The Ray Noble Band with Al Bowlly and Nat Gonella in Holland 1933

The Ray Noble Band (formerly led by Lew Stone) with Nat Gonella, Lew Davis, Harry Berly, Tiny Winters, Bill Harty, Lew Stone, Max Goldberg, Freddy Gardner and Al Bowlly at the Kurhaus Hotel in Scheveningen, Holland in the summer of 1933. A wonderfully stiff-upper-lip-British Ray Noble thanks the "Dutch people whom hitherto we have only met on record" and then the band plays "What A Perfect Combination" and "Good Night Sweetheart" with vocal by Al Bowlly.

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[mangeldeth74]

Awesome.

[Karen41872]

This is an AWESOME piece of musical history. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. WONDERFUL!

[Mousepie999]

What an extraordinary find!! Thank you so much for helping to preserve such an important musical document!

[phonomono78s]

AMAZING! What a find. Thanks so much.

[sweeetxfire]

This is so wonderful, I'm crying ;(

thank you for posting!!

[sidehatch69]

this is efen priceless wow

[Ronald070]

What a great clip! Thanks for posting. I live in The Hague, not far from Scheveningen and the Kurhaus Hotel. Earlier today, I bought a picture of Noble, Bowlly and other bandmembers in front of the Kurhaus. I never knew that they performed here.

[peteressex]

I think the Stone members were just with Noble for the Holland trip. Freddy Gardner is in there as well. The very best of British dance musicians of the day.

[LKayL1]

Brill footage of the late great Al Bowlly!

[Bixfan78]

Yes, the audio clip at the end is Oliver Hardy, from the soundtrack of their 1933 feature "Sons of the Desert." Ollie has just explained to wife Mae Busch that they've gotten home in advance of other shipwrecked passengers coming home from Honolulu because they "Ship-hiked," and were picked up by a passing vessel. (Actually, the boys didn't go to Honolulu, they went to the convention in Chicago!) Ollie elaborates, "Do you think that a story like that could come from *my* mind?"