0326 Various Artists [Pennies From Heaven] FLAC 69(3.27.16)

Contributed by DaveB, who writes:-
Not to be confused with an inferior single-CD compilation of 1930s saccharine songs of the same name or with one- and two-CD compilations also from the BBC TV series, this is the full-Monty, three-CD, now-hard-to-get set.
Whatever one thinks of Dennis Potter’s script or Bob Hoskins in the lead role (not much in my case), one would need a heart of stone not to be charmed by some of the tracks. It’s as good an introduction to the best swing music of the period as you’re likely to get; many of the bands included Britain’s finest jazz players of the era.
The list below gives the band followed, where appropriate, by the singer. All the recordings were made in London except for one by Connie Boswell (unknown) and two by Greta Keller (New York).

Disc One
Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra
Billy Scott Coomber - vocal (01)
Ambrose and his Orchestra
Elsie Carslyle - vocal (02)
Jack Jackson and his Orchestra
Fred Latham - vocal (03)
Lew Stone and his Band
Alan Kane - vocal (04)
The Blue Lyres
Joe Crossman and Chorus (05)
The Street Singer
Arthur Tracey - vocal (06)
Lew Stone and his Band (07)
Ambrose and his Orchestra
Elsie Carslyle - vocal (08)
Lew Stone and his Band
Sam Browne - vocal (09)
Lew Stone and his Band (10)
Roy Fox and his Band
Peggy Doll - vocal (11)
Lew Stone and his Band
Al Bowlly and Chorus (12)
Ambrose and his Orchestra
Sam Browne and the Carlysle Cousins - vocal (13)
Lew Stone and his Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (14)
Debroy Somers Band
Gerry Firzgerald - vocal (15)
Lew Stone and his Band (16)
Orlando and his Gleneagles Hotal Orchestra
Phyllis Robins - vocal (17)
Scott Wood and his Orchestra
Jack Plant - vocal (18)
Ray Noble and his Orchestra
Dorothy Carless - vocal (19)
Lew Stone and his Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (20)
Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
Don Donovan - vocal (21)
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra (22)
Lew Stone and his Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (23)
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans
Harry Bentley - vocal (24)

Disc One
01 Down Sunnyside Lane (Campbell, Connelly) (3:08)
02 The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (Woods, Dixon) (3:19)
03 Roll Along Prairie Moon (Fiorito, McPherson, Von Tilzer) (2:54)
04 Seein' Is Believin' (Adams, Ager) (3:14)
05 You Rascal, You (Theard) (2:50)
06 Pennies From Heaven (Burke, Johnson) (3:05)
07 Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (Hanley) (2:57)
08 You've Got Me Crying Again (Newman, Jones) (3:05)
09 Cheek To Cheek (Berlin) (3:01)
10 That's A Plenty (Pollock) (3:07)
11 Without That Certain Thing (Nesbitt) (3:08)
12 You Couldn't Be Cuter (Kern, Friend) (2:38)
13 (Yes, Yes) My Baby Said Yes (Conrad, Friend) (2:45)
14 Just Let Me Look At You (Kern, Fields) (3:18)
15 You And The Night And The Music (Dietz, Schwartz, Warner) (3:01)
16 Garden Of Weed (Forsythe) (3:13)
17 Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You (Friend, Malneck) (2:31)
18 I Only Have Eyes For You (Dubin, Warren) (2:58)
19 Oh You Nasty Man (Yellen, Caesar, Henderson) (3:07)
20 I Love You Truly (Jacobs, Bond) (2:49)
21 Radio Times (Hall) (2:39)
22 Life Begins At Oxford Circus (Nicholls) (2:24)
23 Easy Come, Easy Go (Green, Heyman) (3:10)
24 Better Think Twice (Seymour, Coots) (3:10)

Disc Two
Billy Merrin and his Commanders
Sam Browne - vocal (01)
Lew Stone and his Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (02)
Maurice Winnick and his Orchestra
Sam Costa - vocal
Judy Shirely - vocal (03)
Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
Don Donovan - vocal (04)
Roy Fox and his Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (05)
Harry Roy and his Orchestra
Harry Roy - vocal (06)
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra (07)
Primo Scala's Accordion Band (08)
Lew Stone and the Monseigneur Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (09)
Jack Jackson and his Orchestra
Jack Jackson - vocal (10)
Roy Fox and his Band
Denny Dennis - vocal (11)
Lew Stone and his Band
The Radio Three (Joy Worth, Kay Cavendish, Ann Carring) - vocal (12)
Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
Don Donovan - vocal (13)
Debroy Somers Band
Jack Buchanan - comedian (14)
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans
Anne Lenner - vocal (15)
Connie Boswell - vocal (16)
Teddy Joyce and his Orchestra
Eric Whitely - vocal (17)
Brian Lawrence and his Sextet
Brian Lawrence - vocal (18)
Harry Roy and his Orchestra (19)
Ambrose and his Orchestra (20)
Jack Jackson and his Orchestra
Fred Latham - vocal (10)
Roy Fox and his Band
Denny Dennis - vocal (22)
Lew Stone and his Band
Alfie Nookes, Joe Crossman, Don Barrigo - vocal (23)
Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony (24)

