RDA078 - Fabulous Memories of the Fabulous 40s on CD

4 CD Set

Song Listing:

Record 1:

Amapola/ 1940-41 A String of Pearls (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra), Daddy (Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra/ The Ensemble, Vocal), Daddy (Sammy Kaye and Hos Orchestra/ The Ensemble, Vocal), Dolores (Bing Crosby with The Merry Macs and Bob Crosby's Bobcats), Tonight We Love (Freddy Martin and His Orchestra), Amapola - Pretty Little Poppy (Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra/ Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell, Vocal), Blueberry Hill (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra/ Ray Eberle, Vocal), I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time (The Andrews Sisters), Maria Elena (Wayne King and His Orchestra), Maybe (The Ink Spots), Pompton Turnpike (Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra)

Record Two:

Tangerine/1941-42 Oh! Look At Me Now! (Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines with the Pied Pipers, Vocal), This Love of Mine (Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra/ Frank Sinatra, Vocal), Tangerine (Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra/ Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell, Vocal), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra/ Ray Eberle, Vocal), Perfidia (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra), Yes Indeed! (Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra/ Sy Oliver and Jo Stafford, Vocal), When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World (Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra), I Said No (Alvino Rey and His Orchestra/ Yvonne King, Vocal), Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) (Woody Herman and His Orchestra/ Woody Herman, Vocal), Remember Pearl Harbor (Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra)

Record 3:

For Me and My Gal/1943-44 For Me and My Gal (Judy Garland and Gene Kelly with David Rose and His Orchestra), Boogie Woogie (Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra), Don't Get Around Much Anymore (The Ink Spots), Shoo-Shoo Baby (Ella Mae Morse), Holiday for Strings (David Rose and His Orchestra), San Fernando Vally (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra), Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots), Comin' In on a wing and a Prayer (The Song Spinners), Besame Mucho (Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra/ Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen, Vocal), I'll Walk Alone (Dinah Shore)

Record 4:

I'll Be Seeing You/1944-45 I'll Be Seeing You (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), G.I. Jive (Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five), My Shining Hour (Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra/ Eugenie Baird, Vocal), Chickery Chick (Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra/ Nancy Norman and Billy Williams, Vocal), Together (Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest), Time Waits for No One (Helen Forrest), I Love You (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), Caldonia (Louis Jordan and His Tympany five), It Can't Be Wrong (Dick Haymes), I'm Beginning to See the Light (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra/ Joya Sherrill, Vocal)

Record 5:

It's Been a Long, Long Time/1945-46 Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief (Betty Hutton), Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow (Vaughn Monroe), I'll Buy That Dream (Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest), Bell Bottom Trousers (Tony Pastor and His Orchestra/ Ruth McCullough and Tony Pastor, Vocal), On the Atchison Topeka and the Sante Fe (Judy Garland and The Merry Macs), It's Been a Long Long Time (Bing Crosby with Les Paul and His Trio), Personality (Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers), Symphony (Freddy Martin and His Orchestra/ Clyde Rogers, Vocal), I'm a Big Girl Now (Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra/ Betty Barclay, Vocal), Dig You Later (A Hubba Hubba Hubba) (Perry Como)

Record 6:

To Each His Own/1946-47 to Each His Own (The Ink Spots), Peg o' My Heart (The Three Suns), Laughing on the Outside Crying on the Inside (Andy Russell), Surrender (Perry Como), Open the Door Richard! (Count Basie and His Orchestra), Prisoner of Love (Perry Como), Huggin' and Chalkin' (Hoagy Carmichael with The Chickadees and Vic Schoen and His Orchestra), Anniversary Song (Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra and G. Stevens and The Mellow Larks), The Gypsy (The Ink Spots), Heartaches (Ted Weems and His Orchestra/ Elmo Tanner, Whistler)

Record 7:

Far Away Places/1948-49 Far Away Places (Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Choir), A Little Bird Told Me (Evelyn Knight and The Stardusters), My Darling My Darling (Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae), You Came a Long Way from St. Louis (Ray McKinley and Some of the Boys/ Ray McKinley, Vocal), Cuanto Le Gusta (Carmen Miranda and The Andrews Sisters), I Never See Maggie Alone (Kenny Roberts), Forever and Ever (Perry Como), On a Slow Boat to China (Freddy Martin and His Orchestra), So Tired (Russ Morgan and His Orchestra/ Russ Morgan, Vocal), St. Louis Blues March (Tex Beneke and The Glenn Miller Orchestra)

Record 8:

A Dreamer's Holiday/1949 A Dreamer's Holiday (Perry Como), Red Roses for a Blue Lady (Vaughn Monroe), Someday You'll Want Me to Want You (The Mills Brothers), Cruising Down the river on a Sunday Afternoon (Russ Morgan and His Orchestra/ The Skylarks, Vocal), Whispering Hope (Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae), There's No Tomorrow (Tony Martin), Sentimental Me (The Ames Brothers), Galway Bay (Bing Crosby), The Huckle Buck (Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra/ Charley Shavers, Roy Alfred and Andy Gibson, Vocal), Again (Gordon Jenkins, His Orchestra and Chorus/ Charles LeVere, Vocal)