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Danzie ◊ 2015-08-10 01:21	Will finish it off at the final S6 during the week, fun series to do with the mix of 90'sand WW2.
chicomarx ◊ 2015-08-10 01:46	After the Al Bowlly song. No doubt the best British pre-WW II singer. "Somewhere in my -um- heart there's a place for Al Bowlly. The smoky voiced singer killed by a German bomb in 1941, still celebrated by a weird fan club which insists, predictably, that although the song is ended the melody lingers on... so sweetly in fact, that a Bowlly buff once wrote to threaten me with an axe because I used an old Bowlly record as a counterpoint to what he called a "sordid" scene in a TV play. 78 rpm love had nothing, but nothing, to do with creaking bedsprings." -Dennis Potter
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2015-08-24 20:47	https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4ncMR5EVQ Possibly not a face and style that would meet with the modern generation's approval, but you are quite correct about his position in the ranks of British dance band singers. The number of top quality bands he made recordings with is proof of this, and the cult of celebrity worship that we have these days was not about in the thirties, but still most people knew about him.

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Danzie

◊ 2015-08-10 01:21

Will finish it off at the final S6 during the week, fun series to do with the mix of 90'sand WW2.

chicomarx

◊ 2015-08-10 01:46

After the Al Bowlly song. No doubt the best British pre-WW II singer.

"Somewhere in my -um- heart there's a place for Al Bowlly. The smoky voiced singer killed by a German bomb in 1941, still celebrated by a weird fan club which insists, predictably, that although the song is ended the melody lingers on... so sweetly in fact, that a Bowlly buff once wrote to threaten me with an axe because I used an old Bowlly record as a counterpoint to what he called a "sordid" scene in a TV play. 78 rpm love had nothing, but nothing, to do with creaking bedsprings." -Dennis Potter

johnfromstaffs

◊ 2015-08-24 20:47

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4ncMR5EVQ

Possibly not a face and style that would meet with the modern generation's approval, but you are quite correct about his position in the ranks of British dance band singers. The number of top quality bands he made recordings with is proof of this, and the cult of celebrity worship that we have these days was not about in the thirties, but still most people knew about him.

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Goodnight Sweetheart, TV Series, 1993-1999

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