(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.

For four points:

The title is named after the venue in New Bond St, in
London's West End at which this band worked on two
separate long engagements during the 1930's

For three points:

The pianist in the band, and composer of this title was
Bert Barnes. Later, pianist Ronnie Aldrich,
played in this band, as did Ted Heath
(the trombone player, not the politician)

For two points:

The bandleader was Jewish, and a very accomplished
violinist. He was born in London in 1896, emigrated
twice to the USA and died in Leeds, England in 1971

For one point:

On retirement, he became Kathy Kirby's manager.

Still not guessed it?
Turn this page upside down for the answer,
or go to:

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



Iain

PS Comments on the track are welcome, but please
don't post a name until those interested (if any:-)
have had a chance to listen and ponder.

Iain M Churches wrote:
(To quote Bamber Gascoine. Remember him?)

I can name the guy your on about............


Started with the violin (not a lot of people know that)

lol

" Dave xxxx" wrote in
message
. uk...
Iain M Churches wrote:
(To quote Bamber Gascoine. Remember him?)

I can name the guy your on about............


Started with the violin (not a lot of people know that)

lol

Yep. Even without Sir Michael's help, you seem to be on
the right track Dave:-)

Do you also know the name of the tune?

Sshhhh:-)

Iain

Iain M Churches wrote:

Yep. Even without Sir Michael's help, you seem to be on
the right track Dave:-)

Do you also know the name of the tune?

Sshhhh:-)

Iain

Yes its


E****** ****p

I heard The Band the other day on a CP ? Album

----- 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

"Jim Gregory" wrote in message
...

----- 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.



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?

The piano was probably right at the back of the band, so
well off mic, as it is with so many early recordings, even
Ellington.


Sob! You faded out the very last note!

Sorry about the quick fade on the last note, the shellac had
a chunk missing where someone had probably lifted and
then dropped a heavy acoustic pickup. The wound had
been repaired with nail varnish!! One sees this quite
often.

Bugger trying to pinpoint his name, or the New Bond Str
desres - might have been a hotel!

It was a very prestigious club somewhere opposite the
premises of Chappell the music publishers.

Psst! You must not say *golliwog* anymore, only *golly*.
Jim

Oh Gosh! Oh Golly. What a faux-pas! The last time I
disgraced myself like that in the UK was when I ordered
a pint of mild and a packet of crisps, and asked the
barman "where is the little blue bag with the salt in it?"

:-)))



Iain

Funny, I'd wondered if it was near/opposite Chappell's music, pianos, disc
browserie.
I once worked nearby, in Albermarle Str.
But can't remember any dives, only the olde worlde BBC Aeolian Hall (where
once, some conmen posing as a removal firm crew helped themselves to a
Concert Grand!!)

"Iain M Churches" wrote in message
...

"Jim Gregory" wrote in message
...

----- 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.



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?

The piano was probably right at the back of the band, so
well off mic, as it is with so many early recordings, even
Ellington.


Sob! You faded out the very last note!

Sorry about the quick fade on the last note, the shellac had
a chunk missing where someone had probably lifted and
then dropped a heavy acoustic pickup. The wound had
been repaired with nail varnish!! One sees this quite
often.

Bugger trying to pinpoint his name, or the New Bond Str
desres - might have been a hotel!

It was a very prestigious club somewhere opposite the
premises of Chappell the music publishers.

Psst! You must not say *golliwog* anymore, only *golly*.
Jim

Oh Gosh! Oh Golly. What a faux-pas! The last time I
disgraced myself like that in the UK was when I ordered
a pint of mild and a packet of crisps, and asked the
barman "where is the little blue bag with the salt in it?"

:-)))



Iain

"Iain M Churches" wrote in message
...

"Jim Gregory" wrote in message
...

----- 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.



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?

The piano was probably right at the back of the band, so
well off mic, as it is with so many early recordings,
even
Ellington.


Sob! You faded out the very last note!

