Presenter:Colin Aitchison
Music aficionado and band leader Colin Aitchison presents the musicians who were the huge, million-selling recording stars of an often forgotten era.
Before Bruno Mars, there was Bing Crosby, before the likes of Adele, there was Billie Holiday ... and before Justin Bieber ... well, where to start!?!
There’s some terrific music and stories from the ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s, plus a few laughs!
(Every Sunday, 8.30am-9am )
Have you ever heard of Madame Tussaud's Dance Orchestra? Not a waxwork in sight, but a top flight, chart topping British band of the 1930s.
That's just one of a handful of curio's that Colin is digging up this Sunday morning. There's also the dizzy fingers of Zez Confrey from 1927, the original arrangement of the classic song ‘Fever’, The Mills Brothers, and the wild antics of the one and only Nervous Norvus!
Presenter:Colin Aitchison
This week on VCT we're off to Chicago with Tommy Dorsey, and St Louis with the mighty Earl Hines.
We've got a terrific side from Teddy Joyce in 1934 and a number one song of sin from Eddy Howard. All this, plus the... dancing tambourine!
Every Sunday morning from 8.30 to 9