Billy Merrin & his Commanders at Ramsgate 1936

"CHEERIO" GB 1935

GB Oct 1935 Fidelity Films Ltd ... Dir:Frank Dormand ... Photographed:D.P. Cooper
... Musical Dir:Billy Merrin ... Recorded:L.B. Buckley ... New Fidelity Noiseless Recording
... with Billy Merrin & his Commanders; vocalist Ken Crossley; Jimmy and Alice Dey
9.5mm running time is approx 16 minutes - virtually uncut from the 35mm cinema original

Billy Merrin and his Commanders (dance band) (voc. Ken Crossley):-
        "Troubles are like Bubbles" (Billy Merrin, Keyes & Edgar Leslie)
Billy Merrin and his Commanders (dance band)
        "March Winds and April Showers"(m&w Walter G.Samuels Leonard Whitcup & Teddy Powell)
Introducing 'The Commanders' - medley (spoken by Billy Merrin)
	"Tiger Rag   - Tommy Littlewood (vibrophone solo)
		              - Nigel 'Cod' Hill (bass solo)
		              - Teddy Taylor (trombone solo)
	"Shine"	      -  Ken Crossley (vocal)
	(piano accordian solo missing from 9.5mm print)
Alice Dey (vocal) with band 
        "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, B.Myers & Elmer Schoebel)
Jimmy Dey & Alice Dey (tap dance) with band
        "Somebody Stole my Girl" (Leo Wood)
Trumpet duet & band 
        "Two Trumpet Toot" (Roscoc Kern)
Alice & Jimmy Dey (song & dance) with band
        "Stylish Steps" routine
Ken Crossley (vocal) & band 
        "With my Heart In My Hand" (Merrin & Hurley)
Billy Merrin and his Commanders (dance band)
        "Cheerio!" (Merrin) with vocal by Billy Merrin and the boys

"CHEERIO" GB 1935

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