Al Bowlly - Isle Of Capri

[@TadeuszNowak-qe1eq]

Music and Capri = Perfect

[@danmillikin5503]

My mother passed away several years ago and she comes back and always request this song I noticed in the video if there's an active volcano? Johnnie was born May 1922 love too y'all from Texas hurricane surf club

[@thechinadesk]

I love how these old songs weren't afraid of long instrumental prologues! They took their time. No hurry, no worry.

[@Phrixphrox]

It's great isn't it? Builds the anticipation. Also longer songs =more time for dancing.

[@Matt78collector]

Dispite 78s at the time only being able to record up to 3:30 for timing. It really shows how recording equipment has come

[@Raggy60]

This bloke is brilliant. Evocative of a bygone era and the tunes are still worth listening to today

[@SuperRosie123]

As an 8 yr old I listened to lots of old song and dance records from this era on my great uncle's old gramophone. Loved dancing to it. And 50 yrs on I still love it.

[@Raggy60]

His voice is fantastic and the orchestration on these records is brilliant. Timeless.

[@terenceheslop38]

I was a five. Year old when this record Came on the scene but I can remember my elder sister !icing Al Bowlly singing it. T.Heslop. UK.

[@bluexxg]

Best Isle of Capri of them All...Tino Rossi one is beautiful too

[@lamujohn2463]

Wonderful no one can do the same now,one of its kind

[@tonyfarrugia4751]

What a great singer.Died in an air raid on London in jermyn st.was voted as the world's best crooner in the 30 s

[@scarlettohara4702]

My dad used to sing this. Miss you dad xx

[@SuperRosie123]

We had a gramophone belonging to my great uncle and I loved to dance to the old 78s when I was about 8 . Still have quite a few of the records.

[@Matt78collector]

Recorded August 30th, 1934 Ray Noble & Al Bowlly A big hit during early and mid 1935

[@jmrodas9]

Hearing this I am beginning to realize many of the tunes I liked so much when I was a teenager were really composed in the thirties! Good music never goes out of style. And these songs are special they have that touch modern popular music lacks.

[@sarojhasija3601]

I love this sad song , very beautiful ,I go era back feel pain of the destiny 😢🎼💖💖🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Linhombre69]

Recorded in London on 30 August 1934.

[@Toobworld]

I keep hearing this song on XM Radio's "Savoy Express" and today I heard it played at Perry Mason's party in the 1935 movie "The Case of the Curious Bride" (Errol Flynn's debut - as a corpse!) So I'm glad to find it here on KZbin!

[@MrAceRoth]

Extremely underrated composition. And great vocals from the legendary Al Bowlly. This song is a time capsule into days long gone.

[@jakesauntie1]

The very song that introduced me to the wonderful Al Bowlly

[@Ampico]

I think that some of this footage shows the home that the late Dame Gracie Fields owned in Capri- great footage, thanks for posting!

[@evelynchingan8784]

nice song and I didnt know Al Bowlly recorded this song, I was still young when this song a hit.. thanks for uploading

[@salthepal]

There's a beautiful tango version of this too by Osvaldo Fresedo ... I love the big band era and all the beautiful danceable music!

[@juniorarbigaus9433]

Maxixe rhythm, look the beat,it's not seen a tango

[@SuperRosie123]

One of my grandma's favourite songs along with "When I grow too old to dream".

[@candw87]

What an intro They are proper instrumentalists

[@lorrainegeraghty9670]

Just lovely,thank you.

[@cherylclair]

I remember watching mom and dad dance to this.

[@JCTruzzi]

Doces lembranças. Ilha de Capri. Parece que nada mudou depois de tantos anos. O porto de Napoli, a chegada à ilha., as casinhas todas brancas, o mar extremamente azul, a Gruta Azurra, Anacapri lá em cima e a voz inesquecivel de Al Bowlly morto prematuramente mum bombardeio nazista em Londres....

[@CanadaKen001]

Love it! I discovered Al Bowlly in 2000 in the UK, looking through the CDs.

[@marcelalealrodriguez552]

Al Bowlly lo maximo para mi

[@thomasojii31]

Ah" so lovely, I love the piano playing in this tune.

