Great Lost Hits Part Unknown - Al Bowlly

THE great Al. Bowlly. Incidentally I can highly recommend "Al Bowlly" by Sid Collin & Tony Staveacre which tells the story of most of the big bands that Bowlly played with and his career from rags to riches and back again to rags and tragedy. In the foreword by Dennis Norden he relates the story of how he played some Bowlly tracks to a "glitteringly successful" American film producer. He commissioned a team to look into Bowwly's life but the project never came to anything. "They're not ready for it" the producer told Norden regretfully, after all the research material was in. "It's a story about a loser, There's no third act". Says everything that you need to know about Hollywood.