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Popular Artists/Compilations

A large collection of CDs with both artists and compilations. Vera Lyn, Flanagan & Allen, Noel Coward, Anne Shelton, plus many more that entertained both home and abroad.

DAD's ARMY - Music from the TV Series

Price: £9.99

72 minutes of original music from the classic BBC television comedy series 'Dads Army' including the theme performed by Bud Flanagan as well as popular songs from the 1930s and 1940s. All tracks have been carefully remastered using digital technology. Booklet includes full recording details and liner notes. A nice collection of popular wartime music.

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Al Bowlly Cose Your eyes

Price: £4.99

Despite having been killed by a bomb in the London Blitz in 1941 Al Bowlly still has a huge number of fans today with Top Ten album chart entries as recently as 1990. A wonderful compilation of 16 tracks for your enjoyment.

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Max Miller - There'll Never Be Another

Price: £5.95

Max was the master when it came to comedy; ask any comedian and they'll tell you his influence as a comic was as great as his enormous popularity with the public. He held the audience in the palm of his hand as he toldthe naughtiest of stories, and all without a trace of vulgarity. Here are over fifty minutes of Max at his peak, recorded in the late 30s and the early 40s when he brought the light of laughter to the blackout.

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Noel Coward Mad Dogs And Englishmen

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Noel Coward had a unique whit and humour which came over in his music and often commented on current events. This CD contains 24 tracks including "Mrs Worthington", "London Pride", "Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun", and "Don't Let's Be Beastly to The Germans".

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The Words & Music Of Noel Coward

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"This brilliant disc brings back the greatest cabaret masters of the past and reminds us why cabaret itself was once so central to light entertainment in Britain and around the world." Sheridan Morley - Theatre Critic, Broadcaster & Biographer

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Vera Lynn The White Cliffs of Dover

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Vera Lynn is often described as 'The Forces Sweatheart' and 'The Sound of Wartime Britain'. Here is an excellent selection of 17 of her recordings.

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Flanagan & Allen

Price: £4.95

I offer no excuses for including another compilation of Flanagan & Allen tracks for your enjoyment. A lovelly selection which has been out of stock for some time. 24 excellent tracks including some of their most popular.

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Flanagan & Allen - Underneath The Arches

Price: £4.95

Flanagan & Allen were hugely popular with both civilian and forces audiences. Their songs often raised a smile when there was little else to smile about. This CD contains 20 excellent tracks for your enjoyment.

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Elegance - A Musical Journey through the 30s & 40s

Price: £9.95

Polished performances from the most elegant artists of the 30s & 40s - including Noel Coward, Nat King Cole, Fred Astaire, and a wonderful Cole Porter medley from Hutch.

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Elegance 2 - Continuing Our Musical Journey through the 30s & 40s

Price: £9.95

We continue our journey through the 30s & 40s in Volume 2 in the 'Elegance' series. Includes a superb Noel Coward medley, with a cast list of great and diverse artists, form Jessie Matthews to Stephane Grappelli.

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The Good Old Days Laughing While The Bombs Drop

Price: £5.95

In the face of the cruellest conditions, there is the British humor which continues to persevere. Here is a selection of songs and sketches from some of Wartime Britain's best loved comedians.

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La Vie Parisienne : Great French Stars of the 30s & 40s

Price: £9.95

The extraordinary richness of the chanson between the 1920s and the 1950s was no accident. The carnage of the 1914-18 war had changed the social fabric of France forever and the advent of the cinema, the gramophone and, later, radio drastically altered the nature of entertainment. Suddenly the tired music-hall traditions of the Paris cafZ-concert were being revitalized by dynamic outside influences and this superb album is a sort of tribute to a generation of French singers whose talents were compelling enough to bridge the linguistic divide between them and their foreign audience.

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What Is This Thing Called Love? : Cool Love Songs of the 30s & 40s

Price: £9.95

A love album. 22 cool tracks beautifully performed by the very best. Wonderful!

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Sweethearts of the Silver Screen

Price: £4.95

This album contains fifteen examples of female singers, ranging wildly in musical styles but united by the common thread of real charisima which lifted them above their rivals. Featuring tracks from: Shirley Temple, Ginger Rogers, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Deanna Durbin and others....

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Fascinating Rythm! - Great Hits of the Twenties

Price: £9.95

The Charleston', 'Cotton Club Stomp', Five 'Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue' - this is THE 20s dance band album!

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Vintage Love

Price: £9.95

A romantic collection of some of the greatest vintage Love Songs.

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Perfect Blues

Price: £9.95

Includes Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Leadbelly, Johnny Dodds, Billie Holiday, and many more.

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Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Cocktails For Two

Price: £5.95

An amusing selection of Spike Jones playing songs like nobody else!!

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Jazz Age - Hot sounds of the 20s & 30s

Price: £16.95

The selections on this fine album are prime monuments of the Jazz Age and arguably, some of America's finest jazz performances. Tune into Miff Mole, Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford and the best of the 1920s and 30s Hot Jazz.

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Perfect Bebop

Price: £9.95

So, what is bebop exactly - what does this strange word mean? French critic Hugues Panassie, something of a reactionary in these things, dismissed bebop (usually known now as bop) as 'a form of music distinct from jazz' while trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie described it simply as 'just the way my friends and I feel jazz.' Saxophonist Charlie Parker, the new music's finest exponent, held a more measured view, inadvertently echoing that of Panassie when he said it was 'something entirely separate and apart.'

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