Sorry about the quick fade on the last note, the shellac
had
a chunk missing where someone had probably lifted and
then dropped a heavy acoustic pickup. The wound had
been repaired with nail varnish!! One sees this quite
often.

Bugger trying to pinpoint his name, or the New Bond Str
desres - might have been a hotel!

It was a very prestigious club somewhere opposite the
premises of Chappell the music publishers.

Psst! You must not say *golliwog* anymore, only *golly*.
Jim

Oh Gosh! Oh Golly. What a faux-pas! The last time I
disgraced myself like that in the UK was when I ordered
a pint of mild and a packet of crisps, and asked the
barman "where is the little blue bag with the salt in
it?"

:-)))



Iain



"Jim Gregory" wrote in message
...
Funny, I'd wondered if it was near/opposite Chappell's
music, pianos, disc browserie.
I once worked nearby, in Albermarle Str.

Remember that the club was at this location in the 1930s.
It probably
closed at the outbreak of war.

Chappell's music shop, or more correctly The House of
Chappell as it
was known as, was totally destroyed by fire in 1968. The
cause was
traced to a pipe left in the drawer of a warehouseman in the
basement,
the trade music dept. It was rebuilt, but the new building
hand nothing
of the previous grandeur, the huge central staircase with
velvet carpet
etc etc.

But can't remember any dives, only the olde worlde BBC
Aeolian Hall (where once, some conmen posing as a removal
firm crew helped themselves to a Concert Grand!!)

Yes I remember hearing about that. They turned up in a large
unmarked
van, with a piano trolley and all the webbing that piano
movers use, talked
their way in, and exited with a model B Steinway.

Iain

"Iain M Churches" wrote in message
...
(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.

For four points:

The title is named after the venue in New Bond St, in
London's West End at which this band worked on two
separate long engagements during the 1930's

For three points:

The pianist in the band, and composer of this title was
Bert Barnes. Later, pianist Ronnie Aldrich,
played in this band, as did Ted Heath
(the trombone player, not the politician)

For two points:

The bandleader was Jewish, and a very accomplished
violinist. He was born in London in 1896, emigrated
twice to the USA and died in Leeds, England in 1971

For one point:

On retirement, he became Kathy Kirby's manager.

Still not guessed it?
Turn this page upside down for the answer,
or go to:

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



Iain

PS Comments on the track are welcome, but please
don't post a name until those interested (if any:-)
have had a chance to listen and ponder.



Thanks for the email Iain..sorry been busy so haven't been watching ukra for
the last few days....
Lovely to hear that ol' dance band number again...it's Ambrose and his
Orchestra playing 'Embassy Stomp' Kathy Kirby sang with the band then years
later Bert Ambrose was her manager.

Mike & Mary

"Mike Gilmour" wrote in
message ...

"Iain M Churches" wrote in message
...
(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.

For four points:

The title is named after the venue in New Bond St, in
London's West End at which this band worked on two
separate long engagements during the 1930's

For three points:

The pianist in the band, and composer of this title was
Bert Barnes. Later, pianist Ronnie Aldrich,
played in this band, as did Ted Heath
(the trombone player, not the politician)

For two points:

The bandleader was Jewish, and a very accomplished
violinist. He was born in London in 1896, emigrated
twice to the USA and died in Leeds, England in 1971

For one point:

On retirement, he became Kathy Kirby's manager.

Still not guessed it?
Turn this page upside down for the answer,
or go to:

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



Iain

PS Comments on the track are welcome, but please
don't post a name until those interested (if any:-)
have had a chance to listen and ponder.

Lovely to hear that ol' dance band number again...it's
Ambrose and his Orchestra playing 'Embassy Stomp' Kathy
Kirby sang with the band then years later Bert Ambrose was
her manager.

I just had the feeling that both you and Mary would
recognise it, Mike. Kathy Kirby seemed to disappear
after Bert Ambrose' death. He was
probably the driving force behind her careeer.

I have a couple of sides of Harry Roy, on the old Odeon
label,
soaking nicely at the moment. Excellent stuff, I will host
them
if you or anyone else is interested.

Iain


Iain