Remembering The 40's - A Parade of Nostalgic Hits

Remembering The '40s A Parade of Nostalgic Hits Readers Digest 8 LP record set

a Readers Digest Boxed 8 LP set 33RPM Vinyl records

Vintage Reader's Digest 1977 Release

A PARADE OF NOSTALGIC HITS! "REMEMBERING THE '40s"
This Reader's Digest Collector's Edition features eight stunning LP records, all in excellent condition featuring fabulous recordings by GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA, SAMMY KAYE, BING CROSBY, FREDDY MARTIN, JIMMY DORSEY, THE ANDREWS SISTERS, WAYNE KING, THE INK SPOTS, CHARLIE BARNETT AND HIS ORCHESTRA, TOMMY DORSEY, FRANK SINATRA, HELEN O'CONNELL, XAVIER CUGAT, JO STAFFORD, VAUGHN MONROE, WOODY HERMAN, JUDY GARLAND, GENE KELLY, DAVID ROSE, ELLA MAE MORSE, ELLA FITZGERALD, BOB EBERLY, KITTY KALLEN, DICK HAYMES, HELEN FORREST, DUKE ELLINGTON, LES PAUL, THE PIED PIPERS, THE THREE SUNS, PERRY COMO, HOAGY CARMICHAEL AND THE CHICKADEES, TEX BENEKE, TED WEEMS and many more! Featuring eighty wonderful songs, all painstakingly restored from original recording masters, this volume contains a wealth of wonderful music! All records are in great condition (but were not tested), each in a its own plastic lined sleeve, all housed in the Readers Digest/RCA slipcover case.

TRACK LIST:

1940
A1 Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Imagination
Vocals – Ray Eberle
A2 Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra – The Breeze And I
Vocals – Bob Eberly
A3 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Polka Dots And Moon Beams
Vocals – Frank Sinatra
A4 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Polka Dots And Moon Beams
Vocals – Frank Sinatra
A5 Bob Chester And His Orchestra – Practice Makes Perfect
Vocals – Al Stuart
A6 Judy Garland – I'm Nobody's Baby

1940
B1 Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – When You Wish Upon A Star
Vocals – Ray Eberle
B2 The Andrews Sisters – Ferry-Boat Serenade
B3 Bing Crosby – Only Forever
B4 The Ink Spots – We Three
B5 Wayne King And His Orchestra – We Could Make Such Beautiful Music
Vocals – Buddy Clark (3)
B6 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – I'll Never Smile Again
Vocals – Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers

1941
C1 The Ink Spots – I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
C2 Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians – Intermezzo
C3 Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Yours
Vocals – Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell
C4 Wayne King And His Orchestra – 'Til Reveille
C5 Freddy Martin And His Orchestra – Tonight We Love
Vocals – Clyde Rogers
C6 Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Adios

1941-1942
D1 Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Green Eyes Vocals – Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell
D2 The Ink Spots – Do I Worry?
D3 Carmen Miranda – I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi
D4 Harry James And His Orchestra – I Don't Want To Walk Without You
Vocals – Helen Forrest
D5 Eddy Howard – One Dozen Roses
D6 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Sleepy Lagoon

1942
E1 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – There Are Such Things
Vocals – Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers
E2 The Merry Macs – Jingle Jangle Jingle
E3 Billie Holiday – Lover Man
E4 Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra – My Devotion
Vocals – Vaughn Monroe
E5 Jimmie Lunceford, His Orchestra And Chorus – Blues In
E6 Harry James And His Orchestra – I Had The Craziest Dream Vocals – Helen Forrest

1942-1943 
F1 Bing Crosby – Be Careful, It's My Heart
F2 The Andrews Sisters – Shoo-Shoo Baby
F3 Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Elmer's Tune Vocals – Ray Eberle, The Modernaires
F4 Eddy Howard – Miss You
F5 Dooley Wilson – As Time Goes By
F6 Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
Vocals – Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, The Modernaires

1943 
G1 Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – At Last
Vocals – Ray Eberle
G2 Dick Haymes And The Song Spinners – You'll Never Know
G3 Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Brazil
Vocals – Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell
G4 Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra – My Heart Tells Me
Vocals – Eugenie Baird
G5 Bing Crosby – Sunday, Monday, Or Always
G6 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Don't Get Around Much Anymore

1943-1944 
H1 Alfred Drake And Joan Roberts – People Will Say We're In Love
H2 Ella Fitzgerald And The Ink Spots –  I'm Making Believe
H3 Bing Crosby – Moonlight Becomes You
H4 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – In The Blue Of The Evening
Vocals – Frank Sinatra
H5 Marlene Dietrich– Lilli Marlene
H6 Russ Morgan And His Orchestra – Dance With A Dolly
Vocals – Russ Morgan (2)

