Monty Sunshine Quartet--Chris Barber's Jazz Band--Metropolitan Symphony Orch--Mark Hambourg--Jack Hylton's Orch

Got a bit of everything in this selection !

1. Old Rugged Cross......Monty Sunshine Quartet

2. Bye And Bye......Chris Barber's Jazz Band

3. Lilac Time Part 1......Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

4. Lilac Time Part 2......Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

5. Chopin's Polonaise In B Flat Major Op 71 No 2......Mark Hambourg

6. Chopin's Waltz In G Flat op 70 No 1......Mark Hambourg

7. The Springtime Reminds Me Of You......Jack Hylton & His Orchestra

8. Love For Sale......Jack Hylton & His Orchestra

Monty Sunshine (9 April 1928 – 30 November 2010) was an English jazz clarinetist, who is known for his clarinet solo on the track "Petite Fleur", a million seller for the Chris Barber Jazz Band in 1959. During his career, Sunshine worked with the Eager Beavers, the Crane River Jazz Band, Beryl Bryden, George Melly, Chris Barber, Johnny Parker, Diz Disley and Donegan's Dancing Sushine Band.

Donald Christopher Barber OBE (born 17 April 1930) is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, "Rock Island Line".

In 1959, the band's October 1956 recording of Sidney Bechet's "Petite Fleur", a clarinet solo by Monty Sunshine with Dick Smith on bass, Ron Bowden on drums and Dick Bishop on guitar, spent twenty-four weeks in the UK Singles Charts, making it to No. 3 and selling over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Mark Hambourg (Russian:1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian-British concert pianist.

In London in 1895 Henry Wood conducted a concert at St James's Hall in which Hambourg played three piano concerti. According to Wood, his appearance and technique were compared to that of Anton Rubinstein, and Ferruccio Busoni later told Wood that Hambourg's was then the greatest talent of the time.Hambourg's career survived World War I and he remained a very famous performer throughout the 1920s and 1930s. After the war, he again took up his programme of world touring, visiting France, South Africa and Canada, and making regular provincial tours in Britain, and he made a further world tour before 1924.

Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton; 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario.

Hylton rose to prominence during the British dance band era, being referred as the "British King of Jazz" and "The Ambassador of British Dance Music" by the musical press, not only because of his popularity which extended throughout the world, but also for his use of unusually large ensembles for the time and his polished arrangements. He mostly retired from the music industry after 1940, becoming a successful theatrical businessman until his death.

      1. The Old Rugged Cross