in both New York and in Washington, D.C. The New York Syncopated Orchestra, which he founded, toured the United States in 1918 and then went to England in 1919 for a command performance for King George V.