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So I know this isn't a period recording but it's an older one, of a piece very popular in the 1900s. I figured anyone who loves 1900s-1910s musical comedy scores might have already heard this. This is where "Yip! i adee aye aye!" came from and "Moonstruck" and a number of other old songs...lots of them weren't included here but it's still a neat recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CN6QCf0GpM

Thanks for posting this. I am a fan of British "light" music that was so popular from the late 40's though until the early 60's - although in my view the best was recorded in the early to late 1950's. It is an area of music often overlooked but there are some hidden gems to be found.

I have a long run of dealer stock 78s from the 1950s of light music which I picked up for virtually nothing as no one else wanted it!

phonosandradios wrote:Thanks for posting this. I am a fan of British "light" music that was so popular from the late 40's though until the early 60's - although in my view the best was recorded in the early to late 1950's. It is an area of music often overlooked but there are some hidden gems to be found.

I have a long run of dealer stock 78s from the 1950s of light music which I picked up for virtually nothing as no one else wanted it!

That is so neat you were able to get dealer-stock records like that; this is such a neat genre. I love the old Victor Light Opera Company records. No, I don't care for modern-day musicals; Annie, Get your Gun and Oklahoma! aren't particularly interesting to me. But the old-time stuff like this I very much enjoy. It seems to impart a sense of well-being and security and joy that a lot of music just doesn't.

Who are some of your favorites in the light-music genre? I'm looking to listen to more Victorian and Edwardian stuff as well as the 1940s-1960s era you're talking about. Where can I find records of this, on CD or (if I can offload some of my present collection) on 78s/cylinders?

Oh, and here is the rest of Our Miss Gibbs, or at least cut down to a half hour for radio drama instead of however long the original musical comedy was. This is a really delightful little radio presentation if you are into that sort of thing. These kind of finds are why I want to put a modern input-jack on the Atwater-Kent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERlUCRsXnVQ

I found a few pieces on you tube which I have linked below. I think I like this type of music as it always has such an optimistic feel to it as well as its ability to paint an audio picture:
From the 1950's: Young ballerina (which was used in the early days of TV here as music to an interlude film) and also Coronation Scot.

(Double-click the video above or click this link to watch the video on YouTube in high quality.)

(Double-click the video above or click this link to watch the video on YouTube in high quality.)

and later stuff from the 60's

https://youtu.be/eDH0aI2Xjcs

https://app.box.com/shared/ojbstd062t


There are CDs of this music - quite a bit of it was used for the broadcast industry here in the UK and not available commercially until relatively recently - although a great deal was also issued on 78s

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Light- ... B00HAZCNI0