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Top Songs Got Away

Evelyn Dall: The songs that got away

26 April 1944 in Something for the Boys

LIST OF SHOW SONGS EVELYN PERFORMED

BUT WERE NOT RECORDED

 

By the Mis-iss-iss-iss-iss-iss-inewah (Something for the Boys) with Daphne Barker
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? (solo audition 1934, New York)

Dig For Victory (Present Arms 1940)
Follow the Girls (Follow the Girls) with Arthur Askey, Jack Billings and Vic Marlowe
Happy Land in the Sky (Something for the Boys) with Daphne Barker, Bobby Wright, Leigh Stafford and Bernard Ansell
He's a Right Guy (Something for the Boys)
Home on the Range (Something for the Boys) with Daphne Barker and Bobby Wright
I'm All Washed Up on Love (Parade 1935) with Ralph Riggs
I'm An International Orphan (Parade 1935)
I'm Nobody's Baby (Robinson Crusoe 1941)
I Wanna Hang My Hat (Follow the Girls) with Arthur Askey, Jack Billings and Vic Marlowe
Leader of the Band (Something for the Boys)
Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me (Present Arms 1940)
Might Be (Present Arms 1940) with Max Wall
Oomph! (Present Arms 1940) with Max Wall
Selling Sex (Parade 1935)

Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (Robinson Crusoe 1941)
Strip Tease Girl (Follow the Girls)
You're Perf (Follow the Girls) with Arthur Askey

LIST OF UNRECORDED SONGS EVELYN PERFORMED WITH

AMBROSE AND HIS ORCHESTRA OR OCTET

(* ALSO SANG ON TV BETWEEN 1937 AND 1939)

A Tisket A Tasket *

After You *

At the Codfish Ball

Begin the Beguine

Big Chief Swing-It * with Les Carew, Max Bacon (comedy Indian number)

Bomba Plays the Rumba

Callaway Went Thataway with Max Bacon, Les Carew

Casey Jones *

Cocktail Shaker *

Flat Foot Floogie (with Max Bacon)

Fu Manchu *

Gypsy in My Soul *

Highland Swing * with Jimmy Miller

How’d You Like to Love Me *

I Double Dare You

I Found My Yellow Basket * with Jimmy Miller, Eddie Lisbona, Teddy White

I Like to Recognise It's You

I'll Never Say 'Never Again' Again

I'm Gonna Lock my Heart

It Ain’t Necessarily So *

It’s a Long Long Way to Your Heart *

It’s D’Lovely *

19 Oct 1941
Oct 1942
May 1940 in Present Arms

LIST OF UNRECORDED SONGS EVELYN PERFORMED WITH

AMBROSE (CONTINUED)

 

I've Got a Pocket Full of Dreams
Jim Jam Jumpin' Jive
Mama I Want to Make Rhythm *
Mama, That Moon is Here Again *
Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet
Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love
Mr Ghost Goes to Town
Nice Work if You Can Get It *
Oh Johnny Oh Johnny
Oh, Ma, Ma *
Popcorn Man *
Rhythm in the Alphabet *
Rhythm Makes You Feel Good
Rigoletto * (Parody) with Max Bacon, George Sandiford, Les Carew
Roll Me Over, Lay Me Down and Do It Again
Say Si Si *
Scrub me Mama with a Boogie Beat
Some Day My Prince Will Come
South American Joe
Swing Along Mama (with the Rhythm Brothers)
Swing That Music
Swing That Thing
Take a Course in Rhythm (incorporating In a Little Red School House) *
Take Your Pick and Swing
Taking a Course in Rhythm
Talk to Me
The Big Apple
The Chestnut Tree * with Max Bacon, Les Carew
The Hut Sut Song
The Sassanach
The Shag
Ti-pi-tin
True Blue Lil *
Ve Play Fiddle For De Czar * with Max Bacon and Les Carew
When the Circus Comes to Town *
Who Stole It *
Working Our Way Through College * with Max Bacon and Les Carew
Yankee-Doodle Band *
You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming *
You Let Me Down *
Your Broadway and My Broadway *

25 May 1943 in Miss London Ltd.
2 April 1944 in Something for the Boys
3 Nov 1945 in Follow the Girls
May 1940 in Present Arms
29 Dec 1940 in Robinson Crusoe
19 Nov 1945 in Follow the Girls.
Dec 1945 in Follow the Girls
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