Top 10 Best 1940s Music

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All your favourite 'tea' themed dance and tea party music from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. All your favourite 'tea' themed dance and tea party music from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Played during our 1930s themed wedding meal - it fit the bill perfectly and was fantastic. Just perfect music for a retirement tea party. The most original and evocative background music at vintage events. Expertly remastered from the original recordings.

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1930s and 1940s Hollywood Musical Hits. Everybody Sing was introduced by the former Frances Gumm, now MGM's wonderfully talented child star, Judy Garland.. In one of Fred Astaire's finest films, 'Swing Time' with the help of Jerome Kern's music and a deft lyric from Dorothy Fields, Astaire paid tribute to the legendary Broadway and film dancer, the African-American Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. The song was Bojangles Of Harlem.. Having scored a success with the rueful duet, full of touching reminiscence, 'Thanks for the Memory', Bob Hope and Shirley Ross born Leslie Townes Hope and Bernice Gaunt respectively would be given another similar song to see if they could repeat their hit. They could. In the film 'Thanks for the Memory' named after their previous success, the pair introduced Two Sleepy People.. The celebrated former lift operator, Miss Orleans and band vocalist Dorothy Lamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Kaumeyer. The girl in a sarong, she was the love interest, fought over by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the famous series of 'Road' pictures. The Moon of Manakoora was featured in 'The Hurricane' starring Miss Lamour with Jon Hall..

20 Chilled-Out Cool Jazz Tracks. 20 Chilled-Out Cool Jazz Tracks. Animation and vitality of the best swing bands. The music swings, but there's subtlety and sophistication in these jazz performances as well.. The title track is Benny Carter's Nightfall comes from a session organised by the writer Leonard Feather and made in April 1936.

Mysterious, glamorous Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin, and as a child studied music. She began her German film career in 1923, and in 1930 made her most successful film, 'The Blue Angel', in which she sang the classic Falling In Love Again.. Mysterious, glamorous Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin, and as a child studied music. She began her German film career in 1923, and in 1930 made her most successful film, 'The Blue Angel', in which she sang the classic Falling In Love Again.. Bing Crosby is one of the century's greatest popular singers, who turned everything he sang into something special. Whether in jazz or slow ballads, the Crosby magic is always there, and White Christmas is no exception. The fame, even today, of Glenn Miller and his Orchestra makes it hard to believe that the band existed for only five years. Yet within that short period it became the most popular and successful dance band in the world, clocking up 40 top ten records in three years. Moonlight Serenade was the band's theme tune, recorded in April 1939.. We have one of Vera Lynn's legendary wartime recordings here, The White Cliffs Of Dover, backed by another musical great - Mantovani and his Orchestra. Till The End Of Time, from 1945, was Perry Como's first Number One and first million-seller..