The Geoff love banjo's were a band that dealt with a number of classic american songs,Geoff love himself used to be in a Minstrel group and appeared as a memeber of the Music for Pleasure Minstrels most notably in the album "Music for Pleasure present their Minstrel Show",as a result of his past a number of the songs his band performed were the same style as the ones he sung back in his band,he also went under the name of "Manuel" and recorded a number of albums under that name with Manuel and the Music of the mountain being another album of his being a hit,afterwards he made appearances in a few movies and being responsable for the orchestration of a number of movie soundtracks and also appeared on Max Bygraves's TV Show SingalongaMax.
Two songs he perfomed while he was with his band I want to point out were "Oh You Beautifull Doll" and "The Band Played On",while they have appeared in a number of places and performed by a number of artists they both appeared in the last battle of the Alfred Hitchcock Movie "Strangers On A Train (1951)" with "The Band Played on" taking on a dark role for the movie as the theme of Bruno and appearing whenever the two characters fought each other.
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