0612 Harry Roy [Hotcha-Ma-Cha-Cha!] FLAC48 12(35.12)

Contributed by Dave Bruce, who writes:-
 "Hotcha-Ma-Cha-Cha!" doesn't these days have quite the ring it presumably had back then. But, for all that, some good music and fine playing to be found on this 1970s MfP compilation of recordings by Harry Roy and his band made mainly between 1933 and 1935. I don't have the names of the band members to hand but discogs.com suggests they included:Alf Horton, Arthur Calkin, Basil Kirchin, Bert Wilton, Dave Kaye, Dick Boothroyd, Harry Goss, Harry Roy, Ivor Moreton, Jack Collins, Joe Arbiter, Maurice Sterndale, Norman White, Tommy Porter and Tommy Venn.BritJazz veterans will recognise Basil Kirchin's.

01 - Bugle Call Rag (2:45) (May 1933)
02 - Casa Loma Stomp (2:58) (October 1934)
03 - The Roy Rag (3:10) (July 1934)
04 - Alexander's Ragtime Band (2:43) (March 1934)
05 - Canadian Capers (2:51) (April 1933)
06 - She had to go and lose it at The Astor (2:51) (April 1940)
07 - Tiger Rag (2:40) (April 1933)
08 - Somebody stole my gal (3:08) (June 1933)
09 - Twelfth Street Rag (3:17) ((June 1933)
10 - Nobody's Sweetheart (3:08) (January 1934)
11 - Porcupine Rag (2:40) (January 1936)
12 - Temptation Rag (2:55) (January 1935)

Label: Music For Pleasure MFP 1135
Recorded: 1933-1940
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Scans: Front rear LP cover

0568 Harry Roy Lew Stone [The Golden Age of British Dance Bands vol 1] FLAC48 16(47.38)

Contributed by Dave_Bruce, who writes:-

Two LPs of classic British swing band recordings from the 1930s reissued on the World Record Club label, presumably in the early 1970s. Though well up to WRC's high technical standards, there are, alas, no personnel lists.

The album was one of a dozen or more WRC albums I found in a charity ship in excellent condition, all reissues of the élite British swing bands. If folk are interested in the others, I'll do my best to post them in due course though I'd like to get through the Ace of Hearts stuff first.

Vol 1
01 - Harry Roy - South American Joe (3:11)
02 - Harry Roy - Avalon (2:51)
03 - Harry Roy - Build a little home (3:10)
04 - Harry Roy - Limehouse Blues (2:37)
05 - Harry Roy - Spanish Shawl (3:02)
06 - Harry Roy - Margie (2:54)
07 - Harry Roy - Music Maestro Please (2:41)
08 - Harry Roy - Piano Madness (2:46)
09 - Lew Stone - I ain't got nobody (3:09)
10 - Lew Stone - Red sails in the sunset (3:05)
11 - Lew Stone - Dinner for one please, James (3:05)
12 - Lew Stone - She's a Latin from Manhatten (2:37)
13 - Lew Stone - Thank you so much Mrs Lowsborough-Goodby (3:06)
14 - Lew Stone - She wore a little jacket of blue (3:13)
15 - Lew Stone - The Continental (3:03)
16 - Lew Stone - Cheek to Cheek (3:00)