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“Keeping Music Legends Alive”
Established 1993
Exclusive CDs of Stunning Quality
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290 Music legends reborn
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“Keeping Music Legends Alive”
Established 1993
Exclusive CDs of Stunning Quality
Love the 20s, 30s & 40s?
NEW
THEY’RE BACK!
See Page 19
290 Music legends reborn
With new amazing clarity
Past Perfect CD Catalogue
✓ Lost Favourites
✓ Hidden Gems
✓ Timeless Classics
“Not only do they mix popular
favourites with occasional rarities, but the
clarity of reproduction is startling.”
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20s, 30s & 40s - Jazz, Big Bands, Movie Songs,
Dance Bands, Swing, Love Songs . . .
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Intl: +44 (0)1869 325052
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MUSIC
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Dear Music Lover
Welcome to our new catalogue. Please take your
time to read about the wonderful collections we
have put together.
But a word of caution.
Past Perfect CDs are highly addictive. The tunes
are so good I think they are timeless. The
quality is as good as if you were actually there
with the musicians. So when you order one, you
may want to order more.
You have been warned.
every last scratch, crackle and hiss, from the very
best original 78s to be found.
We ensure that the new recording isn’t over-cleaned and
we are passionate about keeping the integrity of the
original sound.
When you buy from Past Perfect, you’re enjoying some of
the best music ever performed, and listening to a sound
quality that has to be heard to be believed.
OUR QUALITY COMMITMENT:
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information by leading experts, including accurate recording data
and identities of vocalists.
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La Vie Parisienne
Love & Romance
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LA VIE PARISIENNE
OUR BEST-SELLING CD EVER!
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Paris in the 20s and 30s was one of the most romantic, passionate and
decadent cities on earth. This is reflected in the music of those heady days.
BY FAX
These 25 tracks engulf you in the extraordinary richness of the traditional
French songs created between the 1920s and the 1950s.
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Sit down, relax and prepare yourself to rediscover the passion, drama and
unique voice of Edith Piaf: the sophisticated, gently witty songs of Jean
Sablon: and a delightful collection of poetic, nostalgic and melodic tunes.
Edith Piaf: La vie en rose; Charles Trenet: Boum!!...;
Yves Montand: Clopin-clopant; Josephine Baker: Si
j’étais blanche (If I were white); Jean Sablon: Rendezvous sous la pluie; Maurice Chevalier: Toi et moi;
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli: Ultrafox;
Edith Piaf: Monsieur Lenoble; Tino Rossi: J’attendrai;
Jean Sablon: La dernière bergère; Georges Ulmer:
Pigalle; Yves Montand: Les feuilles mortes (Autumn
leaves); Josephine Baker: J’ai deux amours; Charles
Trenet: Le retour des saisons; Edith Piaf: Les amants de
Paris; Jean Sablon: Un baiser; Maurice Chevalier:
Bouquet de Paris; Tino Rossi: Poème (In your eyes);
Charles Trenet: Vous êtes jolie; Lucienne Boyer: Parlezmoi d’amour; Django Reinhardt & Stephane
Grappelli: My Sweet; Charles Trenet: La mer; Yves
Montand: C’est si bon; Edith Piaf: C’est merveilleux;
Jean Sablon: Cette chanson est pour vous (Life is a song)
CD: PPCD 78149
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La Mer – the 1946
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LOVE
&
ROMANCE
Get In The Mood For Love
Why not enjoy some of the most tender, sweet, emotive and relaxing sounds of all time. Everyone
who has ever been in love, loves these wonderful songs. These brilliant artists are world-class, and
the languid songs are stylish, moving and last forever - like true love. It is perfect music to play
when you invite friends for dinner, or to buy for a special someone, including yourself!
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
cool love songs of the 30s & 40s
Our most popular love album – 22 cool and relaxing tracks
beautifully performed by the very best.
Ella Fitzgerald: Taking A Chance On Love; Nat King Cole: Sweet Lorraine;
Tommy Dorsey/Connie Haines: What Is This Thing Called Love?; Tommy
Dorsey/Frank Sinatra: The Sunshine Of Your Smile; Jimmy Dorsey/Helen
O’Connell: All Of Me; Bing Crosby: Sposin’; Artie Shaw/Helen Forrest: Say It
With A Kiss; Ted Weems/Perry Como: May I Never Love Again; Coleman
Hawkins/Thelma Carpenter: He’s Funny That Way; Benny Goodman: These
Foolish Things; Teddy Wilson/Billie Holiday: More Than You Know; Fats Waller:
When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful; Dinah Shore: Body And Soul; Frances
Langford & Tony Martin: Why Do I Love You?; Louis Armstrong: I Can’t Give
You Anything But Love; Nan Wynn: Think It Over; The Mills Brothers: Old
Fashioned Love; Teddy Wilson/Helen Ward: Here’s Love In Your Eye; Gene
Krupa/Anita O’Day & Johnny Desmond: Two In Love; Judy Garland: A Journey
To A Star; Glenn Miller/Ray Eberle: The Nearness Of You; Dorothy Lamour: The
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CD: PPCD 78114
Price: £10.97
Total Time:
67:47mins
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MORE OF THIS THING CALLED LOVE
cool love songs of the 40s & 50s
Twenty-five songs: twenty-five views of love. Fine performances by superior artists
featuring Cool Love Songs of the 1940s and 50s.
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Dream A Little Dream Of Me; Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No); Dean
Martin: If; I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day); Billie Holiday: Crazy He Calls Me; There Is No Greater
Love; You’re My Thrill; Frank Sinatra: Someone To Watch Over Me; Always; What’ll I Do?; Jo Stafford: I
Never Loved Anyone; Once And For Always; Mel Tormé: I Hadn’t Anyone Till You; Margaret Whiting:
Guilty; You Do; Perry Como: More Than You Know; Please Believe Me; Ella Fitzgerald: Soon; How Long
Has This Been Going On?; Doris Day & Buddy Clark: I’ll String Along With You; Love Somebody; Nat King
Cole: Orange Coloured Sky; Sarah Vaughan: Body And Soul; Dinah Shore: You’ll Always Be The One I
Love; Peggy Lee: Them There Eyes
CD: PPCD 78151
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Body And Soul – theme tune from
the 1947 film of the same name
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PERFECT LOVE SONGS
Dreamy and laid-back ballads, with a sprinkling of more up-tempo numbers too;
all for your listening pleasure.
Ella Fitzgerald: I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling; Frank Sinatra: Stella By Starlight; My Love For You; Jo
Stafford: Ev’ry Day I Love You (Just A Little Bit More); I Remember You; September Song; Bing Crosby &
The Andrews Sisters: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?; Peggy Lee: Linger In My Arms A Little
Longer, Baby; Hold Me; Lena Horne: ’Deed I Do; Perry Como: Please Believe Me; ‘A’ You’re Adorable; It
Only Happens When I Dance With You; Dinah Shore: Love That Boy; Doris Day: It’s Magic; Again; Nat
King Cole Trio: I Don’t Know Why; Ella Fitzgerald & The Mills Brothers: Dedicated To You; Mel Tormé:
You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me; Kay Starr: If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight);
Dick Haymes: How Deep Is The Ocean?; How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You?;
Beryl Davis: Don’t Blame Me; Billie Holiday: I’m Yours; Maxine Sullivan: Come Rain Or Come Shine;
Bing Crosby: I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me
CD: PPCD 78142
Price: £10.97
You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
– starring Mel Tormè, known as
‘The Velvet Fog’
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IT’S GOT TO BE LOVE
Here are twenty-two different ways of looking at the whole situation.
Each one is a classic in its own way.
Roy Fox/Mary Lee: It’s Got To Be Love; Frank Sinatra: Embraceable You; Fred Astaire: Cheek To Cheek;
Hildegarde: Life Begins When You’re In Love; Ray Noble/Al Bowlly: Love Is The Sweetest Thing; Dick
Powell: I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; Connie Boswell: With All My Heart; Ambrose/Jack Cooper:
There Isn’t Any Limit To My Love; Noël Coward: Dearest Love; Dorothy Lamour: That Sentimental
Sandwich; Ted Weems/Perry Como: Until Today; Jack Hylton/Bert Yarlett: Goodnight My Love; Jessie
Matthews: Trusting My Luck; Tony Martin: When Did You Leave Heaven?; Bing Crosby: You Made Me Love
You; Carroll Gibbons/Julie Dawn: It Had To be You; Hutch: You Are My Love Song; Roy Fox/Denny Dennis:
Sweet Someone; Dinah Shore: The Nearness Of You; Geraldo/Cyril Grantham: P.S. I Love You; Frances
Langford: The Man I Love; Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest: Long Ago And Far Away
CD: PPCD 78119
Embraceable You - has appeared in more than eight
films, and has delighted London and Broadway
audiences in the hit show ‘Crazy For You’.
