1930 Vintage - Ambrose and his Orchestra
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2013
- 1930 Vintage -- Ambrose and his Orchestra from The May Fair Hotel, London play:
• The "Free And Easy" -- Vocal chorus by Sam Browne
• A Bench In The Park -- Vocal chorus by Sam Browne
• With My Guitar And You -- Vocal chorus by Sam Browne
• Beware Of Love -- Vocal chorus by Sam Browne
• Lazy lou'siana Moon -- Vocal chorus by Sam Browne
• Shoo The Hoodoo Away - Vocal chorus by Sam Browne & Ella Logan
A selection of Ambrose's recordings from 1930 featuring the stylish and sophisticated dance orchestra he was leading at London's May Fair Hotel. Many of the arrangements were by Lew Stone, and others by pianist Bert Read and others.
Originally recorded for HMV in 1930, these 78rpm recordings, are long out of copyright. This sides have been remastered from original 78rpm discs by this user and are unique transfers. These cannot be copied or sold without the permission of the channel owner. 
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Superb sound quality from 1930, and with "portable" recording equipment transported to the May Fair Hotel. I wonder how bulky these recording apparatus must have been in the beginning of the 30s. How many men were there to carry it all...
Good music, very wonderfull. So listen very good.
Yes thank you for the lovely music. ❤
😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ all😊British Dance Music 😊of the 1920 S and 1930 s was so Cool IAM Adicted to 😊😊😊all Day long but we must not forget that some of the dance Band members and leaders came from America but with a softer sound AND I MUST Not Forget Al Bowle
Hi my name is Mohammad uk London I think Ambrose music is Fantastic. I only listen tO music from the 1920s and the 1930s There has been any music that can compare with it For Style and the recordING SO Great as if just been Recorded
LOVE Ambrose and his Orchestra
Fantastic
"With my guitar...." is awesome!
🌇 VERY. BEAUTIFUL. MELODY. .💗 🧸 💗 AND. THANK. - YOU. ❣,❣,❣ , SO. VERY MUCH. 👏 🥰. FOR. THESE. VERY. WONDERFUL. SONGS. 🎵, 💗,🎶, 💗,🎵 ,💗,🎶,💗, 🎵, 💗, 🎶 ,💗,🎵,💗,🎶,💗,🎵,,💗
VERY HIGH- GRADE MUSICIANSHIP !! OF THIS ORCHESTRA THAT SHOWS THE GREAT
UNFORGETTABLE TUNES OF THAT YEARS.
THANKS VERY MUCH Panachord FOR SHARING
very good ~~~~!!
Nice recordings and transfers. Thanks.
Hope everyone is still alive, love the song. Great work. Nothing heard for 7 years, keep it up. Best Regards
The Rolls-Royce of British dance bands, well up to standard here! The first British dance band 78 I bought at age 17 was a 1930 Ambrose HMV, "When A Woman Loves A Man" b/w "Moanin' For You", a damaged copy that I still felt lucky to have. His 1927-1932 records are hard to top for their sophistication and quality. "With My Guitar And You" remains a particular favorite. Great selection and fantastic sound quality.
"Moanin' For You" is another classic recording. I first heard that and "Free And Easy" on a double album LP reissue. The Ambrose Orchestra of this period was just a perfect combination with arrangements far in advance of any other contemporary and the best musicians around.
Somewhere, in the lists of music on You Tube, I saw the title Moanin' for You. It's here somewhere. You might like to find it.
Totally agree with you man - the "creme de la creme" of British Dance Bands!!❤️❤️❤️....I also much prefer their EARLY recordings - precisely from that period (1929) - 1932👍👍👍
This is just so gorgeous. I play this music every week. Just enjoy Tehwoody
Actually our national radio does play this music often on Saturday evenings.
Thanks again for this wonderful treat.
Delightful melodies
Thanks again.
My mum said that Ambrose had all the best musicians
Evergreen music!
Powerfully evocative of those days.
Good bands great music what more do you wont !!!!
