- Vivian Ellis: Spread
A Little Happiness
 Compilation
album. Includes: I'm On A See-Saw; Pardon My English; Let's Lay
Our Heads Together [these three from Jill Darling]; How Do You
Do, Mr Right?; The Fleet's Lit Up [these two from The Fleet's
Lit Up]; The Wind In The Willows [from Cochran's 1930 Revue];
Put That Down In Writing [from Out Of The Bottle]; Every Little
Moment; On The Amazon; Spread A Little Happiness [these three
from Mr Cinders]; Sweep [from Falling For You]; The Flies Crawled
Up The Window [from Jack's The Boy]; Medley; Other People's Babies;
I Will/The First Waltz [these four from Streamline]; Drop In
Next Time You're Passing; Follow The Bride; Maybelle; She's My
Lovely [these three from Hide and Seek]; Little Boy Blues [from
Clowns In Clover]
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- This compilation from Pearl Records might seem much more
satisfactory had not the double-CD compilation on Flapper (see
review below) eclipsed it at every turn. Neither issues have
anything from the musicals on which Ellis collaborated with A.
P. Herbert, or from such later Ellis pieces as Listen To The
Wind and And So To Bed. It is a pleasing collection, but the
two-disc collection of Ellis is a much more satisfying experience.
The liner notes for this are feeble.
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