Imagine turning on the radio and hearing this instead of crappy rap and middle of the road garbage pop. Just imagine. This is magical. Thanks so much for posting.
Rap isn't my thing, but it isn't all "crappy". Middle of the road pop, churned out from the commercial sausage machine, often leaves me cold, and a lot of it is 'garbage' but that was also the case in the 1930s to a certain extent. What we tend to do is extract the best stuff from the past, like panning for gold! I certainly do that as a record collector. To my mind, there's some good stuff in terms of pop music right up to the end of the 20th Century, but I must admit that these days there seems to be fewer and fewer nuggets and more and more commercial sludge! Maybe I'm just getting old! When you get to a certain age, one tends to pop on the rose-tinted glasses and view the past in a warmer light than the present.
I used to hear him on radio in the days when these recordings were made. I was about 3 and I wasn't impressed. But that was then! I'm in love now, what a waste of those years between.
I don't know how I missed this first time around, but I'm sure glad I found it, now! Nick, like you say, Al is right at the top of his game, here. The orchestra is pretty delicious, too. Gold dust, and such stuff as dreams are made on.
Nick another good piece of history with the right up. Billy Munn was another musician from that era who lived in to relatively modern times. I am sure I heard interviewed on a radio program. Billy crops up on a Pathe reel with Jack Hylton that can be found on youtube.
