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Continuing my trip back through the 1963 album charts. 17/11/63 : Kenny Ball's Golden Hits - Kenny Ball Somewhat to my surprise, this is our first ever mention for Mr Ball - I know he was closely associated with Acker Bilk who's popped up a few times but we have yet to have the pleasure of Kenny's company. And I strongly suspect I'm going to be nonplussed by the whole thing. I couldn't actually find this album, but I don't feel I can miss out any albums this year, so I recreated it by using Kenny Ball's Greatest Hits, which might have come out 37 years later but still contained nine of the ten tracks on the original album. And it's all perfectly fine trad jazz with the occasional vocals thrown in for good measure - it's done well but it's not at all the sort of thing I need in my life. It would be fine at a summer fete, but I find it gets very tiresome if I have to actually listen to it for any length of time - sorry, Kenny! We're at #4 in t...