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Van Phillips and his Two Orchestras

on National Programme Daventry

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A new presentation of popular music
A full orchestra of twenty alternating with A small string orchestra
Playing song hits of today and favourites of yesterday
The entire programme scored for orchestras and conducted by Van Phillips
Vocal refrains by Leslie Douglas
Easy to Love
Lover, Come Back to Me
You on my Mind Together
I've Got You Under My Skin
My Blue Heaven
Go West, Young Man
Ramona Hallelujah
Magnolias in the Moonlight
Lonesome and Sorry
Follow Your Heart
Singing in the Rain
When the Poppies Bloom Again
Say it with Music
Serenade in the Night

Van Phillips, who has created a record by being on the air with his Dance Band for fifteen weeks in succession, is to create a precedent this evening when he will make history in the jazz world by introducing into his band four French horns. The French horn has always been a particular love of his. It has one of the purest tone colours, he says, in the whole range of orchestral instruments. It is one of the most difficult instruments to play and one of the most difficult to write for.
Tonight's innovation will give Van Phillips an entirely new section. He does all his own orchestrations, and the sixteen pieces to be heard this evening have been selected expressly for the purpose of exploiting horn tone-colour. If the experiment meets with the approval of listeners, he hopes to make the horn section a permanent feature of his orchestra. It is interesting news that the four French horns are those of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Contributors

Conductor:
Van Phillips
Singer:
Leslie Douglas

National Programme Daventry

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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