1930s Dance Band - The Savoy Hotel Orpheans

[JStaceyhib]

What a great performance. I knew Frances (she liked to be called 'Frankie) in the mid 1970s - I was her lawyer until I moved on! She must have been in her early 70s but she still dressed like a much younger version and could carry it off. She invited me to her home in Maidenhead for dinner on one occasion and entertained me with her old 78s and her scrap books.- it was a real priviledge. A lovely person.

[woofer32]

Great bit of film, so this is Frances Day - I have heard of her of course but never seen her.

[mrbigarms]

Thanks for this, recorded 80 years ago, yet I felt I was back there, wonderfull!

[ClarasBeau]

Ah, thank you. thank you!... Lovely music...

[richmond196]

What a smooth band, tempo great, pity not played today.

What a loss all these fine dance bands are gone.

[gudkovsaks]

Шикарный Оркестр  !!!

[paulkate72]

Is there anyone out there who can upload this song, but a different version please? This is nice too, but Al Bowlly had a version with one of the leading English dance bands of the day.

Excellent song and of course Al does it with his usual panache. My thanks to anyone who can oblige.

[woofer32]

Comforting music. Love it.

[1912cunard]

I love the savoy orpheans.Class!!!

[Mrsnoemartins]

Just simply love it! :)

[Jamtns]

So very nice, heavens on earth! :)

[jaguarjaguarjaguarja]

What's the name of this lovely song?

[deejay830]

@jaguarjaguarjaguarja It's called "I'm For You A Hundred Percent"

[ellenhawk]

I was speaking of THE STYLE... HOWEVER if you you want to compare the 1930's with now.. the thought of religious loonies crashing planes or bombing the underground, was INCONCEIVABLE. parents did not have to worry about kids getting snatched & drug problems. Proper social behavior NOT soft core porno was the norm in media & NOT treating our fellow man correctly was not taken for granted. I'd say things were not perfect then BUTsociety was more civilized & with class than today.

[goatface1000]

I am afraid you seem to be a bigot, as well as naive but then as you like the racsit anti semite KKK slime David Duke then I am not surprised. The music films clothes etc. may be better than today but how can a society that denied the vote to citizens where there is no state health care be better?

Repent your ideas kick out the racists and anti - semites.

[glennmiller2005]

@goatface1000 what the hell does nostalgia over softly lit, acoustic dance music, black and white film, and 5 cent hamburgers have to do with racism and bigotry??? i think with this we're trying to remember entertainment like the savoy hotel orpheans, not joe rogan on trl.

why don't you repent your spiteful nature around caring human beings with opinions other than your own, and try to realize you aren't even arguing the same things!!! that way you can stay goatface 1000, not goatfeet1000

[goatface1000]

@glennmiller2005 You are totally correct in your first paragraph. However if you look on ellenhawk's channel you will see she is a supporter of the KKK and has some very unpleasant friends, so in my opinion I do not think that ellenhawk is a caring person. I two love music from the past from Annette Hanshaw & Robert Johnson to Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. I am not intolerant of anything other than intolerance. So stay warm.

[glennmiller2005]

@goatface1000 okok. i can agree to that. i mean hitler's economic policy was better that the free worlds, but just about everything else about his ideas were horrifying beyond reason. sorry man.

[goatface1000]

@glennmiller2005 No worries 

[blackvulcan100]

What a babe!!

[peteatrov231]

lifeless! lol

[blackvulcan100]

Dreamy Dreamy Love it !!

[ro141]

A really great clip. Frances Day was quite a sensation in her day. The BBC has twice shown a 30s movie called Oh Daddy in which she looks terrific, sings a couple of numbers and has an unexpected screen presence. Worth catching if they ever dig it out again.

[dudemantwo]

The British accent sounds very pleasant...I am sorry to say...

It sounds very refined...

[blackvulcan100]

@dudemantwo Why be sorry ??the British accent is lovely,I should know I have spoken it for nearly 60 years,and proud to have done so!!

[ellenhawk]

How I wish I could get into a time machine and go back to that wonderful and more civilized time

[goatface1000]

@ellenhawk More civilised? In those days the UK had no health service extreme poverty. The world was gripped in a depression Hitler was gearing up for the war. Workers rights did not exist infant mortality was high. America had racial segregation. There was very little social mobility. More civilised? You make like the music, the clothes, the films but don't get carried away on a wave of nostalgia they were only better times the rich

[blackvulcan100]

she is so sexy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Corrie121]

Delightful post.

