Billy Cotton

Aliases: The Billy Cotton Band
Billy Cotton and His Band
Billy Cotton and His Band featuring The Mill Girls and The Bandits
Billy Cotton and His Band (with Vocal Chorus)
Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers
Billy Cotton and His Orchestra
Billy Cotton's London Savannah Band
Bohemian Band [Billy Cotton]
Real name: William Edward Cotton
Born: May 6, 1899
Died: March 25, 1969
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: Dance band leader and drummer. Cotton became a radio personality, hosting the Sunday BBC program "The Billy Cotton Band Show" from 1949 to 1968.
Related: Alan Breeze Singer for Cotton's band

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Originals

Title	Performer	Release date	Covered by
Celebratin'	Billy Cotton	April 1936	Big Ben Banjo Band with The Mike Sammes Singers
Down by the Old Zuyder Zee	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: Alan Breeze and The Bandits	August 1950	(2 artists)
Horsey, Horsey	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	(5 artists)
I'm In Love For The Last Time	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Unverified
In a Golden Coach (There's a Heart of Gold)	Billy Cotton and His Band with Doreen Stephens and Chorus	April 1953	Dickie Valentine - Accompaniment directed by Johnny Douglas
In The Mountains Of The Moon	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Unverified
Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1950	(29 artists)
South of the Border	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	(222 artists)
The Blacknote Serenade	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: The Bandits	July 1951	Unverified
There'll Always be an England	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	(16 artists)
There's Something About a Soldier	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	(18 artists)
What a Referee	Billy Cotton and His Band - vocalists Billy Cotton and Alan Breeze	February 1951	Max Bygraves - Orchestra conducted by Frank Barber
When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring Billy Cotton and The Bandits	December 1953	(2 artists)
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Part 1	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	(13 artists)

Covers by Billy Cotton

	Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
	Adolf	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1939	(unknown)
	After You've Gone	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	1936	Campbell and Burr
i	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
	Alexander's Ragtime Band - Me and My Shadow - My Blue Heaven	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC, Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone) with Piano, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
	A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet	Billy Cotton & His Band	1933	Bud Billings Trio
	Alone at a table for two	Billy Cotton and His Band	May 1936	Unverified
	America, I Love You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Sam Ash
i	An American in Paris	Billy Cotton and His Band	1966	Victor Symphony Orchestra with George Gershwin
	A New Moon and an Old Serenade	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1939	Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Judy Ellington REL, Tommy Dorsey and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard REC
	A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Judy Campbell PRF, Vera Lynn REC
	Around the World - True Love	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Kitty Kallen REL, Bing Crosby - Grace Kelly REC, Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus
	At the Balalaika	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Unverified
	Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1932	Jack Denny and His Orchestra
i	Avalon	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Emilio De Marchi
	Ballin' the Jack - After the Ball	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Prince's Band, George J. Gaskin REL, Sam Doctor PRF
i	Basin Street Blues	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	July 1936	Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
	Baubles, Bangles and Beads	Billy Cotton and His Band, The Rita Williams Singers	1966	(unknown), Doretta Morrow, Richard Oneto & Chorus PRF, Peggy Lee REC
	Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now	Bohemian Band [Billy Cotton]	1928	Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orch.
	Begin the Beguine	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Reid REC,REL, June Knight PRF
	Bei mir bist du schön (Means That You're Grand)	Billy Cotton and His Band (with Vocal Chorus)	March 1938	Aaron Lebedeff and Lucy Levin, Andrews Sisters
	Believe It, Beloved	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	"Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
	Bessie Couldn't Help It	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1930	Unverified
	Big Head (Big 'Ead)	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1953	Max Bygraves with The Song Pedlars and Rhythm Accomp. conducted by Frank Cordell
i	Black and Tan Fantasy	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	The Washingtonians (Duke Ellington)
	Black Bottom - Deep in the Heart of Texas	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders, Alvino Rey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bill Schallen and Skeets Herfurt
	By A Lazy Country Lane	Billy Cotton and His Band	April 1931	Unverified
i	Bye, Bye Blues	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	1936	Fred Hamm and His Orchestra
	Can't We Talk It Over	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
	Change Partners	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Fred Astaire with Ray Noble and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
	Church Bells Told	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kay Weber
	Cinderella (Stay in My Arms)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Joe Loss and His Band
	Come into the Parlour	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1950	Florrie Forde
	Corn Silk	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Wayne King and His Orch.
