The 1930s Part Two:

1934, 1935, 1936


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You will find basic credits information on many of these films by clicking on the All Movie Guide and The TV Guide Movie Database pages


The list on this page is not comprehensive- a list that contains every song featured in a 1930's British Movie would be at least twice as long as this! See the book Show Music On Record by Jack Raymond..

Here are two more 1930's lists, from another excellent site on Vintage Performers and Bands of this period:

Film Appearances by Dance Bands

Film Stars and Vocalists

TITLE YEAR (UK) MUSICAL STARS SOUNDTRACK PRODUCTION COMPANY DIRECTOR SONGS BY

Blossom Time (US: April Romance)

Stage:1942

1934 Richard Tauber

Jane Baxter

78- Parlophone RO-20256

Richard Tauber:Love comes at blossom time;First love; Red rose; Impatience; Dearest maiden;Once there lived a lady fair;The question;Love lost for evermore

BIP Paul L. Stein G.H. Clutsam, Richard Tauber, adapted from Schubert
Boots, Boots 1934 George Formby Beryl Formby, Betty Driver, Harry Hudson and His Band 78s- Decca F-3377 F-3800 F-3524 F-3458

78 Regal Z MR-2083

George Formby sings: I Could Make a Good Living at That/Baby/ Why Don't Women Like Me?/Sitting on the Ice in the Ice Rink

Blakeley's Prods/ Butchers Bert Tracy  
Broken Melody 1934 John Garrick, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon   Twickenham/ APD Bernard Vorhaus  
The Broken Rosary 1934 Jean Adrienne, Derek Oldham Vesta Victoria Derek Oldham sings: Ave Maria/ Vesta Victoria: Waiting at the Church Butchers Harry Hughes  
The Camels are Coming 1934 Jack Hulbert, Anna Lee Jack Hulbert:Who's been polishing the sun? Gainsborough /GB Tim Whelan  
Chu Chin Chow Stage 1934 Anna May Wong, George Robey George Robey: The Cobbler's Song Gaumont British Walter Forde Frederic Norton (m/l)
Danny Boy 1934 Dorothy Dickson Dennis O'Neil, Cyril Ritchard, The Marcel de Haes Band Dennis O'Neil sings: Come Back to Erin;The Mountains of Mourne Panther/ Butchers Oswald Mitchell  
Death at Broadcasting House 1934 Elizabeth Welch, Percival Mackey Band   Phoenix Films Reginald Denham  

Evensong

 

1934 Evelyn Laye, Alice Delysia, Browning Mummery

Alec Guinness

Browning Mummery sings: I Wait for You; Santa Lucia; La Traviata/ Evelyn Laye:I wait for you;Santa Lucia; Tipperary; The end of a perfect day;Keep the home fires burning; There's a long long trail awinding;Without you;Love's old sweet song;My home in Tralee GB Victor Saville Knoblock

Mischa Spoliansky

Evergreen

VHS: US/UK

Review

Stage

1934 Jessie Matthews

Barry Mckay

Sonnie Hale

Buddy Bradley (dancer)

Link to Jessie Matthews Site

78-Columbia DB-1403, DB-1404

Jessie Matthews: Daddy Wouldnt Buy me a Bow-Wow; My little wooden hut; When You've got a Little Springtime in your heart**; Just by your example; Tinkle Tinkle, Tinkle; Dear Dear Dear; Over my Shoulder; Harlemania; Dancing on the Ceiling'

** with Buddy Bradley

Sonnie Hale:Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle

Gaumont British Victor Saville Richard Rodgers(m), Lorenz Hart(l)* Harry Woods
Gay Love 1934 FlorenceDesmond

