Previous articles. This page contains a selection of articles which. Memory Lane. Winter. DANCE BAND PERSONALITIESBy Barry Mc. Canna. When the discography of British Dance Bands On Record, by Brian Rust and. Sandy Forbes, was published in 1. Jay Wilbur. By rights, he should have been. Description of missing black/white television programmes. This sad page details a few programmes that at the present time seem to be entirely missing or unavailable. Ambrose, Jack Hylton and Jack Payne, all household names in. His recorded output was equally prolific, his choice of material. Victory and its successors the 8- inch Eclipse and the 9- inch Crown. Nothing could be. His neglect is ironic because as a studio director he was able to call on the. London’s dance band musicians. Ambrose was one society bandleader who. His father was a member of the orchestra and. In his formative years Jay took singing. In his early teens he featured in Bluebell in Fairyland, a. Sir Seymour Hicks in 1. Christmas. He was also involved in a vaudeville act called Casey’s Court, part. It has been claimed that the lad. Charlie Chaplin. If so, this could not. Chaplin went to America with Fred Karno’s. Young Jay Wilbur was stagestruck, and his seaside location presented a wide. He was much in demand. When he was 1. 6. This was a. fortuitous decision, because the movie business was developing rapidly, and. According to one account. Jay had been chosen to play the piano in some of London’s early cinemas. However, this seems. Whatever the truth of the matter, the need to concentrate from close range. A True Relation of Such Occurrences of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia. Pre-1950 Utopias and Science Fiction by Women An Annotated Reading List of Online Editions. As a result, when. First World War, Jay. C3 and given the job of a coppersmith. The purpose of this eluded. Although forced to abandon a burgeoning career in the. In 1. 91. 9, the year the Original Dixieland Jazz Band toured England, Jay formed. Continent for a couple of years. This led to. a chance meeting with Edward, Prince of Wales, who was an active socialite and. That encounter resulted in Jay. Buckingham Palace on several occasions. After he left the agency he joined Emlyn Thomas’ London Band, and in. September 1. 92. 3 he participated in their first recording session, although the. He then reformed his own band, and. London venues including the Piccadilly and Savoy Hotels, he. Continent and played at the Hotel Bristol in Oslo and the casino. It is not known where exactly Punt was. A collection of history, folklore, and true ghost stories from the world's most haunted places. The World's Most Haunted Places. The act or process of criticising the Australian Government and its bureaucracy. Canberra, the capital of Australia, has been used allusively to. Dashiell Hammett Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett (1894-1961) 'Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that. Spa, Belgium. Following that, he was asked to provide the ship’s orchestra. West Indies. When the liner berthed at New York he. They included Paul Whiteman and Andr. He was involved in. Duophone label were productive. He was replaced during February 1. Tricity Restaurant in the Strand, where he took over from Ben Blue and his Band. The reason for his departure was to. Dominion Gramophone Records Ltd., a. This is perhaps a good. Jay’s surname was actually. Blinco, because whether or not that was the case, it is the name James Edward. Wilbur that appeared in the list of the board of directors of the company. The studio orchestra which he put together for Dominion featured a highly. Max Goldberg, with whom he had. Arthur Rosebery’s. Kit- Cat Dance Band, Jay Whidden’s Band and Bert Firman’s various ensembles. Tony. Thorpe who, like Max, later joined Ambrose’s band, was on trombone and the. Billy Thorburn. Most of their recordings were issued under. Books on witchcraft can be a hit and miss affair, and frankly, I didn’t hold out much hope for this. But I was pleasantly surprised by this informative. No lossy mp3 files here. My uploads on this blog are all lossless (.wav format), packaged as either.ape or.flac files. These, after being downloaded from. Australian internet bookshop. Dominion was a larger enterprise. They also provided the musical accompaniment to various. Unfortunately the label barely had time to. Wall Street crash, and it was an early victim of the. Great Depression. Having begun with high hopes, by mid- 1. Dominion Company. One door had shut but, true to the old saying, another one opened almost. In July 1. 93. 0 Jay Wilbur announced in The Melody Maker that he had. Crystalate Gramophone. Manufacturing Co. As established producers of the. Imperial and Victory labels they were far better placed than Dominion. Furthermore they were keen to expand. British dance band output, rather than continuing to be dependent on. American masters, and had just opened their new recording studios in Broadhurst. Gardens, West Hampstead for that purpose. The colour of the Imperial label was. Jay began an association that. One of his first credited sides, Adeline on Imperial 2. The first take employed the vocal trio of Al. Bowlly, Les Allen and Jack Plant, but a later take 4 is purely instrumental, and. At the end of January 1. Victory side was cut, and that label was. Eclipse, together with a proliferation of the pseudonyms under. Jay’s recordings were sold in Woolworths. The Hottentots and The Biltmore. Players were joined by The Ambassadors Twelve, The Connecticut Collegians and. The Radio Serenaders to name but a few. As mentioned already, he appeared under. Imperial, but towards the end of 1. Jack Payne before being phased out. His recordings continued to be released on. Eclipse, still mainly under aliases, and were featured also on some Broadcast. Rex. label (which was styled . The final stage of this revamp took place in mid- 1. Eclipse. label passed its one- thousandth issue, after which it was discontinued and. Crown. This new entry (out of the same stable as Imperial and Rex). Jay Wilbur’s identity. Even more pseudonyms. Manuel Espinosa and his Rumba. Band was the most exotic! In 1. 