Essential Collection: British Dance Bands by Various (CD, 2006)

Avid Records UK, Avdr

5022810186922

21046054386

CD

2006

Big Band

Various

Essential Collection: British Dance Bands

0.40 in

0.24 lb

5.65 in

4.94 in

50

2

1.1 Penny Serenade - Geraldo 1.2 Love Letters in the Sand - Ambrose 1.3 The Continental - Lew Stone 1.4 How'dja Like to Love Me? - Roy Fox 1.5 Roll Along, Prairie Moon - Jack Jackson 1.6 April in Paris - Henry Hall 1.7 Free - Billy Cotton 1.8 From the Top of Your Head - Carroll Gibbons 1.9 Deep Purple - Jack Hylton 1.10 Love Is a Dancing Thing - Maurice Winnick 1.11 Vo-Do-Do-De-O-Blues - Carroll Gibbons 1.12 Lullaby of Broadway - Harry Row 1.13 Sadie the Shaker - Syd Lipton 1.14 Lazybones - Debroy Somers 1.15 Do Something - Jack Payne 1.16 The Japanese Sandman - Ray Noble 1.17 I Get a Kick Out of You - Henry Hall 1.18 What a Diff'rence a Day Made - Carroll Gibbons 1.19 You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby - Hugo Rignold 1.20 Begin the Beguine - Joe Loss 1.21 Lights Out - Jack Hylton 1.22 Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! - Ray Starita 1.23 Tuxedo Junction - Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson 1.24 I Only Have Eyes for You - Scott Wood 1.25 Bye Bye Blues - Ambrose 2.1 Happy Feet - Jack Hylton 2.2 Jog Along - Harry Leader 2.3 Robins and Roses - Syndey Lipton 2.4 Toodle-Oo - Brian Lawrance 2.5 I Believe in Miracles - Charlie Kunz 2.6 Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Lew Stone 2.7 Everybody Dance - Jack Harris 2.8 My Dance - Jack Payne 2.9 Remember Me? - Billy Cotton 2.10 Let's Break the Good News - Billy Thorburn 2.11 Look Out for the Sunshine - Billy Merrin 2.12 I Heard - Carroll Gibbons 2.13 Bojangles of Harlem - Tommy Kinsman 2.14 Everything I Have Is Yours - Roy Fox 2.15 Goody Goody - Lou Preager 2.16 We're in the Money (The Gold Digger's Song) - Jack Hylton 2.17 When Lights Are Low - Teddy Joyce 2.18 Goodnight, My Love - Carroll Gibbons 2.19 Faint Harmony - Jack Jackson 2.20 Bye-Bye Baby - Ambrose 2.21 A Foggy Day - Geraldo 2.22 She Shall Have Music - Mrs. Jack Hylton 2.23 You Go to My Head - Joe Loss 2.24 The Chestnut Tree - Oscar Rabin 2.25 It's Time to Say Goodnight - Henry Hall

(2-CD set) The more sedate cousin to American Swing, the Golden Age of British Dance Bands covered the period between 1927 and 1939. At that time most top hotels and restaurants would feature a dance band led by one of the era's great bandleaders. Avid's tribute to the U.K. Dance Band era, in their Essential Collection series, features all the legendary leaders of the day from Ambrose, Lew Stone, Ray Fox and Geraldo to the BBC's Jack Payne and Henry Hall. Many of these greats even had their own regular radio shows airing to millions of listeners each week. The start of the World War II put an end to this golden period but the music of course lives on in the grooves of this fine double CD from Avid!