BLACKPOOL LEGENDS

The New Empress Ballroom Orchestra
CDE 4001 - 2CDs - £17.50

The sound of The New Empress Ballroom Orchestra is firmly cast in
the minds of Professional and Amateur dancers from all over the world.
Over the years some great musical directors have conducted the
New Empress Ballroom Orchestra, and have all left their mark with
their own excellent arrangements and recordings. This excellent double
album brings together some great Modern Ballroom & Latin music, all
of which has been played over the years at the Blackpool Festival,
and created by those great bandleaders, Ken Turner, Charles Barlow,
and Irven Tidswell.

Disc 1 Modern Ballroom
1 Quickstep Mountain Greenery / Day In Day Out (Ken Turner) *
2 Quickstep Too Close For Comfort (Irven Tidswell)
3 Quickstep 42nd Street (Charles Barlow)
4 Quickstep The Good Old Bad Old Days (Ken Turner)
5 Quickstep Sing Sing Sing (Charles Barlow)
6 Foxtrot Your Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (Irven Tidswell)
7 Foxtrot I Should Care (Chales Barlow)
8 Foxtrot Bye Bye Blackbird (Ken Turner) *
9 Foxtrot My Melancholy Baby (Charles Barlow)
10 Tango Supreme (Ken Turner)
11 Tango Vecchia Guitarrita (Charles Barlow)
12 Tango Blue Tango (Irven Tidswell)
13 Tango Blaver Himmel (Ken Turner)
14 Tango Annientamento (Charles Barlow)
15 Waltz Emmeline (Irven Tidswell)
16 Waltz Tenderly (Ken Turner) *
17 Waltz Golden Years Waltz (Charles Barlow)
18 Waltz Dianna (Ken Turner)
19 V/Waltz Request Waltz (Charles Barlow)
20 V/Waltz Melodia (Plato) / Kiss Me Again / I'll Be Your Sweetheart (Charles Barlow)

Disc 2 Latin American
1 Cha Cha Isn't This A Lovely Day (Irven Tidswell)
2 Cha Cha Patsy (Ken Turner)
3 Cha Cha When I Take My Sugar To Tea (Charles Barlow)
4 Cha Cha Call Me Irresponsible (Irven Tidswell)
5 Cha Cha Perdido (Charles Barlow)
6 Rumba Born Free (Ken Turner)
7 Rumba How Wonderful To Know / Coma Prima (Irven Tidswell)
8 Rumba Woman In Love (Charles Barlow)
9 Rumba Sorenata (Ken Turner)
10 Rumba The Winds Of War (Charles Barlow)
11 Samba Copacabana (Irven Tidswell)
12 Samba I Love You And Don't You Forget It (Ken Turner)
13 Samba Sam Baba (Rhum Baba) (Charles Barlow)
14 Samba I Go To Rio (Ken Turner)
15 Jive Jumpin' Jive (Charles Barlow)
16 Jive Take The A Train (Irven Tidswell)
17 Jive Lester Leaps In (Charles Barlow)
18 Paso Doble Carrascosa (Charles Barlow)
19 Paso Doble Apmarito Roca (Ken Turner)
20 Paso Doble Here Comes The Toreador (Charles Barlow)

All Tracks In Sequence Except Three Marked *