Al Bowlly

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‘Al’ Bowlly was a popular singer in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, making more than 1,000 recordings between 1927 and 1941. His song “My Woman” was resurrected as a chart-topper in 1997 as

Your Woman (a free download on last.fm).

Bowlly was born in Mozambique to Greek and Lebanese parents who met en route to Australia and moved to South Africa. He was brought up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and killed by the explosion of a parachute mine outside his apartment in London during the Blitz.

Bowlly showcased a range of material unsurpassed by any contemporary other than perhaps Bing Crosby. He was also a true international recording artist. After a series of odd jobs across Europe in his youth, he gained his musical experience singing for a dance band led by Jimmy Liquime on a tour of India and Singapore during the mid-1920s. However, he fell out with Liquime and was fired whilst the band was still in India. Bowlly had to work his passage back home, through busking. Just one year after his 1927 debut recording date in Berlin, Bowlly arrived in London for the first time as part of Fred Elizalde’s orchestra. That year, “If I Had You” became one of the first popular songs by an English jazz band to become well known in America as well, and Bowlly had gone out on his own by the beginning of the 1930s. First, however, the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 resulted in Bowlly being made redundant and returning to several months of busking to survive.

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Track	Time	Listeners	Download
Add this track to your playlist Love Is the Sweetest Thing	0:30	2,825	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Twentieth Century Blues	0:30	823	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Lover Come Back To Me	0:30	1,648	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Sweet And Lovely	0:30	234	Buy mp3

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Love Is the Sweetest Thing

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Twentieth Century Blues	36
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Love Is the Sweetest Thing	24
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Guilty	17
18	4	Add this track to your playlist I'll String Along with You	5
8	5	Add this track to your playlist The Very Thought of You	4
43	5	Add this track to your playlist Dinner At Eight	4
17	5	Add this track to your playlist Easy To Love	4
8	5	Add this track to your playlist You Couldn't Be Cuter	4
17	5	Add this track to your playlist Sweet And Lovely	4
3	10	Add this track to your playlist What More Can I Ask?	3
3	10	Add this track to your playlist You're Mine You	3
3	10	Add this track to your playlist Goodnight Vienna	3
38	10	Add this track to your playlist Hang Out The Stars In Indiana	3
3	10	Add this track to your playlist Now It Can Be Told	3
	10	Add this track to your playlist Did You Ever See A Dream Walking	3
21	10	Add this track to your playlist Midnight, The Stars And You	3
3	10	Add this track to your playlist South of the Border	3
3	10	Add this track to your playlist A Man and His Dream	3
6	19	Add this track to your playlist Time On My Hands	2
12	19	Add this track to your playlist Heart And Soul	2

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Love Is the Sweetest Thing	711
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Twentieth Century Blues	496
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Lover Come Back To Me	246
2	4	Add this track to your playlist Guilty	173
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Sweet And Lovely	129
1	6	Add this track to your playlist It Was a Lover and His Lass	127
–	7	Add this track to your playlist It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow	115
1	8	Add this track to your playlist You Couldn't Be Cuter	111
1	8	Add this track to your playlist it's all forgotten now	111
1	10	Add this track to your playlist What More Can I Ask?	106
1	11	Add this track to your playlist Top Hat, White Tie And Tails	103
5	12	Add this track to your playlist The Day You Came Along	100
6	12	Add this track to your playlist There's Something in the Air	100
1	14	Add this track to your playlist Easy Come, Easy Go	98
3	14	Add this track to your playlist Goodnight Vienna	98
3	16	Add this track to your playlist Easy To Love	95
6	17	Add this track to your playlist Dinner At Eight	92
–	18	Add this track to your playlist Now It Can Be Told	90
3	19	Add this track to your playlist Small Fry	89
5	20	Add this track to your playlist The Piccolino	88
7	21	Add this track to your playlist The Isle of Capri	85
2	22	Add this track to your playlist You've Got What Gets Me	83
1	23	Add this track to your playlist Lullaby of the Leaves	82
6	24	Add this track to your playlist Little Drummer Boy	81
–	25	Add this track to your playlist South of the Border	80
5	26	Add this track to your playlist You're Mine You	79
1	26	Add this track to your playlist Marta	79
1	28	Add this track to your playlist Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind	73
–	29	Add this track to your playlist A Man and His Dream	66
–	30	Add this track to your playlist The Very Thought of You	65
1	31	Add this track to your playlist Goodnight Sweetheart	64
–	32	Add this track to your playlist All I Do is Dream of You	33
–	33	Add this track to your playlist My Woman	32
–	34	Add this track to your playlist Midnight, The Stars And You	24
1	35	Add this track to your playlist Time On My Hands	23
1	36	Add this track to your playlist Close Your Eyes	21
1	36	Add this track to your playlist Got A Date With An Angel	21
1	38	Add this track to your playlist Love Locked Out	20
3	38	Add this track to your playlist Hang Out The Stars In Indiana	20
3	40	Add this track to your playlist Two Sleepy People	19
1	41	Add this track to your playlist I've Got You Under My Skin	18
–	42	Add this track to your playlist I'll String Along with You	17
2	43	Add this track to your playlist One Morning in May	16
1	44	Add this track to your playlist By The Fireside	15
2	44	Add this track to your playlist Isle Of Capri	15
3	46	Add this track to your playlist I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy	14
4	46	Add this track to your playlist Fancy Our Meeting	14
–	48	Add this track to your playlist Dreaming	13
2	49	Add this track to your playlist The Touch of Your Lips	12
–	49	Add this track to your playlist Hold My Hand	12

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