0:20 - The "Free and Easy"
3:15 - A Bench In The Park
6:15 - With My Guitar And You
9:30 - Beware Of Love
12:32 - Lazy Lou'siana Moon
15:51 - Shoo The Hoodoo Away
Great entertainment for me today - superb music - sun dappled outlook - thanks for an afternoon with Sam Browne.
Fantastic music!
I LIVED THOSE DAYS AND SO MISS THEM THANK YOU FOR SHARING THEM HERE , PLEASE KEEP IT UP :):):)
Superlative
Thank you so much for all the wonderful music you put on here. My old mother (with dementia) is transported back to her youth and sings along and moves her feet when she relives her dancing days. It's amazing how she remembers the words to so many songs. The music brings back all sorts of memories for her and we have a lovely time as she regales me with her stories. God bless you. Your time and trouble means more than you know.
+Sue Holden I don't think anyone has left a comment as special to me as this. I am so pleased that these recordings can be of such benefit. My mother suffered from senile dementia in her final years, and it was tough, as you know, dealing with the loss, mentally, of a parent.
+Panachord Yes it's tough as the Mum We knew slowly fades. But we can share the music together. We had dementia training at work (a GP Practice) In a short film a lady in her 50's with early onset dementia told us that when she listens to music from her youth.....well, I'll quote her as I'll never forget it. She said "I'm not remembering or trying to conjure up memories, I'm not re-living or imagining. I'm really there again in the dance hall. It's happening again and I can see it and smell it and touch things and I'm in it all over again." Isn't that wonderful! And that's where Mum must be as she sways from side to side with her eyes closed and a smile on her face.
I just read your comment. That's wonderful and it shows that underneath dementia, there's another side to the brain which is just as ever. In fact, they should study it. With music/songs that you hear in your youth, you can forget them with time. Then something stirs, you hear it again and you remember it just as you did. It's imprinted itself into her dna.
It says Peter but I'm not a Peter, I'm a Jan. psst...... It's true, it's not consciously remembering either, it's actually reliving. And, I've had dementia experience a lot in my family, from first hand.
Good for her! She may not be with you now, but I hope it gave her as much pleasure as it does us. More, perhaps, if she knew it before.
You have made fantastic good restorations and transcriptions of these records!
This is inspired music making! very satisfying collection.
AMBROSE IS JUST TOO AWESOME! Do You have "Monin` For You"? GREAT RECORD! Sam Brown vocals with the most sultry vocal he has ever done!
Sadly I don't have the 78 of "Moanin' For You"! It's a great performance too.
Boy is it EVER! Same Browne`s vocal on this record is too die for! He almost becomes a Blues Singer!
I love the Ambrose recordings
This just perfect music for a Saturday Night accompanied by a glass of something red and some nice company!
+John B Innes Long gone are the times when you could have tuned into the BBC at 10.30pm on a Saturday night and listened to almost 90 minutes of music of this incredible standard. Thank goodness we have these recordings...
Fantastic Ambrose! Thank you for this.
I really appreciate all the work you do to get these perfectly sounding videos together! With just one click, you are entertained for the length of a little album! Thanks!
And your comment is very much appreciated too. Thanks!
@@Panachord He's absolutely right and I thank you as well. Life changed when I discovered this.
I've listened to this clip several times just this week and I keep being amazed. A) the sound quality is superb, better than anything from the period, B) Ammy's band must have been the hardest swinging dance band of the world in this period. If not the best, it surely was the tightest sounding one.
Enchanting, uplifting set -- gems all, with "The Free and Easy," "A Bench in the Park," and "Beware of Love" being standouts for me.
It has taken me a long time to get a copy of "A Bench In The Park", and it even surpasses the Whiteman version in my opinion.
Thank you so much for this beautiful music!
Beautiful :-) with "My Guitar and You" from Ambrose and His musicians You make me truly happy :-) fa'afetai lava, I thank You very much !
Mark
My pleasure!
¡¡¡Hermoso!!!
¡¡¡Beautiful!!!
👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
It's the first time I heard that and I like it. I was looking for old tunes to play to Warthunder.
