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AFRSV Discs2

Episodes
49

The Army was the original source of the V-Disc records, with their first being issued in October of 1943.The Army’s V-Disc project provided a monthly 'care' package of music specially recorded for troops overseas. Soldiers fighting a far-flung war welcomed these musical snapshots of life back home.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. 010b Duke Ellington - Warm Valley

    No date given · 3:22

  2. 013a Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine

    No date given · 3:13

  3. 013b Artie Shaw - Nightmare

    No date given · 2:48

  4. 023b Cpl Ziggy Lane - My Pin-Up Girl

    No date given · 4:59

  5. 030b Hazel Scott - Honeysuckle Rose

    No date given · 4:00

  6. 037b Duke Ellington - Perdido

    No date given · 3:08

  7. 171b Tony Pastor

    No date given · 4:41

  8. 212b Duke Ellington - Flamingo

    No date given · 3:22

  9. 222a Tommy Dorsey - Wagon Wheels

    No date given · 3:33

  10. 222b Tommy Dorsey - T D Chant

    No date given · 3:38

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. AFRSV-Discs2

    Armed Forces Radio Service · dont1961 · 49 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

From the Armed Forces Radio Service collection at the Internet Archive.

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