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.
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- You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
- The Red Red Robin
- Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major
- Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie
- The Clouds Will Soon Roll By
- Puttin' On the Ritz
- I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts
- The New Tiger Rag
- Adolf
- I've Got Sixpence
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- Somebody Stole My Gal
- That Lindy Hop
- One Little Word Led to Another
- In a Golden Coach
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- I Took My Harp To A Party
- We Must All Stick Together
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Friends and Neighbours
- The Dam Busters March
- Friends & Neighbours
- Petite Waltz
- I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)
- The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
- Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty
- Skirts
- Bessie Couldn'T Help It
- The Yellow Rose of Texas
- The Man Who Comes Around
- Isaw mommy kissing Santa Claus
- The Petite Waltz
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner
- The French Can-can Polka
- Dinah
- That's Where the South Begins
- Poor Robinson Crusoe
- Margie
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- Memories of You
- I'Ve Gone And Lost My Little Yo Yo
- From Monday On
- Forty Fahsend Fevvers On A Frush
- The Fleet's in Port Again
- My Southern Home
- I've Gone and Lost My Little Yo-Yo
- That Rhythm Man
- Smile, Darn Ya, Smile
- Free
- Forty Fahsend Fevvers On a Thrush
- Too Many Tears
- Heat Wave (vocal - Nat Gonella)
- St. Louis Blues
- Avalon
- Leave the Pretty Girls Alone
- The Creep
- Oh! How He Misses His Missus
- A Bungalow, a Piccolo and You
- Hang On The Bell, Nellie
- After You'Ve Gone
- I Love The Sunshine Of Your Smile
- Louisiana Hayride
- Dancing With My Shadow
- I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby (and My Baby's Crazy 'bout Me)
- Dardenella
- She Was Only Somebody's Daughter
- It Looks Like Love
- Jolly Old Christmas
- Someone Else I'd Like To Be
- Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- I Was in the Mood
- Bring Your Smile Along
- Ooh, That Kiss
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
- Nina Rosa
- Brazil
- When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney
- The Marrow Song
- Let's Get Friendly
- Why Worry
- Hyde Park Corner
- Robin Hood
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Shrimp Boats
- I Like Bananas
- Puttin On The Ritz
- You Wouldn't
- Wings Over the Navy
- Day by Day
- The Third Tiger
- Shine
- Red Red Robin
- It's the Girl
- You're Lucky to Me
- The Marrow Song (Oh What A Beauty)
- Why Shouldn't I?
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
- Domani (Tomorrow)
- Never Been There Before
- Smile Darn Ya Smile
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