Disc Two
01 We’ll Make Hay While The Sun Shines (Freed, Brown) (2:57)
02 Riptide (Kahn, Donaldson) (3:11)
03 Indian Love Call (Friml, Harbach, Hammerstein) (3:09)
04 How’s Chances? (Berlin) (2:52)
05 The Echo Of A Song (Donovan) (3:26)
06 Okay Toots (Kahn, Donaldson) (2:35)
07 Painting The Clouds With Sunshine (Dubin, Burke) (2:58)
08 Serenade In The Night (Bixio, Kennedy, Cherubin) (3:04)
09 My Woman (Crosby, Wallman, Wartel) (3:14)
10 I’ve Found The Right Girl (Lupino, Gay) (2:51)
11 On The Other Side Of The Hill (Kennedy) (2:56)
12 Anything Goes (Porter) (2:51)
13 Hands Across The Table (Parish, Delettre) (3:06)
14 You Sweet So And So (Furber, Gershwin, Meyer) (2:56)
15 The Moon Got In My Eyes (Burke Johnston) (3:10)
16 In The Middle Of A Kiss (Coslow) (2:57)
17 March Winds And April Showers (Samuels, Whitcup, Powers) (3:07)
18 Says My Heart (Lane Loesser) (2:36)
19 Roll Along Covered Wagon (Kennedy) (2:58)
20 Whistling In The Dark (Suesse) (3:04)
21 I Like To Go Back In The Evening (Pascoe, Clint, Williams) (3:05)
22 In The Dark (Hill, Bergman) (3:07)
23 The Glory Of Love (Hill) (2:51)
24 Pennies From Heaven Selection (Burke, Johnson) (3:14)

Disc Three
Lew Stone and his Band (01)
Phyllis Robins - vocal (02)
Harry Roy and his Orchestra (03)
Ray Noble and his Orchestra
Al Bowlly - vocal (04)
Greta Keller - vocal (05)
Charlie Kunz The Casoni Club Orchestra
George Barclay - vocal(06)
Reginald Foresythe and his New Music (07 08)
Al Bowlly - vocal (09)
Louis Levy and his Orchestra
Eve Becke - vocal (10)
The Street Singer
Arthur Tracey - vocal (11)
Ray Noble
Al Bowlly - vocal (12)
Reginald Foresythe and his New Music (13)
Turner Layton (14)
Lew Stone and his Band (15)
Lew Stone and his Band
Al Bowlly - vocal (16)
Lew Stone and his Band
Alan Kane (17)
Greta Keller - vocal (18)
Roy Fox and his Band
Denny Dennis - vocal (19)
Lew Stone and his Band
Alan Kane - vocal (20)
Al Bowlly - vocal (21)

Disc Three
01 Pick Yourself Up (Kern, Fields) (2:28)
02 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern, Harbach) (3:05)
03 Roll Along Prairie Moon (Fiorito, Mcpherson, Von Tilzer) (3:11)
04 Dreaming A Dream (Waller, Tunbridge, Weston, Lee) (3:02)
05 Blue Moon (Rodgers, Hart) (3:17)
06 In The Middle Of A Kiss (Coslow) (3:09)
07 Garden Of Weed (Forsythe) (2:50)
08 Bit (Forsythe) (2:47)
09 Fancy Our Meeting (Furber, Meyer, Charig) (3:08)
10 Says My Heart (Lane, Loesser) (2:54)
11 So Do I (Burke, Johnston) (2:47)
12 Roll Along Prairie Moon (Fiorito, Mcpherson, Von Tilzer) (3:06)
13 The Duke Insists (Forsythe) (2:45)
14 Pennies From Heaven (Burke, Johnston) (3:18)
15 Lew Stone Favourites – Oh Susannah (Foster)-Goodbye Blues (Fields, McHugh, Johnson)-Minnie The Moocher (Calloway, Mills)
Goofus (Kahn, King)-Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf (Churchill, Ronell)-Don’t Tell A Soul (Pepper)-Hello Mike (Maurice, Berne)
Georgia On My Mind (Carmichael, Gorrell) (3:55)
16 Isn’t It Heavenly (Harburg, Meyer) (3:09)
17 Haunting Me (De Lange, Myrow) (3:10)
18 I Believe In Miracles (Wendling, Meyer, Lewis) (2:58)
19 Roll Along Prairie Moon (Fiorito, Mcpherson, Von Tilzer) (2:42)
20 Pop Goes Your Heart (Dixon, Wrubel) (2:47)
21 Love Is The Sweetest Thing (Noble, Wilmott) (3:12)

Label: POTT CD 300
Recorded: 1929-1938
Lineage: CD>FLAC