 British bandleader Billy Cotton (1899-1969) Image by Unknown authorUnknown author, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Billy CottonBilly Cotton Billy Cotton English bandleader (1899–1969) For the English football player of the 1920s, see Billy Cotton (footballer, born 1894). William Edward Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969)[1] was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, but his musical career had begun in the 1920s. In his younger years, Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer for Brentford (and later, for the then Athenian league club Wimbledon),[citation needed] an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth, which he piloted himself. His autobiography, I Did It My Way, was published… (Source: Wikipedia)
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