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Al Bowlly gets his own radio station
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 14 April 2011
A community radio group in Hampshire is launching a temporary DAB radio service paying tribute to Al Bowlly, a popular British jazz singer and crooner from the 1930s.
The service will be called ’70 Years Without Al Bowlly’ and, although it will play a wide range of music from British dance bands of the era, presumably Bowlly’s own songs will be played pretty frequently. Fortunately for station organisers, Bowlly recorded some 1000 songs in his short career, despite dying aged 43 during the London blitz of 1941.
Tony Smith of Hampshire community station Angel Radio, who are staging the temporary broadcast, told reporters: “Al Bowlly was such an important figure in the history of British dance bands that I felt he deserved a radio station dedicated to his memory. I must stress that we won’t just be playing one Al Bowlly record after another. We will be looking at the whole dance band era and playing a vast range of dance band music, but Bowlly will take centre stage”.
The so called ‘pop up’ service will appear on 19 local digital radio networks today, and is also available via www.albowlly.org
