The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
"British Dance Bands"
Jazz-O-Rama is an hour of vintage records - the lighter side of early
jazz--presented by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev)--from his personal 78rpm
record collection.
"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket", " The Music Goes Round and Round" and "Run, Rabbit, Run" will be among the 78 RPM records heard on the next edition of The Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
Podcast everywhere, including:
JAZZ-O-RAMA ON THE AIR! Listen on...
Spokane Public Radio
Pawling Public Radio
WHRO/The 1920s Radio Network
Thanks to
New Zealand Public Radio for playing the show!
Host Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor:
"British Dance Bands",
including:
Henry Hall and His Gleneagles Hotel Band: Home (1931)The Ray Fox Band: Whispering (1933)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra with The Freshman: Double Trouble (1935)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: Run, Rabbit, Run (1939)
Jack Hylton: Run, Rabbit, Run (1939)
Harry Roy and His Mayfair Hotel Orchestra : Run, Rabbit, Run (1945)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Haunted House (1931)
Billy Cotton's London Savannah Band: Sunny Skies (1928)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: I Like Bananas (1936)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: The Music Goes Round and Round (1936)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Rhythm is Our Business (1935)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Cherokee (1938)
Debroy Somers, Piccadilly Revelers, Kit-Kat and London Radio: Bless Her Little Heart (1928)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Let's Spill the Beans (1935)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket (1936)
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British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that
developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s
and 1930s, often called a Golden Age of British music prior to World War II.
Thousands of miles away from the true origins of jazz in the United
States, British dance bands of this era typically played melodic,
good-time music that had jazz and big band influences but also
maintained a peculiarly British sense of rhythm and style which came
from the music hall tradition. Often comedians of the day or music hall
personalities would sing novelty recordings backed by well-known British
dance band leaders. Some of the British dance band leaders and musicians
went on to fame in the United States in the swing era.
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| Henry Hall |
Henry Hall was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC
Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through
to the 1960s.
Roy Fox was an American dance bandleader whose period of greatest
popularity came during his years performing in England during the
British dance band era.
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| The Ray Noble Orchestra 1940 |
Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian,
and actor. Noble wrote both lyrics and music for many popular songs
during the British dance band era known as the "Golden Age of British
music", notably for his longtime friend and associate Al Bowlly,
including Love Is The Sweetest Thing, Cherokee, The Touch of Your Lips,
I Hadn't Anyone Till You and his signature tune, The Very Thought of
You. Noble also played a radio comedian opposite American ventriloquist
Edgar Bergen's stage act of Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy, and
American comedy duo Burns and Allen, later transferring these roles from
radio to TV and popular films.
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