Swingin' London: Silvester's Ballroom Orch. - Make Believe

[Kate0603]

Oh, and look how well dressed the gentlemen are in classic full dress and dinner suits! They looks so handsome, and the ladies looks so lovely in their long gowns. Where can I board a time machine, please?

[bluegibby7]

At sixteen I learned to dance to victor , what a lovely gentle place the world was then ,

[timboswingdancer]

manythanks for posting this stuff.. im a dj bringing the thirties and forties way of dancing back to crowds all over the country, this will be played at our new year tea dance!!!!

[MsOldjazz]

AWESOME THANKS

[dougbill1]

At age 18 before I joined the Royal Marines in 1941 I attended Victor Sylvester' School of dancing and obtained a silver certificate. Wow! Did I wow the lasses at the servicemen's dances durng my service years!!

[Kate0603]

@dougbill1

I envy the lasses who had the pleasure of dancing with you! I only wish that today's 20- and 30-somethings knew how to dance with a lady. They do not even know how to ask properly let alone do anything that resembles dancing.

[Julvico]

When I was a young boy I used to listen the BBC  from Madrid and then I knew this lovely orchestra,

[Okky22]

An interseting point about Victor Sivester. He was the British (I think) ballroom dancing champion. At that time very few dance bands played strict ballroom tempo, so what did Victor do. Formed his own band. His recordings were used in most dance studios for Quickstep and Foxtrot teaching.

[filcharlee]

Great tune - one of my favourites from 'Showboat' by Jerome Kern [ not I Berlin as stated in your intro ]

[genia106]

Barbcarb does not lie! You handsome devil, you are too modest.... You look very suave in your tails.

[genia106]

I cannot believe that your remembered that this is one of my favorites, for that I must say a very SPEICAL THANK YOU, DZIEKUJE, MERCI and since the Beautiful Barbcarb let the Kotek out of the bag now I know what the Handsome Grzegorz looks like and if he didn't have his tux in the laundry, he would have been dancing with me in Zakopane! Darn...Barbcarb has all the fun! :(

[dzheger]

Some jaunty version. I'm bouncing in my chair keeping rhythm with all these dancing couples.

[barbcard]

Snazzy photo of you at 0:55, but I know you look better than that and certainly have much more abundant hair.

[genia106]

A most beautiful song from one of the greatest musicals! Thanks.