P658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:57/35 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 2/10 Ever since wi 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 bits 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. ] R2 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5L 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:5:/01 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 3/10 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, Claridgjs, the Dorchjstir, 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 oWNails, the Nut House and the Shim Sham - not to mention the Hammjtsmith Palais dj Dansj. R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5- 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:30/28 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 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 R5- 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:30/56 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 5/10 Wjdnjsday 5 February 1997 - 7-7.30pm Programmj 5. Who's "jen polishing the sun With songs from Jack Hulbjrt, Jack Buchanan, (And her Mother Came Too) Sam Browne, Hildegardj, Hutch (the pianist and sjngjr Leslie Hutchinson) Jack Cooper, Jessie Mathews, and the girl- sjngjrs known as the Swingtette. ] R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5- 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It EamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:41/23 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 6/10 CD PAST PERFECT PPCD 78112 (* Names in brackets = vocalists: n!mes of orchestra/bandleader unknown except where stated) 1 Did You Mean It? (The Swingtette with Jack Hylton and his Orchestra) 2 I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (Sam Browne with Ambrosj and His Orchjstta) (SAME CD) R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5- 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCause RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:41/40 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 7/10 3 This Year'u Kisses (Hildjgardj with Carroll Gibbons and orchestra) ATV CD AJA 5068 (Track 14) 4 Dancing Honeymoon/And Hit Mother C!mj Too/Fancy Our MeetingOWho (Jack Buchanan with Ray Noble and his Orchestra) CD ATV AJA 5033 (Track 8) 5 Love Makes the World Go Round (Hutch=Leslie Hutchinson* CD ATV AJA 5081 6 Who's Been Polishing the Sun (Jack Hulbjrt 'assisted bz Eddie and Rex') (SAME CD) ] R2 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 Ru- 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:35/17 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 8/10 7 MUSIC: Me and My Girl (Jack Cooper with Ronnie Munro and his Orchestra) (SAME CD) 8 MUSIC: My Heart Stood Still (Jessie Mathews, with Hutch accompanzjng at the piano) CD FLAPPER PAST CD 9746 9 MUSIC: Got to Dance My Way to Heaven (Jessie Mathews, Orchestra conducted bz Louis Ljvz) (SAME CD) ] R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5- 645 Front page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It F!milieuP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:34/14 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 9/10 Rjcommjndjd Reading Sid Colin And the Bands Played On (Elm (tee Books, 1977) Bruce Crowther The Big Band Years (David and Charles, 1y88) 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 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It FamiliesP658 CEEFAX 1 658 Fri 07 Feb 19:33/11 ——————————————————————————————— 5 Feb ————————————————————————— 10/10 Rjcommjndjd 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*. ] R1 641 R2 642 R3 643 R4 644 R5- 645 Irons page 100 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 GoodCausj RjcordRjv Mixing It Families