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Maurice Winnick, the Glossary

Maurice Winnick (28 March 1902 – 26 May 1962) was an English musician and dance band leader of the British dance band era.^[1]

23 relations: Al Bowlly, Bandleader, BBC, Big band, British dance band, Carlton Hotel, London, Entertainments National Service Association, Gay Love, Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, Guy Lombardo, Hammersmith Palais, Harry Roy, Kemsley-Winnick Television, Manchester, Nottingham, Regal Recordings, Royal Manchester College of Music, Sam Costa, Ted Heath (bandleader), The Dorchester, Twenty questions, Violin, What's My Line?.
Dance band bandleaders
English bandleaders

Al Bowlly

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a South African-British vocalist and dance band guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in Britain.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a dance band, rock or pop band or jazz quartet.

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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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Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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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. Maurice Winnick and British dance band are dance band bandleaders.

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Carlton Hotel, London

The Carlton Hotel was a luxury hotel in London that operated from 1899 to 1940.

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Entertainments National Service Association

The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation established in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II.

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Gay Love

Gay Love is a 1934 British musical comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Florence Desmond, Sophie Tucker and Sydney Fairbrother.

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Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley

James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, GBE (7 May 1883 – 6 February 1968) was a Welsh colliery owner and newspaper publisher.

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Guy Lombardo

Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian and American bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer whose unique "sweet jazz" style remained popular with audiences for nearly five decades.

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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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Harry Roy

Harry Roy (12 January 1900 – 1 February 1971) was a British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s to the 1960s. Maurice Winnick and Harry Roy are dance band bandleaders.

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Kemsley-Winnick Television

Kemsley-Winnick Television was a consortium formed in 1954 to bid for the new commercial television broadcasting licences in the United Kingdom.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Nottingham

Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.

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Regal Recordings

Regal Recordings is a British record label functioning as an imprint of Parlophone Records.

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Royal Manchester College of Music

The Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) was a tertiary level conservatoire in Manchester, north-west England.

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Sam Costa

Samuel Gabriel Costa (17 June 1910 – 23 September 1981) was an English singer, entertainer and broadcaster.

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Ted Heath (bandleader)

George Edward Heath (30 March 1902 – 18 November 1969) was a British musician and big band leader.

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The Dorchester

The Dorchester is a five-star hotel located on Park Lane and Deanery Street in London, to the east of Hyde Park.

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Twenty questions

Twenty questions is a spoken parlor game which encourages deductive reasoning and creativity.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States, between 1950 and 1967, on CBS.

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References

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