Price: £10.97
DREAMING OF LOVE
Listen to a time gone by with this dreamy compilation
of the best female artists of the 1930s.
Peggy Lee: Them There Eyes; Dorothy Lamou: The Man I Love;
Billie Holiday: Crazy He Calls Me; Beryl Davis: Don't Blame Me;
Kay Starr: If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight); Ella
Fitzgerald: Soon; Jo Stafford: Ev'ry Day I Love You (Just A Little
Bit More); Margaret Whiting: Guilty; Lena Horne: Deed I Do;
Helen O'Connell: All Of Me; Doris Day: Put 'Em In A Box Tie
'Em With A Ribbon, And Throw 'Em In The Deep Blue Sea; Kay
Starr: Stormy Weather; Nan Wynn: Think It Over; Dinah Shore:
Love That Boy; Thelma Carpenter: He's Funny That Way; Judy Garland: A Journey To A Star;
Sarah Vaughan: Lover Man; Billie
Holiday: Practice Makes Perfect
"These CDs are simply
magical. Talk about
a walk back in
time. Real soothers
for the mind."
Charlotte, NC, USA
Immerse yourself in these relaxing sounds
& while-away a few carefree hours.
CD: PPCD 1003
Price: £10.97
If you like these CDs, you’ll love: PPCD78137 Al Bowlly – Love Is The Sweetest Thing - page 17
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STYLE &
SOPHISTICATION
Cruise Back In Time
These charming CDs are extremely appealing. They evoke an age of elegance and wit. For the
many people who already know and love this music, as well as those coming to it for the first time,
these sounds conjure up a time of supreme refinement - a world of sophistication and glamour.
With Past Perfect’s unique sound quality, why not enjoy a range of emotions, from the heights of
passion to the depths of despair!
ELEGANCE
“The quality and clarity of sound are superb, so good in fact that I
found myself turning up the volume, listening for every instruments
and every breath of the vocalists, and I forgot for an hour that this
music came from 78s! The CD is an absolute pleasure to play.”
Nature Boy - this was a million-selling record
and a No.1 hit for Nat King Cole for eight
weeks in 1948. It was also sung by David
Bowie in Baz Luhrman’s film Moulin Rouge
Total Time:
76:51mins
Freddy Gardner: I’m In The Mood For Love; Gertrude Lawrence: My Ship; Noël
Coward: I Travel Alone; Ruth Etting: I Wished On The Moon; Nat King Cole: Nature
Boy; Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli: Belleville; Turner Layton: Someday
I’ll Meet You Again; Christine Norden: I’m Not In Love; Jack Hylton’s Swingtette:
Rockin’ Chair; Jessie Matthews: Look For The Silver Lining; Hutch: Cole Porter
Medley - Let’s Do It/I’ve Got You Under My Skin/In The Still Of The Night/I Get A
Kick Out Of You/It’s De-Lovely/Anything Goes/Rosalie/You Do Something To
Me/You’ve Got That Thing/All Through The Night/Night And Day/It’s Bad For Me;
Elisabeth Welch: And So Do I; Les Paul Trio: Dreamdust; Noël Coward: I’m Old
Fashioned; Christine Norden: When You Smile; Nat King Cole Trio: It’s Only A
Paper Moon; Freddy Gardner: I Only Have Eyes For You; Billy Ternent/Sam
Browne: If This Is Only The Beginning; Billy Mayerl: Sweet William; Major Glenn
Miller’s AAF Overseas Orchestra:
Symphony; Carroll Gibbons & His
Boyfriends: Says My Heart/You
Leave Me Breathless; Jack
Buchanan: Everything Happens To
Me; Ruth Etting: Life Is A Song
(Let’s Sing It Together); Fred
Astaire: Dearly Beloved
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Continuing our journey through the 30s and 40s
with polished performances from the most elegant artists.
Hutch: Blossoms On Broadway; Gertrude Lawrence: The Saga Of Jenny; Freddy Gardner: Smoke Gets In Your
Eyes; Billy Ternent/Sam Browne: You Started Something; Jessie Matthews: Tony’s In Town; Django Reinhardt
& Stephane Grappelli: Nuages; Turner Layton: Thanks For Everything; Elisabeth Welch: Dark
Music; Joe Venuti: Body And Soul; Noël Coward: Tokay/World
Weary/Caballero/ Green Carnations/I’ll See You Again/Poor Little
Rich Girl/ Zigeuner/Dear Little Café/The Call Of Life/Ladies Of The
Town; Nat King Cole Trio: That’s The Beginning Of The End;
Carroll Gibbons & His Boyfriends: Ooh! That Kiss; Ruth Etting: It’s Easy To Remember; Al Bowlly:
I’ll String Along With You; Billy Mayerl: Song Of The Fir Tree; Jack Buchanan: I’m Looking For A
Melody; Elisabeth Welch: Much More Lovely; Hutch: Do I Love You?; Dorothy Carless: Autumn
Nocturne; Les Paul Trio: Fine And Dandy; Fred Astaire: I Used To Be Colour Blind; Adelaide Hall:
As Time Goes By; Hutch: Kiss Me Goodnight
CD: PPCD 78141
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THE AGE OF STYLE
50 Classic tracks from the 1930s - “I have found
myself playing The Age Of Style over and over
again, just to take in the varied performances and
marvel at how many supremely professional artistes
there were in the 1930s. A pure delight to play!”
Frances Day: How Do You Do, Mr Right?; Did You Ever See A
Dream Walking?; Fred Astaire: Change Partners; After You,
Who?; Flying Down To Rio; Carroll Gibbons: You; Sing, Baby,
Sing/You Turned The Tables On Me; With Thee I Swing; It’s An
Old Southern Custom; I’ve Got You Under My Skin; You Hit The Spot/I Feel Like A Feather In The
Breeze; Greta Keller: Deep In A Dream; Would You?; Stairway To The Stars; Lamplight; Hutch: It’s
De-Lovely; May I Have The Next Romance With You?; Down By The River; Remember Me?; Don’t
Blame Me; I Still Love To Kiss You Goodnight; Jessie Matthews: By The Fireside; Dancing On The
Ceiling; One More Kiss; Al Bowlly: Roll Along, Prairie Moon; South Of The Border; Love Locked
Out; Everything I Have Is Yours; Coleman Hawkins: I Wish I Were Twins; Turner Layton: Deep
Purple; Heaven Can Wait; Elisabeth Welch: The Girl I Knew; Harlem In My Heart; Jack Buchanan:
Leave A Little For Me; I Think I Can; Living In Clover; Stephane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt:
Moonglow; Smoke Rings; Noël Coward: Love In Bloom; We Were So Young; Ginger Rogers: Let
Yourself Go; I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket; Hildegarde: I Believe In Miracles; The Glory
Of Love; Marion Harris: Would You Like To Take A Walk?; Layton & Johnstone: Looking On The
Bright Side; Raie Da Costa: A Thousand Goodnights; Dorothy Carless & Billy Mayerl: Heart And
Soul; Adelaide Hall: Transatlantic Lullaby; Benny Carter & His Orchestra: When Day Is Done
2 CDs: PPCD 78134
Price: £17.97
Total Time:
2 hours 32 mins
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NOEL & GERTIE - CLASSIC ORGINAL RECORDINGS 1928-1947
More than 2 hours of numbers from 12 great Noël Coward Shows - a treat for everyone!
Parisian Pierrot; Poor Little Rich Girl; Mary Make-Believe; Lorelei; A Room With A View; Dance, Little Lady; Try
To Learn To Love; World Weary; I’ll See You Again; Zigeuner; I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The
World/Someday I’ll Find You; Any Little Fish; Half-Caste Woman; Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Waltz);
Cavalcade - Vocal Medley - Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To Be
Beside The Seaside/Goodbye, My Bluebell/Has Anyone Seen A German Band?/Alexander’s Ragtime
Band/Everybody’s Doing It/Let’s All Go Down The Strand/If You Were The Only Girl In The World/Take Me Back
To Dear Old Blighty/There’s A Long, Long Trail/Keep The Home Fires Burning; Twentieth Century Blues; Land
Of Hope And Glory; Toast (Epilogue From Cavalcade Suite); Mad Dogs And Englishmen; Let’s Say Goodbye; Mad
About The Boy; Something To Do With Spring; The Party’s Over Now; We Were Dancing; Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?; Men About Town;
Then/Play, Orchestra, Play; You Were There; Drinking Song; Hearts And Flowers/Music Box; Dearest Love; The Stately Homes Of England; Where
Are The Songs We Sung?; Gipsy Melody; Sigh No More; I Wonder What Happened To Him?; Never Again; Wait A Bit, Joe; Nina; Matelot; Bright
Was The Day; His Excellency Regrets; This Is A Changing World; Uncle Harry
2 CDs: PPCD 78135
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"The Past Perfect albums
COCKTAILS
Cocktail Music - Get up, get movin' ... and party with
these high-energy sounds. Delightful tracks that have
influenced our popular music.
have pristine sound and
are crystal clear. The
compilations are chosen
with care and Past Perfect
know how to discriminate.
