Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
music from the thirties onwards.

The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
colonial Africa in the 1950's.

Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.

The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
music and a living lesson in British social history.

Thus spake jmm1951 (jmm1951@gmail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
> Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> possibly the best thing on Radio 2

According to whom?


-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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"jmm1951"  wrote in message
news:1178047924.311879.119360@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> music from the thirties onwards.

Whereas Lolly Badcock is a 'glamour' model!

Thus spake jmm1951 (jmm1951@gmail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
> Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> possibly the best thing on Radio 2

According to whom?


-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
                 *** Remove DENTURES if replying by email ***

"jmm1951"  wrote in message
news:1178047924.311879.119360@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> music from the thirties onwards.

Whereas Lolly Badcock is a 'glamour' model!

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.

On May 3, 1:36 pm, Egbert Sousè  wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 12:32:04 -0700, jmm1951  wrote:
>
>
>
> >Malcolm Laycock is a veteran jazz presenter and producer. His show is
> >possibly the best thing on Radio 2, presenting swing and dance band
> >music from the thirties onwards.
>
> >The nice thing about the show is that it is all about the music. You
> >won't hear Laycock running on about his personal life. He never misses
> >a step, urbanely presenting characters like Al Bowlly and Julie Dawn
> >and the band leaders they sang for as if he knows them personally
> >(maybe he does), or splendid obscurities like dance bands from
> >colonial Africa in the 1950's.
>
> >Without Malcolm's show, I would never have learned about the Syd
> >Lawrence band's wonderful recreations of the Glen Miller sound.
>
> >The show airs on Sunday nights in the UK, but of course you can play
> >it any time, and I prefer to download and archive the shows to play as
> >background music when I am at work.  It is radio perfection--great
> >music and a living lesson in British social history.
>
> Quite agree, but do you work for R2 ? - this looks like a PR piece.
>
> I like a touch of the Swing and Dance bands, but I wish he'd keep that
> theme all the way through, instaed of, at the end, big band
> arrangements of relatively modern songs. Parky plays enough of that
> crap.

The theme of his shows varies quite a bit. Last weeks, with the whole
of the second half devoted to Ellington's birthday (born April 29th
1899) was possibly the best show yet. Great stuff for the whole hour,
though the highlight was the late-night live on-the-road soloing of
Johnny Hodges, with Ellington urging party-goers to get their last
drinks in before the bar closed.