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Title: Variety Of Styles And Accompaniments
Review: This is a superb introduction to that much-maligned animal, the dance band singer. You'll sit up and take note from the first five tracks, with the splendid voice of the sadly neglected Archie Lewis, accompanied by the mid-forties Geraldo Orchestra. That sets the pattern, with each vocalist being allocated five tracks with a variety of accompaniments. So the compilation progresses through Marjorie Kingsley with Harry Roy, Sam Browne, Paula Green with Joe Loss, Alan Dean, Anne Shelton with Ambrose, Chick Henderson, Evelyn Dall with Ambrose, Cyril Grantham with Geraldo, Anne Lenner with Carroll Gibbons, Rita Williams, Jimmy Mesene, Eve Becke, Al Bowlly, Vera Lynn with Ambrose, Dorothy Carless, Paul Rich with Lou Preager, Carole Carr with Geraldo, George Melachrino, and Dolly Elsie. Some of these tracks will be familiar, others less so. This is a considerable bargain, and it's well worth looking out for the companion set "The Great British Dance Bands" (PBX CD 422)
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