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What are your favorite V-disc recordings?
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:51 pm
by anton
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
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:55 am
by Jonas
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:25 am
by anton
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?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:46 am
by Eyeball
"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.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:13 pm
by Haydn
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
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:16 pm
by Eyeball
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?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:21 pm
by Haydn
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?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:46 pm
by Eyeball
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
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:12 pm
by Haydn
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:27 am
by anton
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)
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:12 am
by Jonas