Monday 25 July 2022

Billy Cotton--The Blue Hungarian Band--Folk Dance Orchestra--Paul Robeson--Gordon Jenkins--Perry Como


 Its seems we have a Walk a Stroll And a Waltz with Irene and Ma.....Tzena Chi-Baba

1. Down By The Old Zuyder Zee......Billy Cotton & His band
2. Strolling Down The Strand......Billy Cotton & His Band
3. Merry Widow Waltz......The Blue Hungarian Band
4. A Waltz Dream......The Blue Hungarian Band
5. Tancuj......Folk Dance Orchestra
6. Trojky / La Vinca......Folk Dance Orchestra
7. Trees........Paul Robeson
8. Songs My Mother Taught Me.......Paul Robeson
9. Goodnight Irene......Gordon Jenkins & Orchestra
10. Tzena Tzena Tzena......Gordon Jenkins & Orchestra
11. When You Were Sweet Sixteen......Perry Como
12. Chi-Baba Chi-Baba.......Perry Como

William Edward Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) as Billy Cotton was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, but his musical career had begun in the 1920s. In his younger years, Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer for Brentford (and later, for the then Athenian league club Wimbledon), an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth, which he piloted himself. His autobiography, I Did It My Way, was published in 1970...After the war, he started his successful Sunday lunchtime radio show on BBC, the Billy Cotton Band Show, which ran from 1949 to 1968. In the 1950s, composer Lionel Bart contributed comedy songs to the show. It regularly opened with the band's signature tune and Cotton's call of "Wakey Wakey". From 1956, it was also broadcast on BBC television. Cotton often also provided vocals on many of his band's recordings, in addition to work as a vocalist on recordings that did not feature his band.


Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. 
In 1945, Jenkins joined Decca Records. In 1947, he had his first million-seller with "Maybe You'll Be There" featuring vocalist Charles LaVere and, in 1949, had a hit with Victor Young's film theme "My Foolish Heart", which was also a success for Billy Eckstine. At the same time, he regularly arranged for and conducted the orchestra for various Decca artists, including Dick Haymes ("Little White Lies", 1947), Ella Fitzgerald ("Happy Talk", 1949, "Black Coffee", 1949, "Baby", 1954), Billie Holiday ("Crazy He Calls Me", "You're My Thrill", "Please Tell Me Now", "Somebody's on My Mind", 1949, and conducted and produced her last Decca session with "God Bless the Child", "This Is Heaven to Me", 1950), Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters ("I Can Dream, Can't I", 1949) and Louis Armstrong ("Blueberry Hill", 1949 and "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", 1951).

          3. The Merry Widow Waltz

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