Jessie Matthews

Most of Jessie Matthews' recordings seem quaintly antique, artifacts of a by-gone age-and, to some extent, they are just that, her fluttering, plummy toned voice with its romantic yearing turning back clocks as it fills a room at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. But for most of the 1930's, Jessie Matthews was the most popular musical star in England, and the ...more