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Dancing in the Dark [ASV/Living Era]
- Artist: Jack Hylton
- Rating:
- Release Date: September 09, 1998
- Total Time: 76:06
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
Dutton Vocalion presents a grab bag of pop vocal encrusted British dance band records cut by Jack Hylton's orchestra for the HMV record label between the years 1935 and 1939. In addition to several marvels of ingenuity such as "Life Begins at Oxford Circus," "Run Rabbit Run" (featuring silly Arthur Askey!), "Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss," "I'll Never Say Never Again(Again)," and the bracingly racist "South American Joe," this compilation contains one of the best recordings Hylton ever presided over. Recorded in 1939, "Darktown Strutters' Ball" features the world's greatest tenor saxophonist, Coleman Hawkins. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ya Got Something There | Jack Hylton, |
(3:05) | |
| On Your Toes | Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers | Jack Hylton, |
(3:05) |
| My First Thrill | Jack Hylton, |
(3:13) | |
| Did You Mean It? | (2:54) | ||
| Midnight Blue | Jack Hylton | (3:26) | |
| Footloose and Fancy Free | (2:52) | ||
| September in the Rain | Harry Warren, Al Dubin | Jack Hylton, |
(3:09) |
| I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again | Harry Woods | Jack Hylton, Brian Lawrance | (2:46) |
| There's a Small Hotel | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Jack Hylton | (3:14) |
| I Won't Dance | Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II | (3:20) | |
| Cinderella Sweetheart | (3:08) | ||
| Girls Are Made to Love and Kiss | (3:03) | ||
| Life Begins at Oxford Circus | Jack Hylton | (2:21) | |
| I Believe in Miracles | Jack Hylton, |
(3:27) | |
| Put on a New Pair of Shoes | Jack Hylton, Brian Lawrance | (2:49) | |
| My Heart Belongs to Daddy | Cole Porter | (3:10) | |
| Drop in Next Time You're Passing | Jack Hylton, |
(3:12) | |
| South American Joe | Brian Lawrance, Jack Hylton | (2:46) | |
| The Girl with the Dreamy Eyes | Jack Hylton, |
(2:24) | |
| So Red the Rose | Jack Hylton, |
(3:25) | |
| Sing My Heart | Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen | Jack Hylton, |
(2:41) |
| Darktown Strutters' Ball | Shelton Brooks | Coleman Hawkins, Jack Hylton | (2:38) |
| Run, Rabbit, Run! | Jack Hylton, |
(3:31) | |
| Somewhere in France | Jack Hylton, |
(3:12) | |
| We'll Meet Again | Jack Hylton, |
(3:15) |
