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  2. British dance band - Wikipedia

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    British dance band leader Jack Hylton, c. 1930. British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s, often called a Golden Age of British music, prior to the Second World War. [1]

  3. Geraldo (bandleader) - Wikipedia

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    1930–1960s. Gerald Walcan Bright (10 August 1904 – 4 May 1974), [ 1 ] better known as Geraldo, was an English bandleader. [ 2 ] He adopted the name "Geraldo" in 1930, and became one of the most popular British dance band leaders of the 1930s with his "sweet music" and his "Gaucho Tango Orchestra". During the 1940s, he modernised his style ...

  4. Sam Browne (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Browne about 1935. Sam Browne (26 March 1898 – 2 March 1972) [1] was an English dance band singer, who became one of the most popular British dance band vocalists of the 1930s. He is remembered for singing with Jack Hylton and with Ambrose and his orchestra, at the Mayfair Hotel and Embassy Club, with whom he made many recordings from 1930 to ...

  5. Lew Stone - Wikipedia

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    Bandleader. Instrument. Piano. Years active. 1925–1969. Labels. Decca. Louis Stone known professionally as Lew Stone (28 May 1898 – 13 February 1969) was a British bandleader and arranger of the British dance band era, and was well known in Britain during the 1930s. He was known as a skillful, innovative and imaginative musical arranger.

  6. Music of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Scottish folk music includes many kinds of songs, including ballads and laments, sung by a single singer with accompaniment by bagpipes, fiddles or harps. Traditional dances include waltzes, reels, strathspeys and jigs. Alongside the other areas of the United Kingdom, Scotland underwent a roots revival in the 1960s.

  7. Harry Roy - Wikipedia

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    Harry Roy. Harry Roy, circa 1934. Harry Roy (12 January 1900 – 1 February 1971) [1][2] was a British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s to the 1960s. He performed several songs with suggestive lyrics, including "My Girl's Pussy" (1931), [3] and "She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor" (1939) and "When Can I have a Banana ...

  8. British jazz - Wikipedia

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    British jazz. British jazz is a form of music derived from American jazz. It reached Britain through recordings and performers who visited the country while it was a relatively new genre, soon after the end of World War I. Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands.

  9. Sydney Lipton - Wikipedia

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    Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. Occupation. Dance band leader. Formerly of. Ted Heath, George Evans, and Billy Munn. Sydney John Lipton (14 December 1905 – 19 July 1995) [1] was a British dance band leader, popular from the 1930s to the 1960s when he led "one of the most polished of the British Dance Bands." [2]

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