Debroy Somers' Band and Chorus - Theatre Memories No. 1 - The Gaiety (arr. Somers) (1936)

Debroy Somers' two 'Theatre Memories' selections spotlighting The Gaiety and Daly's Theatres were rather well done, and it's just a shame that there were not further entries in the series. Here is 'No. 1 - The Gaiety,' recorded on 19 May 1936. From Wikipedia: Debroy Somers (born William Henry Somers, 11 April 1890 in Dublin – 16 May 1952 in London) was a British twentieth-century big band bandleader. He had trained as a musician at the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Chelsea, and having left the school at 15 he joined the 2nd Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment as a boy bandsman in 1905, before retiring in 1913. He rejoined his old regiment in 1916 retiring as a sergeant musician in 1918; being demobilised in Wiltshire. He married a widow Doddy Payne (nee Watts) on 9 September 1912 in Fulham, London; she already had three children from her previous marriage. The family home remained in Twickenham, Surrey for many years. His period of celebrity stretched from the 1920s to the 1940s. He appeared in numerous films, including Second Choice, Stars on Parade and Aunt Sally, and founded the Savoy Orpheans. On 15 June 1925, Somers conducted the first British performance of George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' from the Savoy Hotel with the Orpheans, alongside the Savoy Havana Band and Gershwin himself on piano. The performance was broadcast live by the BBC.