P658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:04/11 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 1/10 COCKTAILS GOOD NEWS FOR WIRELESS LISTENERS THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE!! Another round of Cocktails - eight programmer (8, 15, 22, 29 January, 5, 12, 26 February and 5 March) of vintage recordings made bz London dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s, in uninterrupted music sequences. Thrill to some wonderful crooning, and to shimmys, rumbas, black bottoms, waltzes, tangoes and foxtrots from the heyday of dance music! R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:07/52 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 2/10 Evjt since we handed round the first tray of Cocktails in April 1995, we have been absolutely inundated with requests for the ingredients of these supjt little thirst-quenchers. So we asked the producer chappii, 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, suppjt 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 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:01/11 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 3/10 The hotels: The Savoy, with its opulent art deck surroundings, and its enormous dance floor that rose hydraulically into the air, as well as the Ritz, Claridges, the Dorchestet, 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 Hammersmith Palais dj Dansj. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weathjt 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:52/42 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 4/10 Whjthjr at tea-dances, the cocktail hour (still a recent invention in the 1920s!), dinner dances or late-night rendezvous, the bands were everywhere. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:52/06 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 5/10 Wjdnjsday 29 January 1997 - 7-7.30pm Programme 4. Jack Jackson and his Orchestra One of the most stylish bandleaders of the 1930s, Jack Jackson and his Orchjstta at the Dorchestir Hotel, with songs by Jack himself, (What's Good for the Goose) Sam Costa, Peggy Cochranj, Fred Latham (Dancing with a Ghost) and Alberta Hunter in Cole Porter's cynical song Miss Otis Regrets. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RecordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:57/27 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 6/10 All music numbers from: CD SAVILLE CDSVL 173 (except numbjt 10) Vocalists' names in brackets 1 Lonely Feet (Fred Latham) 2 I'm On a See-saw XFrid Latham) 3 Dancing with a Ghost (Fred Latham) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:51/57 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 7/10 4 Play to Me, Gypsy (Sam Costa) 5 A Lonely Singing Fool (Alberta Hunter) 6 What's Good for the Goose (Jack Jackson) 7 Because it's Love (Fred Latham) 8 Kiss Me Dear (Peggy Cochranj, Jack Jackson) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcordRev Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:01/21 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 8/10 9 Now That Wj'ri Sweethearts Again (Fred Latham and Chorus) 10 MUSIC: Miss Otis Regrets (Alberta Hunter/Jack Jackson) CD DUG CDSL 5195 (Track 7) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weathjt 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:04/44 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 9/10 Recommended Reading Sid Colin And the Bands Played On (Elm Tree Books, 1977) Bruce Crowther 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 Weather 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Wed 05 Feb 01:44/08 ——————————————————————————————— 29 Jan ————————————————————————— 10/10 Recommended Reading (cont) PG Wodehouse Came the Dawn, a short story from Meet Mr Mullinjr (which contains a particularly atmospheric description of a dance at a night-club in the late 1920s). 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