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

[Taylor Bowie]

As to British vs. American dance bands...I have hundreds of the former and 
thousands of the latter.

Funny that Kristjan mentions both Carroll Gibbons and Teddy Wilson,  each of 
whom made some of my very favorite records.

I think the Ellington on Master of "It's Swell of You" is one of the 
greatest examples of Ellington in more of a pop vein...and I love Ivie 
Anderson.

Speaking of Gibbons,  I recently got a piano solo of his where he also 
sings...not a great voice but a very enjoyable record,  both sides.   Anyone 
know how many of these vocal records he made?

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] For lovers of British Dance Band music


> 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>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 5:57:32 AM
>> Subject: [78-L] For lovers of British Dance Band music
>>
>> http://www.mgthomas.co.uk/Soundfiles/British%20Dance/British-Dance-Soundfiles.htm
>>
>>
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