Showing posts with label Armed Forces Radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armed Forces Radio. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

ANOTHER BING CD

I don't have many details on this CD, but it looks like it could be interesting. Release date is November 19, 2013.  It is being offered on Amazon...


"This CD Features the great Bing Crosby (he had three hundred and forty entries in the charts between 1931 and 1954) performing selections specially recorded for the Armed Forces Radio Service with The Andrews Sisters, Trudy Erwin, The Charioteers Eugene Baird accompanied by John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra. Plus four numbers taken from his popular series Philco Radio Time which also featured Dinah Shore, Ken Carpenter and The Rhythmaires."

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

NEW CD: BING SINGS FOR THE ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE


Sepia Records are issuing this CD which captures Bing on his Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts singing a variety of songs for the servicemen. Sepia Records to be one of the best outlet for new Bing CDS. Please support this CD and buy it from Sepia Records. Only by purchasing this issue, will you insure that there will be more of them in the future. The CD should be available in October and the tracks on the CD will be:

TRACK 1 – Command Performance introduction.
TRACK 2 – Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland (Command Performance #17 – June 11, 1942)
TRACK 3 – It’s a Long Way to Tipperary (Command Performance #54 – February 24, 1943)
TRACK 4 – Candlelight and Wine (Command Performance #104 – February 1, 1944)
TRACK 5 – De Camptown Races (Command Performance #52 – February 13, 1943)  (with Richard Crooks)
TRACK 6 – It Can’t Be Wrong (Command Performance #71 – June 19, 1943)
TRACK 7 – Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer (Command Performance VE Day Show – May 1945)
TRACK 8 – It Ain't Necessarily So (Command Performance #54 – February 24, 1943) (with Dinah Shore)
TRACK 9 – Great Day (Command Performance #60, April 1, 1943
TRACK 10 – Dialogue with Jack Benny and Gary Cooper (Command Performance #125 – June 17, 1944).
TRACK 11 – My Blue Heaven (Command Performance #125 – June 17, 1944).
TRACK 12 – Cuddle Up a Little Closer (G. I. Journal #11 – September 24, 1943)
TRACK 13 – One Alone (Command Performance #125 – June 17, 1944)
TRACK 14 – Shoo-Shoo Baby (Jubilee – January 10, 1944)
TRACK 15 – People Will Say We're in Love (Command Performance #81 – August 28, 1943) (with Judy Garland)
TRACK 16 – Put Your Arms around Me, Honey (G. I. Journal #10 – September 17, 1943
TRACK 17 – My Wild Irish Rose (G. I. Journal #10 – September 17, 1943)
TRACK 18 – My Ideal (Mail Call #78 – February 16, 1944)
TRACK 19 – Something to Remember You By (Command Performance #122 – June 3, 1944) (with Judy Garland)
TRACK 20 – The Groaner, the Canary and the Nose (Mail Call #91 – May 17, 1944) (with Judy Garland and Jimmy Durante)
TRACK 21 – Timber / In the Evening by the Moonlight / You Are My Sunshine (Mail Call #78 – February 16, 1944) (with Richard Crooks)
TRACK 22 – This Heart of Mine (Command Performance #169 – April 5, 1945)
TRACK 23 – My Old Kentucky Home (Command Performance #36 – October 13, 1942) (with Dinah Shore)
TRACK 24 – Gotta Be This or That (Jubilee, December 1945)
TRACK 25 – Ridin’ Herd on a Cloud (G. I. Journal #9 – September 10, 1943)
TRACK 26 – Blue Hawaii (Mail Call #102 – July 26, 1944) (with Connie Haines)
TRACK 27 – Sweet Leilani (Mail Call #102 – July 26, 1944)
TRACK 28 – In My Merry Oldsmobile (G. I. Journal #52 – July 14, 1944)
TRACK 29 – Medley with Judy Garland (Command Performance #129 – July 15, 1944)



Saturday, June 2, 2012

BING AND ARMED FORCES RADIO

Armed Forces Radio Service entertained during World War II
by Associated Press

During World War II, the Armed Forces Radio Service kept the troops entertained with the "Command Performance" and "Mail Call" radio shows. These musical-variety broadcasts were produced for American men and women serving in the war and were only heard by the general public.

Years later thanks to tape, CDs, the Internet and even apps for phone and iPad. "Command Performance," which aired on Armed Forces Radio Network via a direct shortwave transmission, featured guests suggested by soldiers including Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen. "Mail Call" boasted such stars as Groucho Marx, Garland, Dick Powell, Bing Crosby, Norma Shearer, Nelson Eddy and Betty Grable.

It might not seem a lot to listeners today, but those broadcasts meant an awful lot to the soldiers overseas during World War II and the Korean War...




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