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This article is a list of people who led their own British dance band (distinct from British big band leaders, who played big band music). It includes those performers who were not British, but led a band based in Britain. [1
Also by this time Colby was particularly keen to work once more with male dancers; feeling it time for a change, Legs & Co's stint was ended, and a twenty-member dance troupe (ten male, ten female), named Zoo was created, with a set of performers drawn from the pool of twenty each week. [23] Colby was now credited as "Dance Director". [19]
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.
The Go-Jos were a British TV dance troupe, created for the BBC1 TV music chart show Top of the Pops in late 1964, appearing regularly on the show until mid-1968. They were the first of a series of five dance troupes on the programme. They also appeared on other BBC and ITV shows, finally disbanding in 1971.
The 1960s Tiller Girls formally announced their retirement, and their final show, in April 2011, was a cabaret in aid of Vera Lynn's Children's Charity. The women were then in their late 60s and early 70s, a rare achievement for any dancer, and the joy and pride of bearing the Tiller Girl name was thus passed on into its third century, with the ...
Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands. From the late 1950s British "modern jazz", highly influenced by American bebop, began to emerge, led by figures such as John Dankworth and Ronnie Scott, while Ken Colyer, George Webb and Humphrey Lyttelton emphasised New ...
A Band Called O; Barndance Boys; Basement Jaxx; Batu (group) The Bays (band) Beats International; The Beloved (band) Big Audio Dynamite; Big Fun (group) Black Grape; Black Science Orchestra; Blacksmith (musical group) Blu Mar Ten; Blue Mercedes; Blue October (British band) The Brand New Heavies; Brilliant (band) Bus Stop (band)
Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950 Harry Belafonte, 1954 This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s . Musicians