Jessie Matthews

About the artist

Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit and vegetable seller. She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland, by Seymour Hicks, music by Charles Taylor, at the Metropolitan Music Hall

Top songs

  1. Dancing on the Ceiling
  2. Souvenir Of Love
  3. My Heart Stood Still
  4. Everything's In Rhythm With My Heart
  5. By The Fireside
  6. Head Over Heels In Love
  7. Got To Dance My Way To Heaven
  8. It's Love Again
  9. When You've Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart
  10. Your Heart Skips A Beat
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  1. I'll Stay With You
  2. One Little Kiss From You
  3. Gangway
  4. Look For The Silver Lining
  5. (I Nearly Let Love Go) Slipping Through My Fingers (Remastered)
  6. Lookin' Around Corners For You (Remastered)
  7. One More Kiss
  8. The Little Silkworm
  9. One More Kiss and Then Goodnight
  10. Trusting My Luck
  11. Tony's In Town
  12. Let Me Give My Happiness To You
  13. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
  14. May I Have the Next Romance With You
  15. Just By Your Example
  16. Three Wishes
  17. I Can Wiggle My Ears
  18. I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers
  19. Moon Or No Moon
  20. Looking Around Corners For You
  21. Lord And Lady Whoozis
  22. When You Gotta Sing, You Gotta Sing
  23. My River
  24. There's That Look In Your Eyes Again
  25. Hold My Hand
  26. Say The Word And It's Yours
  27. May I Have The Next Romance With You?
  28. Journey's End
  29. Whip-Poor-Will
  30. Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle / Over My Shoulder
  31. over my shoulder
  32. Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle / Over My Shoulder (Medley)
  33. Friendly Ghosts
  34. Just A Memory
  35. (I Nearly Let Love Go) Slipping Through My Fingers
  36. Silly Little Hill
  37. Try To Forget
  38. Got To Dance My Way to Heaven (from the film 'It's Love Again')
  39. Turn On The Music
  40. When You Gotta Sing You Gotta Sing
  41. One More Kiss (Then Goodnight)
  42. Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle - Over My Shoulder
  43. everythings in rhythm with my heart
  44. It’s Love Again (from the film 'It's Love Again')
  45. There’s That Look in Your Eyes Again (from the film 'Head Over Heels')
  46. I'm Only A Baby
  47. (a) Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle (b) Over My Shoulder (from the film 'Evergreen')
  48. One Little Kiss From You/Let Me Give My Happiness To You/When You've Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart/Got To Dance My Way To Heaven/I Can Wiggle My Ears - Medley
  49. Dancing on the Ceiling (from the film 'Evergreen')
  50. I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers (from the film 'It's Love Again')
  51. Everything’s in Rhythm with My Heart (from the film 'First A Girl')
  52. The Good Little Girl And Trthe Bad Little Girl
  53. Everything's In Rhythm Wth My Heart
  54. Tony’s in Town (from the film 'It's Love Again')
  55. Lookin' Around Corners For You
  56. Everything's Rhythm In My Heart
  57. the good little girl and the bad little girl
  58. Reverbstorm
  59. Medley: Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle / Over My Shoulder
  60. Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle
  61. I Nearly Let Love Go Through My Fingers
  62. Dancing On the Ceiling (From "Evergreen")
  63. Everything's in Rythym With My Heart
  64. Saxed Up Pt 2 - Sean McCabe Remix
  65. Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow Wow
  66. A Room With A View
  67. I Can Wiggle My Ears (from the film 'First A Girl')
  68. I'd Like To Share With You
  69. Journey’s End
  70. Say The Word And Its Yours
  71. One Little Kiss From You/Let Me Give My Happiness To You/When You've Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart/Got To Dance My Way To Heaven/I Can Wiggle My Ears (Medley)
  72. There’s That Look in Your Eyes Again
  73. (a) Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle (b) Over My Shoulder
  74. Let’s Be Sentimental
  75. Do Re Mi
  76. Lord and Lady Whoozis (from the film 'Gangway')
  77. Say the Word and It’s Yours
  78. It’s Love Again
  79. Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow
  80. The Farewell Speech Of Harriet Green
  81. One Little Kiss From You And Other Songs Medley
  82. Got To Dance My Way To Heaven (from the film "It's Love Again") (Rec. 17 April 1936)
  83. When You’ve Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart (from the film 'Evergreen')
  84. Everything's In Rhythm With My Heart - From 'First A Girl'
  85. Turn On the Music (from the film 'Hold My Hand')
  86. Saxed Up Pt 2 - Andy Ward Remix
  87. I’m Only a Baby (I Maybe Only a Baby)
  88. Reverbstorm (Radio)
  89. Just By Your Example (from the film 'Evergreen')
  90. Sleepy Lagoon

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