Al Bowlly - Bathing In The Sunshine 1931 Roy Fox "Monte Carlo, or Spain or sunny Italy"

(Decca UK) Roy Fox And His Band with Vocals by Al Bowlly.
Written by (Joe Gilbert, Horatio Nicholls). Flipside to "The Lindy Hop."
Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 - 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.
Roy Fox (October 25, 1901 - March 20, 1982) was an American-born British dance bandleader whose period of greatest popularity were in England during the British dance band era. His autobiography, Hollywood, Mayfair, and All That Jazz (1975) is still in print.
Roy Fox was born in Denver, Colorado, United States.
He and his musician sister Vera were raised in Hollywood, California, in a Salvation Army family. Roy began playing cornet when he was 11 years old, and by age 13 was performing in the Los Angeles Examiner's newsboys' band. Soon after he played bugle for a studio owned by Cecil B. DeMille.
His first major association came at the age of 16, when he joined Abe Lyman's orchestra at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, where he played alongside Miff Mole, Gussie Mueller, Henry Halstead, and Gus Arnheim. He developed a soft style of playing there which earned him the nickname, "The Whispering Cornetist"
In later life, Fox moved to Australia, where he led the Jay Whidden Orchestra, and visited the U.S. for a few tours with small groups. He led a band in England in 1946-47, with appearances at the Isle of Man and London's Potomac Club. He went into semi-retirement after 1952, when he opened his own booking agency. He died in London in 1982, aged 80. His descendants include American LGBT organizer/activist, Toni Armstrong Jr.
Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Bathing in the sunshine
That’s the latest style
Bathing in the sunshine
The sunshine of my baby’s smile
Just to get the sunshine
People travel miles
But I get the sunshine,
The sunshine in my baby’s smiles
Can’t afford to go to
Monte Carlo, or Spain
Nice or sunny Italy
So I just remain
In a little love nest
Happy all the while
Bathing in the sunshine
The sunshine of my baby’s smile

[@whodoneit6404]

My dog and I are dancing, she loves the oldies. Smart doggie!

[@davids8449]

Nice comment........I can just picture you dancing with your doggie .

[@anthonyfrew1571]

Al Bowlly's voice can soothe the most savage of waves

[@ThePhonographStop]

What a voice Al had!!

[@tomkelly4311]

Indeed

[@markfisher2121]

Most beautiful 🌞 ... the sunshine in my baby's smile 😊 I thank You very much 🌺 for this lovely tune 🎶
Mark

[@zoraidagarcia625]

Again, thanks for the lyrics and for the great Al Bowlly.

[@koala5120]

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