Name: Northern dance orchestra
Brand: BBC Records
SKU: REC133
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Northern dance orchestra (Various)

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Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			REC 133
Title			Northern dance orchestra
Artist(s)			Various
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Very Good Plus
BBC records label code			C
Item deleted?			Yes
Released			1972
Distributed / printed by			E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Music - Brass bands View all other tracks listed as Music - Brass bands.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			RE + 133 + 1 + 1 BBC BBC
My rating			*****
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Number have			1
What type of seller was used?			Not recorded
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Side & track	Track and Artist									Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	Ol' man river [J. Kern]
A2	Bound for the Rio Grande [Traditional]
A3	Maria [Bernstein]
A4	It's all in the game [Dawes / Sigman]
A5	Blaydon Races [Traditional]
A6	Yesterday [Lennon / McCartney]
A7	Hallelujah timer [Peterson]
B1	All of me [Donaldson]
B2	Mas-que-nada [Benn]
B3	Sounds like summer [Alan Roper]
B4	How insensitive [Jobim]
B5	You and the night and the music [Schwartz]
B6	More than you know [Youmans]
B7	Spinning wheel [Thomas]
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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts
The record is absed on the Radio 21st Birthday programme. ''Where does Johnny Roadhouse buy his braces ?'' The question still crops up in 1972 - nearly 14 years after the NDO first delighted TV audiences with Make Way for Music, the most unbuttoned big band show of all time. This programme set out to contrast the band's sartorial disarray with its musicla elegance - and succeeded onlt too well, thus obscuring some of the NDO's more solid claims to fame. For example, they're one of the World's finest accompaniment units. Eartha Kitt has recorded a glowing tribute to them in this role; and scores of other stellar admirers include Moirar Anderson, John Hanson and practically every other artist who has ever experienced their immaculate vocal backings. They are also renowned for their ability to play the fly spots off the ceiling at sight. It matters little what those spots spell: light classics, such as cropped up frequently during their 1951-1956 incarnation as the Northern Variety Orchestra under conductors Ray Martin and Vilem Tausky; teenage rock (played from parts marked loud and 'orrible ma non troppa) during the late 1950's under Alyn Ainsworth and, briefy, Tommy Watt; serious works uniting them with symphony orchestras (such as the two Ernest Tomlinson symphonies of 1962 and 1965); Edwardian pit orchestr impersonations for The Good Old Days; or their own specialities on just about every light music programme on the air. Through all this, they've kept an instantly recognisable sound of their own. It stems in part from their unusual instruments, which has always included a virtuoso flautist - a capacity in which their present conductor, Bernard Herrmann, served up to 1961. The two-man percussion department is also unusual, as is the doubling capacity of the 19 men who play nearly 50 instruments between them. Their arrangements, particularly Alan Roper and Pat Nash, have made a distinguished contribution; but the core of the NDO sound is the relaxed, forthright swing of men who have come of age together over 21 years of musical and personal harmony. No British band is richer in foundation and long-service members. To find comparisons, one has to invoke the names of Basie and Ellington. In 1969, a high-level reorganisation of broadcasting threatened the NDO with extinction. They stayed on by public demand, expressed in thousands of car stickers proclaiming ''THE NDO MUST NOT GO''. The campaign, organised by anonymous well-wishers, caught the mood of all Northerners, and of discerning music-lovers everywhere else. Amazingly, this massive spontaneous support arose for a band completely unrepresented on gramophone records! So this disc is a candidate for the Guiness Book of Records as the most belated-ever LP debut of a great band. Happy 21st birthday, NDO. Sleeve notes by Frank Dixon, who reluctantly disclaims any relationship to the brilliant ex-NDO trombonist of the same name. THE MEN and year they joined: Flute: Peter Husband 1962 Alto sax: John Roadhouse * 1951 Alto sax: Roger Fleetwood * 1951 Tenor sax: Freddie Herreran * 1951 Tenor sax: Gary Cox 1963 Baritone sax: Les Lovelady * 1951 Trumpets: Fred Kelly 1954 Ernie Watson 1952 Johnny Lawton 1971 Stan Hibbett 1953 Trumbones: Harry Burgess 1965 Bram Fisher 1970 Frank Tebb 1956 Bernard Darkin 1956 Piano: Brian Fitzgerald 1966 Drums Bob Turner 1959 Timps & tuned percussion: Vernon Leigh * 1951 Guitar: Ray Barlow 1968 Bass: Bob Duffy 1965 * Founder member Conductor: Bernard Herrman Associate conductor: Brian Fitzgerald

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