In London 1930-34, Vol. 1: Midnight, The Stars and You

In London 1930-34, Vol. 1: Midnight, The Stars and You

ASIN: B00009IAYE

Track Listings

1. Make Yourself a Happiness Pie

2. I'll Be Good Because of You

3. Tunes of Not So Long Ago (1921): Ain't We Got Fun/Coal Black Mammy/Just

4. Down Sunnyside Lane

5. Twentieth Century Blues

6. One Little Quarrel

7. With Love in My Heart

8. Living in Clover

9. Songs Everybody Is Singing: Live, Laugh and Love/By the Fireside/He Pla

10. Love Is the Sweetest Thing

11. Song of the Bells

12. Bedtime Story

13. It's Within Your Power

14. Pettin' in the Park

15. It's Bad for Me

16. Midnight, The Stars and You

17. One Morning in May

18. I Love You Truly

19. Over My Shoulder

20. Remember Me

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Make Yourself a Happiness Pie
I'll Be Good Because of You
Tunes of Not So Long Ago (1921): Ain't We Got Fun/Coal Black Mammy
Down Sunnyside Lane
Twentieth Century Blues
One Little Quarrel
With Love in My Heart
Living in Clover
Songs Everybody Is Singing: Live, Laugh and Love/By the ...
Love Is the Sweetest Thing
Song of the Bells
Bedtime Story
It's Within Your Power
Pettin' in the Park
It's Bad for Me
Midnight, The Stars and You
One Morning in May
I Love You Truly
Over My Shoulder
Remember Me
Isle of Capri
Every Day Away from You - Ray Noble
I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind - Al Bowlly,
Sun Is 'Round the Corner - Ray Noble

Customer Reviews:

Love this era of music!.......2007-01-04

I love this era of music, but it reminds me of the music used on the soundtrack of the original Stephen King movie adaptation of "The Shining" which, unfortunately, was not what I was hoping for!

The "Early England" Years of the Ray Noble Dance Orchestra.......2004-08-06

My Dad was an electrical engineer and a ham radio operator in the late-1930's. He had some of the best shortwave receivers available at that time and a really "hot" antenna system that he designed. All of the preceding is to set the stage for my local and shortwave radio listening in the late thirties. I found an English station (usually loud and clear)and their recordings of English dance bands of the early thirties and got hooked on Ray Noble and his male vocalist,Al Bowlly, when I was barely ten years old. I was elated to find this CD copy of some of Ray's greatest early recordings. This CD is a classic vis-a-vis portraying the technical aspects of the dance music orchestration and vocalization of that era. The unique --- yet typical of that time --- voice of Al Bowlly was a trademark for the then-popular Rudy Valley and Art Tracy style of singing. Al's voice was smooth and well modulated with less "nasal" qualities than many of the Rudy Valley sing-alikes of that time. Ray Noble's orchestra was a cut above many of his American contemporaries and their "big bands". This was mainly because of Ray's passion for perfection and his genius in composing, selecting and arranging music. Ray moved to America in the late thirties and worked with Glenn Miller to form the "American" Ray Noble Orchestra.I remember hearing him frequently as the "lead-in and interlude" orchestra for weekly radio shows of the late thirties and early forties.Ray often engaged in comic patter and dialogue with the show principals.I enjoyed his smooth English accent and humor almost as much as I enjoyed his music.

If you can remember the thirties (you'd have to be in your seventies, at least)or if you have a penchant for dance music of the early thirties then this CD is a must.

Incidentally, if you're a fan of the current daily (evening) radio talk/commentary show, John Batchellor, heard on ABC stations, you have heard the title song of this album. John regularly spins about one minute of the song (and frequently comments on the recording date and vocalist's name)as his sign-off theme. He mentions at times that Al's career was abruptly ended, and tragically so, when he was killed by a bomb explosion during the German Luftwaffe's Blitz of London in April 1941.

Reminisce the "Good Ol' Days".......2004-05-15

This CD of Ray Noble and His New Mayfair Dance Orchestra is the first in a series of 10 CDs compiling every recording that crooner Al Bowlly made with the Ray Noble Orchestra in the 1930s. On this first CD you will find 24 songs recorded between 1930-1934. Among them is the timeless classic, "Midnight, the Stars, and You", recorded February 16, 1934. When you reminisce and think of The Good Ol' Days --- the days of simpler, kinder times --- it is this song that evokes and defines that feeling. This is a must CD for those who enjoy the quiet tranquillity that only the Big Band Music of the 1930s can bring. You will not be disappointed.

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