Tuesday 30 May 2023

Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra--Peter Dawson--Anita O'Day & Her Orchestra--Anne Shelton--Albert Sandler & His Orchestra--Wingates Temperance Prize Band


Let's hope when you are in the land of nod waltzing and dreaming you wont jump when the soldiers come marching by rockin' and rolling !! 

1. Forgotten Dreams......Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra
2. It's Not For Me To Say......Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra
3. Auld Lang Syne.....Peter Dawson
4. The Miners Dream Of Home......Peter Dawson
5. Rock And Roll Blues......Anita O'Day & Her Orchestra
6. Lover Come Back To Me.....Anita O'Day & Her Orchestra
7. Lay Down Your Arms......Anne Shelton
8. Daydreams......Anne Shelton
9. The Merry Widow Waltz......Albert Sandler & His Orchestra
10. Villa......Albert Sandler & His Orchestra
11. Patience....Selections...Part 1......Wingates Temperance Prize Band
11. Patience....Selections...Part 2......Wingates Temperance Prize Band

Cyril Stapleton (31 December 1914 – 25 February 1974) was an English violinist and jazz bandleader.
 In 1947, he recreated his band, and quickly won slots on the BBC; among the singers he accompanied were Dick James and Frank Sinatra. As leader of the BBC Show Band, Stapleton became a fixture on the English musical scene, broadcast across the nation throughout the mid-1950s. Players in the ensemble who went on to gain a profile in their own right included Bert Weedon, Bill McGuffie, Tommy Whittle, and Matt Monro.
In 1957, the BBC disbanded the Show Band, and Stapleton immediately reassembled his own group. He even managed two chart hits in the United States with the instrumental "The Italian Theme" (#25, 1956) and "The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack)" (#13, 1959). The latter record sold one million copies. Stapleton continued to tour and record into the 1970s; in 1965 he also became head of A&R for Pye Records.


Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money.

          6. Lover Come Back To Me

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