MUY linda MUSICA, is very beautiful
Thanks Panachord. Always have good posts. These British dance bands of the 30s were, in my view, untouchable. My personal favourite is/was Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans - sweetest sound of all. Superb all of them though.
Superb music compilation.
I should nearly say, as always by Panachord...
I have to echo what others have said here. The sound quality is sublime (I think most titles were recorded at Small Queens Hall), and both the playing and the arrangements are touched with genius.. "With my Guitar" just edges it, with the tubular bells played by Lew himself.
Hi Panachord. I fully agree, such lovely melodies. It is a lovely balmy autumn Saturday night here in Wellington and your channel just fits the bill perfectly. keep the music coming.
Thanks again
"The Free And Easy" Great recording! I'll have to keep an eye out for this one.
If you watched this in HD and had a chance to read the Melody Maker review on the video, you can see it was highly rated on its release too.
Where can I found the lyrics of these relaxing romantic, rhythmic sounds. Their sounds, after so many years, its excellent. Saludos desde Texas.
Meraviglioso!
Interesting, Free & Easy has a good swing to it. Just a little ahead of it's time.
A wonderful selection of Ambrose records! Thanks for posting.
The Ambrose band of the early '30s was easily the most swinging dance orchestra in the world. I bought each and every HMV disc I could find. Those - mostly Lew Stone - arrangements are superb, leaving loads of room for jazz obbligatos. I do like the Henderson and Carter arrangements, but these are the perfect combination of both suave and incredibly hot music. Not even Ray Noble could come close.
It was possible because the British music industry was healthier than that in America. With the depression over here they could take no chances, especially on records. It's amazing so many good ones got made anyway, but certainly the Ambrose brand of intensity was off limits in America.
Thanks for pointing that out Panachord. Makes me feel that I might actually know what I'm talking about.lol
delicioso de se ouvir, obrigado Panachord
Meu prazer enorme!
I admire the English. And I am scared of them. Never been to London. Probably never will. But you come to California! I'll show you around!
David Glowacki This is is so superb.I actually prefer the earlier Browne recordings, because he still had that wonderful flexibility. He could sing anything between low baritone to high tenor. Bowlly had a typical 'light' voice, though he could also sing bass lines, but Browne had much more depth.
This version of Free and Easy is utterly sublime and cannot be matched.The arrangement by lew Stone is full of wonderful subtleties that makes you want to listen again and again.My favourite Sam Browne vocals are those early 30s ones.Though technically inferior to his later 30s (deeper crooning style) l like the slightly high pitched and softer vocals of this period.
Agreed! I think the arrangements Lew produced for Ambrose were amongst his finest work.
The Ben Selvin version of "The Free And Easy" is rather more swinging, especially the non-vocal take.
lindas cançoes parabens
obrigada
que orquestras lindas de houvir
Such sparkling sound for it's age. This must have been the Abbey Road studio. Too bad Ambrose didn't stay with HMV.
It was 2 years before Abbey Road opened. Recorded at the Small Queens Hall.
Eu devo ter tido uma vida anterior ao ano de 1945 pois o meu apego pelas músicas antigas é forte demais
I suppose that it is the Hall that is "small", and not the Queen!
Yes 😁
Im 18 and i love this type of music. Am i going crazy?
+TehWoody Productions No, you just have good taste :-)
+TehWoody Productions Nope, that's great ! =D I'm 20 and I love too !
+TehWoody Productions Don't worry, just have fun!
+TehWoody Productions Speaking as a retired bandleader, I'd say you have good taste, when I was 18 I liked it too. I'm 72 now, and it was old then,
but still good. Too bad the current what we used to call top 40 style is so juvenile from a musical standpoint. But that situation has been true for years. Anybody care to guess why some of us yesterday and today have
given up on rock stars coming up with anything musical that lasts? Insistence on quality musicianship and creativity is nor elitist. Thanks to RUclips, younger smart people are hearing vintage music, and many have found they like it. Bravo.
You're definitely not. You're appreciating sounds and music long before you were born and what's wrong with that?
