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In the Mood - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CI-0E_jses Many people have only heard of Glenn Miller because of this charismatic classic. Equally...

American Patrol - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-lBi5r6Jk A few months earlier I was walking past the recording studio which was part of the Islington...

Hitchin' a Ride - Vanity Fare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pArjPVA-8 There's a reason for playing this song which goes right back to the VE Day golden anniversary...

Mozeltov - Danny Polo and his Swing Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y5NpUjlSI Dave McQuater and Friends were, unsurprisingly, run by Tommy McQuater who played guitar and...

It Ain't Necessarily So - Bronski Beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6ZWVlhU8k While I was part of the Islington arts department, we also teamed up with the other three North East London Labour boroughs on other initiatives, not least amongst which was the annual North London Lesbian Strength and Gay Pride Festival which we put on at the end of the eighties, running into to the early nineties. As there were no lesbians or gay men in our department, I was detailed to be the Islington rep on the working group i