The BBC Presents 50 Big Band Favorites

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Annotation

3 Jewel Cases in a cardboard slipcase (?). Possible set barcode: 056775588328

Cat# / Barcode (CD 1): BBT2 5884 / 056775588427
Cat# / Barcode (CD 2): BBT2 5885 / 056775588526
Cat# / Barcode (CD 3): BBT2 5886 / 056775588625

Annotation last modified on 2026-07-18 17:47 UTC.

Tracklist

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1One O’Clock Jump
conductor:
Barry Forgie
performer:
The BBC Big Band
cover recording of:
One O’Clock Jump
composer:
Count Basie (pianist) (in 1937)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc.
recording of:
One O’Clock Jump
composer:
Count Basie (pianist) (in 1937)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc.
3:04
2Song of India
3:08
3Little Brown Jug
conductor:
Roland Shaw (composer)
performer:
The BBC Big Band
recording of:
Little Brown Jug (arr. Finegan 1939)
writer:
Joseph Eastburn Winner (composer/publisher) (in 1868)
arranger:
John Wasson and Bill Finegan (in 1939)
arrangement of:
Little Brown Jug
3:28
4Jersy Bounce
2:52
5American Patrol
orchestra and performer:
The BBC Big Band
conductor:
Barry Forgie
recording of:
American Patrol (swing version)
composer:
F. W. Meacham (in 1885)
arranger:
Jerry Gray (US big band arranger and conductor) (in 1942)
publisher:
Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited (not for release label use! post-2008 subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment)
arrangement of:
American Patrol
3:27
6Cherokee
3:03
7I Get a Kick Out of You
3:01
8Boogie Woogie Maxine
2:36
9On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:10
10Tuxedo Junction
orchestra and performer:
The BBC Big Band
conductor:
Barry Forgie
instrumental recording of:
Tuxedo Junction
lyricist:
Buddy Feyne
writer:
Dash, Feyne, Hawkins and Johnson (US jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist & arranger)
composer:
Bill Johnson (US jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist & arranger), Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne and Erskine Hawkins
recording of:
Tuxedo Junction
lyricist:
Buddy Feyne
writer:
Dash, Feyne, Hawkins and Johnson (US jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist & arranger)
composer:
Bill Johnson (US jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist & arranger), Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne and Erskine Hawkins
3:30
11Big John’s Special
3:14
12Hamp’s Boogie Woogie
conductor:
Barry Forgie
performer:
The BBC Big Band
recording of:
Hamp's Boogie Boogie
composer:
Milt Buckner (US jazz pianist/organist) and Lionel Hampton
3:29
13Pinetops Boogie
conductor:
Barry Forgie
performer:
The BBC Big Band
3:19
14Harlem Nocturne
conductor:
Roland Shaw (composer)
performer:
The BBC Big Band
recording of:
Harlem Nocturne (Mike Hammer)
lyricist:
Dick Rogers (singer, comedian, songwriter & pianist)
composer:
Earle Hagen (TV & film composer)
publisher:
Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd. and Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.
2:49
15Don’t Be That Way
3:09
16You Made Me Love You
3:18
17Solitude
3:34
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