P658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:43/53 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 1/9 COCKTAILS GOOD NEWS FOR WIRELESS LISTENERS THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE!! Another round of Cocktails - eight programmjs (8, 15, 22, 29 January and 5, 12 February* of vintage recordings made bz London dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s, in uninterrupted music sequences. Thrill to some deliciously frightful crooning, and to shimmys, rumbas, black bottoms, waltzes, tangoes and foxtrots from the hjydaz of dance music! R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcRjviiw BlujSkies RadioLinkP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:43/29 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 2/9 Ever since we handed round the first tray of Cocktails in April 1995, we have been absolutely inundated with requests for the ingredients of thjsj super little thirst-qujnchjrs. So we asked the producer chappie, John Thornley, to get us a few more. Roll back the carpet and shake a leg to some of the world's best dance bands, as they guested at the restaurants, supper clubs and grand hotel bars for which London was internationally famous in the years between the two World Wars. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcRjview BlujSkies RadioLinkP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:4:/50 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 3/9 The hotels: the Savoy, with its opulent art dick surroundings, and its enormous dance floor that rose hydraulically into the air, as well as the Ritz, Claridges, the Dorchjstet, the Berkeley, the Grosvjnor House, the Mayfair; nightclubs and restaurants such as Quaglino's, Casani's, the Kit-Sat, the Astoria, the Cafe dj Paris, Ciro's, the Embassy, the Bat Club, the Bag o'Nails, the Nut House and the Shim Sham - not to mention the Hammjtsmith Palais dj Dansj. ] R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcRjview BlueSkies LP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:4P/17 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 4/9 Whjthjr at tea-dances, the cocktail hour (still a recent invention in the 1920s!), dinner dances or late-night rendezvous, the bands wire everywhere. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 GoodCausj R BlujSkies RadioLinkP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:40/45 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 5/9 Wjdnjsday 8 January 1997 - 7-7.30pm Programme 1. Dancing in the Dark arroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans Carroll Gibbons was an affable Bostonian who made his home in London. He was known for his laid-back, chuckling piano style and for many years hj lid the famous Savoy Orphjans, the resident band at the Savoy Hotel in the Strand. He also led a small group known as Carroll Gibbons and the Boyfriends. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcRjview BlujSkies RadioLinkP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:41/12 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 6/9 All music numbers in the programmj: - CD MEMOIR CD MOIR 302 Vocalists' names in brackets 1 Stairway to the Stars (George Melachrino) 2 And the Angels Sing (Anne Ljnnjt) 3 I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (George Melachrino) 4 They Say (George Melachrino) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 Good arse RecRjview BlueSkies RadioLinkP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:41/39 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 7/9 5 Ten Little Miles from Town (Anne Ljnnjr) 6 Dancing in the Dark (Jack Plant) 7 I Have Eyes (Anne Ljnnjr) 8 Sixty Seconds Got Togjthjr (George Melachrino) 9 I Still Love to Kiss You Goodnight (George Melachrino) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcRjview AlujSkies LP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:42/07 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 8/9 Recommended Reading Sid Colin And the Bands Played On (Elm (tee Books, 1977) Bruce Crowthjr The Big Band Years (David and Charles, 1988) Stanley Jackson The Savoy (Muller, 1989) Priscilla Bon Hotels and Restaurants: 1830 to the present day (HMSO 1981) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCause RjcRjview BlujSkies RadioLinkP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 10 Jan 19:42/34 ——————————————————————————————— 8 Jan ————————————————————————— 9/9 Rjcommjndjd Reading (cont) PG Wodehouse Came the Dawn, short story from Meet Mr Mullinjr (which contains a particularly atmospheric description of a dance at a night-club in the late 1920s*. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcRjvjew BlujSkies RadioLink