Clive Hooley has given us quite a treat: an Elsie Carlisle song recorded 73 years ago that was not previously on the Internet and is on no vinyl album or CD that I have ever seen. It is a wartime tune on the flip side of the album with the famous “Hut Sut Song.” Copyrighted in 1941, “She Had Those Dark and Dreamy Eyes” appears to have its roots in older sea shanties, and recurs in a truly filthy form in the doggerel of WWII airmen.1
CategoryBands & Directors
Sam Browne and Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose and His Orchestra
HAPPY 116th BIRTHDAY, SAM BROWNE!
Sam Browne and Elsie Carlisle (toward the bottom-left) with Ambrose and His Orchestra.
Sam Browne and Elsie Carlisle (toward the bottom-left) with Ambrose and His Orchestra
HAPPY 116th BIRTHDAY, SAM BROWNE!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAM BROWNE!
Sam Browne (March 26, 1898-March 2, 1972) was an English dance band singer in the 1920s-1940s, most famous for his collaboration with Ambrose and His Orchestra and a frequent recording and touring partner of Elsie Carlisle (1931-1936). He made over 2,000 recordings. In addition to working with Ambrose, he was famous for singing with the orchestras of Jack Hylton, Alfredo, Bertini, Harry Bidgood, Harry Hudson, and Lew Stone. He continued to record into the 1950s.
