78 RPM - Bea Wain - Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey / Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer - V Disc - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bea Wain
Label:	V Disc
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	1
Date:	Oct 1943
Format:	12"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 3 Want
Price Guide:	$28
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$28

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Bea Wain	Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey	Von Tilzer, McCree	Rate
A2	Bea Wain	Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer	Adamson, McHugh	Rate
B1	Tommy Dorsey	Blue Skies	Irving Berlin	Rate

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A side: Bea Wain, With Orchestra
B side: Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, Vocal Refrain By Frank Sinatra And Chorus.

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BigBadBluesMan 11th Mar 2015



Twitster 16th Jan 2015		Beginning with the "A:" release series, 30 discs were issued per month. This would continue through the "D" series in January, 1940.



fixbutte 14th Oct 2014		FYI: There's a detailed article in the Billboard 1944 Music Year Book, titled "V-Disks Help Hasten V-Day", with a "List of Artists Who Have Recorded V-Disks", p. 148, 149, 204-208.



fixbutte 13th Oct 2014		Thanks, Twitster, for the fantastic info about V Disc. One could add that Bea Wain, now nearly forgotten, had been the gorgeous "girl singer" with Larry Clinton's big band for about two years, featured on the top hits "Deep Purple", "Heart and Soul", and "My Reverie" among others, before she went solo in mid-1939. Born April 30, 1917, she seems to be alive and well, aged 97.



Twitster 13th Oct 2014		This represents the debut of the V Disc series which began in October, 1943 with the issue of the "A" release package, involving V Disc catalog numbers 1 through 30. Each month thereafter brought a new release package in alphabetical order until the label was discontinued in May, 1949 ("FFF" release, catalog number 905). The recordings included a wide-ranging hodge podge of all music genre, sourced from commercial recordings, radio broadcast rehearsals and air-checks, V Disc recording sessions, Hollywood film soundtrack takes/outtakes, concerts and recitals (there were even several "blooper" issues). From jazz to polka, spoken word to classical, it's all found within the series. Of course, these recordings were issued to military installations and units only. They were prohibited from both being commercially released or even owned by civilian collectors (currently all are within the public domain). Following the demise of the label, installations were ordered to destroy all copies of the releases and most of the master/stamper metal parts also were discarded. The Library of Congress maintains a full set of the label's output; the National Archives managed to save a limited number of the master/stamper parts for posterity. The above release represents the U. S. Army's issue of the recording. For a limited time there were separate issues for the Navy and Marine Corps, with their own label designs and catalog numbers. Eventually, these separate labels were dropped and all subsequent releases were issued using the Army's label design.

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