Al Bowlly with Monia Liter

Open Playlist

Al's collaboration with Monia Liter produced some of his finest renditions. Without the restrictions of an orchestral score, Al was able to give free rein to his creativity. The quality and sensitivity of the Bowlly voice comes through strongly in these 10 tracks.

One of the gems in this collection is the recording of You Oughta be in Pictures in which Al gets to sing an extended version of the Dana Suesse lyrics.

The Playlist Problem Resolved

Open Geraldo Playlist

I finally worked out why the previous post was playing the wrong playlist.

I was using a java script to open a pop-up window with the player embedded in it. It seems that the main page of the blog can only support one pop-up on each page. I had two posts with separate pop-ups. They played perfectly from within the post but, when accessed from the main blog page, blogger always reverted to the earliest playlist it could find.

So, no more pop-ups. Now we have a new solution, which simply opens a new page for each playlist. It works correctly no matter where the playlist is opened from.

This post contains the geraldo playlist. The next post will contain ten solo performances with Monia Liter at the piano.

Testing a new flash player

From Me To You No. 3 posted!

From start to finish. Songs from every year of Al Bowlly's recording career, from 1927 to 1941.

This blogcast commemorates the death of Al Bowlly on 17 April 1941.



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I finally got things sorted. Now have a premium file storage account, which means larger files and, hopefully, better quality.


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From Me To You No. 2

The second edition of the Al Bowlly blogcast

Al Bowlly with Lew Stone, Geraldo, Ronnie Munro, Ray Noble, and duets with Dawn Davis, Eve Becke and Anona Winn.



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Al at the microphone with the Lew Stone band.

Al Bowlly with Geraldo and his Orchestra

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From Me To You - a Bowlly Blogcast

This is the first edition of From Me To You, a one-hour BlogRadio program. I hope you enjoy it.




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Some Bowlly Medleys

Al Bowlly recorded a number of discs with medleys of popular songs of the time. Here are a few of these discs in a playlist. You can play individual recordings or the whole playlist.

Three More Songs

A Little Love Song
Recorded: 30th December 1930, with the Blue Jays
Edison Bell EBR1448


If You Love
Recorded in the USA 23rd January 1936, with Ray Noble and his orchestra
Victor 98673-1



Lazy Day
Recorded: 16th June 1931 with Roy Fox and his band
Decca F-2396

My first attempt to upload audio files

I Can Dream, Can't I
Recorded: 3rd December 1937, with a band assembled by Bowlly.
HMV BD-5363


Now It Can Be Told
Recorded: 27th September 1938, with Lew Stone and his band
Decca F-6795