----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain M Churches"
Newsgroups: uk.rec.audio
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Your starter for ten


(To quote Bamber Gascoine. Remember him?)


Just been sent a very nice old shellac pressing
for restoration. I thought it might be of interest
to some on UKRA.

Please take a listen:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches/Music/F5375.mp3


Award yourself ten points and a golliwog badge if you
can identify the band and title on hearing the
track.

If not, - a clue for five points:

A British band (with several American players) led by
one of Decca's best selling artists in the 1930's
(one of the few musicians to earn £25 000 a year
when a good salary (doctor, lawyer, etc) was £300 p.a

This bandleader was a compulsive gambler, and
admitted to having lost more than £1M at the tables.






Jeremy Paxman took over UC since BG's days and does a far
better job - and the header phrase is still used.

That archaeologist soundman's back in circulation after
many weeks, someone dug up but he cleaned up a nice one.
Such combo and disc quality (but the piano sounded about 6
feet off mike). Was Nat Gonella on it possibly?
Sob! You faded out the very last note!
Bugger trying to pinpoint his name, or the New Bond Str
desres - might have been a hotel!
I've just heard a very good syncopated band. They loved
that word in those days.
Psst! You must not say *golliwog* anymore, only *golly*.
Jim