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Originally from Sheffield, TONY GILBERT began his career as a trombonist in the band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. Later he appeared in West End theatre orchestras and in Cabaret work backing Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. It was as part of the touring band for Roy Orbison in 1967 that he visited Australia, where he now resides.

"THOSE FABULOUS FIFTIES" is Tony's first CD for Maestro Records, although he has a strong affiliation with dance music from his varied career to date, which has seen him in the role of trombonist, bassist, pianist and musical arranger for a variety of high profile artists.

The Review  THOSE FABULOUS FIFTIES played by the TONY GILBERT SOUND, a dance band from Queensland, Australia, playing 22 tracks - every well known tune from the 1950s a winner. To give you some idea what to expect and to whet your appitite, the tracks range from a swing tune  ISTANBUL to blues track SINGING THE BLUES/THE STORY OF MY LIFEparticularly like the saunter MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS/LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND and MR SANDMAN a quickstep, will have your feet tapping.The Rumba TOO YOUNG/HERE IN MY HEART is first class, and there are also two New Vogue tracks included on this CD THE LOVLIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR, followed by HOT DIGGITY/HI LILI HI LO, which is ideal for the Lilac Waltz. I have only mentioned a few tracks from this CD and all have excellent strong tempo, making it a first class music CD for dancing at your sequence club. Maestro must be congratulated for having this CD in their catalogue
 THOSE FABULOUS FIFTIES NOW AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA AT ONLY AU$25.00 plus $5.00 postage and packing


Have Just purchased this wonderful CD on the internet (first time) It's the best Christmas Dance Music I have ever heard  Thought you'd like to know--- Eleanor Sharpe  South Australia

----- Original Message -----
 
 
We received that "We Need a Little Christmas" CD, yesterday, 25th November and..............
 
It's FABULOUS, Tony!!!!!  You certainly "beat out a great tune or two".......especially those great Medleys!!!
 
Thanks for this great music and I have pass on the details, so as a very close friend of ours, who does a lot of dancing, in case they want a copy for themselves!!! 
 
I hadn't thought about these lovely folks before, about your CDs, because I now know, your CDs are available to purchase thru the post!!!  They don't have to come to one of your presentations, as we do, when possible!!!
 
So, Tony and dear Patti, keep doing what you both do best and we love your music and love meeting-up with you, everytime!!!
 LOVE and BEST WISHES,
 
Louis and Clevey XXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOO


 


Congratulations on your wonderful CD.Both of you should be very proud of yourselves.The singing is great and Tony's music excellent.  Margaret and Joe

WHOW!!!!!!!!! 
We are absolutely OVERWHELMED with your "When You Taught Me How to Dance" latest Vogue Dancing CD!!!!  It brought tears to our eyes, as we played it in the car, on our return from Brisbane to-day!!!  And it never missed a beat, playing, as well.
That has to be, because Tony has done the production of this CD!!  So keep up the great work, Tony!!!
We ARE.............ECSTATIC with it!!!  So, bring on another!!!
Louis and Clevey
CONGRATULATIONS on your disc and thank you for sending me a copy in time for our dance. I used 6 of your tracks and the day was a wonderful success. Well done and congratulations , it was excellent music for dancing.
Regards Trish and Geoff
Loved Tony Gilbert's arranging of tunes--All up a good CD--I would buy more if Tony Maintains his current standard of playing-- (Anon)
Re "When You Taught Me How To Dance"  I thought the backing was great so you had better hit my credit card! (anon) 
 
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Your best CD to date --we loved it---Jim and Dot Fort Lauderdale
We played your CD over dinner the  other night and our friends would like a copy, could you please send. Atlanta GA
Great songs, great production Jeremy Aukland NZ
Went to lunch with Gitano's parents and all they played was YOUR CD!!
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As background mood music this CD added a bit of class to my restaurant. Do you have anything more? regards from Renaldo Manchester England

What a great cd-propermusic at last I'd heard of you but only found your site by accident!! Glad I did! Alan and Margaret Swithins.
Perth W.A. Australia
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Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:05 AM
Subject: Come Dancing in Sequence

Hi Patti & Tony
 
I thought you may be interested to know that I have just uploaded our review of your recent CD to our website at http://sequencedancecds.googlepages.com/home.html.  We were delighted by your CD as you will see.  I would be most grateful if you could check the details I have entered on the links page.  Please advise me if there are any errors.  Similarly with the description details of your CD under the "Patti Bond & Tony Gilbert" page.  If there are any changes you would like us to make to the title/descriptive data at the top of the table please let us know.  I certainly hope this CD won't be your last.  One comment made to me was that with CDs like yours, what other sequence dance CDs do we need!
 
Kind regards from NZ
ANYONE CAN LEARN HOW TO DANCE VOTED #1
Hi Patti & Tony
 
The NZ Modern Classical Sequence Dancing Federation (NZMCSDF) puts out a "Sequence Hotline" newsletter to all its members every couple of months or so.  I regularly write a "Music Box" item which reviews new CDs for this newsletter.  I thought you might be interested in the following extract from my "Music Box" item to be included in the January 2009 edition.
 
........  Following my mother’s advice I’ve kept the best new release until last: Tony Gilbert’s “Anyone Can Learn To Dance” released by New Vogue Music.  All 24 tracks contained good music, five being very good, and two very, very good (a Samba and a Tango).  The very very good Samba (“Punta Langosta”) was Tony’s own composition as was one of the New Vogue Waltzes (“Anyone Can Learn HowTo Dance”).  One pleasing aspect of the CD was that all tracks were a standard six sequences long except for the New Vogue Waltzes and Sambas which were eight sequences long.  All these sequence lengths are ideal and ensure that the dancer is neither short-changed nor over-exerted.  The only comparatively minor faults with the CD are with track 3, a Foxtrot, which is not in phase at one point; and tracks 12 and 19 where the tempos are given as 54 and 52 rather than the actual 53 and 54 bpm.  This is the second CD produced by Tony and his wife Patti Bond, a singer and entertainer in Australia.  I have not heard their first CD “When You Taught Me How To Dance” but if it’s as good as this one it should be worth having.  I understand from Tony that he produces vocal versions of his CDs, with Patti as the singer, but has found that dancers are not too keen on vocal CDs.  Certainly there is an art in producing good vocal CDs.  Anyone interested in purchasing Tony’s CD(s) can do so through www.newvoguemusic.com.  I imagine that as Tony and Patti’s reputation spreads their CDs will eventually be marketed through Maestro.
 
Hopefully, you will see some more orders for your CD(s) once the January issue of "Sequence Hotline" has been distributed.
 
Enjoy the coming Festive season
 
Colin
 

Tony,
Once again you have produced a winner with your new C D. The music is superb ,you should have no trouble selling it to the most discerning of dancers and teachers. Margaret and I both enjoyed it immensely. You both should be proud of your achievements in such a short time.
Margaret and Joe

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