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Clare has the best in big band, swing and the band vocalists. There's a chance you picked the music in The Swing's The Thing and there's more from the great British dance bands.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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Sun 7 May 201721:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Rosemary Clooney

    Cabin In The Sky

  • Buddy Greco

    What The World Needs Now

    • Away We Go.

  • Shirley Horn

    Let Me Love You

    • Loads Of Love/Shirley Horn With Horns.

  • Callum Au Big Band

    September In The Rain

    • Something's Coming.
    • Callum Au Big Band.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Desafinado

    • The Best Of Ella.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Here's To The Losers

    • Softly As I Leave You.

  • Cleo Laine

    I Can Dream Can't I

    • The Essential Early Recordings Of Cleo Laine.

  • Harry James

    Strictly Instrumental

    • The Best Of The Big Band Harry James.

  • Ian Shaw

    Everything

    • The Theory Of Joy.
    • Jazz Village.

  • Ambrose Orchestra

    Champagne Cocktail

    • Night Ride.

  • Hot Sugar Band

    Blue Drag

    • Swing For Dancers.
    • Hot Sugar Band.

  • Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

    Bijou

    • The Hottest New Group In Jazz.

  • Gene Krupa

    Bird House

    • The Second Big Band Sound Of Gene Krupa.

  • Shirley Scott

    For Dancers Only

    • Roll Em.

  • Barry Manilow & Rosemary Clooney

    Green Eyes

    • Singing With The Big Bands.
    • BMG.

  • Bunny Berigan

    I Can't Get Stated

    • Down By The Old Stream.

  • Xavier Cugat

    Perfidia

    • The Highlights.

  • Tony Bennett

    I Cover The Waterfront

    • Hometown, My Hometown.

  • Simon Gardner

    Give It One

    • Give It One.
    • Simon Gardner Music.
    • 001.

  • Neal Hefti

    Batman Theme

    • The BAtman Theme And 19 Hefti Bat Songs.

  • Bette Midler & Linda Ronstadt

    Sisters

    • Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook.
    • Columbia.

  • Frances Faye

    Besame Mucho

    • Frances Faye In Frenzy.

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center & Wynton Marsalis

    Harlem Airshaft

    • Live In Swing City/Swinging With The Duke.
    • Sony Music.

  • Maynard Ferguson

    Love Me Or Leave Me

    • Jazz Verve Masters.

  • Chris Dean's Syd Lawrence Orchestra

    Top Hat, White Tie and Tails

    • Re Generation.
    • SLO.

  • Marty Paich Orchestra

    It Don't Mean A Thing

    • I Get A Boot Out Of You.

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 May 201721:00
    BBC Radio 2