V-Discs for Memorial Day May 26, 2020 Jazz Journey

V-Discs for Memorial Day May 26, 2020 Jazz Journey

Today’s show was all taken from digitized versions of V-Disc pressings sent to military personnel during WWII.

3 Suns – Twilight Time

Hazel Scott – Honeysuckle Rose

Bea Wain – My Reverie

Jimmy Dorsey – Oh, What A Beautiful Morning

Taps Miller and Harry “Sweets” Edison – High Tide (I Ain’t Mad At You)

Harry James – Rose Room

Charlie Shavers, Herbie Fields, and Margie Hyams – J.P. Vanderbilt IV

Catalina Sextette – Now Hear This

Roy Eldridge – I’ve Found A New Baby

Ray Nance and Taft Jordan – It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)

Earl Hines – Boogie Woogie on St Louis Blues

Bill Stegmeyer  & His Hot Eight – Tea For Two

Les Brown – Bizet Has His Day

Woody Herman & His V-Disc All Stars – John Hardy’s Wife

Glenn Miller Orchestra – Little Brown Jug

Bob Crosby – When I Grow To Old To Dream

Bing Crosby & Lance McIntyre & his Orch – Palace in Paradise

Helen Ward & Red Norvo – Too Marvelous For Words

Tommy Dorsey & Bonnie Lou Williams – More & More

PSAs

Peggy Lee – I Get The Blues When It Rains

Jo Stafford – Blue Moon

Ella Mae Morse – Shoo Shoo Baby

Etta Jones – Blow Top Blues

Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots – Cow Cow Boogie

June Christy – Ride On

Doris Day – Sentimental Journey

The Mills Brothers – Till Then

Ted Fio Rito Orchestra – When The Lights Go On Again

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Ration Blues

Jimmy Lunceford & His Orchestra – Well All Right Then

Glenn Miller – Tail End Charlie

Bunk Johnson – I Can’t Escape From You

Rosalie Patton – Willie

Jack Teagarden – If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight

Johnny Long – In A Shanty In Old Shantytown

Les Paul – How High The Moon

Hoagy Carmichael – Billy-A-Dick

Don Redman – Pistol Packin’ Mama