[SOC] Musical item

[Bill Cunningham]

Caught the following on NPR Saturday about 1220 local time.  Car radio set
to local NPR station and I don't know which program was playing at the time.
I only caught a fragment of each piece below.
Can anybody identify either or both?

Announcer said that Morse code was no longer in commercial use, but still
used by "some ham radio operators."  He then introduced a novelty tune with
title something like 'Morse Code Melody" for orchestra and single voice.  It
was a  sorta Spike Jones number.  The theme was primarily jazz and it really
didn't conjur up Morse in my mind, but may do so for the uninitiated.  It
wasn't enough to capture my attention.  Then what I think was a second
announcer came on.  Veddy BBC, veddy Brit, said next number would be for
those old WW2 vets who had stood radio watch at some dreary place.  The
number would be "Night and Day" accompanied by {partial copy here -- "xxx,
yyy and South Sussex Morse Tappers Society ." } What followed was an
instrumental with lyrics in Morse, single sender for the part I heard.  I
had to switch off before finding out if it would become "multi-voice."
Kinda fun head copy, but at a steady pace and NOT with the music.  Having
just left a long choir rehearsal, it took a bit of a gear shift to follow
the code tempo and not the music.


72,
Bill C