🎙I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy - Al Bowlly, British Crooner 1930s, London Scenes 🇬🇧

💓 'I'll Do My Best to Make You Happy' by Al Bowlly, and Ray Noble and His Orchestra. Scenes of London, England, 1932. (3 mins).
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- Albert Allick Bowlly (7 Jan. 1899 – 17 April 1941) was a British vocalist, crooner, and dance band guitarist who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions in Britain and other English speaking countries, seeing further success in the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bowlly

His most popular songs include "Midnight, the Stars and You", "Blue Moon", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "Close Your Eyes", "The Very Thought of You", "Guilty", "Heartaches" and "Love Is the Sweetest Thing"

..on 16 April 1941, during the WW2 German Blitz bombing campaign of Britain, Bowlly was killed by a German Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his London flat at 3:10 a.m. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal.. A blue plaque commemorating Bowlly was installed in Nov. 2013 by English Heritage at Charing Cross Mansion, 26 Charing Cross Road, described as "his home at the pinnacle of his career".

Legacy. Bowlly's cover songs have been widely included in other forms of media.The Caretaker, who sampled Bowlly's music for his Everywhere at the End of Time series of albums from 2016 to 2019, has said the public believed that if Bowlly had not died during the war, he would have been "bigger than Bing Crosby," and that "he had a better voice."...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bowlly

- The Blitz, Bombing of Britain, WW2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz