Berkeley Square Society Band

The jazz age of the roaring 20s and Charleston rhythms, through the 1930s lavish stage and screen musicals to the time of the swing bands, was a golden era of 20th century popular songwriting.

Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, composer Jerome Kern and his lyricists P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Hammerstein II and Dorothy Fields, the celebrated teams of George & Ira Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart: these names evoke a world of unmatched musical sophistication and verbal finesse.

They and their contemporaries produced a cornucopia of unforgettable songs.

Popularised by Hollywood and the burgeoning record industry, broadcast by radio crooners and taken up worldwide in clubs, hotels and restaurants by bandleaders such as Duke Ellington, the Dorseys, Ray Noble and Glenn Miller, this seemingly endless stream of melody has furnished musicians with a treasure trove of timeless classics ever since.

With some genuine contemporary commercial arrangements and the many lovingly crafted new ones that give the band its unique but authentic sound, the BSSB does full justice to the elegancent and verve of this halcyon period of popular music. Repertoire List

"we were hearing only quality items......the audience finding it harder and harder not to hum along"

"Strange how potent cheap music is."
Noël Coward - Private Lives.

A Foggy Day
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
A Room with a View
But Not for Me
Crazy Rhythm
Embraceable You
He Loves and She Loves
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I’ll String Along with You
In the Still of the Night
I’ll See You Again
I Only Have Eyes for You
It Had to be You
It’s Only a Paper Moon
Jealousy
Let’s Do It
Let Yourself Go
Love is Here to Stay
Makin’ Whoopee
Manhattan
Misty
Putting on the Ritz
The Continental
The Man I Love
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Pick Yourself Up
Red Hot and Blue
Sleepy Lagoon
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Somebody Loves Me
Someone to Watch Over Me
Sophisticated Lady
Stardust
Sunday
Swanee

Tea for Two
The Continental
The Very Thought of You
These Foolish Things
They All Laughed
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Top Hat
You Go to My Head
You’re the Cream in My Coffee


1920s Dance Medley
Early 20s Foxtrot Medley
Glenn Miller Medley
Medley of Popular Waltzes
Musical Comedy Favourites
New Quickstep Medley

........and many more, including instrumental features and Dixieland favourites

Basin Street Blues
Copenhagen
High Society
King Porter Stomp
Livery Stable Blues
Tiger Rag
Tin Roof Blues

Have your favourite tune arranged the BSSB way. - Wherever possible we will fulfil requests to play particular songs

Buy the BSSB CD on ZahZah - ZZCD 9807

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