	Dancing with My Shadow	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Al Mitchell and His Orchestra
	Day In - Day Out	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Unverified
	Dearie	Billy Cotton And Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and his Orchestra and Pete Moore and his Orchestra (Pete Moore, Frank Cordell, Kathie Kay, Billy Cotton)	1961	Unverified
	Deep Purple	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra, Dick Todd with Orchestra
	Doin' the New Low Down	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	1936	Bill Robinson [US1] PRF, The California Ramblers REC
	Don't Dilly Dally on the Way	Billy Cotton and His Band & Singers	1966	(unknown)
	Don't Let That Moon Get Away	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bob Allen
	Dream - Are You Lonesome Tonight	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	The Pied Pipers - With Paul Weston and His Orchestra, Charles Hart [US]
	Egyptian-Ella	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Ted Weems and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Country Washburn
	F. D. R. Jones	Billy Cotton and His Orchestra	1939	Unverified
	Flash Bang Wallop	Billy Cotton	1963	Tommy Steele and Company
	For Me and My Gal	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	M.J. O'Connell
	Friends and Neighbors	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1954	Unverified
	Friends and Neighbours	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring The Bandits	April 1954	(unknown)
	Goodnight Angel	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bob Allen REL, Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters REC
	Goodnight Sweetheart - The Last Mile Home	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Ray Noble], Gracie Fields
	Goodnight Vienna	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1932	(unknown)
	Half-a-Sixpence	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay	1963	Tommy Steele and Marti Webb PRF,REL, Roy Sone & David Heneker REC
	Hands Across the Table	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Lucienne Boyer, Lud Gluskin and His Continental Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Clark
	Hang on the Bell Nellie	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1949	Beatrice Kay - Orchestra under the Direction of Elliot Jacoby REC, Connie Haines and The Highlighters with Chorus and Orchestra directed by Roy Ross REL
	Happy to Make Your Acquaintance	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Robert Weede
	Head over Heels	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Ambrose and His Orchestra
	Hearts of Stone	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring The Bandits	February 1955	Unverified
	Heat Wave	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Ethel Waters PRF,REC,REL
	Hey, Little Hen	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	(unknown)
	Hold Tight	Billy Cotton & His Band - Vocalist: Jack Doyle (Billy Cotton, Jack Doyle)	1939	Unverified
	Hometown	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Flanagan and Allen, Comedians with Orchestra conducted by Scott Wood
	How Green Was My Valley	Billy Cotton & His Band	1942	(unknown)
	How'm I Doin', Hey, Hey	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Clara Smith – Piano Accomp. by Lem Fowler
	Humpty Dumpty Heart	Billy Cotton & His Band	1942	Bing Crosby with Woody Herman and His Orchestra
	Hurry Home	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Charles Wilson
	I Can't Do My Bally Bottom Button Up	Billy Cotton and His Band, Alan Breeze	1966	(unknown)
i	I Can't Give You Anything but Love	Billy Cotton's London Savannah Band	1929	Adelaide Hall PRF, Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators – Vocal Chorus by Al Shayne REC
	I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions in Music – Vocal Refrain by Tommy Taylor
	If I Were a Blackbird	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalist: Billy Cotton and Alan Breeze	November 1950	(unknown)
	If the Rain's Got to Fall	Billy Cotton	1963	Tommy Steele & the Rita Williams Singers REC, Tommy Steele and Company PRF,REL
	If You Were the Only Girl in the World	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	George Robey and Violet Loraine
	I Heard	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Don Redman and His Orchestra
	I Know Now	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Dick Powell BRD, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
	I Like Mountain Music	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Unverified
	I Like to Go Back in the Evening	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	(unknown)
	I'll Never Make the Same Mistake Again	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Philip Green]
	I'll Walk Alone	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1952	Louis Prima and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lily Ann Carol REC,REL, Dinah Shore BRD
	I Lost My Gal from Memphis	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Roy Evans
	I'm Just Wild About Harry	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Lottie Gee and Chorus
	I'm Sending You the Siegfried Line (To Hang Your Washing On)	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1939	(unknown)
	In a Little Gypsy Tea Room	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lee Bennett
	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring The Mill Girls and The Bandits	November 1953	Jimmy Boyd accompanied by Norman Luboff
