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Swingin' London: Jack Jackson's Orch. - What a Little Moonlight Can Do, 1934

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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music

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Orquesta Jack Jackson - What a Little Moonlight Can Do, Fox-Trot from the Film “Road House” (H.Woods), Disco Gramofono 1934 (recorded in UK; Spanish pressing) 

Jack JACKSON (b.1906 in Barnsley, Yorkshire – d. 1978 Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK) -  English trumpeter and bandleader popular during the British dance band era. Born as the son of a brass band player, Jack Jackson  began playing cornet at the age of 11 before playing violin and cello. He also learned  to play trumpet and worked in various bands in circuses, revues, ballrooms and ocean liners before joining Jack Hylton's band between 1927 – 1929.  In 1931 Jackson joined Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra, which he left two years later, when he formed his own dance orchestra. In 1933/34 his dance band started residency at the Dorchester Hotel in London, which lasted until the outbreak of the 2nd WW. His signature tune was Make Those People Sway, and his regular closing theme tune was Dancing in the Dark. In 1939 he started a regular radio show on Radio Luxembourg. After the war he appeared as influential disc-jockey on the BBC program “Record Roundup", which ran from 1948 to 1977. Suffering from bronchial illness, he emigrated to Tenerife in 1962, sending his taped programs by air to the BBC each week. He returned to Britain some years before his death,  to live in an old stylish Hertfordshire cottage at  Rickmansworth, 30 km north-west from London. 
The song “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” was written by Harry Woods: an American composer, who wrote dozens of upbeat and popular songs in the 1920s/30s, including When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along), The Vagabond Lover, I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Side By Side, Man From the South,  You Ought to See Sally On Sunday, When You Got a Little Springtime In Your Heart, to name only a few. In 1934 he moved to London, where he stayed 3 years, writing music for the British film productions, including “Road House”  (1934). One year later, Billie Holliday recorded “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” with Teddy Wilson’s orchestra, turning it into a worldwide hit and a jazz-standard.

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