JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2023

 ALMA and LES HOWARD 
Alma recorded four songs with Les in 1953. The first one being 'On the First Warm Day' - April. Les recording a solo 'The Windsor Waltz' on the B side.  / 'Hug Me a Hug' - June, on which Alma recorded a solo 'Till They've All Gone Home', on the A side. / Finally together on both sides of a record released in November. 'Over and Over Again' and 'Isn't Life Wonderful' from the film of that name. The version is very faithful to the version included in the film.

The recording details are HMV B 10464, B 10505 & B 10601
Three recordings are available on Youtube: 'On the First Warm Day.' 'Hug Me a Hug' and 'Isn't Life Wonderful'

Les at this time was a fellow HMV pop vocalist. He had sung with Eric Winstone's Band and fatured on radio's 'Our Kind of Music' with The BBC Northan Dance Orchestra. By 1957 he was fronting his own band mainly around the the North of England.