Alex Mendham and his dance band with the Dunlop sisters. The closing number from their concert at the Kings Theatre, Thorpe Underwood, near York 23rd February 2018
WONDERFUL!! This performance makes my whole being smile...bigly!! And, my feet move to the rhythm. Love this! Thanks to all the musicians!😁🎶💕
@1dylan596
Жыл бұрын
i want this to get passed to future generations
@Greenockianx
4 жыл бұрын
I cannot stop smiling. Wonderful!
@Vpmatt
9 ай бұрын
Looks like the front row of the audience remember this song when it was new.
@joeoverby7039
4 жыл бұрын
they have movement!joe overby atlanta ga
@staffanlindstrom576
3 жыл бұрын
Great stuff!
@fabiopaulino7091
2 жыл бұрын
Very good, I love this!
@joeoverby7039
4 жыл бұрын
lots of movement!joe overby artlanta ga
@Recordhistorian
6 жыл бұрын
Compared with the abilities of - "today's musicians": A very "snappy" rendition of this "all-time-classic"! Yes, it's all common, that the Alex-Mendham-Orchestra gives us a lot of finest tunes of the "Golden Era" and nowadays a lot of pleasure, but especially in this version the drummer is remarkable in the stylish und correct using of the bass-drum (in those days an essential aspect to all dance-bands, but today often underrated...unfortunately). But here: Yeah! Please, Alex, go on and your band too. Gratulations: from a real dance-band-fan in the capital of Germany - Berlin!
@dubbtubbdrum
3 жыл бұрын
Nick certainly does a great job on the skins!
@SAHBfan
3 жыл бұрын
The recording techniques of the late 20s and 1930s don’t seem to capture the drums very well at all. Cymbals usually cut through, but the bass drum is invariably inaudible. The big advantage of listening to live orchestras like this, even if recorded by modern techniques, is we can finally hear what they would have sounded like in the 30s - those drums were not for show!
@Recordhistorian
3 жыл бұрын
@@SAHBfan One have to mention: that the recording abilities, you'd pointed out, of late '20ths to early '30ths, created a "trend" within the recording engineers: They were afraid to spoil the wax-work, especially by the bass-drum-playing, 'cause it cut such bigger waves in the wax, so that it became a "recording-studios' nightmare": that the grooves would went out of their way or hit each other. The result was, that mostly the studios prefer snare drums and cymbals. But the ciritics of those days (for example Edgar Jackson, of British "Melody Maker", also active with reviews in "The Grammophon") wrote often reviews with crititicism about a lack in bass-drum-playing. So soon engineers then managed the problem; and around 1930/'31, they really got some fine results by using the bass-drum in studios. For example in the then "His-Masters-Voice"-recordings by Bert Ambrose and his Band. The reviews in "The Grammophon" pointed out this great advantage in body and style of the whole music. One have to sum up: the abilities of the recordings were quite higher - than the encouragement and experiences by the studio-staffs. A lot of technique was almost really new and one had to deal with the expensive method of "try-and-error"! About all those things I had fortunately the chance to talk about with some veteran musicians in Germany. They were busy in Berlin's Jazz- and Danceband-Scene in 1920ths to 40ths. Yes, and they told me the same thing: The microphones had more abilities, but a lot of engineers in the recording-industry didn't get it. And often they were too shy, careful and conservative. Yes, sometimes (so in good old Berlin) they even hadn't an ear for those then modern "rhythms" and the whole "Dance-Band-Music", but only for classical music by legitimate musicians (means: symphonies, chamber music etc.).
@bowieupland6112
Жыл бұрын
I can only imagine the memories those two old-timers, in the front, are having.
@BertyBloggs
3 жыл бұрын
Love it! (Brian Towers)
@ianpeden2906
5 жыл бұрын
Marvellous. Food for the soul.
@antoniorodolpho6835
5 жыл бұрын
just wonderful!!!!!! Who is the arranger's name please . Thanks a lot
@davidharwood9552
2 ай бұрын
Has Alex got happy feet 👣 he sounds in pain. What do you think Dunlop Sisters
@SallyGordonMark
3 жыл бұрын
Not bad, but you can still learn from the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra.
@thardingau
4 жыл бұрын
Very good, except that live recordings of big bands are rarely as good as studio ones.
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