Volume 224: Big Band Bards Record 2

2025-04-13

We haven’t reached into the great Franklin Mint section of my dad’s collection for a while. Most of the episodes featuring the Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time often get blocked by YouTube. But I’ve really grown attached to this specific box set lately. It’s filled with some great and legendary jazz singers. So get ready to hear a variety of voices with various styles in Volume 224: Big Band Bards Record 2. More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. Credits and copyrights Various – The Jaz...

We haven’t reached into the great Franklin Mint section of my dad’s collection for a while. Most of the episodes featuring the Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time often get blocked by YouTube.

But I’ve really grown attached to this specific box set lately. It’s filled with some great and legendary jazz singers.

So get ready to hear a variety of voices with various styles in Volume 224: Big Band Bards Record 2.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.

Credits and copyrights

Various – The Jazz Singers
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ2
Series: Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection, The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time
Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz

We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this record.

George Thomas With McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Written by Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Recorded July 28, 1930
Released on Victor

Al Hibbler With Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - I'm Just A Lucky So And So
Written by Duke Ellington, Mack David
Recorded November 26, 1945
Released on Victor

Bing Crosby And The Mills Brothers - My Honey's Lovin' Arms
Written by Joseph Meyer, Herman Ruby
Recorded Januray 26, 1933
Released on Brunswick Records

Johnny Hartman With The John Coltrane Quartet - Dedicated To You
Written by Sammy Cahn, Hy Zaret, Saul Chaplin
Recorded Maarch 7, 1963
Released on Impulse Records

Ray Charles - It Had To Be You
Written by Gus Kahn, Isham Jones
Recorded June 23, 1959
Released on Atlantic

Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - I Ain't Got Nobody
Written by Spencer Williams, Roger Graham
Recorded July 2, 1935
Released on Brunswick Records

Metronome All Stars Featuring Billy Eckstine - How High The Moon
Written by Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton
Recorded July 9, 1953
Released on MGM Records

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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