1930s Dance Band - The Savoy Hotel Orpheans

Circa 1931/2. Howard Jacob, briefly co-led the band with Carroll Gibbons who ran it for the next 20 years until his death in the 1950s

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1930s
• dance
• band
• Carroll
• Gibbons
• music

[jaguarjaguarjaguarja]

What's the name of this lovely song?

[deejay830]

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

[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

[mrshakehandsmann]

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

[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

[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! :)