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Lou Preager, the Glossary

Louis Jacob Preager (12 January 1906 – 14 November 1978), known as Lou Preager, was an English pianist, dance band leader, disc jockey and businessman.^[1]

26 relations: BBC Light Programme, Billy Reid (British songwriter), British dance band, Columbia Graphophone Company, Come Dancing, Cruising Down the River, Disc jockey, Elisabeth Welch, FreeBMD, General Register Office, Hammersmith Palais, Housewives' Choice, Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom), Jazz, London, London Metropolitan Archives, Mallorca, Marylebone, Music While You Work, Paul Rich, Poplar, London, Regal Zonophone Records, Slough, Strand, London, The National Archives (United Kingdom), 1911 United Kingdom census.
Dance band bandleaders
English bandleaders
Musicians from the City of Westminster
Musicians from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
People from Maida Vale

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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Billy Reid (British songwriter)

William Gordon Reid (19 September 1902 – 12 December 1974) was an English songwriter, bandleader, pianist and accordionist.

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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. Lou Preager and British dance band are dance band bandleaders.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

Columbia Graphophone Co.

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Come Dancing

Come Dancing was a British ballroom dancing competition show made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which aired on BBC One at various intervals from 1950 to 1998.

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Cruising Down the River

"Cruising Down the River" is a 1946 popular recording song, which became the winner of a public songwriting competition held in the UK.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

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Elisabeth Welch

Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades.

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FreeBMD

FreeBMD is a website which coordinates and provides free transcriptions of the indexes to births, marriages and deaths (BMD) held by the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO).

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General Register Office

General Register Office or General Registry Office (GRO) is the name given to the civil registry in the United Kingdom, many other Commonwealth nations and Ireland.

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Hammersmith Palais

The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007.

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Housewives' Choice

Housewives' Choice was a BBC Radio record request programme, broadcast every weekday morning between 1946 and 1967 on the BBC Light Programme.

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Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)

The Intelligence Corps (Int Corps) is a corps of the British Army.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Metropolitan Archives

The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is the principal local government archive repository for the Greater London area, including the City of London: it is the largest county record office in the United Kingdom.

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Mallorca

Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (usually, also) is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Music While You Work

Music While You Work was a daytime radio programme of continuous live popular music broadcast in the United Kingdom twice daily on workdays from 23 June 1940 until 29 September 1967 by the BBC.

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Paul Rich

Paul Rich (20 August 1921 – 23 February 2000) was a singer and guitarist, recording many songs with Lou Preager's band.

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Poplar, London

Poplar is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Regal Zonophone Records

Regal Zonophone Records was a British record label formed in 1932, through a merger of the Regal and Zonophone labels.

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Slough

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

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