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Van Phillips and his two Orchestras

on National Programme Daventry

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A new presentation of popular music
About a year ago Van Phillips made a big hit with his broadcasts with an all-star orchestra, and he has a unique reputation in this country as an arranger of dance music. This evening, with two orchestras, he is to give the first of a series of thirteen half-hour broadcasts. The broadcasts are to be given .weekly, .but. not necessarily on the same evening. For the next four weeks he will be on the air on Wednesday, October 14, - Tuesday, October 20, Tuesday, October : 27, and Tuesday, November 3.
His idea is to play popular tunes of today with his full orchestra of twenty instrumentalists and to alternate them
. with old favourites on his small string orchestra. And his broadcasts will make not only for contrast but for speed, for he will get fourteen" or sixteen numbers into his half-hour instead of the usual eight or nine. He believes Leslie Douglas to be one of the best dance band vocalists in the country'.

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