Sorry about that. Oh it was a great show and enjoyed every minute of it Americans on us trying to get started here and it s time for pub concert and that happens at 2 o clock am. Second and 4th Wednesday of the month and my co-host is Jim a.m.d. He does it on the 4th I do it on the circuit. And whatever it is we do we have a good time and I hope you do too what am I doing today hold on. I m going to feature some swing band swing bad one of those. Don t focus on for great swing bands. Most of music from old vinyl L.P. s so please forgive me any for any less good good quality sound but if you re like me I only hear the music after the 1st minute or so when I was researching the bands I realize that the terms jazz and swing or even pop and dance music are sometimes used interchangeably and you may not agree but I m not going to worry about it for me the broad term swing still fits but what really matters is it s all great music and just for fun I m going to play the band s themes soul an
Then gray and his orchestra starting our program the Sultan here on B.B.C. Radio Lincolnshire song of India and the Commonwealth s formed in December 1931 so we ve got quite a few Alton bits that I wanted to just fit into the program this afternoon with the luxury of a little bit of time and forethought to do this so today I wanted to play a track that I haven t actually paid since 2003 why because this CD had made its way to the back of my my collection I ve sort of said this before on the program it seems remarkable that museums can announce after you know 80 years that they have discovered an artifact you think well it s been in your museum all that time but you ve been in their store rooms or something and you know successive generations of kind of lost track of it similar thing happens in my record collection says can t base in his orchestra and a number called Red Bank kooky. the the the count basie orchestra at every time i play had they see truck know i m reminded of joan to g
Simple. Ily. Ily. Ily. Ily. Ily. Little A. Little water and Big Maybelle remember if you d like to contact me it s always great to hear from you if you have requests dedications thoughts comments then please email me that s the easiest way to get hold of me Nicky don t hold B.B.C. Don t kowtow Nicky don t hold B.B.C. Don t you K. Now to the great night King Cole. I was wrong. Minding my business what I ve done I. Thought. One. Was going to drinking in sunshine what out of that. One look and. What. Causes. Them to this man not. Minding my business but love came and hit me in the. Back. back her was much soft that what i m just being so Good. News. Stan Getz provided the. King Cole gave us our Inge colored sky so to the 2nd part of these very special recordings of G.I. Jill on American Forces Radio not she never used her real name on air did and she never mentioned that she was married. The couple of kids now her husband Mort Wayne began his career in the mid 1930 S. He was meant to
Gets done of the other time from the bullies. And trying to play smarter when the old who is prisoner of the UK gang aboard a flower boat Balo and Bonnie Dunlap of the International Secret Police are they themselves taken prisoner Meanwhile Speed Gibson sensing that all may not be well with his uncle makes arrangements with leading Hong Kong operator of the secret police to go up the sea on river 200 miles in a fast police launched to where Clinton Bonnie are located on the chance they may need help they need it all right because hop toys captain of the flower boat as declared them prisoners and we find the boys along with Bob Fillmore their new friend locked in the hold of the flower boat. As the weather as bad as it started raining again Bonnie and they got sand of a tankful boy then down here it doesn t make much difference what kind of weather is out of our food cry because we were so out numbered motion danger was hard to decide on the best course we had to move as we waited for
B.B.C. Local radio in the Eastern Counties 11 o clock January this year my colleague Jeff link came into the studio to present a 2nd in the series singing instrumentals to die to his return with part 3 So Jeff I ll hand over to you for the next 15 minutes to talk us through another interesting selection of tunes we know but rarely of heard vocal interpretations of a particular song The microphone is you ll see that that happened. And. Thank you so much Keith and in this week s middle I m pleased to wait been up another record case full of singing instrumentals the records come in panels each band comprises a very familiar hit instrumental which will be followed by a less often heard local version for instance when starting with the string along and their hit wheels the group came from Texas where produced by Norman Petit he worked with Buddy Holly in the crickets wheels who reached number 8 in the charts in 1961 and stayed in the U.K. Top faulting for 16 weeks the vocal version is by