Past Perfect CDs

A selection of recently issued Past Perfect CD's featuring original 78rpm recordings of dance bands/big bands/popular vocals of the 1900-1950 era

this page is derived from a page first published by John Wright, 24 Aug 1997
last update 1 February 2012 vintage@r2ok.co.uk

Current special feature label
Past Perfect	digitalised re-issues of Dance bands, Big Bands and entertainers available by Tel: 01869 325052, Fax: 01869 325072, clarity@pastperfect.com Usually £10.99ea (plus postage outside EEC). You can check out Past Perfect website for more details, but you can read my reviews below and click the images below to order
Past Perfect PPWOC001	Tea Dance A Superb Musical Journey Through the 1920s, 30s and 40s Includes: Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sugar Foot Stomp, Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine Annette Hanshaw - Lovable And Sweet, Hoagy Carmichael - Rockin Chair Sam Costa with Peter Yorke Orchestra - A Nice Cup Of Tea
Past Perfect PPCD78133	You can read my review of this excellent CD Great Dance Bands Play... Hits of the Thirties title list :- SONGS 1. Sydney Kyte: This Is The Missus 2. New Mayfair Orch: The Younger Generation 3. Jack Hylton: They All Fall In Love 4. Billy Cotton: Skirts 5. Debroy Somers: Look What You've Done 6. Blue Mountaineers: Sweet Sixteen And Never Been Kissed 7. Ambrose: It's The Talk Of The Town 8. Lew Stone: The Bouncing Ball 9. Roy Fox: I've Got An Invitation To A Dance 10. Jack Payne: Mr & Mrs Is The Name 11. Casani Club: Red Sails In The Sunset 12. Mario 'harp' Lorenzi: Everything Stops For Tea 13. Harry Roy: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 14. Ambrose: Hors D'oeuvres 15. Mrs Jack Hylton: Please Believe Me 16. Orlando: Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You 17. Billy Merrin: On The Beach At Bali Bali 18. Jack Hylton: One, Two, Button Your Shoe 19. Henry Hall: Eccentric 20. Jay Wilbur: You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming 21. Savoy Hotel Orpheans: Love Walked In 22. Jack Harris: I Double Dare You 23. Sydney Lipton: Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner 24. Brian Lawrance: I Must See Annie Tonight 25. Geraldo: Two Sleepy People 26. Ronnie Munro: Sing A Song Of Sunbeams
Past Perfect PPCD78112	You can read my review of this excellent CD British Dance Bands includes titles from Jack Hylton, Ambrose, Henry Hall, Joe Loss, Brian Lawrance, Roy Fox, Jay Wilbur, Jack Jackson
Past Perfect PPCD78140	You can read my review of this excellent CD Elegance A Musical Journey Through the 30s and 40s Includes: Hutch: Cole Porter Medley, Gertrude Lawrence: My Ship Noel Coward: I Travel Alone, Ruth Etting: I Wished On The Moon Nat King Cole: Nature Boy, Christine Norden: I'm Not In Love
Past Perfect PPCD78141	You can read my review of this excellent CD Elegance 2 Another Musical Journey Through the 30s and 40s Includes: Hutch: Blossoms On Broadway, Gertrude Lawrence: The Saga Of Jenny Freddy Gardner: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Jessie Matthews: Tony's In Town Billy Ternent / Sam Browne: You Started Something
Past Perfect PPCD78134	You can read my review of this excellent CD The Age Of Style Includes: Frances Day: How Do You Do, Mr Right? Fred Astaire: Change Partners Carroll Gibbons & His Boy Friends : You Greta Keller : Deep In A Dream Hutch : It's De-Lovely
Past Perfect PPCD78137	Al Bowlly - Love Is The Sweetest Thing Includes: Sweet And Lovely, Love Is The Sweetest Thing Lying In The Hay, You Ought To See Sally On Sunday
Past Perfect PPCD78147	You can read my review of this excellent CD GI Jive - American Hits Of WWII title list :- SONGS 1. Johnny Mercer: G I Jive 2. Dinah Shore: A Pair Of Silver Wings 3. Glenn Miller/AAF: SNAFU Jump 4. Jo Stafford: There's No You 5. Fats Waller: That's What The Well-Dressed... 6. Margaret Whiting: That Old Black Magic 7. The Ink Spots: Whispering Grass 8. Benny Goodman Orch/Peggy Lee: We'll Meet Again 9. Eddie Heywood Orch: Begin The Beguine 10. The Casa Loma Orch/Eugenie Baird: My Shining Hour 11. The Mills Brothers: Paper Doll 12. Glenn Miller/AEF/Dinah Shore: All I Do Is Dream Of You 13. Bob Crosby Orch: A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Girl) 14. Marlene Dietrich: You Go To My Head 15. Freddie Slack Orch: Furlough Fling 16. Joe Loss Orch/Paula Green: A Nightingale Sang In ..... 17. Judy Garland: F D R Jones 18. Louis Jordan: Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? 19. Glenn Miller/AEF/Dinah Shore: Stardust 20. Frank Sinatra: Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest.... 21. Margaret Whiting: Silver Wings In The Moonlight 22. Louis Armstrong Orchestra: Jodie Man 23. Benny Goodman Orch/Liza Morrow: My Guy's Come Back 24. Glenn Miller/AAF Band: St. Louis Blues 25. Ella Mae Morse: Cow Cow Boogie