[@candw87]

The best of the Big Band Era

[@Alaknanda2007]

This is too good... thank you for sharing.

[@SuperRosie123]

I used to sway along to this playing the old shellac record on my grand uncle's gramophone when I was about eight years old.

[@joeok8641]

It's fantastic! Al also did My Capri Serenade which isn't on You Tube Thanks for downloading this with the lyrics... Bravo

[@Dilhan777]

This is lovely! Thank you for posting.

[@clemrit]

this is a great number,magic!!

[@BlueWellyWellies]

Yes , they all seemed to have such really long prologues!

[@alanrobinson5967]

Sheer Brilliance !!

[@jmrodas9]

Cuando uno escucha esta música piensa: ¿Pero qué fue lo que nos pasó? ¿Por qué cambiamos esta que de veras era música por ruido y repeticiones? Es algo que no me explico como en vez de progresar parece que degeneramos en gusto al menos.

[@ianblakesley3349]

Great tune; written by Jimmy Kennedy, I think. Brandon Shaw sang this tune with his Quartet at the Phoenix Arts Club, London, on 30 November, as part of a tribute to Al Bowlly.

[@kenyakimbo]

I just found Al 1 year ago, he is up there with Bing and the rest, what a shame his untimely death, My mates laugh at me but what the hell i love him

[@ninaevans4501]

God Bless Al Bowlly whos life was so sadly lost during the "BLITZ" upon London. Emailing through my grandaughter, I do remember a different version of this song! "She wore a swastika ring on her finger" and so on. The war film "Escape to Athena" oppening credits, also uses the same instrumental theme of the same song.

[@sueparkerjones1070]

For uncle jack and all the family RIP SueX

[@terryclary]

Really wonderful........... Terry XXX

[@SuperRosie123]

Just need someone to dance with.

[@Raggy60]

I'll be round in a minute :)

[@fredrickaappletree3402]

Raggy60 ...... :)

[@dick12235]

Needed this Treat again. Thanks.

[@Thecuregalore94]

Good bitta Al Bowlly. Yesh.

[@MultiXxxyyyzzz]

Very nice, thank you

[@gf1001]

I wonder If Gracie was at home when this was shot as her Capri home and hotel are very visable. Nice vintage film thanks.

[@MultiOldmama]

Oh, ye!

[@petrudiaconu8466]

petru romania ah nnostalgia

[@servantofLoviatar]

@thechinadesk Great point.

[@GODZILLATHEKING-u7t]

2025🎉rip Al bowly

[@KatalinBanoczy]

Csodaszép...

[@brunobaur6790]

Oh Al... sing it again and again... There is another great version without orchestra on KZbin too. Only Al (singing and play acoustic guitar (!) with the brilliant piano player Monia Liter!

[@bairns1234]

But for Al's untimely death he would have been one of the all time greats

[@Linhombre69]

bairns1234 Surely he was in any case.

[@stanochocki8984]

A nifty little song, Sad, so sad about the Isle of Capri....until all the Damn-ass tourist showed up.....it was so sweet, native...and gay...with the likes of the literati.....

[@MrEclecticity]

@kenyakimbo Have you checked out Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer)?

[@SuperRosie123]

@thechinadesk That's because people danced in those days.

[@CrashingCrockery]

So - he was putting the moves on a married chick? I mean I guess he didn't know, but how awkward to kiss her hand; Al Bowlly was used in Kubrick's "The Shining" during the haunted ballroom scenes (notably "Midnight with the Stars and You" among others), and I love his rendition of "Isle of Capris" but it's probably too light for that creepy Overlook Hotel...

[@mushmax]

A great job. You have exposed the Indian song... Dil Dil se Mila ke dekho.

[@candw87]

@salthepal The best time ever- even with a war blowing every thing to pieces Al was killed in the London BLITZ

[@jmrodas9]

I like to hear his fantastic voice and his cool British pronunciation. Just as with Spanish tunes that are better perfomed by singers from Spain, English ones are better perfomed by British singers.

[@AlBowly]

I think he was South African.

[@albertdiner]

the music sounds mexican, like a mariachi song.

[@candw87]

@salthepal The best time ever- even with a war blowing every thing to pieces Al was killed in the London BLITZ I remember him well