Since you are interested in Requests the Pleasure (Incls Du Maurier & Shirley's Girl Friend), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Remember (1911-1928): Incls 'When You And I Were Young, Maggie' & 'Keep The Home Fires Burning'
John McCormack, tenor [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] It might be said that McCormack, however shining an example of a lost tradition,was just one among many other great singers, but in any serious evaluation of his vocal credentials it is impossible to play down the superlatives |
Richard Tauber
I'm In Love With Vienna - Favourites Vol. 2 [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD ] Essential Nostalgia! One of the best selling titles |
IVOR NOVELLO
The Dancing Years / King's Rhapsody (Rec 1939-1950) Roma Beaumont (vocals) / Phyllis Dare (vocals) / Mary Ellis (soprano) / Olive Gilbert, Dunstan Hart, Vanessa Lee (vocals) / with Ivor Novello (piano) [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] 'I am not a highbrow. I am an entertainer. Empty seats and good opinions mean nothing to me'. (Ivor Novello) |
Spike Jones and the City Slickers
Spiking The Classics (1945-1950) [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] Through much of the 1930s, Spike Jones was a drummer with a variety of dance bands and stage bands in California, also working the radio studios and free-lancing on recording sessions. |
ELGAR / PARRY / ARNOLD / HOLST / COATES / WOOD / WALTON / ALWYN / etc
The Best of British Various artists including the English Northern Sinfonia, Royal Artillery Band, New Zealand Symphony, Queensland Symphony Orchestra. [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2006 ] Favourites from The Last Night of the Proms and other uplifting works celebrating the British Empire and its Royal Family. |
Victor Borge
Unstarted Symphony (Incls 'Phonetic Punctuation' & Bizet's Carmen) [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 15/Feb/2008 ] It's easy to tell the two most famous Danes in showbusiness history apart: Hamlet was the melancholy one and Victor Borge definitely wasn't. The man frequently referred to as 'The Clown Prince of Denmark' was an incredibly skilled pianist who also... |