Seger Ellis - Heartaches (1931)

Black coffee - Billie Holiday & Ray Nichols & His 4 Tower Orchestra

Clair de Lune

Зарубежное наследие: Голоса из граммофона

Love Is The Sweetest Thing

Al Bowlly Sings Again

You're My Everything

Must It End Like This

Play, Fiddle, Play

Several years later, vocalist Louis Rapp (younger brother of bandleader Barney Rapp) became much better known as the lead male singer on "Your Hit Parade," performing under the professional name of Barry Wood.

78rpm: Brunswick 7389 - March Winds And April Showers (Samuels-Whitcup-Powell) by Abe Lyman & His California Orchestra, vocal by Louis Rapp, recorded February 12, 1935.

Courtesy of Youtube user MusicProf78.

Abe Lyman - March Winds And April Showers (Louis Rapp, Vocal) (1935)

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You Ought To Be in Pictures - Al Bowlly

The great Al Bowlly sings The Very Thought Of You.

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.

In December 1931, Bowlly married Constance Freda Roberts (died 1934) in St Martin's Register Office, London; the couple separated after a fortnight and sought a divorce. He remarried in December 1934 to Marjie Fairless; this marriage lasted until his death.

On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.

A blue plaque commemorating Bowlly was installed in November 2013 by English Heritage at Charing Cross Mansion, 26 Charing Cross Road, described as "his home at the pinnacle of his career

His most popular songs include "Midnight, the Stars and You", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere song)", "The Very Thought of You", "Guilty", "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" and the only English version of "Dark Eyes" by Adalgiso Ferraris as "Black Eyes" with words of Albert Mellor.

The Very Thought Of You - Al Bowlly (1934)

Here we have vocalist Sam Browne with Ambrose and It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane from the 1930's.

Dancing In the Blitz

It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - (Vocal) Sam Browne with Ambrose & His Orchestra

Must It End Like This

Al Bowlly

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