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| Programme Name | Swinging In The Bathtub (A Morning Tonic) |
| Sponsor | Reckitt's Bath Cubes, Reckitt's of Hull |
| Artists | Roy Fox and his Orchestra, vocals by Sid Buckman, Mary Lee & Denny Dennis |
| Announcer | Roy Fox |
| Date of broadcasts | Radio Luxembourg:
Fridays,
April 8th 1938 until September 30th 1938 Radio Normandy: Thursdays: April 7th 1938 until September 29th 1938 Each shows was 15 minutes long. The series ran for 26 shows |
| Notes: | The records were 12" single-sided shellac discs, usually with two tunes on the one side, playing for about 4 minutes overall. Some had just one longer tune. |
| Current Status | Many of these records were issued on Halcyon & Saville LPs in the 1970s & 80s. They were transferred from illegally made 12" acetates made in the 1950s. Unfortunately, the LP transfers omitted all the announcements and mixed up the items. The acetates have most of the announcements, but, unfortunately, are also rather randomly mixed up and do not have the matrix information. The whereabouts of the original shellac discs is unknown (apart from 3 I have myself and 2 owned by Charles Hippisley-Cox, one of which is broken!). The acetates are in safe hands, though they are very fragile due to their age. |
The original discs did not have catalogue
numbers.
The original Broadcast Date is that for Radio Normandy - my thanks to Raymond
Welch-Bartram for providing the dates and Programme numbers for two of the
broadcasts, from which I've been able to project some of the adjacent Programmemes.
ROY FOX AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Roy Fox dir: Sid Buckman-t-v / Les Lambert-t / Jock Bain - Freddie Welsh-tb / Art Christmas-cl-as / Hugh Tripp-as-bar / Tommy Davies -as / Andy McDevitt-cl-ts / Harry Balen-vn / Jack Nathan-p-a / Harry Thorne-g / George Gibbs-sb / Maurice Burman-d / Denny Dennis-Mary Lee-v. London, May-June 1938
| Matrix No. | Title and Vocalist | L.P. Re-issue | Programme No. | Orig B'cast |
| CTPX-5974 | Singing In The Bath Tub (theme) (2 versions) | Halcyon HAL-1 | ||
| CTPX-5975 | Programme 1 | 7-Apr-1938 | ||
| CTPX-5976 | Programme 1 | 7-Apr-1938 | ||
| CTPX-5977 |
Rosalie - vDD Everybody Loves My Baby |
Halcyon HAL-9 Halcyon HAL-1 |
Programme 1 (disc 3) |
7-Apr-1938 |
| CTPX-5978 | Programme 2 | 14-Apr-1938 | ||
| CTPX-5979 | Black Eyes The Daughter Of The Old Grey Mare - vSB |
Halcyon
HAL-1 |
Programme 2 | 14-Apr-1938 |
| CTPX-5980 | Programme 2 | 14-Apr-1938 |
| CTPX-6101 | Some Of These Days Trustin' My Luck - vDD |
Programme 4 | 29-Apr-1938 | |
| CTPX-6102 | Programme 4 | 29-Apr-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6103 | Programme 4 | 29-Apr-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6104 | Programme 5 | 5-May-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6105 | Programme 5 | 5-May-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6106 | I Double
Dare You - vSB Margie |
Halcyon HAL-9 Halcyon HAL-7 |
Programme 5 | 5-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6107 | Programme 6 | 12-May-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6108 | Someday
Sweetheart Whistle While You Work - vML-DD |
Halcyon HAL-1 |
Programme 6 | 12-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6109 |
The Joojah Tree - vSB China Boy |
Halcyon HAL-1 |
Programme 6 | 12-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6110 | Happy Feet You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart - vDD |
Halcyon HAL-1 Halcyon HAL-9 |
Programme 7 | 19-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6111 |
Mean To Me Bob White - vML |
Halcyon HAL-1 Saville SVL-168 |
Programme 7 | 19-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6112 | Me, Myself
And I - vSB Nobody's Sweetheart |
Halcyon HAL-9 Halcyon HAL-7 |
Programme 7 | 19-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6351 | California,
Here I Come You're An Education - vML |
Programme 8 | 26-May-1938 | |
| CTPX-6352 | Louise | Halcyon HAL-7 | Programme 8 | 26-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6353 |
Sweet Someone - vDD Chicago |
Halcyon HAL-9 Halcyon HAL-1 |
Programme 8 | 26-May-1938 |
| CTPX-6354 | Programme 9 | 2-Jun-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6355 | Programme 9 | 2-Jun-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6356 | Coffee In
The Morning - vSB What Can I Say After "Sorry"? |
Programme 9 | 2-Jun-1938 | |
| CTPX-6357 | Programme 10 | 9-Jun-1938 | ||
| CTPX-6358 |
You're A Sweetheart - vDD Miss Annabelle Lee |
Programme 10 | 9-Jun-1938 | |
| CTPX-6359 |
I Love To Whistle - vML Do Something |
Programme 10 | 9-Jun-1938 | |
| CTPX-6360 |
