[78-L] For lovers of British Dance Band music

[Kristjan Saag]

Personally I enjoy the British dance bands because they were different 
to the American and German and Dutch and Swedish - they were British and 
relied on their own musical traditions as well as the new styles from 
over there.
As for swing, it's OK, but most dance tunes played in the 1930-1940's 
were not swing numbers. I'd rather listen to Carroll Gibbon's & Savoy 
Hotel Orpheans or Kurt Hohenberger & His Orchestra playing "There's A 
Lull In My Life" than, say, Teddy Wilson or Duke Ellington.
Kristjan

Dan Van Landingham wrote: 2010-10-31 01:13:
> Although my collection of LPs had a few British big bands I wore out a British
> Decca of "Barrel House
> Boogie" by Harry Roy.I want to say the flip side was "Steppin' out at Midnight"
> but the centre of the la-
> bel was gone.1930s British bands were seen as being somewhat corny,but this band
> actually swung.The
> only other British big band I heard was an American Decca of "Canadian Capers"
> by Lew Stone.I loved
> it.Another big band I heard-and suspected of being a British band-was Tom
> Berwick.I had a robin's egg
> and blue Bluebird of his band doing "Tea for Two".I purchased both records back
> in 1978 when Coos
> Bay,Oregon's oldest radio station went off the air back in late 1977.The entire
> 78 rpm library went up for
> sale at $.25 each.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kristjan Saag<saag at telia.com>
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>
>
> Kristjan
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