Billy Penrose Quartet--Reginald Foort--Jack Payne & His Band--Benny Lee--Benny Goodman--Ronnie Ronalde

 Plenty of cool Boogie music in this selection ending with a stompin'walk in the Valley over the Mountains Meadow and Garden !

1. Billy's Boogie......Billy Penrose Quartet

2. Boogie In Black And White......Billy Penrose Quartet

3. Reminiscences Of The Gaiety Theatre Part One......Reginald Foort

4. Reminiscences Of The Gaiety Theatre Part Two......Reginald Foort

5. I'll String Along With You.....Jack Payne & His Band

6. Little Valley In The Mountain.....Jack Payne & His Band

7. Help Yourself Benny Lee

8. But Me I Love You......Benny Lee

9. Stompin' At The Savoy......Benny Goodman & His Orchestra

10. If I Could Be With You......Benny Goodman & His Orchestra

11. In A Monastery......Ronnie Ronalde

12. Bells Across The Meadow......Ronnie Ronalde

Billy Penrose (1925–1962, Brighton) was an English jazz musician who played piano, and trumpet. He formed his own quartet which played boogie-woogie music.

Billy played with a number of bands as well as forming his own quartet. It was while he was the pianist for the Lou Preager Orchestra that he formed his own quartet with Paul Rich (guitarist) and the bass player and drummer from the orchestra. They recorded six songs which were released on three records:

Boogie In The Groove b/w Lazy Boogie recorded March 1945, released May 1945

Boogie In Black And White b/w Billy's Boogie recorded June 1945, released September 1945

Harlem Boogie b/w Boogie In The Ballroom recorded March 1945, released October 1946

Benny Lee (11 August 1916 – 9 December 1995) was a Scottish comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a television and film career....In 1941, Lee was heard singing by Johnny Claes, a trumpeter who had recently formed a swinging dance-band called the "Claepigeons". He liked the sound of Lee's voice and signed him on as a vocalist. Soon Lee was singing and recording with many bands of the day, including that of Sid Phillips. 

Lee became sufficiently popular for him to be featured as a solo singer, rather than only fronting a band. As a crooner, he performed in over 2,000 broadcasts.....The Decca company came in with a contract and from 1950 he recorded such hits of the time as "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)", and "Down at the Ferry Boat Inn" with the Stargazers. Every type of pop song seemed to suit Lee, and he covered Guy Mitchell's no 1, "Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susan", and the Hank Williams hillbilly hit, "Your Cheatin' Heart".

          5. I'll String Along With You

Dennis Lotis--Reginald Foort--Brun & His Novelty Accordeon Orchestra--Les Paul & Mary Ford--Enrico Caruso--Laurie London

 Doing the Mambo in the desert with Big Ben And Nola !!

1. They Were Doing The Mambo......Dennis Lotis

2. Cinnamon Sinner......Dennis Lotis

3. Desert Song......Reginald Foort

4. Riff Song......Reginald Foort

5. Big Ben Of Westminster......Brun & His Novelty Accordeon Orchestra

6. Ginger One Step......Brun & His Novelty Accordeon Band

7. Nola......Les Paul

8. Jealous......Les Paul & Mary Ford

9. O Sole Mio......Enrico Caruso

10. La Donna Mobile......Enrico Caruso

11. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands......Laurie London

12. The Cradle Rock......Laurie London

Dennis Lotis (8 March 1925 – 8 February 2023) was a South African-born British singer, actor, and entertainer, whose popularity was greatest in the 1950s. He was described as having "a sophisticated style that was particularly attractive to the young female population".He joined the Ted Heath Orchestra, singing alongside Lita Roza and Dickie Valentine.

His first record was a cover version of Al Martino's hit "Here in My Heart", released in September 1952 on the independent Polygon label. He later recorded with the Johnston Brothers and Ted Heath and His Music; "Such a Night" / "Cuddle Me" was released by Decca Records in 1954.Lotis went solo in the mid-1950s, and became one of the most successful acts on the British variety circuit, also appearing frequently on BBC radio. He appeared in his first Royal Variety Performance in 1957, and that year was voted Top Male Singer in the Melody Maker annual poll. He also toured the US with the Ted Heath Orchestra. He recorded in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Pye Nixa and Columbia labels.

Enrico Caruso..25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles  from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso made 247 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920, which made him an international popular entertainment star......Caruso made recordings in America for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor) from 1904 to 1920, and he and his heirs earned millions of dollars in royalties from the retail sales of these records. He was also heard live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in 1910, when he participated in the first public radio broadcast to be transmitted in the United States.

Caruso also appeared in two motion pictures. In 1918, he played a dual role in the American My Cousin (silent film, entirely restored in July 2021 for Paramount Pictures. This film included a sequence depicting him on stage performing the aria Vesti la giubba from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

         1. They Were Doing The Mambo

Johnnie Ray--Winifred Atwell--Richard Crooks--Doris Day--Reginald Foort--Gracie Fields

Three Male Singers with Memories of Love, Hearts , serenading with a rose, to two Female Singers who fell and slipped whilst listening to the band doing the Boogie Rag and saying Goodbye !

1. Build Your Love......Johnnie Ray

2. Streets Of Memories......Johnnie Ray

3. Coronation Rag......Winifred Atwell

4. Bounce The Boogie......Winifred Atwell

5. You Are My Hearts Delight......Richard Crooks

6. Just Two Hearts And A Waltz Refrain......Richard Crooks

7. I Didn't Slip I Wasn't Pushed I Fell.......Doris Day

8. You Go To My Head......Doris Day

9. Only A Rose.......Reginald Foort

10. Serenade......Reginald Foort

11. McNamara's Band......Gracie Fields

12. Arriverderci.......Gracie Fields

Reginald John Foort (23 January 1893 – 22 May 1980), was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place. 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s and 1940s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording.

Foort's first performance on a Wurlitzer was at a theatre in Edinburgh, and a few weeks later he took up a job as organist at the New Gallery Kinema, Regent Street, London, where in the late 1920s he passed what he described as 'one of the happiest periods of my life', popularising the theatre organ as a 'one-man orchestra' through broadcasts and recordings of his performances on the cinema's F2/S Wurlitzer. This was followed by spells at the Paramount Theatre (Paris); the London Palladium, and, with Sandy MacPherson, the Empire, Leicester Square. He made his first commercial recording in 1926.

          8. You Go To My Head