Welcome to Christmas V-Discs - A selection from 1944 - 1947

Covid 19 has made difficult times for us all. Isolation from our family, sons, daughters, grandchildren & friends. Loneliness and separation have separated from those people and activities we love most.

How much more so for those of the armed forces separated for years and not months?

V-Discs was a means of connecting forces overseas, particularly those in the Far East with their familes and friends at 'home'

Christmas was a special time for that remembrance and its no surprise that the jazz groups tried to make it special.  Here is a selection from those years which you can play directly or download.

00:00 / 03:16
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    03:16
    V-Disc 1 Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra
  • 2
    05:32
    V-Disc 32 A Fats Waller
  • 3
    04:11
    V-Disc 65 Capt. Glenn Miller does the intro. (1)
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V-disc

Title

Group

comment

Time

Old Spinning Wheel Hoagy C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjAjqGPLX20&list=PLCVTXPWaf6k6VVhZPcUUwclanuLwt0v_1 Bea Wain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82FTsvS2Eqc&t=12s Perfume Site Ellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsvdVLhSZw&t=124s Stardust Glen Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X3UDFa4VGU Aint misbeahvin Fats W.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzcILoHba8I Blue Skies Dorsey T.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqvF64YrNto Summit Ridge Drive Artie Shaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78tYTZYC7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW03qwXAD-A Mop Mop Armstrong et al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtcm4EUZV1o Body & Soul Teagarden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWwmIWDm1k Black & Blue Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9lAvmty_8&t=3416s G I Jive misc 58mins