Norman L, Birmingham
"
Louis Jordan: Doug The Jitterbug; At The Swing Cats’ Ball;
Chartreuse; Fats Waller: Carolina Shout; Everybody Loves My Baby; Got A Bran’
New Suit; Younger Generation; Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli: Miss Annabelle Lee; Runnin’ Wild; Bunny
Berigan: Chicken & Waffles; Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing: Sent For You Yesterday; Art Tatum: The Shout; Ella
Fitzgerald: When I Get Low I Get High; Beale Street Washboard Band: Forty And Tight; Stuff Smith: Upstairs
CD: PPCD 1001
Price: £10.97
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MOVIES
&
MUSICALS
It’s Showtime!
Revisit the heyday of the great movie studios and Broadway hit shows, and re-live some of your
favourite musical memories. Still compelling today, Past Perfect has put together some of the bestremembered musical songs ever created. In fact some of the best songs ever written and sung by many
of the greatest entertainers in the World. Songs that brightened lives through good times and bad, and
memorable tracks that are still at an all-time high. These feel-good soundtracks leave you feeling
uplifted and refreshed. Great for playing and singing-along to in the car.
FRED ASTAIRE - SONGS FROM THE MOVIES
25 wonderful songs from Fred Astaire's greatest movies. Astaire was not
merely the greatest dancer the screen has ever seen, he also introduced
more great classic songs than any other performer.
No Strings; Isn’t This A Lovely Day?; Top Hat, White Tie And Tails; Cheek To Cheek;
The Piccolino; We Saw The Sea; Let Yourself Go; I’d Rather Lead A Band; I’m Putting
All My Eggs In One Basket; Let’s Face The Music And Dance; Pick Yourself Up; The
Way You Look Tonight; A Fine Romance; Bojangles Of Harlem; Never Gonna Dance;
Beginner’s Luck; Slap That Bass; They All Laughed; Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off;
They Can’t Take That Away From Me; Shall We Dance?; I Can’t Be Bothered Now;
Things Are Looking Up; A Foggy Day; Nice Work If You Can Get It
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The Way You Look Tonight – from ‘Swing Time' which many consider to
be the finest Astaire/Rogers film of all.
EVERYBODY SING! GREAT SONGS FROM THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS
When the silver screen learned to talk, it learned to sing as well - eloquently proven
here, in 20 American classic movie songs.
Judy Garland: Everybody Sing; Tony Martin: If It’s You; Carmen Miranda: When I Love, I Love; Fred Astaire:
Bojangles Of Harlem; Mary Martin: Ain’t It A Shame About Mame?; Eddie Cantor: When My Ship Comes In;
Mae West: I’m No Angel; Mickey Rooney: Treat Me Rough; Ginger Rogers: Let Yourself Go; Dick Powell: With
Plenty Of Money And You; Frances Langford: Easy To Love; Bob Hope & Shirley Ross: Two Sleepy People;
Connie Boswell: Sand In My Shoes; Paul Robeson: Ol’ Man River; Alice Faye: Never In A Million Years; Bing
Crosby: Sweet Little Headache; Dorothy Lamour: The Moon Of Manakoora; Al Jolson: You Are Too Beautiful;
Deanna Durbin: It’s Raining Sunbeams; Frank Sinatra: A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
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The Blue Room A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
– From the film Higher And Higher in which Frank
Sinatra made his first acting role
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Fred Astaire & Judy Garland: A Couple Of Swells; Betty Grable: I Can’t Begin To Tell You;
Louis Armstrong: Jeepers Creepers; Dorothy Lamour: Too Romantic; Bing Crosby: Swingin’ On A Star; Anton
Karas (Zither Solo): The Harry Lime Theme; Judy Garland: Over The Rainbow; Jimmy Durante: I’m The Guy
Who Found The Lost Chord; Alice Faye: Goodnight My Love; Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike): When You Wish Upon
A Star; Marlene Dietrich: The Boys In The Back Room; Dick Powell: I Only Have Eyes For You; Ginger Rogers:
The Piccolino; Fred Astaire: Night And Day; Carmen Miranda: I Yi Yi Yi Yi (I Like You Very Much); Frank
Sinatra: Time After Time; Mary Martin: My Heart Belongs To Daddy; Eddie Cantor: Okay Toots; Dinah Shore:
Like Someone In Love; Ethel Merman: I Get A Kick Out Of You; Glenn Miller: I Know Why; Al Jolson:
California, Here I Come; Doris Day: Put ’em In A Box, Tie ’em With A Ribbon, And Throw ’em In The Deep Blue Sea; Sophie Tucker: Some Of These
Days; Hoagy Carmichael: Ole Buttermilk Sky; Frances Langford: I’m In The Mood For Love
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The Piccolino - from the 1935 Astaire-Rogers hit ‘Top Hat’.
Over The Rainbow – from the MGM 1939 blockbuster ‘The Wizard Of Oz’.
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THE WORDS AND MUSIC OF NOEL COWARD
Composer, librettist, playwright, actor, singer and director - Noël Coward was all of these,
and he remains one of the most famous figures in twentieth century British theatre.
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans: Something To Do With Spring; Noël Coward: Mrs.
Worthington; London Pride; Josephine; Imagine The Duchess’s Feelings; Most Of Ev’ry Day; Dinah Shore: Mad
About The Boy; Al Bowlly: Twentieth Century Blues; Artie Shaw & His Orchestra: Zigeuner; Hildegarde: I’ll
See You Again; A Room With A View; Dance, Little Lady; Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli: The
Younger Generation; Sam Browne: You Were There; Judy Garland: Poor Little Rich Girl; Frank Sinatra: I’ll
Follow My Secret Heart; Raie Da Costa: Teach Me To Dance Like Grandma; Denny Dennis: Where Are The
Songs We Sung?; Greta Keller: Never Again; Hutch: I Travel Alone; Ray Noble & The New Mayfair
Orchestra: ‘Words And Music’ Selection; Gertrude Lawrence: Someday I’ll Find You; Danny Kaye: Mad Dogs And Englishmen
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Poor Little Rich Girl - best-known song from the revue ‘On With The Dance’
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THE WORDS AND MUSIC OF COLE PORTER
The great stars salute Cole Porter - his greatest numbers in over an hour
of superlative performances.
Billie Holiday: Let’s Do It; Night and Day; Bing Crosby & The
Andrews Sisters: Don’t Fence Me In; Frances Day: It’s DeLovely; Al Bowlly/Lew Stone: How Could We Be Wrong?;
Gertrude Lawrence: Experiment; The Physician; Jay Wilbur:
Miss Otis Regrets; Marlene Dietrich: You Do Something To
Me; Nat Gonella: Blow, Gabriel, Blow; Frances Langford:
Easy To Love; Rap Tap On Wood; Fred Astaire: I’ve Got You On My Mind; Cole Porter: Anything
Goes; You’re The Top; Artie Shaw: What Is This Thing Called Love?; Billy Cotton: My Heart
Belongs To Daddy; Noël Coward: You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To; Chick Henderson/Joe
Loss: Begin The Beguine; Irving Aaronson: Let’s Misbehave; Virginia Bruce: I’ve Got You Under
My Skin; Sam Browne/Ambrose: Just One Of Those Things
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THE WORDS AND MUSIC OF IRVING BERLIN
22 masterpieces from Irving Berlin, 'the father of American popular song'.
Carroll Gibbons: Top Hat, White Tie And Tails; The Boswell Sisters: Cheek To Cheek; Frank Sinatra: Blue
Skies; Bing Crosby: How Deep Is The Ocean?; Billie Holiday: He Ain’t Got Rhythm; I’ve Got My Love To Keep
Me Warm; Fred Astaire: The Piccolino; Let’s Face The Music And Dance; Eddie Cantor: Mandy; Connie
Boswell: All Alone; Jimmie Lunceford: Slumming On Park Avenue; Dick Powell: This Year’s Kisses; The Girl
On The Police Gazette; Sam Browne/Ambrose: Soft Lights And Sweet Music; The Dorsey Brothers: Heat Wave;
Al Bowlly: Marie; Ginger Rogers: No Strings; Hildegarde: A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody; Hutch: I Poured My
Heart Into A Song; Ted Lewis: Alexander’s Ragtime Band; Rudy Vallee: Say It Isn’t So; Louis Armstrong & The
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BIG BANDS
& DANCE BANDS
Every One A Smasher!
THE GREAT BRITISH DANCE BANDS
22 superb tracks, each one by a different British Dance Orchestra.
An evocative majesty of sound, to get you up and dancing, just like
they did in the 1930s.