	It Had to Be You	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	The Ambassadors [US2]
	It Happened in Monterey	Billy Cotton and His Band	September 1930	John Boles and Jeanette Loff with Paul Whiteman and Orchestra
	It's the Girl	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Unverified
	It's the Talk of the Town	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra
	I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts	Billy Cotton and His Band	1969	Primo Scala and His Banjo and Accordion Band with The Keynotes
	I've Got My Eyes on You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Herb Muse REC,REL, Fred Astaire PRF,BRD
	I Wish I Knew a Bigger Word Than Love	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	(unknown)
	Jeepers Creepers - Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Benešova dechová hudba, Ultraphon-duo, The Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra BRD, Ethel Waters with Edward Mallory and His Orchestra REC, Eddie DeLange and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Elisse Cooper and Chorus
	Jolly Good Company	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1931	(unknown)
	Just an Echo in the Valley	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Bing Crosby REC, Bobby Brown and His Accordion Band REL
	Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	(unknown)
	Kiss the Boys Goodbye	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Mary Martin with Oscar Levant on piano BRD, Bea Wain REC,REL
	Knees Up, Mother Brown	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: Alan Breeze and The Bandits	1950	(unknown)
i	Knightsbridge March	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1956	Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra
	Lambeth Walk	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Lupino Lane, Teddie St. Denis and Company
	Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	Grace Johnston
	Let Me Call You Sweetheart	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Arthur C. Clough
	Let's Face the Music and Dance	Billy Cotton and His Band	May 1936	Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REL, Nat Brandwynne and The Stork Club Orchestra REC, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD
	Let the Great Big World Keep Turning	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	(unknown)
	Let the People Sing	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Evelyn Laye – Accompanied by Geraldo and His Orchestra with Chorus
	Let Us Be Sweethearts over Again	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Joe Loss and His Band
	Little Mother	Bohemian Band [Billy Cotton]	1928	Harold Van Duzee and the Roxy Male Quartette BRD, Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lewis James REC
	Little Sir Echo	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	(unknown), Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights
	Lizzie Borden	Billy Cotton and His Band	1956	Joe Lautner, Bill Mullikin, Paul Lynde, Pat Hammerlee and Company
	London by Night	Billy Cotton and His Band	1966	Frank Sinatra with Orchestra directed by Axel Stordahl
	London Pride	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1941	Noel Coward
	Lords of the Air	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Unverified
	Love Makes the World Go Round	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Henry Hall and His Orchestra
	Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me - Woody Woodpecker Song	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Furman and Nash, (unknown)
	Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	(unknown)
	Maria Elena	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Hermanos Castilla, Adolph Hofner and His Texans
	Mary Lou	Billy Cotton and His Band	September 1946	Gil Johnson
	Me and My Girl	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Lupino Lane, Teddie St. Denis and Dancers
	Me and the Moon	Billy Cotton & His Band	1936	(unknown)
i	Memories of You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
	Moonlight on the Waterfall	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Ambrose and His Orchestra (Vocal Chorus by Vera Lynn)
	My Ain Folk	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Unverified
	My Prayer	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Orchester Georges Boulanger, Joe Loss and His Band (Vocalist: Chick Henderson) REL, Ambrose and His Orchestra REC
	My Thanks to You	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: Doreen Stephens and Alan Breeze	June 1950	Steve Conway
	Nobody's Sweetheart	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	Isham Jones and His Orchestra
	Not for All the Rice in China	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Paul Whiteman, Ramona and Orchestra
	Now That You're Gone	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	(unknown)
	Oh! Ma-Ma	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	(unknown), Dick Robertson and His Orchestra
	Oh! Muki, Muki Oh	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Unverified
	Oh Nicholas! Don't Be So Ridiculous	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: Alan Breeze and The Bandits	March 1950	Tommy Trinder
	Oh! What a Beautiful Morning - Daisy Bell	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Alfred Drake with Oklahoma Orchestra under direction of Jay Blackton REL, Alfred Drake PRF, Katie Lawrence PRF, Dan Quinn REL