Sophie Tucker

78-HMV B-8223

Sophie Tucker:Louisville Lady, My Extraordinary Man, Hotcha Joe

British Lion Leslie Hiscott  
Give Her a Ring 1934 Zelma O'Neal, Erik Rhodes, Diamond Brothers, Maurice Winnick and His Ciro's Club Band Zelma O'Neal sings: Come On And Love BIP/Pathe Arthur B Woods  
In Town Tonight 1934 Stanley Holloway Stanley Holloway: Albert and the Lion British Lion Herbert Smith  
Jack Ahoy! 1934 Jack Hulbert Tamara Desni Jack Hulbert:My hat's on the side of my head;You've got everything;Goodbye again;Jolly good company; T'aint Gaumont British Walter Forde  
Kentucky Minstrels 1934 Scott and Whaley,The Eight Black Streaks with Lewis Hardcastle, Harry S Pepper and his White Coons, Debroy Summers Band   Real Art/ Universal John Baxter  
Love, Life and Laughter 1934 Gracie Fields

John Loder

Gracie Fields Site

Gracie Fields:Cherie; Out in the Cold, Cold Snow; Riding on the Clouds; I'm a Failure; How Happy the Lover; Love, Life and Laughter ATP/Associated British Maurice Elvey  
Mr. Cinders

Stage

1934 Clifford Mollison

Zelma O'Neal

Zelma O'Neal sings: Just a Blue Sky;I Can Get Used to You; Spread a Little Happiness/ Western Brothers:I think of you dear;Aren't we all? BIP Fred (Friedrich) Zelnick Vivian Ellis (m) Clifford Grey,Greatrex Newman, Leo Robin (l)
Music Hall 1934 Raymond Newell, Debroy Somers Band, The Sherman Fisher Girls Raymond Newell sings: With a Smile on Your Lips/ Debroy Summers:So shy; Ain't Misbehaving Real Art/Radio John Baxter  
My Heart is Calling

[Trilingual Versions]

1934 Jan Kiepura, Sonnie Hale Jan Kiepura:My Heart is Always Calling;You me and love Cine-Allianz/GB Carmine Gallone  

My Song for You

 

1934 Jan Kiepura Aileen Marson, Sonnie Hale Jan Kiepura:My Song for You;Ave Maria;With all my heart;Smile at me just once;O Madonna GB Maurice Elvey  

My Song Goes round the World

 

1934 Joseph Schmidt Joseph Schmidt:My song goes around the world;The linden tree;Santa Lucia;O Paradise;Mourning;Osteria Lied;Frag Nicht;Lenisches Gluck BIP/Wardour Richard Oswald  
Nell Gwynn 1934 Anna Neagle

 

Anna Neagle:Gillie-whack-a-day; Merrymaker's dance British and Dominions/ United Artists Herbert Wilcox  
Oh, Daddy! 1934 Frances Day, Leslie Henson

Features rare film appearance of Swing Band Leader and tap dancer

Ken "Snakehips" Johnson

Frances Day performs three songs "You Bring Out the Savage In Me''; "Now I Understand"; "Hang on to Happiness*" (*with Leslie Henson)

MD: Louis Levy

Gainsborough

/GB

Graham Cutts

Scenario:

Michael Powell

Sam Coslow
Princess Charming 1934 Evelyn Laye, Harry Wilcoxon, George Grossmith, Yvonne Arnaud

Max Miller

Evelyn Laye:The Princess is awakening;Love is a song;Near and yet so far;Brave hearts;On the wings of dawn;When gay adventure calls Gainsborough/ GB Maurice Elvey Arthur Wimperis/

Ray Noble/

Max Kester

The Queen's Affair

(US:Runaway Queen)

1934 Anna Neagle Fernand Graavey, Stuart Robertson, Trefor Jones

 

Anna Neagle:Tonight;I love you so;When I hear your voice; Fisherman's waltz British and Dominions/UA Herbert Wilcox Oscar Strauss

Radio Parade of 1935

Available on VHS in the UK

Review

Still From Film

1934

Will Hay,Billy Bennett, Lily Morris, Nellie Wallace, The Western Brothers, Clapham and Dwyer, The Carlyle Cousins, Gerry Fitzgerald, Peggy Cochrane, Ronald Frankau, Alberta Hunter, Ted Ray, The Buddy Bradley Girls,Eve Becke

 

British International Pictures Arthur B. Woods

Various

Music Score by Benjamin Frankel

Sing As We Go

Available on VHS (UK)

1934 Gracie Fields Stanley Holloway

Gracie Fields Site

78-HMV B-8208

78-HMV B-8209

Gracie Fields:Sing As We Go; Love; Just a Catchy Little Tune; My Little Bottom Drawer; Speak to me Thora

