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Alan Dell, born Alan Creighton Mandell (20 March 1924 – 18 August 1995), was a BBC radio broadcaster, associated in particular with dance band music of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 31 relations: Ambrose (bandleader), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, BBC Light Programme, BBC Online, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, British dance band, Cape Town, Compact disc, Dance Band Days, Frank Sinatra, Geraldo (bandleader), Grammy Award for Best Historical Album, Grammy Awards, Henry Hall (bandleader), Henry Mancini, Jack Hylton, John Peel, Kearsney College, Malcolm Laycock, Peggy Lee, Pick of the Pops, Progressive rock, Radio Luxembourg, Robert Parker (sound engineer), SABC, South Africa, Stereophonic sound, Swing music, Tommy Dorsey.

  2. Alumni of Kearsney College
  3. British radio people

Ambrose (bandleader)

Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (11 September 1896 – 11 June 1971), known professionally as Ambrose, was an English bandleader and violinist. Alan Dell and Ambrose (bandleader) are 20th-century British musicians.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Light Programme

The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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British dance band

British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s, often called a Golden Age of British music, prior to the Second World War.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Dance Band Days

The Dance Band Days was a weekly half hour programme on BBC radio of predominantly British dance band recordings of the 1920s to early 1940s.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Geraldo (bandleader)

Gerald Walcan Bright (10 August 1904 – 4 May 1974), better known as Geraldo, was an English bandleader. Alan Dell and Geraldo (bandleader) are 20th-century British musicians.

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Grammy Award for Best Historical Album

The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979 and recognizes achievements in audio restoration.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Henry Hall (bandleader)

Henry Robert Hall, CBE (2 May 1898 – 28 October 1989) was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s.

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist.

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Jack Hylton

Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton; 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.

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Kearsney College

Kearsney College is a private boarding, English medium high school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

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Malcolm Laycock

Malcolm Richard Laycock (1 November 1938 – 8 November 2009)Peter Vacher, The Guardian, 10 November 2009 was an English radio presenter who hosted jazz, big band, and dance band programmes for BBC Radio 2 and the BBC World Service. Alan Dell and Malcolm Laycock are BBC Radio 2 presenters and British radio DJs.

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Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades.

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Pick of the Pops

Pick of the Pops is a long-running BBC Radio programme; it was based originally on the Top 20 from the UK Singles Chart and was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October 1955.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.

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Robert Parker (sound engineer)

Robert Noel Parker (24 December 1936 – 30 December 2004) was an Australian sound engineer, jazz expert and broadcaster known for his radio series Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo.

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SABC

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.

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Swing music

Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Tommy Dorsey

Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era.

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See also

Alumni of Kearsney College

British radio people

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dell