Some colourful labels on this selection and the massed bands are making another appearance ending in a Boogie !
1. Mary's Boy Child.......Harry Belafonte
2. Eden Was Just Like This......Harry Belafonte
3. I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy......Jack Pleasants
4. I'm I Throuble Agean......Tom Foy
5. The Prince Of Players......Jimmy Lloyd
6. Ever Since I Met Lucy.......Jimmy Lloyd
7. Blaze Away......Massed Bands Of The Aldershot Command--1932
8. Marching Through Georgia...Massed Bands Aldershot Command--1932
9. Someone Else's Roses......Joan Regan
10. The Love I Have For You.....Joan Regan
11. The Poor People of Paris......Winifred Atwell
12. Piano Tuner's Boogie......Winifred Atwell
Jack Pleasants (1876-1924) was a music hall singer and comedian especially popular in the north of England. He played the part of a bashful lover, typified by his popular songs "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (his biggest hit 1911), "I'm Twenty-one Today" and "I Just Got Married Today". His status as one of the top Northern dialect comedians grew. Billed as “The Bashful Limit”, he typically played the part of a "bashful fool", He wore make-up, a black frock coat, trousers, and a bowler hat, and sported a large marguerite flower.
Thomas Foy (1866 – 7 August 1917) was an English music hall performer and comedian.
He trained as an acrobat and in his spare time, he joined a circus as a clown and scene designer, and made his first music hall performance in Manchester as a lightning cartoonist. He developed a song and dance act, and also joined a Wild West show, before becoming a comedian with a stage Irish persona. He appeared in pantomimes in the north of England before heading to London and finding fame as a comedian and pantomime performer.He was billed as "The famous Little Comedian". As a pantomime performer he specialised in "Idle Jack" and pantomime dames.
Joan Regan (born Joan Bethel or Siobhan Bethel; 19 January 1928 – 12 September 2013) was an English traditional pop music singer, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s.Her successful singing career began in 1953, when she made a demo record of "Too Young" and "I'll Walk Alone". The demo came to the attention of Bernard Delfont, and that helped her sign a recording contract with Decca Records.
She had a number of Top 40 hits for the label, many of them were cover versions of American hits. Among them were Teresa Brewer's "Ricochet", "Till I Waltz Again with You", and "Jilted", Doris Day's "If I Give My Heart to You" and Jill Corey's "Cleo and Me-O" and "Love Me to Pieces".
3. I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy
12. Piano Tuners Boogie