ATP Basil Dean  
Song at Eventide 1934 Fay Compton Fay Compton sings: Wandering To Paradise, My Treasure, For You Alone, Dreaming, Gigolette, Vienna City of My Dreams

Frank Titterton: Evensong;For You alone Sanctuary of the heart

Argyle Talking Films/Butchers Harry Hughes  
Temptation

(Filmed in France)

1934 Frances Day, Stewart Rome Frances Day sings:What is this thing?, Show me the way to Romance Milofilm/GB Max Neufeld  
Two Hearts in WaltzTime 1934 Frances Day, Carl Brisson Frances Day sings: Men, Oh How I Hate Them Nettlefold/ Fogwell/GB Carmine Gallone, Joe May  
Waltzes From Vienna

(US: Strauss's Great Waltz)

Stage: London Alhambra Theatre 1931

1934 Fay Compton, Jessie Matthews

Esmond Knight (from Stage Cast)

Film Still

Berinoff and Charlot

78s (not film S/T) (Rec 1931) Broadcast-3082/ Broadcast-3093

Columbia DB-620

Columbia DX-572

Tom Arnold/ Gaumont British Alfred Hitchcock Johann Strauss Sr./Jr.
Brewster's Millions 1935 Jack Buchanan 78 Columbia DB-1483

78 Columbia DX-662

Jack Buchanan sings:I think I can;One good turn deserves another;Pull down the blind;The carranga

British and Dominions Thornton Freeland Douglas Ferber, Ray Noble
The City of Beautiful Nonsense 1935 Sophie Stewart Derek Oldham Derek Oldham sings: Sally in Our Alley, Summer Night, Bless You Butchers Adrian Brunel  
Car of Dreams 1935 John Mills, Grete Mosheim 78 Columbia FB-1118 Gaumont British Graham Cutts, Austin Melford  
Charing Cross Road 1935 June Clyde,

John Mills, Derek Oldham

Derek Oldham sings: Roadway of Romance British Lion Albert de Courville  
Cock O' The North 1935 Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson, Naughton and Gold

Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson sings: 'Two Tired Eyes' and 'Wake'

on 78 Parlophone R-2109

Panther/Mitchell Films/Butchers Oswald Mitchell  
Come Out of the Pantry 1935 Jack Buchanan 78-Brunswick- 02125

Jack Buchanan:Everything stops for tea; From one minute to another

B and D Jack Raymond  
Dance Band 1935 Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

June Clyde

Charles "Buddy" Rogers performs: Lovey Dovey; TheValparaiso; I Hate to Say Goodnight; Twelfth Street Rag BIP/Wardour Marcel Varnel Mabel Wayne
First a Girl (based onVictor Victoria) (Stage link:Victor Victoria)

VHS:

1935 Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale 78-Decca F-5728, F-5729

Jessie Matthews: Everything's in Rhythm with my Heart*; I Can Wiggle my Ears; Half and Half; Say the word and its yours; Little Silkworm

Donald Stewart:Little silkworm; I can wiggle my ears

*On CD (ASV)

Gaumont British Victor Saville Sigler, Goodhart, Hoffman

Heart's Desire

 

1935 Richard Tauber 78- Parlophone RO-20286 RO-20287 RO-20288 RO-20243

Richard Tauber: Heart's Desire;My world is gold;Let me awaken your heart; Vienna, City of my dreams; A Message sweet as roses; Farewell; Devotion; All Hope is ended

British International Pictures Paul L. Stein Richard Tauber(m) Clifford Grey(l)
Honeymoon for Three 1935 Stanley Lupino

Percival Mackey and his Band

Stanley Lupino:Make hay while the moon shines;I'll build a fence around you;What not madam? Gaiety Films/ Associated British Leo Mittler  
Invitation to the Waltz 1935 Lilian Harvey, Wendy Toye   BIP Paul Merzbach George Posford
Limelight

(US: Backstage)

1935 Arthur Tracy, Anna Neagle Jack Buchanan, Geraldo and His Sweet Music, The Hippodrome Girls 78s-Decca F-5880, F-5881, F-5882