Jack Hylton: Did You Mean It?; Ambrose: I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plan; Henry
Hall: Got To Dance My Way To Heaven; Joe Loss: You Go To My Head; Brian Lawrance:
One In A Million; Roy Fox: I’ve Got Beginner’s Luck; Carroll Gibbons: From The Top Of
Your Head; Louis Levy: The Eyes Of The World Are On You; Billy Cotton: My Heart Belongs
To Daddy; Jay Wilbur: Just As Long As The World Goes Round And Around; Nat Gonella:
Mister Rhythm Man; Jack Jackson: You Turned Your Head; Mantovani: Let’s Fall In Love
For The Last Time; Harry Roy: Temptation Rag; Geraldo: Walkin’ By The River; Victor
Silvester: Crazy Rhythm; Jack Payne: Organ Grinder’s Swing; Mrs Jack Hylton: Plain Mary
Jane; Lew Stone: Stars Fell On Alabama; Bert Firman: My Pet; Sid Phillips: Palais de danse;
Ray Noble: Shout For Happiness
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THE GREAT AMERICAN BIG BANDS
Over an hour's worth of big bands, explaining their enduring appeal!
Count Basie: Sent For You Yesterday; Jack Teagarden: Chicks Is Wonderful; Benny Carter: These Foolish Things; Chick
Webb: When I Get Low I Get High; Benny Goodman: Christopher Columbus; Louis Armstrong: I Never Knew; Joe Venuti:
Flop; Duke Ellington: Take The ‘A’ Train; Harry James: Strictly Instrumental; Jimmy Dorsey: All Of Me; Bunny Berigan:
The Prisoner’s Song; Bob Crosby: Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street; Jimmie Lunceford: My Blue Heaven; Glenn Miller:
A String Of Pearls; Cab Calloway: Run Little Rabbit; Woody Herman: Twin City Blues; Ted Weems: I Wonder Who’s Kissing
Her Now?; Tommy Dorsey: Stop, Look And Listen; Frankie Trumbauer: I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music; Casa Loma
Orchestra: A Study In Brown; Artie Shaw: Deep Purple; Gene Krupa: Drummin’ Man; Lionel Hampton: Nola
CD: PPCD 78101
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THE GREAT DANCE BANDS PLAY... HITS OF THE THIRTIES
Essentially, the 'Golden Age Of British Dance Bands' was pre-war.
This collection concentrates on the fabulous Thirties. Incredible value - 26 tracks!
Sydney Kyte & His Piccadilly Hotel Band: This Is The Missus; Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra: The Younger
Generation; Jack Hylton & His Orchestra: They All Fall In Love; Billy Cotton & His Band: Skirts; Debroy Somers Band:
Look What You’ve Done; The Blue Mountaineers: Sweet Sixteen And Never Been Kissed; Ambrose & His Orchestra: It’s
The Talk Of The Town; Lew Stone & His Band: The Bouncing Ball; Roy Fox & His Band: I’ve Got An Invitation To A Dance;
Jack Payne & His Band: Mr And Mrs Is The Name; Casani Club Orchestra: Red Sails In The Sunset; Mario ‘Harp’ Lorenzi
& His Rhythmics: Everything Stops For Tea; Harry Roy & His Orchestra: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo; Ambrose & His
Orchestra: Hors d’oeuvres; Mrs. Jack Hylton & Her Band: Please Believe Me; Orlando & His Orchestra: Love Is Good For
Anything That Ails You; Billy Merrin & His Commanders: On The Beach At Bali Bali; Jack Hylton & His Orchestra: One,
Two, Button Your Shoe; Henry Hall & His Orchestra: Eccentric; Jay Wilbur & His Band:You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming;
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans: Love Walked In; Jack Harris & His Orchestra: I Double Dare You; Sydney Lipton & His Grosvenor House
Orchestra:A Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner; Brian Lawrance & His Lansdowne Orchestra: I Must See Annie Tonight; Geraldo & His Orchestra: Two
Sleepy People; Ronnie Munro & His Orchestra: Sing A Song Of Sunbeams
CD: PPCD 78133
Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You – from
Dennis Potter’s 1978 play ‘Pennies From Heaven’
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PERFECT BIG BANDS
A wide ranging compilation coming from a time when people
craved the excitement afforded by the live presence of a big band
Woody Herman: Four Brothers; Apple Honey; Tommy Dorsey: East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon); On The Sunny Side
Of The Street; Benny Goodman: Let’s Dance; Why Don’t You Do Right?; When Buddha Smiles; Jimmy Dorsey: Yours
(Quiereme Mucho); Earl Hines: Ridin’And Jivin’; Glenn Miller:Anvil Chorus; I’ve Got A Heart Filled With Love (For You Dear);
Count Basie: Do You Wanna Jump, Children?; Doggin’ Around; Benny Carter: Plymouth Rock; Duke Ellington: Harlem Air
Shaft; Jack Teagarden: A Hundred Years From Today; Chick Webb: Go Harlem; Stan Kenton: The Spider And The Fly;
Intermission Riff; Artie Shaw: Begin The Beguine; I Got The Sun In The Morning; Les Brown: Bizet Has His Day; Harry James:
Trumpet Blues And Cantabile; Tony Pastor: Gonna Get A Girl; Ella Fitzgerald: When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
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RHYTHM
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FASCINATING RHYTHM
Ah, the Twenties! Can there ever have been such a decade, so
endlessly discussed, pored over and analysed?
The Rhythmic Eight: Kansas City Kitty; Umtcha Umtcha, Da, Da, Da; The
Charleston Chasers: After You’ve Gone; Wabash Blues; The Savoy Havana Band:
Masculine Women & Feminine Men; Turkish Towel; The Savoy Orpheans: The
Charleston; Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue; Fascinating Rhythm; Jack Hylton: There’s
One Little Girl Who Loves Me; Button Up Your Overcoat; Sunshine; Miff Mole’s
Little Molers: You Took Advantage Of Me; The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra:
Spread A Little Happiness; Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra: Louisiana; There Ain’t
No Sweet Man That’s Worth The Salt of My Tears; Duke Ellington: Harlem Twist;
Ted Lewis: Glad Rag Doll; Joe Venuti’s Blue
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CHARLESTON - GREAT STARS OF THE 1920s
Over one and a quarter hours of tuneful numbers from a unique decade!
CD: PPCD 78132
Howard Lanin & His Orchestra: Black Bottom; Fred & Adele Astaire: Fascinating Rhythm; Jack Hylton & His
Orchestra: I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight?; Elsie Carlisle: I Love My Baby; Paul Whiteman & His
Orchestra: The Charleston; Nick Lucas: Looking At The World Through Rose Coloured Glasses; The Savoy
Orpheans: Let’s All Go To Mary’s House; Binnie Hale & Jack Buchanan: Who?; Piccadilly Revels Band: Ain’t
She Sweet?; Al Jolson: When The Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along); Nat Shilkret & The Victor
Orchestra: Hallelujah!; Paul Robeson: Ol’ Man River; The Savoy Orpheans: The Girl Friend; Noël Coward:
Dance, Little Lady; Dorothy Dickson: Where’s That Rainbow?; George Olsen & His Music: The Varsity Drag;
Layton & Johnstone: Miss Annabelle Lee; Gertrude Lawrence: Someone To Watch Over Me; Roger Wolfe Kahn
& His Orchestra: Crazy Rhythm; Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike): Good Little, Bad Little You; George Olsen & His
Music: Doin’ The Raccoon; Helen Kane: I Wanna Be Loved By You; Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra: The Breakaway;
Whispering Jack Smith: That’s My Weakness Now; Ben Selvin & His Orchestra: Am I Blue?; Hutch: High Hat
Someone To Watch Over Me – starring Gertrude Lawrence,
probably the most popular British star ever to appear on Broadway
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REINHARDT & GRAPPELLI - I GOT RHYTHM!
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli show themselves to be a highly polished,
accomplished, and what is most important, compelling unit
Dinah; I’m Confessin’; Swanee River; The Sunshine Of Your Smile; Believe It, Beloved; Chasing Shadows; I’ve
Had My Moments; Some Of These Days; I Got Rhythm; The Sheik Of Araby; It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t
Got That Swing); Viper’s Dream; Runnin’ Wild; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Tears; Miss Annabelle Lee; Djangology;
Daphne; Billets Doux; Swing ’39; Tea For Two; My Melancholy Baby; The Younger Generation; HCQ Strut
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Hep! Hep! The Jumpin' Jive – starring Nat
Gonella - Britain's answer to Louis Armstrong
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DANCE CRAZY! - FROM THE CHARLESTON TO THE JIVE
20 tracks - a foot stomping collection!
