Proud of You is Living Era's tribute to the artistry of Al Bowlly, the English public's favorite crooner during the 1930s. A skilled interpreter of love songs whose gentle approach made every performance into a rite of intimacy, Bowlly left a sizeable legacy of great recordings that belong in the same pantheon with the best of Gene Austin, Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallée, Maurice Chevalier and Russ Columbo. Bowlly's accompanists on this compilation include his regular pianist Monia Liter, pipe organist George Scott-Wood and ...
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Proud of You is Living Era's tribute to the artistry of Al Bowlly, the English public's favorite crooner during the 1930s. A skilled interpreter of love songs whose gentle approach made every performance into a rite of intimacy, Bowlly left a sizeable legacy of great recordings that belong in the same pantheon with the best of Gene Austin, Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallée, Maurice Chevalier and Russ Columbo. Bowlly's accompanists on this compilation include his regular pianist Monia Liter, pipe organist George Scott-Wood and Geraldo & His Orchestra. Bowlly's story had a tragic finale: he was slain while sleeping by a door blown off its hinges by a bomb attached to a parachute dropped over London by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz of 1941. ~ arwulf arwulf, Rovi
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