Jack Buchanan: Goodnight Vienna/Anna Neagle: Sandman's serenade; Celebratin'*; Whistling waltz*/Arthur Tracy:Marta, Stranded, Stay Awhile, Whistling Waltz* ,Sandman's Serenade, Farewell Sweet Senorita, Nirewana, We were ment to Meet Again;La Donna e Mobile

Herbert Wilcox/GFD Herbert Wilcox *Harry Woods,

Sigler, Goodhart, Hoffman

Look Up and Laugh 1935 Gracie Fields, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More

Gracie Fields Site

Gracie Fields: Look Up and Laugh; Anna from Anacapresi; Love is Everywhere; Shall I be an Old Man's Darling? ATP/Associated British Basil Dean  
Me and Marlborough 1935 Cicely Courtneidge, Barry Mackay Cicely Courtneidge: All for a shilling a day Gaumont British Victor Saville Noel Gay
Music Hath Charms 1935 Henry Hall and BBC Dance Orchestra, Billy Milton, Hildegarde Dan Donovan, Len Berman 78s Some items on CD: Vocalion

Henry Hall plays: Music Hath Charms, Many Happy Returns, Big Ship, Just Little Bits and Pieces, No Time Like the Present, Juju, I'm Feeling Happy, Here's To The Next Time./Hildegarde sings: Honet Coloured Moon, In My Heart of Hearts

BIP/Wardour Thomas Bentley and others  
No Limit

 

1935 George Formby

 

78 Regal- Zonophone MR-1932 ATP Monty Banks Clifford, Giffe
Off the Dole 1935 George Formby 78 Regal- Zonophone MR-2083

78-Decca F-3752

Mancunian Arthur Mertz  
Peg of Old Drury 1935 Anna Neagle

 

78-Decca F-5649

Anna Neagle:A little dash of Dublin;Kiss me goodnight

B and D Herbert Wilcox  
Play Up the Band 1935 Stanley Holloway Stanley Holloway:Play Up the Band; Music hath charms; Sweeney Todd City/

Associated British

Harry Hughes  
Royal Cavalcade

(US:Regal Cavalcade)

1935 Debroy Summers and his Band, Hermione Baddeley, Florrie Forde Debroy Summers: Whispering: How you gonna keep them down on the farm? BIP/Wardour Thomas Bentley and others  
Sanders of the River

(US: Bosambo)

1935 Paul Robeson

 

78-HMV B-8315

78-HMV B-8316

London Films Zoltan Korda Mischa Spoliansky, Arthur Wimperis
She Shall Have Music 1935 Jack Hylton and his Band, Bryan Lawrence, June Clyde Bryan Lawrence:Don't ask me any questions; Sailing along on a carpet of clouds;May all your troubles be little ones;She Shall have music; My first thrill/Jack Hylton:She Shall have music;The band that Jack built;Moaning Minnie;Blue Danube;Sailing along on a carpet of clouds; Nothing on Earth;Don't ask me any questions; The runaround; The Hylton Stomp; May all your troubles be little ones; My first thrill; Why did she fall for the leader of the band/ Alec Templeton (piano) : Merry month of May/ Diana Ward: Moaning Minnie Twickenham Leslie Hiscott  
Stars on Parade 1935 Debroy Summers and his Band, Sherman Fisher Girls, Robb Wilton, Jimmy James Debroy Summers and his Band:Say it while dancing;Sweet nothings;Stepping out;The moon is tired of shining Butchers Oswald Mitchell  
The Student's Romance 1935 Grete Natzler Grete Natzler sings: There's a Smile in the Skies; Oh Lassie Come; I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg ; Marching Along BIP/Wardour Otto Kanturek  
Sunshine Ahead 1935 Jack Payne Band, The Two Leslies, Webster Booth Sherman Fisher Girls

Jack Payne performs: Sunshine Ahead*; All Jolly Pirates

*on Vocalion Jack Hylton CD

Baxter and Barter Wallace Orton  
Things Are Looking Up 1935 Cicely Courtneidge

Max Miller

78-HMV B-8314

Cicely Courtneidge: Things Are Looking Up

Gaumont British(GB) Albert de Courville  
Two Hearts in Harmony 1935

Bernice Clare,

Jack Harris and his Band

  Time Pictures/Wardour William Beaudine  
When Knights Were Bold 1935 Jack Buchanan 78 Brunswick- 02153

