Ambrose & His Orchestra - When Day Is Done
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Track List: When Day Is Done
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Disc 1:
- Happy Days Are Here Again - Ambrose
- Singapore Sorrows - Ambrose
- If I Had You - Ambrose
- The Continental - Ambrose
- Cryin' For The Carolines - Ambrose
- 'Leven Thirty Saturday Night - Ambrose
- Embassy Stomp - Ambrose
- The 'Free And Easy' - Ambrose
- The Peanut Vendor - Ambrose
- Hor D'oeuvres - Ambrose
- I'm Thru With Love - Ambrose
- Me! - Ambrose
- Maracas - Ambrose
- The Sun Has Got His Hat On - Ambrose
- The Clouds Will Soon Roll By - Ambrose
- Streamline Strut - Ambrose
- Sweet Muchacha - Ambrose
- Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep - Ambrose
- B'wanga - Ambrose
- How Deep Is The Ocean? - Ambrose
- Copenhagen - Ambrose
- Lazybones - Ambrose
- I'll Never Say 'Never Again' Again - Ambrose
- Limehouse Blues - Ambrose
- Big Ben Is Saying 'Goodnight' - Ambrose
Disc 2:
- Who's Been Polishing The Sun? - Ambrose
- Home (When Shadows Fall) - Ambrose
- The Piccolino - Ambrose
- It's The Talk Of The Town - Ambrose
- I'm On A See-Saw - Ambrose
- Night Ride - Ambrose
- Anything Goes - Ambrose
- Wood And Ivory - Ambrose
- She's A Latin From Manhattan - Ambrose
- Hick Stomp - Ambrose
- Moonlight On The Waterfall - Ambrose
- Escapada - Ambrose
- Two Sleepy People - Ambrose
- Champagne Cocktail - Ambrose
- Blue Skies Are Round The Corner - Ambrose
- Cotton Pickers' Congregation - Ambrose
- My Prayer - Ambrose
- Caravan - Ambrose
- I'm In Love For The Last Time - Ambrose
- Deep Henderson - Ambrose
- I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Baby - Ambrose
- Message From Mars - Ambrose
- Lili Marlene - Ambrose
- When Day Is Done - Ambrose
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Album Details: When Day Is Done
- Release Date:
- 05/25/2004
- Label:
- Asv Living Era
- UPC:
- 743625026924
Pro Reviews: When Day Is Done
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Bert Ambrose led an excellent British big band during the heyday of hot jazz and swing. Closely modeled on popular North American dance bands (Jean Goldkette, Ben Pollack, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet), Ambrose's ensemble also strove to emulate the best in authentic AfroAmerican jazz, sounding at times like the orchestras of Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford or Claude Hopkins. Affiliated with various hotels, the Ambrose orchestra naturally specialized in suave, sophisticated arrangements, sometimes employing a sweettohot violin trio. Sam Browne was usually the featured vocalist, with periodic guest appearances by Ella Logan, Eddie Grossbart, Lou Abelardo, Ella Carlisle, Connee Boswell, Jack Cooper, Denny Dennis, Vera Lynn, Anne Shelton and a trio billed as the Rhythm Sisters. Most of the sides cut for HMV between 1928 and 1932 had singers attached. There was a brief dalliance with Brunswick and then from 1934 onward, Ambrose worked almost exclusively for Decca. This Living Era double disc is quite possibly the best overall Ambrose compilation currently available. That's because while the selections are laid out in only roughly chronological order, instrumentals have been systematically interspersed throughout the program so that the listener is never exposed to more than two consecutive vocal selections. Careful perusal of the wonderfully detailed discography reveals that nineteen out of fortynine tracks are instrumentals. All but one of these originally appeared on Decca, which explains why certain other Ambrose compilations, dwelling exclusively upon HMV releases, contain hardly any instrumentals whatsoever. A survey of the instrumentals included in this package is most rewarding. Most of those recorded between 1935 and 1937 feature tunes written by the band's imaginative clarinetist and baritone saxophonist Sid Phillips. Pianist Bert Barnes composed the snappy "Embassy Stomp", which was recorded in January of 1935. Ambrose's choice of vocal material ranged from the sentimental to novelties and romantic love songs to the positively naïve, as epitomized by "The Sun Has Got His Hat On (Hip, Hip Hooray)". Perhaps the strangest footnote to all of this is the fate of "Blue Skies Are Round The Corner", a song that ended up being parodied by Charlie and his Orchestra for the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. Retitled "Grey Skies Are Round The Corner" with the lyrics altered to include the phrase "everything's gonna go wrong", that recording was aired over shortwave radio with the express intention of lowering morale among the British and Allied armed forces during the Second World War. It's worth noting that whoever wrote the arrangements for all those Nazified big band records carefully imitated the distinctive sound of Ambrose and his Orchestra as broadcast by the BBC. - arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide |
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Destined to become the leader of what was perhaps the most highly acclaimed of all English dance bands during the 1930s, Bert Ambrose was born in London but crossed the Atlantic as a lad with his auntie to settle for a few years on U.S. soil. His ver...Full Ambrose & His Orchestra Biography
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