Melbourne A.B.C. Dance Band

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Melbourne A.B.C. Dance Band

Band, AU
Folk, World, Soundtrack and Jazz
A.k.a. The ABC Showband

Formed in 1936 when howard jacobs (3) was contracted by the australian broadcasting corporation to lead the newly formed band on a tour of Australia. In 1969 the name was changed to The ABC Showband, a reflection of the fact that they were playing less dance music and more light styles of music. Brian May (2) became the band leader when the name changed. It was disbanded in 1981 when the ABC sacked the remaining members due to reallocation of funds. Band leaders: howard jacobs (3) 1936 to ? Denis Collinson 1940 to ? MacDuff Williams 1945 to 1954 frank thorne (2) ? to 1969 Al Hammett ?

Members

	Mark Bowden dr, perc AU
	Cecil Norman p GB
	Howard Jacobs sax GB
	Al Hammett
	MacDuff Williams AU
	Frank Thorne

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
The Sentimental Bloke	Albert Arlen, Melbourne A.B.C. Dance Band Conducted By Frank Thorne	1967	Album
Bernie's Boogie / Rudiments For Percussion	Bernie Duggan / Billy Hyde With MacDuff Williams And Melbourne A.B.C. Dance Band	1953	Album

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To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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