Billy Cotton

About the artist

William Edward "Billy" Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, but his musical career had begun in the 1920s. In his younger years Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer (soccer player) for Brentford F.C. (and later, for the then Athenian league club Wimbledon F.

Top songs

  1. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
  2. The Red Red Robin
  3. Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major
  4. Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie
  5. The Clouds Will Soon Roll By
  6. Puttin' On the Ritz
  7. I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts
  8. The New Tiger Rag
  9. Adolf
  10. I've Got Sixpence
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  1. Somebody Stole My Gal
  2. That Lindy Hop
  3. One Little Word Led to Another
  4. In a Golden Coach
  5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
  6. I Took My Harp To A Party
  7. We Must All Stick Together
  8. Nobody's Sweetheart
  9. Friends and Neighbours
  10. The Dam Busters March
  11. Friends & Neighbours
  12. Petite Waltz
  13. I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)
  14. The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
  15. Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty
  16. Skirts
  17. Bessie Couldn'T Help It
  18. The Yellow Rose of Texas
  19. The Man Who Comes Around
  20. Isaw mommy kissing Santa Claus
  21. The Petite Waltz
  22. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  23. Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner
  24. The French Can-can Polka
  25. Dinah
  26. That's Where the South Begins
  27. Poor Robinson Crusoe
  28. Margie
  29. I'm Just Wild About Harry
  30. Memories of You
  31. I'Ve Gone And Lost My Little Yo Yo
  32. From Monday On
  33. Forty Fahsend Fevvers On A Frush
  34. The Fleet's in Port Again
  35. My Southern Home
  36. I've Gone and Lost My Little Yo-Yo
  37. That Rhythm Man
  38. Smile, Darn Ya, Smile
  39. Free
  40. Forty Fahsend Fevvers On a Thrush
  41. Too Many Tears
  42. Heat Wave (vocal - Nat Gonella)
  43. St. Louis Blues
  44. Avalon
  45. Leave the Pretty Girls Alone
  46. The Creep
  47. Oh! How He Misses His Missus
  48. A Bungalow, a Piccolo and You
  49. Hang On The Bell, Nellie
  50. After You'Ve Gone
  51. I Love The Sunshine Of Your Smile
  52. Louisiana Hayride
  53. Dancing With My Shadow
  54. I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby (and My Baby's Crazy 'bout Me)
  55. Dardenella
  56. She Was Only Somebody's Daughter
  57. It Looks Like Love
  58. Jolly Old Christmas
  59. Someone Else I'd Like To Be
  60. Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  61. I Was in the Mood
  62. Bring Your Smile Along
  63. Ooh, That Kiss
  64. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
  65. Nina Rosa
  66. Brazil
  67. When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney
  68. The Marrow Song
  69. Let's Get Friendly
  70. Why Worry
  71. Hyde Park Corner
  72. Robin Hood
  73. Shoe Shine Boy
  74. Shrimp Boats
  75. I Like Bananas
  76. Puttin On The Ritz
  77. You Wouldn't
  78. Wings Over the Navy
  79. Day by Day
  80. The Third Tiger
  81. Shine
  82. Red Red Robin
  83. It's the Girl
  84. You're Lucky to Me
  85. The Marrow Song (Oh What A Beauty)
  86. Why Shouldn't I?
  87. Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
  88. Domani (Tomorrow)
  89. Never Been There Before
  90. Smile Darn Ya Smile

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