9:30 is beautiful but spooky. Perhaps a movie with the same format of as "the shining" can have this song as the end credits song, similarly to the shining's theme "midnight the stars and you" by Al Bowlly
Superb selection - in great sound, thank you. Any chance of posting the wonderfully slinky "When a Woman Loves a Man"?
Not in my collection....yet!
OOOOOH! I BET THAT RECORD IS JUST WONDERFUL!!! I can imagine what it would sound like! Who Vocals?
Great dance music from times you could still move around the floor with a pretty girl in your arms
THE FIRST SONG FREE AN EASY A PRECURSOR TO WESTERN SWING!!!!!!!!!!!
Ambrose was featured band on BBC, some periods daily early ebening show.
Notice strings on most, and 'swing' style in late 20's and early 30's before swing became generalized.
Does anyone remember a vocalist/band singer, Marjorie Kingsley? I must be going back about 75 years ago.
Marjorie was with Harry Roy's band from 1940 until at least 1943. After the war she married an American, and moved to the USA.
Thanks, for the info. My dad who played the sax in the 1930's and early 40's remembered her and mentioned her quite a few times.
She was an excellent singer.
As much as I like American bands (and Freddy Rich's in particular) of the period. Ammie is very much in a class of his own. "A Bench In The Park' is essentially a sweet song, but in this arrangement it is superbly hot. As I've written before any, and I really mean any, Ambrose on HMV is worth buying. superb arrangements and also superbly recorded. Incredible to think that these sides were recorded using just one microphone. The internal balance is perfect, one can hear the drummer throughout the whole number, fcuk you can even hear him switching from brushes to drumsticks and back again. Something I've never heard on an American record of the same period. Payne's discs of that period are quite good, but compared to these they sound quite poorly.
Yes, the Ambrose Orchestra was quite unique at that time. I always picture these musicians recording with rather self-satisfied looks on their faces as they must have known just how superb they were. Ambrose at the time had the best rhythm section - subtle presence, steady, and fine tempos. "A Bench In The Park" is one of my favourites.
Peter, I fully agree with you. These sides are amongst the best recorded ones I've ever heard. And having 3,000+ 78s I've listened to a lot. These early 30s HMV's are the best ones I've ever heard, and that includes almost if not all 40s and 50s discs. The sound is incredibly warm and crystal clear. Too bad HMV records had so much surface noise, but with modern PC utilities one can get rid of most of that. Something analog filters couldn't do.
Even at their best Freddie Rich's band couldn''t have gotten away with this beat. It wasn't American style - over here the banjo had to carry the beat, and drums were mostly for accents.
The transfer is STUNNING, what did you use, I'm listening on headphones with a Focusrite Scarlett ADC from my Macbook Pro and headphones. I hear some digital artifacting, but WOW, what detail and musicality
+pmartel11 Thanks! A good stylus and inexpensive software...and a superb orchestra!
Maybe one of the first electrical transcpitions.Machines were about half the size of a steamship trunk.
TRACK TIMING:
00:20 [1] The "Free And Easy" -- Ambrose & His Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne
03:17 [2] A Bench In The Park -- Ambrose & His Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne
06:18 [3] With My Guitar And You -- Ambrose & His Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne
09:31 [4] Beware Of Love -- Ambrose & His Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne
12:35 [5] Lazy Lou'siana Moon -- Ambrose & His Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne
15:51 [6] Shoo The Hoodoo Away - Ambrose & His Orchestra, vocal by Sam Browne & Ella Logan
0:20 The "Free and Easy"
Nice! I wonder how you get such great audio? You must be using very high end equipment!
+NewHampshireBoy Not "high end" at all. An audio-technica deck, MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab, and a decent stylus
OOPS! I am a victim of a lousy keyboard! I did not get the E in Sam Browne in My last comment!
Прекрасная музыка 30 годов.
What was his name more than "Ambrose"?
His name was BERT Ambrose ; he used his surname on records and for personal appearances. Now I have determined that I'm going to look up Ambrose on Wikipedia for some more information.
Benjamin Baruch Ambrose - Jewish Jazz Diamond ( 11 September 1896 - 11 June 1971 ).
Shouldn´t it be "The Queens small Hall"?