Jack Buchanan:I'm still dreaming;Let's put some people to work;Onward we go

Capitol Jack Raymond  
Beloved Impostor 1936 Rene Ray, Fred Conyngham, Germaine Aussey, Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson sings: Nothing But Dreams Stafford/Radio W. Victor Hanbury  
Calling the Tune 1936 Adele Dixon, George Robey, Charles Penrose, Reginald Forsythe, Sir Henry Wood and the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra, The English Singers Quartette Reginald Forsythe: 'Evergreen Restaurant' Phoenix/Associated British Reginald Denham  
Cheer Up! 1936 Stanley Lupino Sally Gray

Stanley Lupino sings: Cheer Up; There's a star in the sky; London Town; Steak and Kidney; Apart From Business

Songs: 'Steak and Kidney' / 'Apart from Business' composed by Billy Mayerl

Stanley Lupino/ Associated British Leo Mittler Songs by Billy Mayerl
Dreams Come True

Stage

Based on Operetta 'Clo-Clo' by Franz Lehar

1936 Frances Day Nelson Keys Frances Day sings: Love's Melody; So must our love remain London and Continental/ Reunion Reginald Denham Franz Lehar
Everybody Dance 1936 Cicely Courtneidge Cicely Courtneidge sings: Everybody dance; What does it get me?; My! What a different night Gainsborough/ GB Charles Reisner Songs by Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
Everything is Rhythm 1936

Harry Roy and his Band

Mabel Mercer

Princess Pearl (Pearl Vyner Brooke), PhyllisThackery Ivor Morton, Johnnie Nit (dancer)

Mabel Mercer sings:Since Black Minnie's Got the Blues LP:DRG DARC-1-1106

Princess Pearl sings: Man of My Dreams; Without Love; Sky High Honeymoon

Associated British Alfred Goulding  
Forget-Me -Not

(US: Forever Yours)

1936 Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner 78 HMV DA-1458 DA-1459

Gigli sings: Say You Will Not Forget Me, Lullaby, Venetian Serenade, Come Back To Me, Marta, L'Africana, Elisir d 'Amour

London Films/UA Zoltan Korda Arthur Wimperis (?), Mischa Spoliansky
Happy Days are Here Again 1936 Renee and Billie Huston, Syd Seymour and his Mad Hatters  

Argyle/APD

Filmed at Sound City, Shepperton

Norman Lee  
It's Love Again 1936 Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Robert Young Robb Wilton 78-Decca F-5982, F-5983

Jessie Matthews: It's Love Again; Gotta Dance My Way to Heaven; Tony's in Town; I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers

Gaumont British Victor Saville Sam Coslow, Harry Woods
Jack of all Trades

(US:The Two of US)

1936 Jack Hulbert Jack Hulbert: Tap your tootsies;You're sweeter than you thought you were;Where there's you there's me Gainsborough /GB Jack Hulbert, Robert Stevenson  
Keep Your Seats Please 1936 George Formby

Binkie Stewart

Photo

 

78 Regal- Zonophone MR-2199

Binkie Stewart:You've got me standing on the tip of my toes

ATP Monty Banks Formby,Clifford, Giffe
Land Without Music

(US: Forbidden Music)

 

1936

Richard Tauber, June Clyde

Jimmy Durante

78- Parlophone RO-20318 RO-20319

Richard Tauber:You must have music;Heaven in a song; Simple little melody;March of musicians;Smile for me;Sleepy;Fernando

Capitol/GFD Walter Forde Oscar Straus
The Last Waltz

[Bilingual Versions]

