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I've run across some fine British dance band recordings on this journey, and they have been underrated for decades.

The next entry, coming in a few minutes, will make you pull out your hankie. George was developing the melodic ability to go straight for the heart.

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Although they are several decades apart, British Dance Bands were where Van Morrison got his start in the Business. He used to do the horn arrangements.

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THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK

GEORGE GERSHWIN

PRIMROSE

This show from 1924 was written and staged in London, where it ran for several years. It wasn’t staged here until the Seventies. Desmond Carter was the lyricist, and the songs have more in common with Gilbert & Sullivan than Broadway.

JUDY KAYE: “ISN’T IT WONDERFUL?”

This song should be better known; only Gershwin could have written a melody that takes your breath away like this. Your screen will go blurry at the end.

Judy Kaye: “Isn’t It Wonderful?”