The Savoy Orpheans: The Charleston; The Blue Room; Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders: Black Bottom; Jack Hylton:
That’s You, Baby/Walking With Susie; Paul Whiteman: Happy Feet; Duke Ellington: Rockin’ In Rhythm; Casa Loma
Orchestra: Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet; The Boogie-Woogie Man; Cab Calloway: The Man From Harlem; Jack Payne:Tiger
Rag; Dorsey Brothers: Tailspin; Chick Webb: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley; Jimmie Lunceford: For Dancers Only; Red
Norvo: Just You, Just Me; Louis Jordan: At The Swing Cats’ Ball; Tommy Dorsey: Deep Night; Glenn Miller: Boulder Buff;
Earl Hines: The Jitney Man; Bob Crosby: King Porter Stomp; Nat Gonella: Hep! Hep! The Jumpin’ Jive
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ALL THAT JAZZ
Jazz, Everyone Can Love
You can’t beat jazz for sheer exuberance and joie de vivre
on the one-hand and for cool, chilled and mesmerising
music on the other. Enjoy these maestros at their best …
kick your shoes off, and loosen up!
JAZZ AGE! - HOT SOUNDS OF THE 20s & 30s
More Than 50 Tracks of Hot Jazz Sounds.
The selections on this fine album are prime monuments of the
Jazz Age and arguably, some of America's finest jazz
performances. Tune into the best of the 1920s and 30s Hot Jazz!
Jelly Roll Morton: Black Bottom Stomp; Miff Mole: The New Twister; Bessie
Smith: Trombone Cholly; Bix Beiderbecke: Royal Garden Blues; Beale Street
Washboard Band: Forty And Tight; Louis Armstrong & Kid Ory: Ory’s Creole
Trombone; Red Nichols: Whispering; McKinney’s Cotton Pickers: Milenberg Joys;
Boyd Senter & His Senterpedes: Sweetheart Blues; Louis Armstrong & Earl
Hines: Weather Bird; Fats Waller: Won’t You Get Off It, Please?; Hoagy
Carmichael: Rockin’ Chair; Duke Ellington: Old Man Blues; J C Higginbotham:
Give Me Your Telephone Number; Mamie Smith: Jenny’s Ball; King Oliver: Don’t
You Think I Love You?; Cab Calloway: Trickeration; Mills Blue Rhythm Band:
Snake Hips; The Boswell Sisters/Dorsey Brothers: There’ll Be Some Changes
Made; Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang: Farewell Blues; The Chocolate Dandies: I Never
Knew; Art Tatum: The Shout; Fletcher Henderson: Tidal Wave; Duke Ellington:
Sump’n’ ’Bout Rhythm; Jack Teagarden: Junk Man; Earl Hines: Copenhagen;
Louis Prima: Sing It Way Down Low; Benny Goodman Trio: After You’ve Gone;
Henry ‘Red’ Allen: Whose Honey Are You?; Benny Goodman: If I Could Be With You; Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday: What A Little Moonlight
Can Do; Bud Freeman: The Buzzard; Artie Shaw: Sweet Lorraine; Benny Carter: Swingin’ At Maida Vale; Dick McDonough: Dardanella; Mildred
Bailey: When Day Is Done; Coleman Hawkins: Crazy Rhythm; Johnny Dodds: Melancholy; Casa
Loma Orchestra: Casa Loma Stomp; Sidney Bechet: Southern Sunset; Django Reinhardt & Stephane
Grappelli: Them There Eyes; Jimmie Noone: I Know That You Know; Johnny Hodges: The Jeep Is
Jumpin’; Eddie Condon: California, Here I Come; Count Basie: Jumpin’ At The Woodside; Kansas
City Six: ’Way Down Yonder In New Orleans; Muggsy Spanier: That Da Da Strain; Ella Fitzgerald:
Moon Ray; Bob Crosby: The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise; Lionel Hampton: When Lights Are
Low; Jimmie Lunceford: Liza
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20 late night laid-back classics ….. mellow heaven!
Benny Carter: Nightfall; Mighty Like The Blues; Just A Mood; Melancholy Lullaby; Lazy Afternoon; Coleman
Hawkins: Body And Soul; Lost In A Fog; Lamentation; Devotion; Lullaby; Duke Ellington: Blue Feeling; In A
Sentimental Mood; Stormy Weather; Accent On Youth; Sophisticated Lady; Benny Goodman: Memories Of
You; These Foolish Things; More Than You Know; I Surrender Dear; Sweet Lorraine
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PERFECT SAX SOLOS
24 smooth, cool, and relaxing classics
Lester Young: She’s Funny That Way; I’m Confessin’; Something To Remember You By; East Of The Sun; Polka
Dots And Moonbeams; These Foolish Things; Coleman Hawkins: It’s The Talk Of The Town; Someone To
Watch Over Me; What Is There To Say?; Sophisticated Lady; I’m Through With Love; Charlie Parker: My Old
Flame; Don’t Blame Me; The Gypsy; Johnny Hodges: Night Wind; Chu Berry: On The Sunny Side Of The
Street; A Ghost Of A Chance; Flip Phillips: Sweet And Lovely; Willie Smith: The Way You Look Tonight; Ben
Webster: I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good); Benny Carter: Stairway To The Stars; Babe Russin: Like
Someone In Love; Sidney Bechet: When It’s Sleepy Time Down South; Buddy Tate: Blue And Sentimental
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PERFECT JAZZ
Expressive, engaging, virtuoso, challenging, energetic or dynamic – everything Jazz is and can be
is right here on this album. This is a really great compilation of the very best Jazz ever recorded.
Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues; The Charleston Chasers: Someday, Sweetheart; Frankie Trumbauer/Bix
Beiderbecke: Singin’ The Blues; Johnny Dodds: 29th And Dearborn; Cab Calloway: Minnie The Moocher;
Duke Ellington: Clarinet Lament; Sidewalks Of New York; Benny Carter: Royal Garden Blues; All Of Me; Art
Tatum: Stormy Weather; Count Basie: One O’Clock Jump; Bunny Berigan: I Can’t Get Started; Tommy
Dorsey: What Is This Thing Called Love?; Benny Goodman: Flying Home; On The Alamo; Ella Fitzgerald:
Tain’t What You Do; Coleman Hawkins: Body And Soul; Billie Holiday: When A Woman Loves A Man; A Fine
Romance; Bob Crosby: King Porter Stomp; Fats Waller: Cheatin’ On Me; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Jimmie
Lunceford: Frisco Fog; Louis Jordan: Doug The Jitterbug
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Doug The Jitterbug - from the musical show, 'Five Guys Named Moe', which
originated in Britain and also played on Broadway.
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PERFECT BEBOP
With the advent of Bebop in the early 1940s, jazz was never
the same again. 26 distinctive tracks.
Charlie Parker’s All-Stars: Blue Bird; Dizzy Gillespie Sextet: Anthropology; Miles Davis All-Stars: Milestones; Tadd
Dameron Sextet: The Squirrel; Charlie Parker’s All-Stars: Ah-Leu-Cha; Bud Powell’s Modernists: Bouncing With
Bud; Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet: Salt Peanuts; Charlie Parker’s Reboppers: Billie’s Bounce; Red Norvo
Septet: Bop!; Miles Davis & His Orchestra: Venus De Milo; Tadd Dameron Sextet: Symphonette; Wardell Gray
Quartet: Twisted; Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: A Night In Tunisia; Charlie Parker Quartet: Bird’s Nest; Sarah
Vaughan: What A Diff’rence A Day Made; Django Reinhardt & His Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France: Babik
(Bi-Bop); Dizzy Gillespie Sextet: Oop Bop Sh’bam; Thelonious Monk Quintet: ’Round About Midnight; Charlie
Parker’s All-Stars: Donna Lee; Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: 52nd Street Theme; Tadd Dameron & His
Orchestra: What’s New?; Miles Davis & His Orchestra: Budo; Charlie Parker Quintet: Scrapple From The Apple; Fats Navarro & His Thin Men:
Goin’ To Minton’s; Dizzy Gillespie & His Sextet: Groovin’ High; Charlie Parker’s All-Stars: Constellation
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FATS WALLER - AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
25 tracks from the Derby-hatted mountain of jollity, spreading good cheer in all directions
Everybody Loves My Baby; Cheatin’ On Me; It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie; When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful; You’re
Gonna Be Sorry; Yacht Club Swing; The Sheik Of Araby; Twenty-Four Robbers; Come Down To Earth, My Angel;
Carolina Shout; Smoke Dreams Of You; Wish I Were Twins; Got A Bran’ New Suit; Stop Pretending; Clarinet Marmalade;
Don’t Let It Bother You; Blue, Turning Grey Over You; African Ripples; My Very Good Friend The Milkman; The Curse
Of An Aching Heart; Shortnin’ Bread; The Jitterbug Waltz; Your Feet’s Too Big; Old Grand Dad; Ain’t Misbehavin
CD: PPCD 78118
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Chosen As BBC Radio 2 Record Of The Week
BILLIE HOLIDAY - ON THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE
20 classic love songs performed by Billie Holiday - THE voice of jazz.