Thanks for sharing.

[miguelmouta]

Kind of female charm we see no more

( By free choice from hers ...).

[GeorgeDavidB]

Wonderful ! It's so evocative of an era of the greatest and most tuneful popular music ever written and sung by such dazzling stars.

[swallin19]

The Singer is Frances Day, a US born singer who lived and worked in the UK from the 1930's., famed for a very sophisticated song delivery.

[schuricke]

merveilleux

[DrewidDesktop]

Wonderful, thanks for posting this clip. Just when I think that You Tube has given up all it's treasures, I find this. I used to think how great it would have been to be around in the 30's to see this music, then I remember that they've been through WW1 and have WW2 to look forward to.

[RRaquello]

It's pretty neat to see C. Gibbons on film. Have only heard recordings before. I'm from the US & know he was big in England but not really over here. Accidently came across some old radio broadcasts done for Hartey's Jam (from 1934) w. Anne Lenner as singer and became a fan. Those old radio transcriptions capture the time like nothing else, and it's neat to hear how a "jazz" show was done in England with an Engish announcer. Very low key compared to American announcers of the same time.

[RRaquello]

Also, the girl singer in this film sounds an awful lot like Ginger Rogers.

[mrshakehandsmann]

I wish I had lived when this music was around, music cannot be called music today, this is the genuine article!!!

[musicbod]

My lovely Auntie Anne was with Carroll for many years too He was a very charming man Loved his band so much Brings back so many good memories

[paxguns]

Have all her records as I loved her voice.

[musicbod]

Thankyou Yes indeed she had a great voice and was a wonderful lady....Her sisters are well remembered even now Judy Shirley and Shirley Lenner

[EVETTSPAUL]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO MY FATHER WAS WITH CARROLL GIBBONS FOR 27 YEARS JACK EVETTS ON DOUBLE BASS AND IT WAS VERY NICE TO SEE THIS i HAD A LOT TO DO WITH CARROLL WHEN I WAS YOUNG. THANKS PAUL EVETTS

[kosihel]

it isgreat music, you can try Bratislava hot serenaders...also great band but band these days....

[genia106]

Thank you for posting this great clip and allowing me get a glimpse of that wonderful bygone time.

[mrshakehandsmann]

Thanks for posting all these wonderful clips from the greatest era of popular music, the 1920s & 30s. This is real music unlike much of the dull dross around today, keep up the good work.

[dyad44]

I'm 16 and I love this!

[robsidiotcrew2]

me too but i am 19

[thomasojii31]

Great singer,lovely lady, these played with Carroll Gibbons, the singer then was Anne Lenner, doing a wonderful rendering of " The Farryboat Serenade," a great Quickstep.

[blackpoolbarmpot]

'Ferroman1' I dont know why your comment has been marked as 'spam'

You can enjoy any type of music at any age. So don't be disheartened by someones 'sillyness'

[Ferroman1]

Hehe neither do I. Oh well, and indeed that's true! :)

[ro141]

Frances Day was a real star. Does anyone have a clip from her movie Oh Daddy -- she was sensational in that. BBC2 screened it several years ago but my tape sadly got wiped.

[clipper1194]

Say that Dame can really belt out a tune!! What a Doll!!

[sirrobint]

Thanks, you sent me searching for her. Had no idea she played "Peter Pan

My favourite of her numbers was 'Me and My Dog, Lost in a Fog" .Thanks again for jogging my memory.

[Freddi41]

She sings a wonderful vocal with Ace Roland on the Ray Noble of "Won't You Stay For Tea"

[silverscreenmovies]

What a nice clip. I will probably like this Lady alot now.

[creamofcardstv]

Hi, I like your video and have rated it as awesome. Please check out my vid clip of some rare jazz musicians and dance band Leaders cigarette cards, issued in 1936. They include Roy Fox, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and many more.

[HarborGuy]

The earlly 30's were wonderful despite the depression!

[mic33george]

I completely agree with the other two messages.Who is the charming lady with the lovely voice?

[deejay830]

The singer is Frances Day. She was an american who found greatest on the london stage and in many british film musicals in the 30s

[Freddi41]

Absolutely beautiful!!!

[mrbigarms]

Thanks again that was utterly charming, Real class!