Having looked at some of the classic session recorded at the BBC, we now look at some of the discs that the corporation declined to play and the reasons why.
- We Can’t Let You Broadcast That – Norman Long
- With my Little Ukulele in my Hand – George Formby
- House of the Rising Sun – Josh White
- Gimmie a Pigfoot & a Bottle of Beer – Bessie Smith
- Rum and Coca-Cola – The Andrews Sisters
- Radio Times – BBC Dance Orchestra (directed by Henry Hall & vocal by Dan Donovan)
- She Had to Go and Lose it at the Astor – Johnny Messners
- Deep in the Heart of Texas – Bing Crosby
- Don’t Let’s be beastly to the Germans – Noel Coward
- Gloomy Sunday – Billie Holiday
- Old Man Atom – The Sons of the Pioneers
- Song of India – Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
- La Pettie Tonkinoise – Josephine Baker
- The Foggy Dew – Peter Pears (with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten)
- (How Little it Matters) How Little we Know – Frank Sinatra
- One has my Name, the other has my heart – Jimmy Wakely
- In the Beginning – Frankie Laine
- Burn the Candle at Both Ends – Shirley Bassey
- Diggin’ My Potatoes – Lonnie Donegan
- The Shag (is Totally Cool) – Billy Graves
- Ken Platt – Ting Tong Tang
- Dinner with Drac (Parts 1 & 2) – John Zacherie
- A Russian Love Song – The Goons