1936 Jarmilla Naovotna, Harry Welchman, Gerald Barry Jarmilla Naovotna sings: Believe Me, I'm Quite Sincere; The Magic Waltz Warwick/ Associated Producers Leo Mittler, Gerald Barry Oscar Straus, Mal Wallner, Georg Weber
Melody of My Heart 1936 Lorraine la Fosse, Derek Oldham, Horace Sheldon's Orchestra Derek Oldham sings: Whisper in Your Dreams; I Give You my Love//Wensley Russell:A butcher's love song Incorporated Talking Films/Butchers Wilfred Noy Based on Carmen (Bizet)
Men of Yesterday 1936 Ella Shields Ella Shields:Burlington Bertie UK Films/ Associated Producers John Baxter  
Murder at the Cabaret 1936 Phyllis Robins Phyllis Robins sings: Powder Blues; Forgotten Woman MB Productions Reginald Fogwell  
One Good Turn 1936 Val Rosing Val Rosing:Come swing with me;One Persian night Leslie Fuller/ Associated British Alfred Goulding  
Ourselves Alone

(US: River of Unrest)

1936 Cavan O'Connor Cavan O'Connor sings: Rose of Tralee; Wearing of the Green; Eileen Mavourneen Wardour Walter Summers, Brian Desmond Hurst  
Pagliacci

(US: A Clown Must Laugh)

 

Part in Chemicolour

1936 Richard Tauber Richard Tauber:Such a game; On with the motley;Serenade; Sleep song Trafalgar/ United Artists Karl Grune Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Public Nuisance No. 1 1936 Frances Day

Frances Day sings:Between you and me and the carpet; Swing; Hotsy Totsy; Me and my dog; Blue Mediterranean Sea

Me And My Dog; Swing. On 2 x CD set: 'Spread A Little Happiness - the music and songs of Vivian Ellis' Happy Days CD HD 257-8

Cecil Films/GFD Marcel Varnel Vivian Ellis
Queen of Hearts 1936

Gracie Fields Site

78s: Rex 8818, Rex 8819

Gracie Fields:Queen of Hearts; My First Love Song; Why did I Have to meet you?; Orphans of the Storm

Associated Talking Pictures (ATP) Monty Banks  
Rhythm in the Air 1936 Jack Donohoe, (US dancer), Tutta Rolf, Vic Oliver   Fox British Arthur Woods  
Soft Lights and Sweet Music 1936

Western Brothers, Three Rhythm Brothers

Evelyn Dall Elizabeth Welch Ambrose and his Orchestra TheHollywood Beauties, Turner Layton Wilson Keppel & Betty, Sandy Powell's Harmonica Band, Donald Stewart, Four Flash Devils

Western Brothers:After all that; Don't be a cad/ Three Rhythm Brothers : Ridin' up the river road/ Donald Stewart: South American Joe/ Evelyn Dall, with Ambrose & his Orchestra*: "I've Lost My Rhythm" & "I'm All In"

*78: Decca F.5993

British Lion Herbert Smith  
Song of Freedom

DVD:

1936 Paul Robeson

Elizabeth Welch

Paul Robeson bio

 

78-HMV B-8482, B-8483

Paul Robeson: Sleepy River, Song of Freedom, Lonely Road, The King's Song, The Black Emperor

Hammer/ Exclusive /British Lion

Made at Beaconsfield Studios

J. Elder Wills Eric Ansell (m)

Henrik Ege (l)

Sporting Love 1936 Stanley Lupino Stanley Lupino: Living in clover; In the springtime; I lift up my finger;After the ball; It's Derby day Hammer J. Elder Wills  
A Star Fell from Heaven 1936 Joseph Schmidt Joseph Schmidt:A Star Fell from Heaven;I hear you calling me;I'm happy when it's raining;La coeur de la vie; I'll sing a song of love to you;Wine and Waltz; Excelsior BIP/Wardour Paul Merzbach  
This'll Make You Whistle

Stage

1936 Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph 78s- Brunswick 02347, 02348, 02349

Jack Buchanan:This'll Make You Whistle;There isn't any limit;I'm in a dancing mood; Crazy with love//Elsie Randolph: This'll Make You Whistle; The Wrong Rhumba; My Red Letter Day; I'm in a Dancing Mood

Wilcox/BIP Herbert Wilcox Goodhart, Hoffman
Tropical Trouble 1936 Features Mabel Mercer

Chela and Doray

  City/GFD Harry Hughes