	Ole Faithful	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	The Hill Billies [GB]
	On a Steamer Coming Over	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Aida Ward PRF, Meyer Davis and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Charlie Palloy REC,REL
	One Look at You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Yvette with Orchestra
	On Treasure Island	Billy Cotton & His Band	1936	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edyth Wright
	On Your Toes	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Unverified
	Play, Fiddle, Play	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1933	George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Dave Marshall
	Please Be Kind	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	(unknown)
i	Rag Doll	Bohemian Band [Billy Cotton]	1928	B. A. Rolfe and His Palais d'Or Orchestra
	Rhymes	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1931	Leslie Sarony
	Rhythm of the Rain	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kay Weber
	Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Dick Powell with Harry Sosnik and His Orchestra
	Roll Me Over (The Bowling Alley Song)	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: Billy Cotton, Alan Breeze and The Bandits	1950	(unknown)
	Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1931	Roy Evans
	Rosewood Casket	Jimmy Dean, Billy Cotton, and the Western Gentlemen	1963	Ernest Thompson
	Rosita (Her Name Was Rosita)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Joe Loss and His Band (Vocalist: Chick Henderson)
	Round the Marble Arch	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1932	Arthur Lally and His Orchestra
	Salome	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	(unknown)
	Sand in My Shoes	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Tommy Ryan REC, Don Ameche & Mary Martin BRD
	Say It Isn't So	Billy Cotton & His Band	1933	Unverified
	Say It (Over and over Again)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights - Vocal Chorus by Virginia Le Ahn and Henry Russell
	Scatter-Brain	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Frankie Masters and His Orchestra
	September Song	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Walter Huston PRF, Walter Huston - Orchestra Conducted by Maurice De Abravanel REC,REL
	Shoe Shine Boy	Billy Cotton and His Band	1936	Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
	Shot-Gun Boogie	Billy Cotton and His Band - Alan Breeze & The Bandits	1951	Tennessee Ernie
i	Slaughter on Tenth Avenue	Billy Cotton and His Band	1966	Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra REC, Ray Bolger, Tamara Geva and George Church PRF
	Small Fry	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor BRD, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Judy Starr REC
	Smile, Darn Ya, Smile	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Carl Hayne & His Arcadians
	Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow	Billy Cotton and His Orchestra	December 1953	Bobby Wayne with Orchestra conducted by Richard Hayman
	Somebody Loves You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	(unknown)
	Somebody's Thinking of You Tonight	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Dick Robertson and His Orchestra
	Somewhere In France With You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Unverified
	Song of the Dawn	Billy Cotton and His Band	September 1930	John Boles
i	Sophisticated Lady	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
	South American Way	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Carmen Miranda, Milton Watson, Della Lind & The Hylton Sisters
	Spring Don't Mean a Thing to Me	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Elsie Carlisle
	St. Louis Blues	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Prince's Band
	Sunday	Billy Cotton and His Band, Kathie Kay	1966	Pat Suzuki and Larry Blyden
	Tea for Two - I Can't Give You Anything but Love - Ain't She Sweet	Billy Cotton and His Orchestra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF, Adelaide Hall PRF, Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators – Vocal Chorus by Al Shayne REC, Lou Gold with The Melody Man – Vocal Chorus, Murray Amster
	Thanks for the Memory	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Dorothy Lamour - Orchestra under direction of Cy Feuer REC, Bob Hope & Shirley Ross BRD
	That Lovely Week-End	Billy Cotton & His Band	1942	Unverified
	The Coronation Waltz	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Unverified
i	The Dambusters March	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1955	Concert Orchestra conducted by Eric Coates
	The French Can-Can Polka	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: The Bandits	March 1950	Léonce, Désiré, Marie Garnier, Lise Tautin, The Three Suns with The Honeydreamers
	The Gandy Dancers' Ball	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1952	Frankie Laine with Paul Weston & His Orch. & The Norman Luboff Choir - Carl Fischer
	The Gang That Sang "Heart of My Heart"	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1954	National Male Quartet
	The Girl in the Alice Blue Gown	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	(unknown)
	The Girl in the Little Green Hat	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	(unknown)
	The Glory of Love	Billy Cotton & His Band	1936	Willie Bryant and His Orchestra
	The Gold Diggers' Song (We're In The Money)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Unverified
