Chris Barber on Desert Island Discs, 1958

According to an e-mail message I recently received, Chis Barber appeared on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs with host Roy Plomley in about 1958. Chris's choices were:

  • Heavenly Sunshine - Laura Henton
  • Chicago Breakdown - Big Maceo Merryweather
  • Automobile - Lightning Hopkins
  • Saratoga Shout - Luis Russell Orchestra
  • Market Street Stomp - The Missourians
  • Fight on, your time ain't long - Biddle Hill Quartet
  • Hotter than that - Louis Armstrong *
  • Port de Versaille - Modern Jazz Quartet
* This is the only one of the eight I have in my own collection (Ed J).