1944-1945
I1 Bing Crosby – Swinging On A Star
I2 Dick Haymes And Helen Forrest – Long Ago (And Far Away)
I3 Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians – It's Love, Love, Love!
Vocals – The Lombardo Trio, Skip Nelson
I4 Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five – Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)
Vocals – Louis Jordan
I5 Johnny Long And His Orchestra – No Love, No Nothin'
Vocals – Patti Dugan
I6 Judy Garland – The Trolley Song

1945
J1 Dick Haymes – It Might As Well Be Spring
J2 Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra – There, I've Said It Again
Vocals – The Norton Sisters, Vaughn Monroe
J3 Carmen Cavallaro And His Orchestra – Chopin Polonaise
J4 Perry Como– Till The End Of Time
J5 Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Opus One
J6 Dick Haymes – The More I See You

1946-1947 
K1 Perry Como – They Say It's Wonderful
K2 Freddy Martin, His Orchestra And Chorus – Managua Nicaragua
K3 Sammy Kaye And His Orchestra – The Old Lamp-Lighter
Vocals – Billy Williams Choir
K4 Eddy Howard – My Adobe Hacienda
K5 Perry Como – Chi-Baba Chi-Baba
K6 Louis Prima, His Orchestra And Chorus – Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)

1946-1947 
L1 Art Lund – Mam'sell
L2 Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra – Jim Vocals – Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell
L3 Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra – Ballerina Vocals – Vaughn Monroe
L4 Sammy Kaye And His Orchestra – Serenade Of The Bells
Vocals – Don Cornell
L5 Hoagy Carmichael – Ole Buttermilk Sky
L6 Eddy Howard– I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder

1948
M1 Art Mooney, His Orchestra And Chorus – Baby Face
M2 Margaret Whiting – A Tree In The Meadow
M3 Freddy Martin And His Orchestra – The Dickey-Bird Song
Vocals – Glen Hughes, The Martin Men
M4 The Andrews Sisters – Toolie Oolie Doolie
M5 Blue Barron, His Orchestra And Chorus – You Were Only Fooling
M6 Carson Robison And The Pleasant Valley Boys – Life Gits Tee-jus, Don't It

1948 
N1 Bing Crosby – Now Is The Hour
N2 Sammy Kaye And His Orchestra – Lavender Blue
Vocals – The Three Kaydets
N3 Dick Haymes – Little White Lies
N4 Francis Craig – Beg Your Pardon
Piano – Francis Craig
N5 Perry Como – Because
N6 Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra – Maybe You'll Be There
Vocals – Charles LeVere And Chorus

1949 
O1 Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra – Riders In The Sky
Vocals – Vaughn Monroe
Written-By – Stanley Davis Jones
O2 Perry Como – "A" - You're Adorable
O3 Russ Morgan And His Orchestra – Sunflower
O4 Sammy Kaye And His Orchestra – Room Full Of Roses
Vocals – Don Cornell
O5 Evelyn Knight And The Starlighters – Powder Your Face With Sunshine
O6 Freddy Martin And His Orchestra – I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Cocoanuts
Vocals – Merv Griffin

1949 
P1 Bing Crosby – Dear Hearts And Gentle People
P2 Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra – Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
Vocals – Vaughn Monroe
P3 Henri René And His Orchestra – I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Pray'rs)
Vocals – Fran Warren, Tony Martin
P4 Perry Como – Some Enchanted Evening
P5 Gordon Jenkins, His Orchestra And Chorus – Don't Cry Joe
P6 Blue Barron, His Orchestra And Chorus – Cruising Down

Record 1: G1RS-9591 / G1RS-9592
Record 2: G1RS-9593 / G1RS-9594
Record 3: G1RS-9595 / G1RS-9596
Record 4: G1RS-9597 / G1RS-9598
Record 5: G1RS-9599 / G1RS-9600
Record 6: G1RS-9601 / G1RS-9602
Record 7: G1RS-9603 / G1RS-9604
Record 8: G1RS-9605 / G1RS-9606

Please refer to all photos as they are part of the description and stated condition.
Sale is for described item only. Props seen in photos are not included. If uncertain, please ask before ordering.

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The Vinyl Records are EXCELLENT without scratches or significant scuffs and appear as if barely listened to (or taken very good care of). The box has some wear shows age as seen in photos.

Data sheet

MPN
RDA 053-A
Type
Box Set
Features
Compilation
Original Cover
Original Inner Sleeve
Material
Vinyl
Style
Big Band & Swing
Easy Listening
Vocal
Artist
Various
Format
Record
Language
English
Case Type
Cardboard Sleeve
Genre
Jazz
Pop
Record Label
Reader's Digest
Release Year
1977
Release Title
Remembering The 40'sRemembering The 40'sRemembering The '40s - A
Edition
Collector's Edition
Compilation
Era
1940s
Record Size
12"
Speed
33 RPM
Record Grading
Excellent (EX)
Catalog Number
RDA 053-A
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Sleeve Grading
Good (G)
Inlay Condition
Very Good Plus (VG+)

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