	The Hut-Sut Song	Billy Cotton	1941	Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights
	The Jones Boy	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1954	Bobby Wayne with Orchestra conducted by Richard Hayman
	The Kid's Last Fight	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring Alan Breeze and The Bandits	April 1954	Frankie Laine with Carl Fischer and The Norman Luboff Choir
	The Kiss Waltz	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1930	George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger
	The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Ambrose and His Orchestra (Vocal Chorus by Vera Lynn)
	The Man from Harlem	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
	The Man with the Mandolin	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights - Vocal Chorus Larry Cotton & Heidlites
	The March Hare	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring Alan Breeze and the Cotton Chorus	May 1956	Joseph McNally with The George Mitchell Singers, Orchestra conducted by Philip Green
	The Marrow Song	Billy Cotton and His Band	1969	(unknown)
	The Masquerade Is Over	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
	The Memory of a Tiny Shoe	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Phyllis Robins (Accompanied by Fred Hartley and His Orchestra)
	The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1955	The Ames Brothers with Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra
	The Old Kitchen Kettle	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1932	Unverified
i	The Petite Waltz	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1950	Orchestre Joe Heyne
	The Queen's Horses	Billy Cotton and His Band	1969	Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
	The Rocking-Horse Cowboy	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1956	The Coronets
	The Shabby Old Cabby	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1939	Unverified
	The Sunset Trail	Billy Cotton and His Band	1936	Maurice Winnick & His Orchestra
	The Sweetest Song in the World	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Betty Driver
i	The Thunderbirds March	The Billy Cotton Band	February 1967	The Barry Gray Orchestra
	The Twelfth of Never	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	(unknown), Johnny Mathis with Ray Conniff and His Orchestra
	The Umbrella Man	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt
	Three Little Times	Billy Cotton and His Band	March 1932	(unknown)
	Too Many Tears	Billy Cotton and His Band	August 1932	Dick Powell BRD, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC
	Trees	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Ernestine Schumann-Heink
	Trouble in Paradise	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent
	Turn Around	Billy Cotton and His Band, Kathie Kay	1966	Harry Belafonte - Orchestra conducted by Alan Greene
i	Twelfth Street Rag	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	1936	W. Arlington
	Under the Willow Tree	Billy Cotton & His Band - Vocalist: Alan Breeze	March 1946	Dorothy Squires with Orchestra directed by Billy Reid
	We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians ‑ Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo
	We're a Couple of Soldiers My Baby and Me	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1932	(unknown)
	We're Gonna Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	(unknown)
	We Saw the Sea	Billy Cotton and His Band	May 1936	Ray Noble and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Reed Kennedy and the Freshmen
	We've Come a Long Way Together	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Unverified
	When I Grow Too Old to Dream	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by The King's Men REC, Ramon Novarro & Evelyn Laye BRD
	When They Sound the Last All Clear	Billy Cotton	1941	Vera Lynn
	When You're Smiling - Put Your Arms Around Me - Side by Side	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Henry Thies and His Hotel Sinton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Dewey, Collins and Harlan, Sam Lanin's Orchestra
	When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1932	Walter O'Keefe
	Where Did My Snowman Go?	Billy Cotton and His Band	1953	Petula Clark with Children of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, Spike Jones and His City Slickers
	Where Have You Been All My Life	Billy Cotton's London Savannah Band	1929	(unknown)
	Who's Sorry Now - Just One More Chance - You Were Meant for Me	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Bob Thompson [US1], Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra, Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra REC, Charles King BRD
	Wishing (Will Make it So)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
	Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Gracie Fields
	Young and Healthy	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by Tom Waring REC,REL, Dick Powell BRD
i	You're Lucky to Me	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Ethel Waters REC,PRF
	You've Done Something to My Heart	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	(unknown)
i	Zero-X	The Billy Cotton Band	February 1967	The Shadows [GB]

Releases

Albums

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
Bill and Kate	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay with Frank Cordell and His Orchestra and Peter Moore and His Orchestra	1961	Columbia [EMI]
