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- Season 2007 Joyce Grenfell - Comedy with Breeding
- Season 2007 Doris Day: Virgin Territory
- Season 2007 Alma Cogan - Fabulous
- Season 2007 Vera Lynn - Sincerely Yours
- Season 2007 Carmen Miranda - Beneath the Tutti Frutti Hat
- Season 2007 Matt Monro - The Man With The Golden Voice
- Season 2007 Al Bowlly - The Very Thought of You
- Season 2007 Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
- Season 2007 Louis Prima - King of the Swingers
- Season 2007 The Dankworths
- Season 2007 Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song
- Season 2007 James Last: Non Stop Dancing
- Season 2007 Val Doonican Rocks
- Season 2007 Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods
Legends - Season 2007 Episode 12 James Last: Non Stop Dancing
0.00 60 minutes James Last is one of the most successful bandleaders and arrangers in the history of popular music. In a career lasting more than 50 years, he has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. This documentary goes behind the James Last phenomenon to ask why his music is loved by the public but often loathed by the critics. The music is often described as easy listening or happy music, but what is the James Last sound? Is it just a string of revamped Beatles hits, non-stop Abba medleys, updated classics and polka parties, or is his achievement in popular music being under-estimated and dismissed unfairly by the musical elite? Influenced by jazz, swing, the Beatles and rock and roll in 1960's Hamburg, Last would soon become one of the most famous bandleaders of all time. This programme explores the music, the musicians and the life of the man who invented the non-stop party and re-invented the classics.
