Ambrose: When Day Is Done
Ambrose: When Day Is Done
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About
Here is well over two and a half hours of the best of Britain’s finest dance band: Ambrose, on a great double CD set. Warsaw-born Benjamin Baruch Berofski (1896-1971) aka “Bert Ambrose” led what was considered to be the very best British dance band of that golden era, playing dance music with a strong Ellington-inspired jazz flavour. When Day Is Done, the band’s signature tune, is the title of Retrospective’s distillation of the best from Ambrose prolific discography. The sequence carefully balances vocal and instrumental items, many of which benefit from the terrific arrangements of Sid Phillips (no fewer than nine of his are featured, including the wonderful Cotton Pickers’ Congregation). Ambrose employed many of the best musicians around: Danny Polo, Bert Amstell, Ted Heath, Stanley Black, George Chisholm – and it shows!
Contents and tracklist
Disc 1
Happy Days Are Here Again
Sunshine
Singapore Sorrows
If I Had You
Cryin' for the Carolines
'Leven Thirty Saturday Night
The 'Free and Easy'
The Peanut Vendor
I'm Thru With Love
Me!
Home
She Didn't Say 'Yes'
The Sun Has Got His Hat On
The Clouds Will Soon Roll By
Sweet Muchacha
Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep
How Deep Is the Ocean?
Lazybones
It's the Talk of the Town
Who's Been Polishing the Sun?
The Continental
Embassy Stomp
I'm On a See-saw
Hors D'oeuvres
Big Ben Is Saying 'Goodnight'
Disc 2
Streamline Strut
Maracas
B'Wanga
Anything Goes
I'll Never Say "never Again" Again
Copenhagen
She's a Latin from Manhattan
Limehouse Blues
The Piccolino
Night Ride
Wood and Ivory
Hick Stomp
Escapada
Champagne Cocktail
Cotton Pickers' Congregation
Caravan
Deep Henderson
Moonlight On the Waterfall
Message from Mars
Two Sleepy People
Blue Skies Are Round the Corner
My Prayer
I'm in Love for the Last Time
I Don't Want to Walk Without You, Baby
Lili Marlene
When Day Is Done