Billy Cotton Band Show	Billy Cotton and His Band with Kathie Kay, Alan Breeze and The Rita Williams Singers	1966	Philips
Let's All Join In - a Singalong for Swinging Parties	Billy Cotton and His Orcehstra - Kathy Kay - Alan Breeze	1963	Ember Records [GB]
The Fabulous Jimmy Dean	Jimmy Dean, Billy Cotton, and the Western Gentlemen	1963	Crown Records [US2]
The World of Billy Cotton	Billy Cotton and His Band	1969	Decca

EPs

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
	Quick March!	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1956	Decca
	Songs from Half-a-Sixpence	Billy Cotton and Kathie Kay	1963	Columbia [EMI]

Singles

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
After You've Gone	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	1936	Regal Zonophone
Ain't Love Grand	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Alexander's Ragtime Band	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
America, I Love You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Rex [GB]
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1932	Regal [GB]
Avalon	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
Basin Street Blues	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	July 1936	Regal Zonophone
Because of Once Upon a Time – Andalusia	Lew Stone & His Band – Billy Cotton & His Band	1935	Regal Zonophone
Bei mir bist du schön (Means That You're Grand)	Billy Cotton and His Band	March 1938	Rex [GB]
Believe It, Beloved	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Regal Zonophone
Black and Tan Fantasy	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
Bon voyage, chérie	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
By the Wishing Well	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
Can't We Talk It Over	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	Regal [GB]
Celebratin'	Billy Cotton	April 1936	Regal Zonophone
Change Partners	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Church Bells Told	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Regal Zonophone
Corn Silk	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Rex [GB]
Crazy Weather	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Regal Zonophone
Deep Purple	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
Don't Let That Moon Get Away	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
Down by the Old Zuyder Zee	Billy Cotton and His Band	August 1950	Decca
Egyptian Ella	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Columbia [EMI]
Friends and Neighbours	Billy Cotton and His Band	April 1954	Decca
Hang on the Bell, Nellie	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1949	Decca
Head over Heels	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Rex [GB]
Hometown	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Rex [GB]
Horsey, Horsey	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Rex [GB]
Humpty Dumpty Heart	Billy Cotton & His Band	1942	Rex [GB]
Hurry Home	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
I Breathe on Windows - The Memory of a Tiny Shoe	Casani Club Orchestra - Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Regal Zonophone
I Can't Give You Anything but Love	Billy Cotton's London Savannah Band	1929	Metropole
Ich liebe dich, My Dear (I Love You, My Dear) - Just an Echo in the Valley	The Blue Lyres - Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
If I Had Somebody to Love	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
I Heard	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
I'll Always Be True	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1931	Columbia [EMI]
I'll Walk Alone	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1952	Decca
I'm Afraid of You - Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now	Tony Young's Ramblers - Bohemian Band [Billy Cotton]	1928	Piccadilly [GB1]
I'm in Love for the Last Time	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
I'm Just Wild About Harry	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
I'm Sending You the Siegfried Line (To Hang Your Washing On)	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1939	Rex [GB]
In a Golden Coach (There's a Heart of Gold)	Billy Cotton and His Band	April 1953	Decca
In a Little Gypsy Tea Room	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Regal Zonophone
In Santa Lucia	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1933	Regal Zonophone
I Only Saw Him Once	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1950	Decca
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1953	Decca
It Happened in Monterey	Billy Cotton and His Band	September 1930	Regal [GB]
It's the Talk of the Town	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
I've Got My Eyes on You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
I Wish I Could Fish	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Rex [GB]
Just a Little Home for the Old Folks - A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet	Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra - Billy Cotton & His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
Just Walking in the Rain	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1956	Decca
Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant-Major	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
Knees Up, Mother Brown	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalists: Alan Breeze and The Bandits	1950	Decca
Let's Face the Music and Dance	Billy Cotton and His Band	May 1936	Regal Zonophone
