Showing posts with label .Boston Promenade Orchestra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label .Boston Promenade Orchestra. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 September 2024

Yehudi Menuhin--Nelson Eddy--Ambrose & His Orch--Boston Promenade Orch--Lonnie Donegan--Roy Smeck

When I recorded the first record (Yehudi Menuin) I had to check a couple of times to see if the speed was right !!...I wonder if after that recording session his violin must have been Hot !!

1. Moto Perpetuo (Perpetual Motion)......Yehudi Menuhin
2. La Ronde Des Lutins (Dance Of The Goblins)......Yehudi Menuhin
3. Oh What A Beautiful Morning......Nelson Eddy
4. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top......Nelson Eddy
5. Chasing Shadows......Ambrose & His Orchestra
6. South American Joe......Ambrose & His Orchestra (vocal Donald Stewart)
7. Thunder And Lightning Polka......Boston Promenade Orchestra
8. Entrance Of The Little Fauns--Mosquito Dance...Boston Promenade Orch
9. Putting On The Style......Lonnie Donegan
10. Gamblin' Man......Lonnie Donegan
11. In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town......Roy Smeck & His Vita Trio
12. While We Danced At The Mardi Gras......Roy Smeck & His Vita Trio

         7. Thunder And Lightning Polka

Monday, 17 July 2023

Boston Promenade Orch--Elsie Carlisle--Jean Sablon--The Goons--Gracie Fields--Lew Sylva & His Band


 You could not get more diverse music than this lot !!

1. Lagoon Waltz Op 411 Part One......Boston Promenade Orchestra
2. Lagoon Waltz Op 411 Conclusion.......Boston Promenade Orchestra
3. Whisper Sweet......Elsie Carlisle
4. Dancing With My Shadow.....Elsie Carlisle
5. Paris You Have Not Changed.....Jean Sablon
6. The Cab......Jean Sablon
7. The Ying Tong Song......The Goons
8. Bloodnoks Rock'n Roll Call
9. Oh My Beloved Father......Gracie Fields
10. The Nuns Chorus......Gracie Fields
11. Out In The Cold Again......Lew Sylva And His Band
12. Freckle Face Your Beautiful......Lew Sylva And His Band

Elizabeth 'Elsie' Carlisle (28 January 1896 – 5 September 1977) was an English female singer both before and during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, nicknamed "Radio Sweetheart Number One"; according to AllMusic, she was "beyond a doubt the most popular radio performer in England in the '30s." Carlisle has also been described as "British radio's first woman crooner". She was prolific in the recording studio, and cut over 300 sides between 1926 and 1942.
Carlisle's earliest known recording was a test for the Gramophone Company, made in Hayes, Middlesex, in 1918. However, it was not until 1926 that she made her first commercially released recordings. On her earliest sessions, she was accompanied by Carroll Gibbons on piano, and began recording vocals for dance bands in 1929; she sang with several of the biggest dance bands of the era, including the famous Ambrose orchestra. Carlisle was also backed by Ambrose when she performed solo, and duetted with Sam Browne, being hailed as one of the band's best singers.
Her other most well-known song may be "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". However, Carlisle's greatest claim to fame is that Cole Porter personally requested her to introduce his composition "What is This Thing Called Love?", which became a jazz standard.

The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series, broadcast from 28 May to 20 September 1951, was titled Crazy People; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show.
The show's chief creator and main writer was Spike Milligan, who performed the series alongside Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and (for the first two series) Michael Bentine. The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. There were also light music interludes. 
The Goons made a number of records, including "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas" (originally sung by Milligan in the show to fill in during a musicians' strike), and "Bloodnok's Rock and Roll Call", the B-side of which, the "Ying Tong Song", soon became more popular and was reissued as an A-side in the mid-1970s, becoming a surprise novelty hit. The last time all three Goons worked together was in 1978 when they recorded two new songs, "The Raspberry Song" and "Rhymes".

          7. The Ying Tong Song

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Alma Cogan--The Platters--Boston Promenade Orchestra--Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra--Eric Delaney & His Band--Mary Martin & Arthur Godfrey


 In the Northern hemisphere it's Cold !!...sorry don't fall asleep Boogie to keep warm !

1. Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo......Alma Cogan
2. Twenty Tiny Fingers......Alma Cogan
3. I'm Sorry......The Platters
4. He's Mine......The Platters
5. The Skaters Waltz...Part 1......Boston Promenade Orchestra
6. The Skaters Waltz...(Conclusion)......Boston Promenade Orchestra
7. I Said No.....Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra (Vocal Ray Eberly & Helen O'Connell)
8. Absent Minded Moon.....Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra (Vocal Ray Eberly)
9. Hornpipe Boogie......Eric Delaney & His Band
10. The Man I Love......Eric Delaney & His Band
11. Go To Sleep Go To Sleep Go To Sleep......Mary Martin & Arthur Godfrey
12. Candy And Cake......Arthur Godfrey

Name used on British releases of The Boston Pops Orchestra.. (Boston Promenade Orchestra)

The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in light classical and popular music. 
Identified with its long-time director Arthur Fiedler, the orchestra has recorded extensively, made frequent tours, and appeared often on television.
The Boston Pops Orchestra had seventeen conductors before 1930, when Arthur Fiedler began a fifty-year tenure as the first American-born conductor to lead the orchestra. Under Fiedler's direction, the orchestra's popularity spread far beyond Boston through recordings, radio and television. 


Eric Delaney (22 May 1924 – 14 July 2011) was an English drummer and bandleader, popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Delaney was born in Acton, London, England. Aged 16, he won the Best Swing Drummer award and later joined the Bert Ambrose Octet which featured George Shearing on piano. During 1947–54 he appeared with the Geraldo Orchestra and filled his time with regular session work in recording studios and on film, TV and radio. In 1954 he formed his own band and later signed with the new Pye Records label. He made three Royal Variety Show appearances, the first in 1956.

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname The Old Redhead.

         4. He's Mine