Practice Makes Perfect; Night And Day; More Than You Know; All Of Me; Them There Eyes; I Must Have That
Man; Time On My Hands; Let’s Do It; Until The Real Thing Comes Along; This Year’s Kisses; Georgia On My
Mind; Sugar; I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; When A Woman Loves A Man; The Man I Love; If Dreams
Come True; You Go To My Head; I’ll Get By; I Can’t Get Started; On The Sentimental Side
CD: PPCD 78117
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Them There Eyes - featured in the
1972 film Lady Sings The Blues
THE GREAT JAZZ PIANISTS
Greatness is no easy matter to define and arguments will continue to rage over the merits of each of
these soloists when compared with the others. Still, the evidence is here - all you have to do is listen.
Fats Waller: Carolina Shout; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Earl Hines: Fifty-Seven Varieties; My Melancholy Baby; James P
Johnson: Snowy Morning Blues; You’ve Got To Be Modernistic; Jelly Roll Morton: King Porter Stomp; Original
Rags; Duke Ellington: Swampy River; Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith: Passionette; Morning Air; Art Tatum:
Humoresque; Begin The Beguine; Teddy Wilson: Tiger Rag; When You And I Were Young, Maggie; Billy Kyle:
Finishing Up A Date; Teddy Weatherford: My Blue Heaven; Donald Lambert: Pilgrims’ Chorus; Garland Wilson:
Rockin’ Chair; Mary Lou Williams: Swingin’ For Joy; Joe Turner: The Ladder; Joe Sullivan: Little Rock Getaway
CD: PPCD 78107
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Ain't Misbehavin' – from the 1943 film
‘Stormy Weather’, starring Lena Horne
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SWING
“They’d Start To Rock And They’d Just
Rock All Night Long.” Count Basie
Swing - Although the heyday of swing music was quite a while ago, even a passing reference to ‘swing’
brings up images of lively jitterbuggers, crowded dance pavilions, and those beacons of the past, the big
bands, endlessly active, instruments glinting in the ballroom spotlight. These crystal-clear recordings
capture the toe-tapping magic perfectly …. throw back the carpet, slip on your dancing shoes and let
your mood soar!
PERFECT SWING
For so short and innocuous a word,
'Swing' packs quite a punch.
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Benny Carter: Sunday; Jimmie Lunceford:
Ain’t She Sweet?; Teddy Wilson: Exactly
Like You; Count Basie: Topsy; Woody
Herman: At The Woodchoppers’ Ball; Benny
Goodman: Air Mail Special; Harry James:
Music Makers; Duke Ellington: Exposition
Swing; Lil Armstrong: Lindy Hop; Johnny
Hodges: Good Queen Bess; Cab Calloway: The
Radio 2
Laycock, BBC
Jumpin’ Jive; Tommy Dorsey: Deep River; Malcolm
Lionel Hampton: Flying Home; Glenn Miller:
Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam); John Kirby: Blue
Skies; Andy Kirk: Wednesday Night Hop; Louis Armstrong/Jimmy Dorsey:
Swing That Music; Artie Shaw: Oh! Lady Be Good; Jimmy Dorsey: Major And
Minor Stomp; Earl Hines: Indiana; Red Norvo: It Can Happen To You; Charlie
Barnet: Skyliner; Bud Freeman: The Eel; Benny Goodman: Wrappin’ It Up
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SMALL GROUP SWING
22 tracks proving that "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!"
Stuff Smith: Upstairs; Chick Webb: I Ain’t Got Nobody; In A Little Spanish Town; Bunny Berigan: Chicken
And Waffles; Louis Jordan: Swingin’ In The Cocoanut Trees; Doug The Jitterbug; The Spencer Trio: Baby,
Won’t You Please Come Home?; Lorna Doone Shortbread; Bud Freeman: Three Little Words; Joe Venuti:
Raggin’ The Scale; Adrian Rollini: Josephine; Artie Shaw: Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?; When The Quail Come
Back To San Quentin; Kansas City Six: Countless Blues; Harry James: Home James; Art Tatum: Body And
Soul; Cleo Brown: I’ll Take The South; Fats Waller: The Minor Drag; New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Oh!
Susannah, Dust Off That Old Piano; Johnny Dodds: 29th And Dearborn; Benny Goodman: China Boy; Tommy
Dorsey: When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam’
CD: PPCD 78102
Price: £10.97
JIMMIE LUNCEFORD - RHYTHM IS OUR BUSINESS
To quote Count Basie, 'I think Jimmie Lunceford had one of the greatest swing bands
that ever was. They'd start to rock and they'd just rock all night long!"
Rhythm Is Our Business; Stratosphere; Unsophisticated Sue; Four Or Five Times; Bird Of Paradise; I’ll Take The
South; Hittin’ The Bottle; Oh Boy!; The Best Things In Life Are Free; Muddy Water; Hell’s Bells; He Ain’t Got
Rhythm; Slumming On Park Avenue; For Dancers Only; Posin’; Margie; Frisco Fog; What Is This Thing Called
Swing?; Ain’t She Sweet?; Life Is Fine
CD: PPCD 78111
Price: £10.97
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WORLD WAR II
Evocative songs and music from World War II – many
humourous, some patriotic, and all which reflected the
prevalent mood in the 1930s & 40s. There were the topical
songs about black outs, rationing and of course the armed
forces. Finally there were the songs which, while not about the
war per se, have become forever associated with the unique
period of our island’s history when everyone came together.
G.I.JIVE - AMERICAN HITS OF WORLD WAR II
25 fantastic titles, focusing on the American contribution to the
popular music of World War II.
Johnny Mercer: G I Jive; Dinah Shore: A Pair Of Silver Wings; Glenn Miller: SNAFU Jump; St.
Louis Blues; Jo Stafford: There’s No You; Fats Waller: That’s What The Well-Dressed Man In
Harlem Will Wear; Margaret Whiting: That Old Black Magic; Silver Wings In The Moonlight; The
Ink Spots: Whispering Grass (Don’t Tell The Trees); Benny Goodman & His Orchestra/Peggy Lee:
We’ll Meet Again; Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra: Begin The Beguine; The Casa Loma
Orchestra: My Shining Hour; The Mills Brothers: Paper Doll; Glenn Miller/Dinah Shore:All I Do
Is Dream Of You; Stardust; Bob Crosby & His Orchestra: A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Girl);
Marlene Dietrich: You Go To My Head; Freddie Slack & His Orchestra: Furlough Fling; Joe
Loss/Paula Green: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; Judy Garland: F D R Jones; Louis
Jordan: Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?; Frank Sinatra: Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night
In The Week); Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra: Jodie Man; Benny Goodman & His Orchestra:
My Guy’s Come Back; Ella Mae Morse: Cow
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THE SONGS & MUSIC OF WORLD WAR II
More than 2 hours of comprehensive and amusing music from World War II. "It sounds
absolutely wonderful, as we've all come to expect from Past Perfect." BBC Radio 2
Leon Cortez: The Girl Who Loves A Soldier;
Flanagan & Allen: Run, Rabbit, Run; The King
Sisters: In The Mood; The Two Leslies: The
Washing On The Siegfried Line; Norman Long:
Where Does Poor Pa Go In The Black-Out?; The
Six Swingers: Berlin Or Bust; Jack Hylton: We’ll
Meet Again; George Formby: Imagine Me In The
Maginot Line; Bless ’em All (The Service Song); Gracie Fields: Wish Me Luck; The
Thing-Ummy-Bob; Jay Wilbur & His Band: They Can’t Black Out The Moon; Elsie
Carlisle: Please Leave My Butter Alone; Denny Dennis: It’s A Lovely Day Tomorrow;
Tessie O’Shea: I Fell In Love With An Airman; Hutch:There’ll Come Another Day; This
Is Worth Fighting For; Florence Desmond: The Deepest Shelter In Town; Turner
Layton: The Last Time I Saw Paris; I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen; Elsie
Carlisle: Oh! What A Surprise For The Duce!; Ambrose: The King Is Still In London;
Comin’ In On A Wing And A Prayer; Billy Cotton: Oh! How He Misses His Missus; Noël
Coward: Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun?; Don’t Let’s Be Beastly To The
Germans; Pat Kirkwood: The Victory Roll; Max Miller: The Grand Old Man; Carroll
Gibbons: Mister Brown Of London Town; They’re Either Too Young Or Too Old;
Geraldo: That Lovely Week-End; Sam Browne: There’ll Always Be An England; Fats
Waller: Cash For Your Trash; Glenn Miller: Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree; Vera
Lynn: The White Cliffs Of Dover; You’ll Never Know; Bing Crosby: The Bombadier
Song; I’m Saving A Dime (Out Of Every Dollar); Connie Boswell: When The Roses
Bloom Again; Spike Jones: Der Fuehrer’s Face; Celia Lipton: I Don’t Want To Walk
Without You; Joe Loss: Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition; The Vict’ry Polka;
The RAF Dance Orchestra: Commando Patrol; Joe Loss: I’m Gonna Get Lit Up; Billy
Ternent: Cleanin’ My Rifle (And Dreamin’ Of You); Paula Green: Till All Our Prayers
Are Answered; Marlene Dietrich: Lilli Marlene; Dinah Shore: I’ll Be Seeing You;
Johnny Mercer: I’m Gonna See My Baby; Adelaide Hall: I’m Gonna Love That Guy
2 CDs: PPCD 78136
Price: £17.97
GLENN MILLER - MOONLIGHT SERENADE
Glenn Miller's Orchestra existed for only five years yet it made an indelible mark on the history of
popular music. Get in the mood with this ultimate 23-track Glenn Miller compilation.
