Malcolm Laycock [SEP] cause of death
also vice-president of the Syd Lawrence Society and regularly travelled with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra to compère their concerts. He compiled many CD reissues and wrote essays for the sleeve notes. In addition he wrote a column for the magazine Big Bands International, and was briefly editor of the short-lived 1990s publication Jazz Magazine International.
Death.
Malcolm Laycock died on 8 November 2009, after having been ill with emphysema and pneumonia. Radio 2 controller Bob Shennan said that former colleagues were "shocked and saddened" to
Dance Band Days
The Dance Band Days was a weekly half hour programme on BBC radio of predominantly British dance band recordings of the 1920s to early 1940s. It ran from 1969 to 1998 and was introduced, until his death, by Alan Dell with Malcolm Laycock taking over until the programme ended when its content was subsumed in "Sunday Night at 10", a late night programme on Radio 2 on Sunday evenings, presented by Malcolm Laycock, although the Dance Bands part of the programme was discontinued in 2008. The programs