Essential Collection - British Dance Bands vinyl record cover

Penny Serenade - Geraldo

Love Letters in the Sand - Ambrose

Continental, The - Lew Stone

How'dja Like to Love Me? - Roy Fox

Roll Along, Prairie Moon - Jack Jackson

April in Paris - Henry Hall

Free - Billy Cotton

From the Top of Your Head - Carroll Gibbons

Deep Purple - Jack Hylton

Love Is a Dancing Thing - Maurice Winnick

Vo-Do-Do-de-O-Blues - Carroll Gibbons

Lullaby of Broadway - Harry Roy

Sadie the Shaker - Sydney Lipton

Lazybones - Debroy Somers

Do Something - Jack Payne

Japanese Sandman, The - Ray Noble

I Get a Kick Out of You - Henry Hall

What a Diff'rence a Day Made - Carroll Gibbons

You Must Have Been a Beutiful Baby - Hugo Rignold

Begin the Beguine - Joe Loss

Lights Out - Jack Hylton

Wake up! Chill'um Wake up! - Ray Starita & His Ambassador's Club

Tuxedo Junction - Ken Johnson "Snakehips" & His West Indian Danc

I Only Have Eyes For You - Scott Wood

Bye Bye Blues - Ambrose

Item UPC: 5022810186922

Date First Available: October 17, 2006

Label: AVID RECORDS UK

Essential Collection

British Dance Bands

Name: Essential Collection - British Dance Bands
Brand: Essential Collection
SKU: 5022810186922
Price: 19.98 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

(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!

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