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