I got interested in pre-WW2 English ballroom music through The Caretaker - a magnificent experimental artist who has made lots of records with warped sounds from this period. Al Bowlly is said to sing like a ghost. (I've been reading k-punk on 'Hauntology' and bowlly). He really does. The singing detective and the shining feature his music and listening to him, the reason is obvious. chilling, sentimental, eerie stuff that, as K-punk observes, stray far from the panting, adolescent lustings of "typical rock n' roll". He was famous in the thirties. Al Bowlly. "The man who invented crooning", "the first pop artist". The man who spent a few bland years in America. The man who died during a bomb attack. I would certainly invite him to my tea party. Well, have some scones, some gin and say hi to the ghosts.
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