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Billy Cotton and His Band (with Vocal Chorus) -- I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants), Regal Zonophone 1935 (UK)

NOTE: William Edward Cotton ("Bill") (b. 1899 in London -- d. 1969) - English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Today, he is mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and tv personality, although his musical talent emerged as early as the 1920s. In his childhood, Cotton was a choirboy and started his musical career as a drummer. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers by falsifying his age and saw service in World War I in Malta and Egypt, later he learned to fly Bristol Fighter aircraft. In the inter-war years he had several jobs such as bus driver before setting up his own orchestra, the London Savannah Band, in 1924. At first a straight dance band, over the years the London Savannah Band tended towards music hall/vaudeville entertainment, introducing visual and verbal humour in between songs. Their signature tune was "Somebody Stole My Gal", and they made numerous commercial recordings for Decca. Billy Cotton's band also recorded for Regal Zonophone, leaving for future generatyions of the British Swing enthusiasts a lot of excellent hot-swing-like dance renditions of popular hits. After the Second World War, Cotton started his successful Sunday lunchtime radio show on BBC, the Billy Cotton Band Show, which ran from 1949 to 1968. It regularly opened with the band's signature tune and Cotton's call of "Wakey Wakey". From 1957, it was also broadcast on BBC television.
See also my new upload on Dailymotion, presenting another little known British dance band of the Swing era http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs5tmq_arthur-lally-s-orchestra-leave-a-little-for-me-1933_music