Henry Hall (bandleader)
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Henry Robert Hall was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s.
Hall in the mid-1930s
Teddy Bears' Picnic
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"The Teddy Bears' Picnic" is a song consisting of a melody written in 1907 by American composer John Walter Bratton, and lyrics added in 1932 by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. It remains popular in I
Henry Hall (bandleader)
…usually concluded with his own composition "Here's to the Next Time". In 1932 he recorded the songs "Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogeyman" and "Teddy Bears' Picnic" with his BBC Orchestra, featuring singer Val Rosing on vocals. The latter song gained enormous popularity and sold over a million copies. In 1934 his…
Sheet music cover, 1907
Advertisement for sheet music of "The Teddy Bears Picnic" as published in the Star Tribune newspaper in April 1908