Al Bowlly

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Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898[1] – 17 April 1941) was a British vocalist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 records. His most popular songs include "Midnight, the Stars and You", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "The Very Thought of You", "Guilty", "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" and the English version of "Dark Eyes", the "Russian Gypsy" song by Adalgiso Ferraris as "Black Eyes" with words of Albert Mellor. Bowlly was born in Lourenço Marques in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. His parents were Greek and Lebanese. They met en route to Australia and moved to South Africa. Bowlly was brought up in Johannesburg. After a series of odd jobs across South Africa in his youth, including being a barber and a jockey, he sang in a dance band led by Edgar Adeler on a tour of South Africa, Rhodesia, India and Indonesia during the mid-1920s.[citation needed] He was fired from the band in Surabaya, Indonesia. Jimmy Liquime hired him to sing with the band in India and Singapore. In 1927 Bowlly made his first record, a cover version of "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin that was recorded with Adeler in Berlin, Germany. During the next year, he worked in London, England, with the orchestra of Fred Elizalde. The onset of the Great Depression in 1929 resulted in Bowlly being made redundant and returning to several months of busking to survive. In the 1930s, he signed two contracts—one in May 1931 with Roy Fox, singing in his live band for the Monseigneur R

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albums

The Al Bowlly Collection 1927-40, Vol. 1

The Very Thought Of You

Centenary Celebrations

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Magic of Al Bowlly

Big Bands of the 30's

Heart And Soul

Britain's First Pop Star - The Best of Al Bowlly

Al Bowlly Sings Again

The Al Bowlly Collection

The One and Only Al Bowlly

My Beloved Woman

Al Bowlly - ХX Век Ретропанорама

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