Moonlight Serenade; Pennsylvania 6-5000; Johnson Rag; Blue Orchids; American Patrol; Moonlight Cocktail; Little Brown Jug;
Frenesi; Elmer’s Tune; Slip Horn Jive; Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree; A String Of Pearls; Chattanooga Choo Choo; Take The ‘A’
Train; Perfidia; Tuxedo Junction; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; Boulder Buff; The Story Of A Starry Night; At Last;
Serenade In Blue; (I’ve Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo; In The Mood
CD: PPCD 78116
Price: £10.97
GEORGE FORMBY - IT’S TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN!
Big hits, plus lesser known gems - the ukulele almost jumps out of the speakers!
Trailer for ‘Keep Your Seats Please’; On The Beat; It Ain’t Nobody’s Biz’ness What I Do/Goody Goody/I Like Bananas; Sitting On The Sands
All Night; On The Wigan Boat Express; Talking To The Moon About You; Some Of These Days/Hard Hearted Hannah/Sweet Georgia
Brown/Sweet Sue - Just You/Dinah/Tiger Rag; Hitting The High Spots Now; Home Guard Blues; Goodnight, Little Fellow, Goodnight; The
Window Cleaner; A Lad From Lancashire; Oh, You Have No Idea; Riding In The TT Races; They Can’t Fool Me; Under The Blasted Oak; I
Always Get To Bed By Half-Past Nine; Down The Old Coal Hole; I Wonder Who’s Under Her Balcony Now?; Delivering The Morning Milk;
Leaning On A Lamp Post; It’s Turned Out Nice Again
CD: PPCD 78105
Price: £10.97
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VOCAL
CHARMERS
Remember When You Could Actually Hear The Words
Everyone’s favourite male and female vocalists from the 1920s, 30s & 40s. So many powerful, different
and dynamic personalities, nearly all of whom have had a dramatic influence on modern-day performers.
Bring them into your home and feel bright, happy and cheerful.
PERFECT NOSTALGIA
Bask in a warm nostalgic glow, with these delightful 24 tracks
Al Bowlly: Love Is The Sweetest Thing; Marlene Dietrich: Falling In Love Again;
Nat King Cole: Sweet Lorraine; Bing Crosby: White Christmas; Connie Boswell:
All Alone; Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serenade; Fred Astaire: Top Hat, White Tie
And Tails; Vera Lynn: The White Cliffs Of Dover; Frank Sinatra: Nancy (With
The Laughing Face); Tony Martin: If It’s You; Gertrude Lawrence: Someday I’ll
Find You; Noël Coward: Mad Dogs And Englishmen; Hutch: Night And Day;
Paul Robeson: Ol’ Man River; Dorothy Lamour: The Man I Love; Jack
Buchanan: Goodnight, Vienna; Flotsam And Jetsam: Little Betty Bouncer;
Flanagan And Allen: Underneath The Arches; Hildegarde: Darling, je vous aime
beaucoup; George Formby: Leaning On A Lamp Post; Jean Sablon: Si tu
m’aimes; Frank Crumit: Abdul Abulbul Amir; Jessie Matthews: Everything’s In
Rhythm With My Heart; Perry Como: Till The End Of Time
CD: PPCD 78128
Price: £10.97
Falling In Love Again – from
Marlene’s most successful film
in 1930, 'The Blue Angel'
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BENIAMINO GIGLI - POPULAR SONGS
22 'Neapolitan' songs, recorded in Gigli's prime, when the tone was at its most golden.
Mattinata; Rondine al Nido; Santa Lucia Luntana; Stornelli Marini; Voce e
Notte!; ’A Canzone ’e Napule; Marta; Lucia Luci; Santa Lucia; O Sole Mio;
Ninna Nanna della Vita; Torna a Surriento; Soltanto Tu, Maria; Marechiare;
Occhi di Fata; Ti Voglio Tanto Bene; La Danza; Aprile; Lolita; Maria, Tu Sei
Per Me La Vita; La Spagnola; O Del Mio Amato Ben
CD: PPCD 78109
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THE ANDREWS SISTERS - SAYS MY HEART
20 stylish close-harmony classics.
Says My Heart; Why Talk About Love?; Love Is Where You Find It; It’s Easier Said Than Done; Oooo-Oh
Boom!; Oh! Faithless Maid; Lullaby To A Jitterbug; Joseph, Joseph; Tu-Li-Tulip Time; Shortenin’ Bread; Bei mir
bist du schon; Just A Simple Melody; Billy Boy; Where Have We Met Before?; Ti-Pi-Tin; From The Land Of The
Sky Blue Water; Sha-Sha; Oh! Ma-Ma!; Hold Tight, Hold Tight; Pross-Tchai (Goodbye)
CD: PPCD 78123
Price: £10.97
The Andrews Sisters recorded 700 songs in their time, achieving
a peak of 17 gold records. There were reports that the Sisters’
off-stage bickering was as explosive as their recording career!
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AL BOWLLY - LOVE IS THE SWEETEST THING
24 classic tracks from Al Bowlly, the greatest dance
band singer of them all.
Sweet And Lovely; Love Is The Sweetest Thing; Lying In The
Hay; Stay On The Right Side Of The Road; You Ought To See
Sally On Sunday; It’s Psychological; Say When; When Love
Comes Swingin’ Along; Easy To Love; Little Old Lady; Bei
mir bist du schoen; Marie; You’re A Sweetheart; You
Couldn’t Be Cuter; Just Let Me Look At You; Music,
Maestro, Please; On The Sentimental Side; Penny
Serenade; Heart And Soul; Two Sleepy People; Any Broken Hearts To Mend?; It Was A
Lover And His Lass; Torn Sails; Dreamy Serenade
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Al Bowlly’s voice can be heard on more than 1000 78rpm recordings, but on most of these he is an
anonymous vocal refrain with a popular dance band. He expressed real emotion in any song he sang.
THE INK SPOTS SWING HIGH! SWING LOW!
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SPOTS Spots' 'hot and jive-packed era.'
SWING HIGH!
SWING LOW!
Keep Away From My Doorstep; Alabama Barbecue; ’Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness
If I Do; That Cat Is High; Swing, Gate, Swing; Slap That Bass; Christopher
Columbus; Yes Suh!; Your Feet’s Too Big; When The Sun Goes Down;
Swingin’ On The Strings; Stompin’At The Savoy; With Plenty Of Money And
You; Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off; Don’t Let Old Age Creep Up On You;
Don’t ’Low No Swingin’ In Here; Oh! Red; Old Joe’s Hittin’ The Jug; Whoa
Babe!; Swing High, Swing Low
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HUTCH SINGS GERSHWIN & PORTER - LETS DO IT!
Hutch is synonymous with the songs of Cole Porter and we are proud to present 78 minutes
of musical bliss! Recalling that he played double piano with Cole Porter, Hutch said that 'he
taught me how to play his songs as he wanted them sung.' Enjoy the 'maestro of nostalgia'.
‘Wake Up And Dream’ Selection; Let’s Do It; I’m A Gigolo; Looking At You; What Is This Thing Called Love?;
Two Little Babes In The Wood; Night And Day; Anything Goes; Begin The Beguine; Just One Of Those Things;
Easy To Love; I’ve Got You Under My Skin; It’s De-Lovely; Do I Love You?; I’ve Got My Eyes On You; You’d
Be So Nice To Come Home To; ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ Selection; Do-Do-Do; Someone To Watch Over Me; High Hat;
He Loves And She Loves; They Can’t Take That Away From Me; A Foggy Day; Love Walked In
CD: PPCD 78148
Price: £10.97
Let's Do It – the staple ingredient
of Hutch's repertoire for forty years
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CHRISTMAS
FAVOURITES
This Really Is Christmas
To help you get in the mood for the festive season, we have gathered together a veritable cornucopia of
seasonal must-haves. May the warm spirit of Christmas remain with you throughout the year!
VINTAGE CHRISTMAS
At last! A Christmas album with class! Get in the mood for the
festive season with a selection of the finest seasonal must-haves.
Why not play it in the middle of the year if you're feeling low?
