Another diverse and unusual selection
1. Until......Mr Sydney Goltham
2. Ninetta......Mr Sydney Goltham
3. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World......Al Jolson
4. Waiting For The Robert E Lee.......Al Jolson
5. When April Sings......Deanna Durbin
6. Waltzing In The Clouds......Deanna Durbin
7. Dearly Beloved......Ambrose & His Orchestra...vocal by Anne Shelton
8. Your Never Lovelier......Ambrose & His Orchestra...vocal by Denny Dennis
9. Love Song.....Paul Robeson
10. Canoe Song....Paul Robeson
11. The Song Of Songs......Albert Sandler & His Orchestra
12. Serenade......Albert Sandler & His Orchestra
British Tenor vocalist, c. 1910-1930s.
Albert Sandler was born Abraham Sandler in London on 2 June 1906. Given his first violin on his eleventh birthday, he was initially taught by his older brother. He started playing in a local cinema orchestra at age 12, spent two years at the Guildhall School of Music and eventually became leader of the orchestra at the Trocadero and later the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne.
The Grand Hotel was the site of his first radio broadcast in 1925. He was eventually to make more than 1,100 broadcasts. He also made many recordings and concert appearances. Light music was always his specialty.
Later in his career, starting in 1943, Sandler led the Palm Court Orchestra, which he'd organized at the request of the BBC. It was with this orchestra that he inaugurated the BBC's Grand Hotel broadcasts, which became one of the most popular programs on the radio network during the postwar era.
Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (11 September 1896 – 11 June 1971), known professionally as Ambrose or Bert Ambrose, was an English bandleader and violinist. Ambrose became the leader of a highly acclaimed British dance band, Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra, in the 1930s.
In 1922, Ambrose was engaged by the Embassy Club to form a seven-piece band. He stayed at the Embassy for two years, before walking out on his employer to take up a much more lucrative job at the Clover Gardens in New York.
After a year there, besieged by continual pleas to return from his ex-employer in London, in 1925 he was finally persuaded to go back by a cable from the Prince of Wales: "The Embassy needs you. Come back—Edward".
This time Ambrose stayed at the Embassy Club until 1927.
His major discovery in the years leading up to the war was the singer Vera Lynn, who sang with his band from 1937 to 1940 and, during the war, became known as the "Forces' Sweetheart". Other singers with the Ambrose band included Sam Browne, Elsie Carlisle, Denny Dennis, who recorded a number of duets with Vera Lynn, Max Bacon (also the band's drummer), Evelyn Dall and Anne Shelton.
10. Canoe Song
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