One of Britain’s longest serving bandleaders, Billy Cotton (born William Edward Cotton in London on 6 May 1899) was the host of The Billy Cotton Band Show, one… Read More »Billy Cotton – A Very British Bandleader
10 Jul 1940: Luftwaffe launches Battle of Britain 07 Sep 1940: London blitzed by German bombers 15 Sep 1940: Victory for RAF in Battle of… Read More »WW2 in 50 Bullet Points
Movies in the 1940s, like everything else at the time, were dominated by the war. However, instead of facing shortages like most people, the industry… Read More »Hollywood at War – 1940s Movies
Tommy Dorsey, byname of Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr., (born November 27, 1905, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died November 26, 1956, Greenwich, Connecticut), American musician who—both independently and with… Read More »The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing – Tommy Dorsey
Before the chart was established in August 1958, which was based on a formula combining sales data of commercially available singles and airplay on American… Read More »1940s Billboard number-one singles chart
The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4. Development… Read More »BBC Home Service