And the bands played on - Hardcover

And the Bands Played on. An Informal History of British Dance Bands. First Printing

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Libris Books
(Bristol, United Kingdom)

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1977. First Printing. No later dates shown. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6  [24cm x 15cm] approx. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Book is fine with no defects. Colour pictorial dust wrapper in black, yellow and red. Monochrome illustrations to the rear. Endpapers showing ad for Lambert and Butler cigarettes with photographs of musicians of the era. Book contains a loosely laid in flyer advertising the Decca double album that was due to be published to coincide with the publishing of the book. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs in the text. Clipped jacket. Very slight touch of browning to the spine. Very near fine. Dance band musician Sid Colin writes an evocative reminiscence of the big band dance music from 1919, when the Original Dixieland Band played in London, through the golden age of the 1930s to the big band invasion from America during the war years. It was the age of band leader as superstar Carroll Gibbons and Fred Elizalde at the Savoy, Sydney Lipton at the Grosvenor House, Lew Stone at the Monseigneur, Jack Jackson at the Dorchester, Henry Hall on the BBC, and Ambrose at the Mayfair. The talented bandsmen, Sid Phillips, Lew Davis, Tiny Winters and Nat Gonella became stars, as well as the crooners Al Bowlly, Sam Browne, Elsie Carlisle and Vera Lynn. Foreword by George Chisholm. Scarce book especially in this state. The wraps will be covered with a 100 micron inert archival protective jacket which is removable. Seller Inventory # YR3AUG14002

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