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5th Jan 2019, 2:35 PM
	mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points	This book is available to download for free: British Dance Bands On Record 1911 To 1945 by Brian Rust and Sandy Forbes It was essentially a second print of the first edition from 1987, which has a blue cover. The first edition carried a discography of all British dance bands from 1911 to 1945, and was uploaded a while ago. However, two years later, the second print of the book added a “supplement”, which was an appendix listing corrections and omissions from the original. I’ve scanned that and it too is now available to download. Phonotone Classic Both files are searchable PDFs and will be useful for adding records to this site. A few quibbles: 1. It was too difficult for the authors to integrate the supplement data with the original book, so does everything have to be double checked with the new index? It seems so if you want to be sure of anything. 2. They exclude bands which do not strictly fit their criteria, such as the accordion bands of Primo Scala and Billy Reid. I would think of these as dance bands and they featured the same vocalists. 3. The book ends at 1945 because this is apparently when the dance band era was over. Yet they were still regularly performing and recording for a good few years. I would have ended the book later. Ted Heath and Billy Cotton continued the tradition although in a different way. Nonetheless it’s a great work and really useful. I just wish someone would update it. Edited by mister_tmg on 17th Feb 2019, 12:39 PM