JACK HYLTON & HIS ORCHESTRA: Dinah

A slightly naff self-promotional "novelty" number plugging Jack Hylton's band.

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Music

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• Jack
• Hylton
• Dinah
• Pat
• O'Malley

[terencenunn35]

Wake up at the back, there, CarGuyZM10! Read alberthaim's comment above.

[4trotts]

Pat O'Malley does the Bing imitation. He sang with Hylton from 1930 - 1936.

Hylton's Band was very much a show band and did a lot of this sort of thing. Pat O'Malley was a talented voice impersonator. He was very popular on American radio when the band toured in 1934 and was a hit with his rendition of 'The Lion & Albert' in his Lancashire dialect. He left Hylton's band to work for the Dysney studios where his voice was used in many movies. Known to Americans as: J. Pat O'Malley.

[gerrykool]

i like to know,who is the great piano team,anybody knows this?

[red0800]

is there a year for this?

[saxondog2001]

This was a 78 my dad had in his collection .. long gone. I've been looking around for it ever since. Thanks so much! I love this record.

[Cool2BCeltic]

The band's pianist, Billy Munn, who came from Bridgeton in Glasgow, does the Louis Armstrong imitation. One writer called the imitation "atrocious". To me it sounds a bit more like Rufus Roughcut in the Wacky Races. Billy Munn, in his latter years, lived in Torquay and bred alsatians.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Naff? That was par for the course in the 1920s.

[davidglow3]

Pat O'Malley is the vocalist

[CarGuyZM10]

Wow, I can't believe that it is really Whispering Jack Smith. It's too high.

[alberthaim]

My mistake. I thought that the file was created by stringing together pieces from existing recordings of "Dinah." It turns out that this is a single recording by Jack Hylton with the musicans making impersonations of Louis, Bing, Venuti, Lombardo, etc.