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... Oliver-1994 London Palladium Cast Recording First Night Cast CD 47 No British musical since the Second World War has quite so many good tunes as Lionel Bart's masterpiece. From Food, Glorious Food, the opening song in the show, to the last, Reviewing ...
... Dozen still rising high The Boss Is Home--Kenny Baker's Dozen Big Bear ESSCD 224 It was back in the early years of the Second World War that Kenny Baker's name first came to the notice of British swing enthusi asts and suffered because of confusion with ...
... 74, has been in the business for near ly 70 years, making his debut as a child of six and earning his spurs before the Second World War in the famous touring attraction, the Royal Kiltie Juniors. Later he played with Ambrose, in company with George Shearing ...
... Paris Rive Gauche, another Rapper compilation (PAST CD 7832) which features three great French stars of pre and post- Second World War years. Of the trio, only Lucienne Boyer seems dated. The others, Edith Piaf and one of my particular favourites, Charles ...
... Johnny Rogers, who was my best friend at primary school until we were divided by the 1 1 plus and the outbreak of the Second World War. He apparently now runs his own farm in North Yorkshire, something of a surprise as I recollect that when we were ten ...
... but Vic Lewis The Golden Years (Candid CCD 79754) is the result of a couple of sessions he organ ised at the end of the Second World War with musicians from Sam Donahue's US Navy Band and a later one with Jimmy and Marian McPartland, the latter being the ...
... a wartime spell in the Royal Tank Regiment Band, Royal Shows and touring Britain for two years with Max Miller. The Second World War probably cost Nat Gonella the chance of fame in the States. He had been booked for the World's Fair but the outbreak ...
... but Vic Lewis The Golden Years (Candid CCD 79754) is the result of a couple of sessions he organised at the end of the Second World War with musicians from Sam Donohue's US Navy Band and a later one with Jimmy and Marian McPartland. The numbers are all ...
... who invented his own jive lan guage, Vout, made appearances in all the media and actually had a hit record before the Second World War, Rat Foot Floogie, though the best-known number on this collection is Cement Mixer, which he recorded at the end of 1945 ...
... TMs Thing Called Love? (PLCD 557). These are by the great band, laden with strings, which Shaw assembled just after the Second World War for release on the indepen dent Musicraft label. This was primarily an arrangers' orchestra and included a collaboration ...
... the twenties, thirties and forties the emphasis was on keeping happy, despite the onset of the Great Depression and the Second World War. The number of songs which dealt with the necessity of being cheerful must have run into the thousands and a couple of ...
... mainly by his own usual European group of tango enthusi asts, including the remarkable reached its height during the Second World War. Peerce was undoubtedly a fine natural tenor, particularly at home in Verdi operas, and there is a generous selection ...