You Appeal To Me - vDD Dizzy Daisy (piano solo by Jack Nathan) |
Halcyon HAL-9 Halcyon HAL-7 |
Programme 11 | 16-Jun-1938 |
| CTPX-6361 | Every Day's
A Holiday - vML Yes, There Ain't No Moonlight - vSB |
Programme 11 | 16-Jun-1938 | |
| CTPX-6362 | I Like To Do Things For You | Programme 11 | 16-Jun-1938 |
| CTPX-6551 | Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet - vch | |||
| CTPX-6552 | My Heaven On Earth - vDD | |||
| CTPX-6553 | ||||
| CTPX-6554 |
Sunday In The Park - vDD Basin Street Blues |
Halcyon HAL-7 Halcyon HAL-7 |
(disc 1) | |
| CTPX-6555 | ||||
| CTPX-6556 | ||||
| CTPX-6557 | ||||
| CTPX-6558 | The Big Dipper | Halcyon HAL-7 | ||
| CTPX-6559 | ||||
| CTPX-6560 | ||||
| CTPX-6561 | ||||
| CTPX-6562 |
| CTPX-6867 | ||||
| CTPX-6868 | Two Shadows - vDD Congo (rumba) |
Saville SVL-168 Halcyon HAL-1 |
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| CTPX-6869 | ||||
| CTPX-6870 | ||||
| CTPX-6871 | Let's Do It - Let's Fall In Love | Halcyon HAL-1 | ||
| CTPX-6872 | I Got
Rhythm Love Walked In - vDD |
Halcyon HAL-1 Halcyon HAL-9 |
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| CTPX-6873 | ||||
| CTPX-6874 | Taking It Easy Love Is Here To Stay - vDD |
Halcyon HAL-7 Halcyon HAL-7 |
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| CTPX-6875 | ||||
| CTPX-6876 | ||||
| CTPX-6877 | Lost And
Found - vDD Rumba Mistral - vRO (?) |
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| CTPX-6878 | ||||
| CTPX-6879 | ||||
| CTPX-6880 | ||||
| CTPX-6881 | Bye, Bye Blackbird | Halcyon HAL-7 |
| CTPX-7275 | ||||
| CTPX-7276 | Ain't She Sweet? | Halcyon HAL-1 | ||
| CTPX-7277 | ||||
| CTPX-7278 | ||||
| CTPX-7279 | ||||
| CTPX-7280 | ||||
| CTPX-7281 | Singing In The Rain | Halcyon HAL-7 | (disc 1) | |
| CTPX-7282 |
The Meanest Thing You Ever Did - vDD San (featuring Andy McDevitt - clarinet) |
Halcyon HAL-7 Halcyon HAL-7 |
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| CTPX-7283 | ||||
| CTPX-7284 | Caravan What A Fool I've Been - vDD |
Halcyon HAL-7 Halcyon HAL-7 |
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| CTPX-7285 | ||||
| CTPX-7286 |
You Went To My Head - vML Limehouse Blues |
Halcyon HAL-9 |
(disc 3) |
The matrix numbers on the other items have not been identified, neither has the full extent of the recordings yet been discovered. Those known are listed below in alphabetical order; some undoubtedly fit into the gaps in the sessions listed above.
| Avalon | ||
| Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen | ||
| The Birth Of The Blues | Halcyon HAL-1 | |
| Carissima | ||
| College Swing - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| The Dipsy Doodle - vML | Saville SVL-168 | |
| Do You Mind If I Dream Of You? - vML | Halcyon HAL-7 | (Disc 1 - follows "Song of India") |
| The Gypsy In My Soul - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Hallelujah! | ||
| Heavenly Party - vDD | Saville SVL-168 | (Disc 1 - follows "Tiger Rag") |
| How'd Ja Like To Love Me? - vML | ||
| If I Can't Sing, I Gotta Dance - vML | ||
| Impressions Of Harlem | Halcyon HAL-1 | |
| In My Little Red Book - vDD | ||
| It's The Natural Thing To Do - vDD | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| It's The Rhythm In Me - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Just A Simple Melody - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Lady Be Good | Halcyon HAL-1 | |
| Let's All Dance - vSB | Halcyon HAL-7 | |
| Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Mayfair Merry-Go-Round - vDD | ||
| Mean To Me - vML | ||
| Merrily We Roll Along - vSB & chorus | ||
| Mr Sweeny Learns To Swing | Halcyon HAL-1 | |
| Moonlight Madness | ||
| Nice Work If You Can Get It - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| The Old Spinning Wheel | Halcyon HAL-7 | |
| On A Rainy Day - vSB | Halcyon HAL-7 | |
| On The Sunny Side Of The Street | Halcyon HAL-1 | |
| Oooooh! Boom! - vML | ||
| Rockin' The Town - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Showboat Shuffle | Halcyon HAL-7 | |
| The Snake Charmer - vML | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Someday, Sweetheart - vDD | ||
| Song Of India | Halcyon HAL-1 | (Disc 1 = see "Do you mind If I dream of You") |
| Speak Easy | ||
| Spooky Takes A Holiday | ||
| That's A Plenty | Halcyon HAL-1 | (Disc 1) |
| Tiger Rag | Halcyon HAL-1 | (Disc 1 - see "Heavenly Party") |
| Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | Halcyon HAL-1 | |
| Who? - vSB & chorus | Halcyon HAL-9 | |
| Why'd You Make Me Fall In Love? - vML | ||
| You Couldn't Be Cuter - vML | ||
| You'll Be Reminded Of Me - vDD | ||
| You're The Cream In My Coffee | Halcyon HAL-1 | (Disc 1) |