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.
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 |