What are your favorite V-disc recordings?

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anton · #1 Post by **anton** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:51 pm

I don't have a huge collection of V-discs myself, but here are two tracks I just love:

Gene Krupa - Hodge Podge [1944] (170) - lovely trio recording
Tommy Dorsey - The Minor Goes A-Muggin [1944] (180) - slower than the commercial recording, but just as good

Jonas · #2 Post by **Jonas** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:55 am

I too love the V-Disc version of "The Minor Goes Muggin'".

Other V-Disc favorites of mine are "All That Meat and No Potatoes", "No Cash for Your Trash" and "Your Feet's Too Big" by Fats Waller, and "That's A-Plenty" by Muggsy Spanier.

That Gene Krupa version of "Hodge Podge" was a nice new acquaintance to me.

anton · #3 Post by **anton** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:25 am

Jonas wrote: Other V-Disc favorites of mine are "All That Meat and No Potatoes", "No Cash for Your Trash" and "Your Feet's Too Big" by Fats Waller

Neat - you can never get enough of Fats! I had no idea that "All That Meat" and "Your Feet" were issued as V-discs! ("No Cash" doesn't seem to be a V-disc however - it was probably just a bonus track on the Misbehavin Badly On V-disc compilation..)

Is there a complete V-disc discography on-line somewhere?

Eyeball · #4 Post by **Eyeball** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:46 am

"Get Some Cash for Your Trash" is the title with a lyric about wartime recycling aka "scrap drives".

BUT - I think that the V-Disc release is just a reissue of the Waller Bluebird recording.....like hundreds of V-Discs are....reissues of previously recorded and released material.

Not sure I have a fave V-Disc recording. I have a couple dozen original VDs and a few CD reissues, so I will take a look.

Haydn · #5 Post by **Haydn** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:13 pm

anton wrote:Is there a complete V-disc discography on-line somewhere?

The http://www.lordisco.com discography lists a total of 772 recordings

The Collector's Choice label has issued a series of V-Disc compilations

Eyeball · #6 Post by **Eyeball** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:16 pm

Haydn wrote:
anton wrote:Is there a complete V-disc discography on-line somewhere?
The http://www.lordisco.com discography lists a total of 772 recordings

BUt its $150 dollars a year ti use the service, right?

Haydn · #7 Post by **Haydn** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:21 pm

Eyeball wrote:
Haydn wrote:
anton wrote:Is there a complete V-disc discography on-line somewhere?
The http://www.lordisco.com discography lists a total of 772 recordings
BUt its $150 dollars a year ti use the service, right?

Yes ...
http://www.lordisco.com/orderonline.html

If I could easily list some or all of the recordings shown on the database here I would, but unfortunately all you get is a sequential list of the 772 numbered recordings (not chronological) from 1 to 772

Maybe there's another simpler listing online somewhere?

Eyeball · #8 Post by **Eyeball** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:46 pm

There is a printed volume V-Disc discography - might be a 2 book set. Came out in 1980, so good for basic info, but not for detailing what tracks re on current releases. There were 3 supplements. I never got it b/c it was pricey.

Richard S. Sears' book, "V-Discs: A History and Discography

http://www.amazon.com/V-Discs-Discograp ... 031322207X

http://www.amazon.co.uk/V-Discs-Discogr ... 031322207X

Haydn · #9 Post by **Haydn** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:12 pm

A small amount of info here ...

http://www.discogs.com/label/V+Disc

anton · #10 Post by **anton** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:27 am

Ella Fitzgerald - I'll See You in My Dreams [1945]. Lovely small band recording.

A John R.T. Davies-remastered version is (un)available on Jazz Greats 5 (Marshall Cavendish)

Jonas · #11 Post by **Jonas** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:12 am

A "new" V-Disc favorite, especially tracks 1-4: http://www.emusic.com/album/Louis-Armst ... 02406.html