Passing Entire String From Drop Down Menu Selection: String Includes Spaces

PHP/MySQL and HTML Drop Down Menu

I have a query that searches a table and populates a drop-down menu in a form.

<form method="post" action="querytestaction.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<select name="addshow_bandname" size="1">
   <?php
        // Loop through query results and set options for drop down menu      
               while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res_allbands, MYSQL_BOTH)) {            
            echo '<option value=' . $row[1] .'>' .  $row[1] . ' </option>';      
      }
    ?>
</select>
</form>

This works fine, and gives me something like this:

<select>
     <option ="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</option>
     <option ="Phil Lesh & Friends">Phil Lesh & Friends</option>
     <option ="John Hiatt">John Hiatt</option>
</select>

But, that drop down list is part of a form, and when the form is submitted, when any of these options is chosen, it only gives the first word. It drops everything after the first word.

In my action page I am testing the variable passing with this:

// assign variables
      $bandName = $_POST['addshow_bandname'];

echo $bandName;

ie,:
Grateful
Phil
John

I know this is probably something very simple I am overlooking, but I have been banging my head against a wall and hope someone out there can nab these 500 points quick and easy for me?

How do I get the entire string passed through as a variable without dropping parts of the string?

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