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The BBC Radio programme Dance Band Days ran from 1969 to 1995 with a playlist of British dance band music. It was presented by Alan Dell, and subsequently by Malcolm Laycock. The programme was later transferred to Sunday Night at 10, until the British dance band content was dropped by the BBC in 2008. [13]
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
Music of the United Kingdom began to develop in the 1950s; from largely insular and derivative forms to become one of the leading centres of popular music in the modern world. By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music, including folk music, brass and silver bands, music hall and dance bands, were already giving way to the influence of ...
Go Man Go (occasionally Go Man, Go or Go, Man, Go) featuring David Ede and the Rabin Band was one of British radio's flagship lunchtime pop music shows during the late 1950s and early '60s. The show ran on the BBC Light Programme radio channel in Britain from December 1958 to the end of March 1964 with a total of 256 consecutive weekly episodes ...
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
The Dance Singles Chart and the Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, garage, synth-pop) in record stores and digital downloads The chart can be viewed on the BBC Radio 1's and Official Charts Company's website.
Pages in category "1950s in British music" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... (1951–1960) E. English folk music (1950–1959) G.
His orchestra was featured on BBC Radio almost every week in the 1950s and early 1960s. [2] In 1955, he appeared in the BBC Light Programme's "festival of dance music" at the Royal Albert Hall in London. A jovial character, Mackintosh enjoyed a joke and told the following story against himself.