93. 7 Crystalate was acquired by Decca, at which. Crown label was discontinued. In the meantime Jay had secured his own radio programme on the strength of. Radio was not an entirely new medium to him, because he. BBC. became a public corporation. Then however light music had been seen as a. As a result of the popularity of Melody. From The Sky, which began in April 1. Jay continued to broadcast - most. Music While You Work and the wartime comedy series Hi. Gang, which was broadcast from Bristol, whence the BBC Variety Department had. The latter programme featured the American couple Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels. England, as well as Vic Oliver, the son of an Austrian baron. It was when the. latter turned his talents to comedy that he met and married a young chorus girl. Winston Churchill’s son- in- law! The fast pace of the show was. I’m Just Wild About Harry, and Wilbur was assisted. Sam Browne and The Greene Sisters. One measure of its success was. Hi Gang. In May 1. In consequence recording sessions, now. Hi Gang Orchestra, became far less frequent, finishing in September. The war was not without its tribulations; his son, an aerial photographer. RAF, had been killed in 1. It seems probable that it. That was the end of an era, not just for Jay Wilbur, but for dance bands. On his return he faced a very different scene, to which he adapted. But his wanderlust continued, and in 1. Capetown, where he. Springbok Radio with his Firestone Strings. He died in Capetown in. Unlike some other band leaders, Jay Wilbur was very highly regarded by those. One of them recalled his. The musicians, whose studio. There were. many bandleaders who insisted that their own name had to be carried on the. Jay Wilbur knew that what mattered above all else was the music, and that. I know of only one LP devoted to Jay Wilbur, which was Hi! Gang on Decca. Recollections RFL 2. Since the advent of CDs Vocalion has issued three volumes. Sing, Baby, Sing (CDEA 6. We’ll Meet Again (CDEA 6. Rex recordings and from my liner notes for which this article has. Round About Regent Street (CDEA 6. Crown era. Timeless mine the same seam on CBC 1- 0. Rhythm Rascals and The Swing Rhythm Boys, plus Sid. Phillips. It’s also worth bearing in mind that Jay Wilbur directed the studio. Rex roster, including Bebe Daniels and. Elsie Carlisle. That is but a fraction of the enormous legacy of his recordings. My. recollection, although perhaps a little different than most, is every bit as. In my case it wasn't so much the exciting prospect of seeing and. Count Basie orchestra in action, on a cold, wet and windy. November night at the City Hall, Sheffield, in 1. I'd be able to get into this marvellous South Yorkshire venue. In fact, that. night I had more tickets than I could handle. Then let me elucidate. As a band- loving teenager, and living in a town that was starved of such. I used to organise sold- out, 3. Free Trade Hall and Belle Vue, both in Manchester and. Sheffield's City Hall. These successful trips enabled my 'customers' to see. Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington and. Lionel Hampton. When it came to booking a coach to see Count Basie, it was a. For weeks in advance, many came and booked seats for the Sheffield show. On the night. of the concert I realised that if things didn't improve I was going to be stuck. Well, things didn't. I was, in fact, left with those tickets as we arrived in Sheffield. Standing on the steps of the City Hall, with a fistful of unsold tickets made. However, on a more positive note, and as luck. I did. have to reduce the price. Imagine seeing Count Basie for 5. And the upshot was that I managed to flog them off in time. There on stage at the piano, and fronting his legendary 1. William 'Count' Basie - a. Duke Ellington, was a true. Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, on August 2. Basie was not only a pianist of the highest order but a bandleader who possessed. As a young man, and after studying the piano with his mother, Basie went to. New York where he met James P Johnson, Fats Waller and a host of other pianists. New York's Harlem district. Basie joined Bennie Moten’s Kansas. City Orchestra in 1. Moten died. By the time he. In 1. 93. 6 he formed his. Decca Records: a year on and Basie's. By the end of that. One O'Clock. Jump, Jumping At the Woodside and Taxi. War Dance. In 1. 95. He also took on board such sidesmen as Clark Terry, Buddy De. Franco, Serge. Chaloff and Buddy Rich. As time went on however, Basie, for various reasons. Terry and. Rich who had visions of their own. But the one obvious thing was that there was. Thad. Jones, Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley, Frank Foster, Frank. Wess, Freddie Green, Joe Newman and Sonny Payne were quick to illustrate. In that year of 1. Basie had arrived to tour this country following a. Trans- Atlantic exchange deal with the Vic Lewis orchestra crossing over to. America, with all these now- household star names sitting there in his employ. At. the time the 'Count' also had the distinction of having a rare, and one of the. CV, - April in. Paris.
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