AL BOWLLY KEN SNAKEHIPS JOHNSON It Was a Lover & His Lass HMV BD5592 78 VG+
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£ 19 Sold For
Aug 18, 2019 Sold Date
Aug 8, 2019 Start Date
£   10 Start price
4   Number Of Bids
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AL BOWLLY with KEN "SNAKEHIPS" JOHNSON & His West Indian Orch.

+ The Henderson Twins

HMV B.D.5592

It Was A Lover & His Lass / Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind - Fox-trots

78rpm shellac record

Ken “Snakehips” Johnson was Britain’s most successful black bandleader.  Johnson’s band had a long term engagement at London’s Cafe de Paris nightclub where it was performing on March 8, 1941 when two bombs came into the building through a ventilation shaft and exploded in front of the band killing Johnson and dozens of others.

A little over a month later on April 17, 1941 vocalist Al Bowlly was killed when a parachute mine exploded outside of his apartment.


In VG+ Condition

It will be very carefully wrapped. I will combine postage if you buy additional records.



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