0316 The Polka Dots [Nice Work & You Can Buy It] FLAC 12(33.00)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
The all male vocal group had a highly successful, although short, life in the late 1950s/early 1960s and were much in demand for studio work and as backing for star vocalists.
This Wally Stott band included Kenny Baker, Bert Ezzard, Tubby Hayes, Laddy Busby, Harry Klein and Ronnie Verrell although the full personnel is not known. Hayes can be heard soloing on tracks 1, 7, 8 and 10.
Fringe jazz but good swinging arrangements from a great studio band. Vocals not bad either.

Personnel includes:
Wally Stott - leader
Kenny Baker - trumpet
Bert Ezzard - trumpet
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Lad Busby - trombone
Harry Klein - baritone
Ronnie Verrell - drums
Jimmy Walker - vocals
Don Riddell - vocals
Tony Mansell - vocals
Freddy Datchler - vocals

01 I’ve Got A Gal In Kalamazoo (Warren) (2:46)
02 Paducah (Redman) (2:42)
03 They Go To San Diego (Tormé) (2:36)
04 I’m Shooting High (Koehler, McHugh) (2:50)
05 Hundreds And Thousands Of Girls (Wayne, Rasch) (3:08)
06 Too Marvelous For Words (Mercer, Whiting) (2:39)
07 The Song Is You (Kern) (2:58)
08 The Late, Late Show (Berlin, Alfred) (2:37)
09 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin, Gershwin) (2:36)
10 I'm Just Breezin’ Along With The Breeze (Gillespie, Simon, Whiting) (2:44)
11 Dancing In The Dark (Schwartz, Dietz) (2:53)
12 Carioca (Eliscu, Kahn, Youmans) (2:31)

Label: Philips BL 7576
Recorded: 1963
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0097 Wally Stott [Wally Stott And His Orchestra] FLAC 4(10.26)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
Another associate of the Goon Show, Wally Stott, a former Geraldo musician, was very active in 1950s radio as composer and arranger and then later as a film score composer (Looking Glass War, When Eight Bells Toll, Peeping Tom etc).
He ensured that the musical interludes in the Goon Show had a jazz flavour and he is found providing orchestral backgrounds to many popular singers of the day during the 1960s, often employing uncredited top jazz musicians.
Here, he leads a fine big band recorded in the late 1950s but the musicians are not identified. I think I hear a phrase or two from Tubby Hayes in the tenor solo in 'Nightride' but unless others have sharp ears the other solos cannot be credited.
So what happened to Wally Stott?
He re-married in 1970 after the death of his first wife and then two years later underwent what was then known as 'sex-rectifying operation' to become Angela Morley.
She continued to work for BBC radio as arranger, as conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and to work on film scores in the UK. In 1984 she re-located to the USA to work in films and TV as composer/arranger ( Star Wars, Superman, Dallas, Dynasty etc).
She died in 2009 aged 84. 
Ripped in FLAC from re-issue cd with scans of front and back of ep.

Wally Stott - leader
other personnel unknown

01 The Night Ride
02 The Cat from Coos Bay
03 Cat Slick
04 Lucky Strike

Label: Philips ep BBE 12000
Recorded: Late 1950's
Lineage: CD>FLAC