Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans 

Being brought up in the 50’s I have good memories of dance band music, no tv but the radio was on constantly, my mother loved music and dancing

So lovely to hear the easy voice of Alan Dell. It brings back fond memories of hearing him on the BBC on Sunday afternoons. Carroll Gibbons and Anne Lenner are very hard to beat.

Lovely to hear the music and songs of a gentle time, and to be refreshed of Anne Lenner . Thanks for posting. Later of course the war years arrived.

Terrific! Delightfully informative and beautifully produced programme with the real highlight being the Anne Lenner interview! This is wonderful! So many thank you's!!!

Thank you! Very impressive production all round, and great to hear the wonderful Alan Dell again. Bravo!!

Great listening

Rudy Vallee wrote one of my favourite Sinatra songs: Talk to Me.

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing these gems

His composition "Bubbling Over" is one of my favourites.

In my view, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (or the Boyfriends - different connotations then!) were the finest of all the superb British dance bands of the day. And that's saying something!

TY so much for this upload, wonderful! :-)

We in part must remember the dear old gent the late Alan Dell who was a regular on BBC radio in the 70s and 80s keeping this era of music remembered. Do these programs on RU-vid come from privately recorded archives? The BBC has been quite good at losing old recording from what I can gather.

Thanks for uploading.

In 1972 the solution was to remove anything above 4 kHz, as would frequencies above this introduced in 1950

Methinks the first excerpt played by Carroll Gibbons is Irving Berlin's song "The Piccolino", from "Top Hat", not "The Continental".

The motherless and fatherless ones does good music