Past Perfect PPCD78143	You can read my review of this excellent CD Perfect Big Bands title list :- SONGS 1. Woody Herman: Four Brothers 2. Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra: East Of The Sun 3. Benny Goodman: Let's Dance 4. Jimmy Dorsey: Yours 5. Earl Hines: Ridin' and Jivin' 6. Glenn Miller: Anvil Chorus 7. Count Basie: Do You Wanna Jump, Children? 8. Benny Carter: Plymouth Rock 9. Duke Ellington: Harlem Air Shaft 10. Jack Teagarden: A Hundred Years From Today 11. Chick Webb: Go Harlem 12. Stan Kenton: The Spider And The Fly 13. Artie Shaw: Begin The Beguine 14. Woody Herman: Apple Honey 15. Glenn Miller: I've Got A Heart Filled With Love 16. Count Basie: Doggin' Around 17. Benny Goodman: Why Don't You Do Right? 18. Les Brown: Bizet Has His Day 19. Tommy Dorsey: On The Sunny Side Of The Street 20. Harry James: Trumpet Blues And Cantabile 21. Tony Pastor: Gona Get A Girl 22. Stan Kenton: Intermission Riff 23. Artie Shaw: I Got The Sun In The Morning 24. Benny Goodman: When Buddha Smiles 25. Ella Fitzgerald: When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
Past Perfect PPCD78101	The Great American Big Bands featuring more classic recordings, title list: SONGS 1. Benny Carter: These Foolish Things 2. Chick Webb: When I Get Low I Get High 3. Benny Goodman: Christopher Columbus 4. Louis Armstrong: I Never Knew 5. Joe Venuti: Flop 6. Duke Ellington: Take The 'A' Train 7. Harry James: Strictly Instrumental 8. Jimmy Dorsey: All Of Me 9. Bunny Berigan: The Prisoner's Song 10. Bob Crosby: Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street 11. Jimmie Lunceford: My Blue Heaven 12. Glenn Miller: A String Of Pearls 13. Cab Calloway: Run Little Rabbit 14. Woody Herman: Twin City Blues 15. Ted Weems: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? 16. Tommy Dorsey: Stop, Look And Listen 17. Frankie Trumbauer: I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music 18. Casa Loma Orchestra: A Study In Brown 19. Artie Shaw: Deep Purple 20. Gene Krupa: Drummin' Man 21. Lionel Hampton: Nola
Past Perfect PPCD78131	The Jazz Age - Hot Sounds Of The 20's and 30's double CD featuring Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington etc click the image for details
Past Perfect PPCD78129	Perfect Jazz featuring classic jazz recordings click the image for details
Past Perfect PPCD78146	Perfect Sax Solos featuring classic recordings by Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Chu Berry etc click the image for details
Past Perfect PPCD78104	Dance Crazy includes: The Savoy Orpheans: Charleston Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders: Black Bottom Savoy Orpheans: The Blue Room Jack Hylton: That's You, Baby/Walking With Susie Paul Whiteman: Happy Feet
Past Perfect PPCD78108	Sophistication includes titles from Carroll Gibbons, Jack Buchanan, Jessie Matthews and American artistes.
Past Perfect PPCD78120	Fascinating Rhythm Includes: Bert Firman: Kansas City Kitty, Red Nichols: After You've Gone Savoy Havana Band: Masculine Women & Feminine Men The Charleston Chasers: Wabash Blues, The Savoy Orpheans: The Charleston
Past Perfect PPCD78132	Charleston: Great Stars Of The 1920s title list SONGS 1. Howard Lanin: Black Bottom 2. Astaires & George Gershwin : Fascinating Rhythm 3. Jack Hylton: I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight? 4. Elsie Carlisle: I Love My Baby 5. Paul Whiteman: Charleston 6. Nick Lucas: Looking At The World Through Rose Coloured Glasses 7. Savoy Orpheans: Let's All Go To Mary's House 8. Binnie Hale & Jack Buchanan : Who? 9. Piccadilly Revels Band: Ain't She Sweet? 10. Al Jolson: When The Red, Red, Robin (Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along) 11. Nat Shilkret: Hallelujah 12. Paul Robeson: Ol' Man River 13. Savoy Orpheans: The Girl Friend 14. Noel Coward: Dance, Little Lady 15. Dorothy Dickson: Where's That Rainbow? 16. George Olsen: The Varsity Drag 17. Layton & Johnstone: Miss Annabelle Lee 18. Gertrude Lawrence: Someone To Watch Over Me 19. Roger Wolfe Kahn: Crazy Rhythm 20. Cliff Edwards: Good Little, Bad Little You 21. George Olsen: Doin' The Raccoon 22. Helen Kane: I Wanna Be Loved By You 23. Dorsey Bros: The Breakaway 24. Jack Smith: That's My Weakness Now 25. Ben Selvin: Am I Blue? 26. Hutch : High Hat
Past Perfect PPCD78135	Noel & Gertie Double Album Includes: Mary Make-Believe, Lorelei, A Room With A View Dance, Little Lady, Try To Learn To Love, World Weary

Where else can you get these CD's ?

You may also find these CDs on the net at either Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com, and you can search either site for your favourite artiste or band by:

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Alternatively, as these British CD's were issued during the last few years, they may still be available from some good record shops in Britain. Check with your local shop or the specialised shops listed in my 78rpm shops in UK page and my 78rpm shops in USA page

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