By Luke Voogt
The Sassy Girls will dive into wartime life through song next Friday to raise funds for Geelong RSL’s Anzac Day appeal.
The Geelong trio return to Club Italia with 1940s classics celebrating war veterans.
“We’re pulling out all the old tunes,” said the group’s Gail Lambert.
Lambert performed alongside fellow Sassy Girls Gayle Burrill and Linda Allen for about 350 people at the club last year .
“We were so thrilled with the response. The smiling faces and people remembering, that’s what it’s all about,” the Torquay local said.
“Everyone was linking arms and swaying and singing when we sang We’ll Meet Again.”
One woman from England broke into a hand jive before explaining how Brits with no room to move their legs in bomb shelters invented the dance, Lambert said.
“It made it even more fun when people were doing it.”
Lambert grew up in Geelong to the sounds of swing and the Andrews Sisters on her parents’ record player.
“There was no television when I was young,” she said.
“We were dancing and having sing-alongs in the lounge room.“
Lambert started The Sassy Girls under a different name 30 years ago. Burrill joined the trio about 15 years ago and her sister Allen followed her a decade later.
“I’m lucky to be able to sing with them,” Lambert said.
The show will include a “sprinkling” of hits from the Vietnam War, she said.
“Gayle and Linda love the 60s and 70s!”
To book a free ticket phone Tuckers Funeral & Bereavement Service on 5221 4788.
