DEBROY SOMMERS' BAND :
12" SHOW MEDLIES, PART ONE

All from British Columbia 12" 78s, except as noted.
Dan Donovan, vocalist on many tracks (vDD)
Unidentified vocalists are listed as v?M (male) and v?F (female)

Lucky Break
Music: Harry Archer. Lyrics: Douglas Furber and Harlen Thompson
DX 644 (CAX -7315/7314) 10/13/34

1. Intro: Overture
Am I Delighted?
Kick in the Pants voc. Harry Bentley; laughing trumpets
You Can't Take It
2. I'd Like to Know voc. HB; piano feature
Lucky Break
Tum Tum Tum

 

Seeing Stars
Music: Martin Broome. Lyrics: Graham John Singleton
DX 715 (CAX-7654-1/55) 11/1/35

3. Overture
Easy on the Eyes
Don't Stand in the Doorway voc. Gerry Fitzgerald
Ballet Music
That Never-to-Be-Forgotten Melody v?F
4. Public Sweetheart No. 1 v?F
You Grow on Me voc. Gerry Fitzgerald
In Love Again v?F
Rocking With You in My Arms

 

Running Riot Music and Lyrics: Vivian Ellis
DX 675 (CAX-8279/80-1) 9/10/38

5. Doing an Irish Jig
When Love Knocks At My Door
Pom Pom Toolerooleray
Take Your Partner for the Waltz
6. Physical Fitness
Wind on the Heath voc. Gavin Gordon
Gypsy Dance
Dancing With the Canterbury Bells
China
When Love Knocks at My Door

 

Swing Along Music: Martin Broumes, Lyrics: Graham John
Col. DX-750 (CAX-7857-1/58-1) 9/12/36

7. Trafalgar Square
Unbelievable v?M
Another Dream Gone Wrong
Ballet Music
8. Ballet Music
A Love Song v?M
Like a Tin Can Tied to a Puppy Dog's Tail
Swing Along

Give Me A King (Broumes and John)
DX-473 (6879-1) 6/14/33

9. A Couple of Fools in Love
I Only Want One Girl vDD & Carlyle Cousins
He Isn't Going to Get Away From Me
I'm Not Worrying About Anything
10. Living in the Clouds voc. Cecile Petrie & Carlyle Cousins
Wonderful Eyes
Exclusively Yours
I Don't Know How I Can Do Without You voc. Petrie & CC
Getting Warmer

 

Going Greek (Alan Jay Lerner?, Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman)
[ID's As A J Lerner in Rust, but probably not.]
DX-740 (8058-1/8054-1) Unidentified vocalist. 9/16/37

11. There'll Be the Devil to Pay
But Me No Buts v?M; trumpets
A Little Cooperation From You
12. Is There Anything More Wonderful Than You
The Sheep Were in the Meadow
For the Honor of the School v?M
Love Came and Swept Me Off My Feet
Hand it to the Bandit

 

He Wanted Adventure (Music: Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge; add'l lyrics by Clifford Grey)
DX-453 (6718-1/6719-1) 2/23/33

13. Pirates' Chorus voc. Chorus
My Heart's To Let vDD
This is the Hour
You Came to Me
14. The Monarch of the Seas voc. Chorus
When You've Fallen in Love v?F
Ballet Music
Smile and Be Bright

Mother of Pearl (Music: Oscar Straus; L?: A.P. Herbert)
DX-438 6629-1/6 12/16/32

15. Every Woman Thinks She Wants To Wander
These Must Be Something
When Anybody Plays Or Sings v?M
16. Take Your Wife to Paris
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Every Woman Thinks She Wants to Wander v?M
It's a Shame
I Know What I Want

Two full-side tunes from The Good Companions Col. CB-309 (10")

17. Slipping 'Round the Corner (Frank Eaton - Richard Addinsell) vDD
(CA-11744-1)
18. Going Home (Harry Graham - Richard Addinsell) vDD
(CA-11745-1)

 

DEBROY SOMMERS' BAND :
12" SHOW MEDLIES, PART TWO

 

The Desert Song (Music: Sigmund Romberg. Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandrell)
Col 9200 (WAX-2552-3/255) 4/6/27

1. The Riff Song
One Alone
French Marching Song (Foreign Legion)
2. Azuri's Dance of Triumph
The Song of the Brass Key
The Desert Song
It

 

That's a Good Girl (Music: Phillip Chaney and Joseph Meyer. Lyrics: Doug Furber, Ira Gershwin and Desmond Carter)
Col 9461 (33730-1/31) 6/6/28

3. Fancy Our Meeting
Sweet So and So
4. Tell Me Why
The One That I'm Looking For
Chirp Chirp
Fancy Our Meeting

Good News (DeSylva, Brown and Henderson)
Col 9482 (WAX 93996-1/394) 8/17/28

5. Good News
He's a Ladies' Man
A Girl of the Beta Phi
Just Imagine
6. The Best Things in Life Are Free
Lucky in Love
The Varsity Drag
Good News

 

Funny Face (George and Ira Gershwin)
Col 9576 (4333-1/45) 11/21/28

7. He Loves and She Loves
Let's Kiss and Make Up
'S Wonderful
8. My One and Only
Funny Face
The Babbitt and the Bromide
He Loves and She Loves

Mr. Cinders (M: Vivian Ellis and Richard Myers; additional lyrics by Leo Robin)
Col 9690 (WAX 4690-2/4691 ) 2/11/29

9. Spread A Little Happiness
By Myself With You
I'm a One Man Girl
Jill
10. Ev'ry Little Moment
I've Got You, You've Got Me
True to Two
On With the Dance
Skipping, Singing Fool

Here Comes the Bride (M: Arthur Schwartz. L: Desmond Carter and Howard Dietz)
DX-14 (WAX 5301-2/530) 12/19/29

11. High and Low vIdwal Lewis
Hot
You (Sweet Music)
Why Not Have a Little Party?
12. I'm Like a Sailor vIdwal Lewis
I Love You and I Like You
The Rose in Your Hair
I'll Always Remember
High and Low

 

Words and Music (Noel Coward)
DX-393 (CAX-6517-1/6518-1) 9/20/32

13. Maggie
Something to Do With Spring vDD
Children of the Ritz
The Younger Generation vDD
14. Mad About the Boy
Let's Say Goodbye vDD
The Party's Over Now
Let's Live Dangerously

 

The Big Broadcast (Sam Coslow and Arthur Johston)
DX-445 (CAX 6672-1/6673-1)
Regal Cinema, Edmonton, London 1/19/33

15. It Was So Beautiful
Tiger Rag
Blue of the Night (w)
Dinah vCarlyle Cousins
Please vDD
16. Here Lies Love vDD
Trees
Kickin' the Gong Around
Marta
Crazy People voc. Carlyle Cousins

 

Aunt Sally (Harry Woods)
DX 557 6981-1/6982-1 11/3/33

17. We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow
You Ought to See Sally on Sunday vDD
I Want a Fair and Square Man
18. Ain't She the Dainty
My Wild Oat vDD
The Wind's in the West vDD
If I Had Napoleon's Hat
You Ought to See Sally on Sunday

 

Jack Ahoy (Harry Woods)
Col CB 685 (10") (A-14131-1) 10/24/33
19. My Hat's on the Side of My Head