"Midnight in Moscow" with his Jazzmen on the show's broadcast on BBC 1 on 31 December 1969. His continued success was aided by guest appearances on every edition of the first six series of the BBC's Morecambe and Wise Show. He later said that the peak of his career was when Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen played at the reception for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Ball and his band enjoyed one of the longest unbroken spells of success for trad bands and his status rivals contemporaries Acker Bilk and Chris Barber. Their joint album, The Best of Ball, Barber and Bilk, reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. He has charted fourteen Top 50 hit singles in the UK alone. All such releases were issued on the Pye record label. In 2001 Ball was part of the recording of an album on the Decca label. It featured Don Lusher, Acker Bilk, John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, John Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, and was entitled British Jazz Legends Together. Ball continued to tour until shortly before his death, his last scheduled concert being with Acker Bilk and Chris Barber at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 21 February 2013. He died at Basildon Hospital, Essex, where he was being treated for pneumonia. Since 2018, the band has continued in the form of a show titled "Kenny Ball's Greatest Hits" which is produced by trombonist Ian Bateman, who played many times with the band in its later years as deputy for John Bennett and then under the leadership of Kenny's son, Keith. The show features musicians who were either in Kenny's band or were involved in the 3B's shows. The Jazzmen The line-up changed greatly over the years, but the following personnel were in situ when the musical ensemble was at its commercial peak: Kenny Ball (trumpet) John Bennett (trombone), still in the line-up at the time of Ball's death Dave Jones (founder member clarinet until 1967) Andy Cooper (clarinet) Ron Weatherburn/Johnny Parker/Hugh Ledigo (piano) Paddy Lightfoot (banjo) Ron Bowden (drums) Vic Pitt/John Benson (bass, bass guitar) John Fenner (guitar, banjo) The personnel of the Jazzmen at the time of Ball's death were: Keith Ball (bandleader and vocalist) Ben Cummings (trumpet) John Bennett (trombone and founder member of the band with Ken in 1958) Julian Marc Stringle (clarinet, replacing Andy Cooper in Summer of 2012) Hugh Ledigo