Savoy Hotel Orpheans #2 Recorded 1929 - 1932 CD353b

Disc #2 CD353B

This album features five vocals by the fabulous Al Bowlly. Al sang with a multitude of bands - some in his native tongue -Africaans. Debroy Somers' name was never on the Savoy Orpheans records and only got credit for his records after he left the hotel. He directed the first four tracks on this album and used his own name or the pseudonym 'The Midnight Minstrels in the case of the 'Love Parade' Medley. Somers is said to have been proficient at all the instruments of the orchestra. William Henry Somers was born at the Doctor Steevens Hospital in Dublin Ireland on 11 April 1890, was the second of four children of William George and Clara Somers of Ship Street Barracks. After a stint in the British army, in 1919, Somers went to London where he had contacts in the musical world. He joined the Aeolian Company as its Director of Light Music. (Aeolian was a producer of player pianos and organs, and had started their line of records. The Vocalion Dance Orchestra and Venetian Dance Orchestra were two of the bands Somers conducted, his name sometimes appears on the labels of the Vocalion Dance Orchestra. Arranging for their recordibng sessions gave him valuable exposure. He formed the original Savoy Orpheans in the mid twenties. After the contract with the hotel ended in 1927, he continued recording under his own name. Here is a lineup for the Debroy Somers Band Jimmy Wornell-Vernon Mayall-t/ Jock Flemming-tb/ Charlie Swinnerton-Wright-as/ R. G. Somers-Oboe/ Gerry McQuillan-bassoon/A. Jacobs, Jean Pougnet-vn/ Nigel Newitt-bj Norman Perry-Ronnie Munro-p/ Fred Underhaye W.Barnes-d. Carroll Gibbons returned to England in 1931, after working for M.G.M. Studios in California. With saxophonist Howard Jacobs Gibbons created a new band. There's A Time And A Place For Everything is a major departure in style and it really rocks - setting it apart from the Debroy Somers band. It is Al's first vocal with the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. In the early thirties, the personnel for the SHO was Bill Shakespeare, Billy Higgs -t/Arthur Fenoulhet, Paul Fenoulhet-t-tb/Sam Acres-tb/ George Smith-cl-ts/ George Melachrino-cl-as/Laurie Payne- cl-as-bar / Ben Frankel-vn/ Harry Sherman-g / Carroll Gibbons-ldr-p/ Sid Bright-2nd p/ Jack Evetts-sb/ Rudy Starita-d ~ Mickey Clark

Debroy Somers and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans(Carroll Gibbons) Disc #2 CD353B

1. LOVE PARADE-GEMS DEBROY SOMERS (MIDNIGHT MINSTRELS) REG MR80 01/01/29 WAR120/WAR121 GREY-SCHERTZINGER LOVE PARADE
2. RO-RO-ROLLIN' ALONG DEBROY SOMERS BAND COL CB83 05/29/30 WA10420 MOLL-RICHMAN-MENCHER
3. AMY DEBROY SOMERS BAND COL CB83 06/02/30 WA10445 GILBERT-NICHOLLS
4. VIENNESE NIGHTS-MEDLEY-DEBROY SOMERS(MIDNIGHT MINSTRELS) I BRING A LOVE SONG-HERE WE ARE-YOU WILL REMEMBER VIENNA-REGIMENTAL MARCH- REG MR 286 WAR 470/WAR471 HAMMERSTEIN-ROMBERG VIENNESE NIGHTS
5. THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE FOR EVERYTHING SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS AL BOWLLY COL CB376 10/19/31 12092 TURK-AHLERT
6. SWEET AND LOVELY SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS AL BOWLLY COL CB376 10/19/31 12093 ARNHEIM-TOBIAS-LE MARE
7. WHO AM I? SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS AL BOWLLY COL CB377 10/31/31 12139 GIFFORD-MILNE-NEWMAN
8. LINDA SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS AL BOWLLY COL CB377 10/31/31 12140 TOBIAS-TRENT-DE ROSE
9. YOU ARE MY HEART'S DELIGHT SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS INST COL CB381 11/25/31 12187 LEHAR
10. SONG OF SONGS SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS INST COL CB381 11/25/31 12188 MOYA
11. -WHITE FLOWER OF THE ISLANDS SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS COL CB387 JACK PLANT-HUMMING 11/25/31 12208 ABRAHAM FLOWER OF HAWAII
12. I'M JUST A DARKIE SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS INST COL CB387 11/25/31 12209 ABRAHAM FLOWER OF HAWAII
13. ALONE WITH MY DREAMS SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS JACK PLANT COL CB389 12/02/31 12246 EYTON-BUCHANAN
14. I APOLOGIZE SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS JACK PLANT COL CB389 12/02/31 12247 HOFFMAN-GOODHART-NELSON
15. CONSOLATION SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS JACK PLANT COL CB412 01/16/32 12346 GOTTLER-BOOTH
16. BY THE FIRESIDE SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS JACK PLANT COL CB412 01/16/32 12359 NOBLE-CAMPBELL-CONNELLY
17. I'LL MAKE A HAPPY LANDING SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS JACK PLANT COL DO668 02/04/32 FIELDS-MCHUGH FLYING HIGH
18. ALL OF ME SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS JACK PLANT COL DO668 02/04/32 12398 SIMONS-MARKS
19. SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS AL BOWLLY COL CB426 02/16/32 12426 HIRSCH-MAGINE
20. FIRE IN MY HEART SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS COL CB426 02/16/32 12434 MILLS-KNOX
21. COLUMBIA ON PARADE Jack Payne/Norman Long/Albert Sandler/Raymond Newell/Flotsam & Jetsam/Harry Tate/Trevor Watson/Binnie Hale/Debroy Somers Band/Billy Mayerl/Layton & Johnstone/Len Fillis/Stanley Holloway/Will Fyffe/Harry Dirth COL DX299 09/30/27 6246

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