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

Guy Mitchell--The Excelsior Quartette--Edmund Hockridge--Lee Lawrence--Ronnie Ronalde

Some Colour in this one !....and Gran and Grandad get a mention but we are still dancing and roving in Rome !

1. The Roving Kind......Guy Mitchell

2. Your Not In my Arms Tonight.....Guy Mitchell

3. My Grandfathers Clock......The Excelsior Quartette

4. The Mistletoe Bough......The Excelsior Quartette

5. Congress Dances Part 1......Soloists Chorus & Orchestra

6. Congress Dances Part 2......Soloists Chorus & Orchestra

7. By The Fountains Of Rome......Edmund Hockridge

8. I'll Need Your love.......Edmund Hockridge

9. Marta ......Lee Lawrence

10. The World Is Mine Tonight......Lee Lawrence

11. Mockingbird Hill......Ronnie Ronalde

12. Grandmother's Wedding Dress......Ronnie Ronalde

                                             The Excelsior Quartette

This was an African-American vocal group that recorded primarily for Okeh in 1922, although they also recorded two sides for Gennett and two for Black Swan Records as "Excelsior Norfolk Quartette"). Personnel included:....Vernon Jones 1st Tenor...James C. Brown, 2nd Tenor

Johnny Brown, Baritone....C.C. Parker, Bass

Lee Lawrence (born Julius Leon Sirota, 1 September 1920 – 25 February 1961) was a British singer who was popular in the 1950s.He made his first recordings for Decca Records in the late 1940s. His songs included "How Can You Buy Killarney", "Song of Capri", "So Ends My Search For My Dream", all in 1949; "The World is Mine Tonight" (his theme song) in 1950; "With These Hands", "A Beggar in Love", and "Vanity" in 1951; "At Last, At Last" and "The Man in the Black Sombrero" in 1952; "Crying in the Chapel" in 1953; and "Suddenly There's a Valley" in 1955. 

He was a popular attraction on the British variety circuit in the early and mid 1950s, and had his own series on Radio Luxembourg in 1955. After losing popularity to rock and roll performers in Britain, and failing to have a hit with the song "Rock'n'Roll Opera" which parodied such singers as Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Tommy Steele, he moved in 1957 to the US, where he performed cabaret shows in the Catskills "Borscht Belt".

          11. Mockingbird Hill

Slim Whitman--Tony Brent--Winifred Attwell--Alma Cogan--Tab Hunter--Ronnie Ronalde

 You Me & Us with Mirabelle & three brothers plus a girl and a song sailing in the sunset yodellin' a boogie and a rag with cross hands !

1. Song Of The Wild......Slim Whitman

2. You Have My Heart......Slim Whitman

3. Girl Of My Dreams......Tony Brent

4. Don't Play That Melody......Tony Brent

5. The Black And White Rag......Winifred Attwell

6. Cross Hands Boogie......Winifred Attwell

7. You Me And Us......Alma Cogan

8. Three Brothers......Alma Cogan

9. Young Love......Tab Hunter

10. Red Sails In The Sunset......Tab Hunter

11. The Yodellin' Rag......Ronnie Ronalde

12. Mirabelle......Ronnie Ronalde

Ottis Dewey Whitman (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013) known by stage name Slim Whitman, was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his yodeling abilities and his use of falsetto. He personally stated that he had sold in excess of 120 million records, although the recorded sales figures give 70 million, during a career that spanned over seven decades, and consisted of a prolific output of over 100 albums and around 500 recorded songs, that not only consisted of country music, but also of contemporary gospel, Broadway show tunes, love songs and standards. In the 1950s, Whitman toured with Elvis Presley as the opening act. In the 1990s and 2000s, a new generation was exposed to Whitman through his songs featured in the film Mars Attacks!; his famed "Indian Love Call" would kill the invading Martians every time the record was played and his rendition of "I Remember You" was heard in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.

In 1955 he would have a No.1 hit on the pop music charts in the United Kingdom with the theme song to the operetta "Rose Marie." With nineteen weeks in the charts and eleven weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, the song set a record that lasted for 36 years. In 1956 he became the first-ever country music singer to perform at the London Palladium. 

Tony Brent (born Reginald Hogan Bretagne, 26 August 1927 – 19 June 1993) was a British traditional pop music singer, most active in the 1950s. He scored seven Top 20 chart hits in the UK over an almost six-year period, starting in December 1952.

 His chart hits included "Walkin' to Missouri", "Cindy, Oh Cindy" and "Dark Moon". Brent's hits were all released on the Columbia label. He enjoyed iconic status in South Asia, where his hits topped the music charts on Radio Ceylon.

Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She was the first black person to have a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and is still the only female instrumentalist to do so.

 She released a number of discs for Decca in 1951 that were well received. "Jezebel" sold well,however it was another disc that catapulted her to huge popularity in the UK. A complex arrangement called "Cross Hands Boogie" was released to show her virtuoso rhythmic technique, but it was the B-side, a 1900s tune written by George Botsford called "Black and White Rag", that was to become a radio standard."Black And White Rag" started a craze for her honky-tonk style of playing. The rag was originally performed on a concert grand for the occasion, but Atwell felt it did not sound right, and so got her husband to buy a honky tonk piano for 30 shillings, which would then be used for the released version of the song.She signed a record contract with Decca, and her sales were soon 30,000 discs a week. She was by far the biggest selling pianist of her time. Her 1954 hit "Let's Have Another Party" was the first piano instrumental to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart.

She is the only holder of two gold and two silver discs for piano music in Britain, and was the first black artist in the UK to sell a million records.

Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018), was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond, clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. He was a Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s and 1960s appearing on the covers of hundreds of film magazines. Hunter's film credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), and Damn Yankees (1958). In 1957, he released a number one hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller. The song "Young Love," which was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks (seven weeks on the UK Chart), and became one of the larger hits of the Rock 'n' Roll era. It sold more than two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.

Hunter had another hit single, "Ninety-Nine Ways", which peaked at No. 11 in the United States and No. 5 in the United Kingdom. 

Ronald Charles Waldron (29 June 1923 – 13 January 2015), known professionally as Ronnie Ronalde, was a British music hall singer. Ronalde was famous for his voice, whistling, yodelling, imitations of bird song and stage personality. His crystal clear yodelling gained him acceptance with connoisseurs of Alpine and Western music around the world.

After early struggles, Ronalde's first successful UK tour (in the late 1940s) met him with a wave of interest. Ronalde’s first recordings were with Decca Records (these were only to be whistling performances), but his first major label contract came from EMI. Ronalde would also join Pye, Major Minor and Columbia records, becoming a million-selling artiste.

"If I Were a Blackbird" (1950) is among Ronalde's most famous songs from this period. This rendering of Delia Murphy's Irish folk song had him in the British top 20 for 6 months. She would later jovially express her thanks for boosting her income. Other songs include "Tritsch Tratsch Polka" (a showcase of Ronalde's high speed delivery whistling) and "Bells Across the Meadow" (by Albert Ketèlbey). His best known recording is "In a Monastery Garden" (by Albert Ketèlbey). Ronalde played it as his show finale for decades, and over a million copies of it have been sold in their varying formats.

Ronalde also performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Royal Command Performance at the London Coliseum. A Daily Express reporter commented on the Prince's attempts to demonstrate whistling to the Queen after this performance. 

          6. Cross Hands Boogie