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters: Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town; Frank
Sinatra: White Christmas; Connie Boswell: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It
Snow!; Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song; Doris Day: Here Comes Santa
Claus; Perry Como: Winter Wonderland; Judy Garland: Merry Christmas; Leroy
Anderson: Sleigh Ride; Harry Babbitt: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer;
Spike Jones & His City Slickers: All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front
Teeth); Margaret Whiting: The Mistletoe Kiss Polka; Perry Como: There Is No
Christmas Like A Home Christmas; Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra: Christmas
Night In Harlem; Gracie Fields: The Fairy On The Christmas Tree; Dick
Robertson & His Orchestra: Don't Wait Till The Night Before Christmas; Frank
Sinatra: Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year); Fats Waller & His
Rhyth: (Swingin' Them) Jingle Bells; Phyllis Robins: The Little Boy That Santa
Claus Forgot; Sydney Lipton & His Grosvenor House Band: I'm Going Home
For Christmas; Perry Como: That Christmas Feeling; Harry Babbitt: Frosty The
Snowman; Judy Garland: Have Yourself A Merry Little
Christmas; Bing Crosby & The Andrews
Sisters: The Twelve Days Of Christmas; Dinah
Shore: The Merry Christmas Polka
Total Time:
63:45mins
CD: PPCD 78200
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25 tracks giving you the most authentic,
atmospheric and evocative sounds of the season
Doris Day: Here Comes Santa Claus; Nat King Cole Trio: The Christmas Song;
Perry Como: Winter Wonderland; Judy Garland: Have Yourself A Merry Little
Christmas; Harry Babbitt: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer; June Hutton: Song
Of The Sleigh Bells; Bing Crosby: I’ll Be Home For Christmas; Kay Starr:
(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag; Dick Robertson & His
Orchestra:- Don’t Wait Till The Night Before Christmas; Peggy Lee: It’s Christmas
Time Again; Margaret Whiting: The Mistletoe Kiss Polka; Leroy Anderson &
His ‘Pops’ Concert Orchestra: Sleigh Ride; The Beverley Sisters: I Saw Mommy
Kissing Santa Claus; Harry Babbitt: Frosty The Snowman; Frank Sinatra:
Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year); Connie Boswell: Let It Snow! Let
It Snow! Let It Snow!; Fats Waller & His Rhythm: (Swingin’ Them) Jingle Bells;
Anne Shelton: The Christmas Spell; Bing Crosby: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot
Like Christmas; Lu Ann Simms: I Dreamt That I Was Santa Claus; Eddie Fisher:
That’s What Christmas Means To Me; Judy Garland: Merry Christmas;
Dinah Shore: The Merry Christmas Polka; Frank Sinatra: White Christmas;
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters: Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
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The Christmas Song was written by Bob Wells and up-and-coming vocalist Mel Torme during a heatwave in July
1945. They rushed it round to Carlos Gastel, Nat King Cole's manager, and the upshot was that the Nat King
Cole Trio recorded it with a string backing the following year. It was worth the wait. With Nat's impeccable dark
and intimate vocal the disc reached No.3 in the Hit Parade. It has remained a yuletide evergreen ever since.
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VINTAGE iPod
Instant Pleasure From Your New iPod
NEW!
THE COMPLETE PAST PERFECT COLLECTION
VINTAGE IPOD
For the very first time, you can get the complete collection from our 56 CDs loaded for you on Apple’s fabulous
iPod. All you have to do is open the box and press play!
Combining unmistakable sounds of original vintage music with the latest technology, the Past Perfect Collection
Vintage iPod is a unique way to enjoy 56 stunning albums from the 1920s, 30s & 40s.
What better way to discover artists that you didn’t know you liked, and songs that you never knew existed.
You will receive an iPod loaded with more than 1,300 high-quality encoded tracks, along with the unique cover artwork, and inscribed
Past Perfect Vintage Collection. That’s every track from this catalogue, and a few more surprises too. Simply choose the colour and we’ll
send you instant music pleasure, straight from the box!
You’ll want to take the entire Past Perfect Collection with you wherever you go – a portable Vintage Library of hidden gems, as well as all your
well-loved favourites.
iPod Nano, 8GB, including 1,376 pre-loaded Past Perfect Collection tracks.
PPIPOD8GB
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THE PAST PERFECT SAMPLER
WHY NOT GIVE IT A TRY?
Worried about ordering an album you won't like? Try our Sampler.
It is almost half the price of our regular albums and contains one track
from every one of our first, top 25 CDs. Go on, discover great music.
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CD: PPCD 78130
Louis Armstrong: I Never Knew; Louis Jordan: Doug The Jitterbug; Duke Ellington: I Let
A Song Go Out Of My Heart; Bob Crosby: King Porter Stomp; George Formby: On The
Wigan Boat Express; Paul Whiteman & Rosa Linda: Cuban Overture (excerpt); Fats Waller:
Carolina Shout; Noël Coward: Just Let Me Look At You; Beniamino Gigli: La Danza;
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli: Miss Annabelle Lee; Jimmie Lunceford: Muddy
Water; Ambrose: I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan; Ginger Rogers: Let Yourself Go; Ella
Fitzgerald: Taking A Chance On Love; Fred Astaire: Shall We Dance?; Glenn Miller: In The
Mood; Billie Holiday: Georgia On My Mind; Fats Waller: Everybody Loves My Baby; Roy
Fox/Mary Lee: It's Go To Be Love; The Charleston Chasers: Wabash Blues; Al Bowlly: Say
When; Benny Carter: Mighty Like The Blues; The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love?;
The Ink Spots: Keep Away From My Doorstep; Frank Sinatra: Paradise
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SOPHISTICATION
SERIES
These charming and clever numbers will always have great appeal, and their ability to evoke an age of
elegance and wit remains undiminished; for the many people who already know and love this music, as
well as those coming to it for the first time, the sounds of the Thirties always manage to conjure up a
time of supreme refinement - a world of Sophistication.
SOPHISTICATION
This collection of 1930s offerings covers a wide range of artists of stage and screen, with
one common ingredient - Sophistication!
Caroll Gibbons: Top Hat, White Tie And Tails; Fred Astaire: Things Are Looking Up; The Way You Look Tonight;
Hildegarde: The Touch Of Your Lips; Darling, je vous aime beaucoup; Noël Coward: Just Let Me Look At You; Where Are
The Songs We Sung?; Gertrude Lawrence: Limehouse Blues/You Were Meant For Me/Do Do Do/Someone To Watch Over
Me/A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, And You/Wild Thyme/Experiment; Benny Carter: Nightfall; Greta Keller: So Little Time;
Hutch: I Poured My Heart Into A Song; Marlene Dietrich: You Do Something To Me; Falling In Love Again; Jack
Buchanan: Dancing Honeymoon/And Her Mother Came Too/Fancy Our Meeting/Who/Two Little Bluebirds/Goodnight,
Vienna/It’s Not You/There’s Always Tomorrow; Elisabeth Welch: Drop In Next Time You’re Passing; Jessie Matthews: One
Little Kiss From You/Let Me Give My Happiness To You/When You’ve Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart/Over My
Shoulder/Everything’s In Rhythm With My Heart/Got To Dance My Way To Heaven/I Can Wiggle My Ears/I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers
CD: PPCD 78108
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MORE SOPHISTICATION
Over an hour of popular music for the discerning listener, performed by a truly all-star line-up.
Carroll Gibbons: On The Air; I Double Dare You; Fred Astaire: A Fine Romance; Night And Day; Greta Keller:
You’re A Sweetheart; Noël Coward: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance, Little
Lady/Someday I’ll Find You/Any Little Fish/If You Could Only Come With Me/I’ll See You Again; Gertrude
Lawrence: How Could We Be Wrong?; Jean Sablon: La chanson des rues; Vous qui passez sans me voir;
Hildegarde: I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; The Blue Room; Benny Carter: Melancholy Lullaby; Jessie
Matthews: Say The Word And It’s Yours; Moon Or No Moon; Al Bowlly: Say When; The Very Thought Of You;
Marlene Dietrich: You’ve Got That Look; I’ve Been In Love Before; Hutch: These Foolish Things; Elisabeth
Welch/Benny Carter: When Lights Are Low; Freddie Gardner: Stardust; Jack Buchanan: I’m Still Dreaming
CD: PPCD 78121
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SOPHISTICATION 3
22 tracks made during those glamorous far-off times of the 1930s
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Carroll Gibbons: So Rare; A Foggy Day; Hildegarde: This Year’s Kisses; Cheek To Cheek; Frank Sinatra:
Paradise; Jean Sablon: Si tu m’aimes; Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli: Chasing Shadows; Fred
Astaire: Isn’t This A Lovely Day?; I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket; Gertrude Lawrence: Someday I’ll
Find You; Hutch: Sophisticated Lady; Room Five Hundred And Four; I Saw Stars; Jessie Matthews: Your Heart
Skips A Beat; Jack Buchanan: Goodnight, Vienna; One Good Tune Deserves Another; Benny Carter: These
Foolish Things; Al Bowlly: Sweet And Lovely; When Love Comes Swingin’ Along; Elisabeth Welch & Benny
Carter: The Man I Love; Noël Coward: Something To Do With Spring; Dearest Love
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