Let the People Sing	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
Li'l Boy Love	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Rex [GB]
Little Mother	Bohemian Band [Billy Cotton]	1928	Piccadilly [GB1]
Lizzie Borden	Billy Cotton and His Band	1956	Decca
London Pride	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1941	Rex [GB]
Love Makes the World Go Round	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Mary Lou	Billy Cotton and His Band	September 1946	Rex [GB]
Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1950	Decca
Me and My Girl	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Memories of You	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Columbia [US]
Merrily We Roll Along	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Moon at Sea	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Rex [GB]
My Thanks to You	Billy Cotton and His Band	June 1950	Decca
Nobody's Sweetheart	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	Regal [GB]
Not for All the Rice in China	Billy Cotton & His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
Now That You're Gone	Billy Cotton and His Band	1932	Regal [GB]
Oh! Ma-Ma	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Ole Faithful	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
On a Steamer Coming Over	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
On Treasure Island	Billy Cotton & His Band	1936	Regal Zonophone
Please Be Kind	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Please Handle with Care	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
Rhymes	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1931	Regal [GB]
Round the Marble Arch	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1932	Regal [GB]
Safe in My Heart	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
Sand in My Shoes	Billy Cotton and His Band	1941	Rex [GB]
Seven Veils	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1930	Regal [GB]
Shoe Shine Boy	Billy Cotton and His Band	1936	Regal Zonophone
Shoe Shine Boy	Billy Cotton & His Band	1936	Regal Zonophone
Shot-Gun Boogie	Billy Cotton and His Band - Alan Breeze & The Bandits	1951	Decca
Small Fry	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow	Billy Cotton and His Band	1953	Decca
South of the Border	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
Stick It on the Wall, Mrs. Riley	Billy Cotton and His Band - Vocalist: Billy Cotton and Alan Breeze	November 1950	Decca
Sunshine and Roses	Billy Cotton and His Band	March 1932	Regal [GB]
Tan Tan Tivvy Tally Ho!	Billy Cotton and His Band	July 1932	Regal [GB]
The Dam Busters March	Billy Cotton and His Band	October 1955	Decca
The French Can-Can Polka	Billy Cotton and His Band	March 1950	Decca
The Gandy Dancers' Ball	Billy Cotton and His Band - Alan Breeze and The Bandits	June 1952	Decca
The Girl in the Alice Blue Gown	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
The Girl in the Little Green Hat	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
The Hut-Sut Song	Billy Cotton	1941	Rex [GB]
The Jones Boy	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1954	Decca
The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot	Billy Cotton and His Band	1937	Rex [GB]
The Man from Harlem	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
The March Hare	Billy Cotton and His Band featuring Alan Breeze and the Cotton Chorus	May 1956	Decca
The Masquerade Is Over	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
The Moon Was Yellow	Billy Cotton and His Band	1935	Regal Zonophone
The Music Goes 'Round and Around	Billy Cotton and His Band	1936	Regal Zonophone
The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane	Billy Cotton and His Band	February 1955	Decca
There'll Come Another Day	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
There's Something About a Soldier	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal Zonophone
The Shabby Old Cabby	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1939	Rex [GB]
The Sweetest Song in the World	Billy Cotton and His Band	1938	Rex [GB]
The Third Tiger (Tiger Rag No. 3)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
The Thunderbirds March	The Billy Cotton Band	February 1967	Philips
The Umbrella Man	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
Trees	Billy Cotton and His Band	1931	Columbia [EMI]
Twelfth Street Rag	Billy Cotton and His Cotton Pickers	1936	Regal Zonophone
Under the Willow Tree	Billy Cotton & His Band - Vocalist: Alan Breeze	March 1946	Rex [GB]
We're a Couple of Soldiers My Baby and Me	Billy Cotton and His Band	November 1932	Regal [GB]
(We're Gonna Hang out) The Washing on the Siegfried Line	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
What a Referee	Billy Cotton	February 1951	Decca
What Good Is the Good in Goodbye	Billy Cotton and His Band	1934	Regal Zonophone
When Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney	Billy Cotton and His Band	December 1953	Decca
Where Did My Snowman Go	Billy Cotton and His Orchestra	December 1953	London Records
Where Do We Go from Here?	Billy Cotton and His Band	1940	Rex [GB]
Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away	Billy Cotton and His Band	August 1932	Regal [GB]
Wishing (Will Make it So)	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
Wish Me Luck	Billy Cotton and His Band	1939	Rex [GB]
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm	Billy Cotton	1934	Regal Zonophone
Wrap Your Arms Around Me	Billy Cotton and His Band	1933	Regal [GB]