The Cardinals - Atlantic 1103 (1956)

Here we have The Cardinals, an early doo wop group from Baltimore formed in 1946. They are best known for their hits The Door Is Still Open (To My Heart)...a later hit for Dean Martin...and Wheel Of Fortune.

Recorded in August of 1956.

Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra / Metropolitan Opera House Jam Session - V-Disc 14

Woody Herman & His Orchestra - V-Disc 660

Couldn't find the personnel for this one so I thought I would present what was found regarding where it appears to have been sent after pressing.

From wikipedia...

USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) was one of 27 United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II, and one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers. She was the first US Navy ship to be named for Little Rock, Arkansas. Commissioned in mid-1945, she was completed too late to see combat duty during World War II. After an initial South American cruise, she spent the next few years serving off the east coast of the U.S., in the Caribbean, and in the Mediterranean. Like all but one of her sister ships, she was retired in the post-war defense cutbacks, becoming part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in 1949.

In the late 1950s she was converted to a Galveston-class guided missile cruiser, which involved removing all her aft guns and rebuilding her aft superstructure to accommodate the Talos missile system. Like most of the Cleveland ships converted to missile ships, she was also extensively modified forward to become a flagship. This involved removal of most of her forward armament to allow for a greatly enlarged superstructure. She was recommissioned in 1960 as CLG-4 (and in 1975 redesignated CG-4).

In her new career she served extensively in the Mediterranean, often as the Sixth Fleet flagship. She decommissioned for the last time in 1976, and is now a museum ship in Buffalo, New York.

Little Rock is the sole surviving member of the Cleveland class.

Jack Teagarden & Band / Benny Carter & Orchestra / Charlie Barnet & Band - V-Disc 823 (1948)

Took one of the boys to the flea market last weekend to find some old Sega cartridges after "finding" my old Genesis console in the garage and came away with five V-Discs...a pleasant surprise indeed.

Here's the first to be posted.

I Swung The Election (Glenn Miller)

Jack Teagarden tb, v, dir / Clair Jones, Bob McLaughlin, Val Salata, Vernon 'Tex' Williams t / Fred Keller, Ray Olsen, Wally Wells tb / Vic Rosi cl, as / Dale Stoddard as / Howard 'Gish' Gilbertson, Ken Harpster ts / Clark Crandall bar / Don Seidel p / Jimmy Lynch sb / Frank Harrington d.

Recorded in Los Angeles on August 24, 1944.

Hobson Street Blues

Ray Borden, Jerry Rosen, Tex Williamson, another t / Jack Teagarden, Palmer Combatelli, Jack Lantz, Wally Wells tb / Vic Rosi cl, as / Bob Derry, Dale Jolley, Bert Noah, Merton Smith as, ts / Norma Teagarden p / Charlie Gilruth g / Lloyd Springer sb / Frank Horrington d.

Recorded in Los Angeles c. March 1945.

Benny Carter as, dir / Paul Cohen, Ira Pettiford, Walter Williams t / Al Grey, Candy Ross tb / Willard Brown as, bar / Sonny White p / James Cannady g / Thomas Moultrie sb / Percy Brice d.

Recorded in Los Angeles 1946. 

Charlie Barnet (Still looking for discographical information)

Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney & The Hi-Lo's - Columbia Remington Promotional Record (1959)

Adele Rowland - Columbia A2769 (1919)

Here's an interesting version of W.C. Handy's The Hesitating Blues.

Excerpted from wikipedia...

Conway Tearle’s third wife, Roberta Hill, filed for a divorce in 1917 after detectives she hired found him in a hotel room with Adele Rowland, a musical comedy actress and dancer. The two claimed they were just rehearsing a play as Rowland explained later, “As to the robe in which I was clad, it's the custom in the profession to read plays attired like that.”

The following February, Tearle and Rowland wed; remaining together until his death some twenty years later. Adele Rowland was the former wife of actor Charles Ruggles and was well known at the time for introducing to America the song Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile which she sang in the 1915 musical Her Soldier Boy. Adele Rowland was born in Washington D.C. on July 10, 1883 and died in Los Angeles on August 8, 1971.

Recorded on March 5, 1919.

Mound City Blue Blowers - Brunswick 2849 (1925)

Red McKenzie comb / Dick Selvin kazoo / Jack Bland bj.

Recorded in New York on Fubruary 9, 1925.

Hawkshaw Hawkins - King 1174 (1953)

Apparently Hank Williams had been late or a no show to his shows so many times, the Ohio audience waiting for him to perform laughed at the emcee's announcement that he had passed away. Only when Hawkshaw Hawkins led the other performers in a tribute rendition of I Saw The Light, did the audience realize that Hank truly was gone.

Just a decade later, Hawkins would pass away in Country music's version of The Day The Music Died when a plane crash would also claim the lives of Cowboy Copas and Patsy Cline.

Hawkshaw Hawkins v / Clause Brown steel g / ? lead g / Sammy Barnhart sb / ? fiddle / ? piano.

Recorded in Cincinnati at King Recording Studios on January 16, 1953. (Just two weeks after the death of Hank Williams)

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra / Piedmont Dance Orchestra - Perfect 14271 (1924)

Fletcher Henderson p,a, dir / Elmer Chambers, Howard Scott c / Teddy Nixon tb / Don Redman cl, as, o / ?Lonnie Brown as / Coleman Hawkins ts / Allie Ross vn / Charlie Dixon bj / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in New York on April 28, 1924.

Julian Kurtzman, Theo Wohleben t / Ben Morgan tb / Ray Thwaite, Oscar Moldaur cl, ss, as / John Baviton cl, ts / Charlie Fry as, vn, ldr / Ray Allen p / Frank Kriell bj, vc / Herman Schmidt bb / Fred Niehardt d.

Recorded in New York between March and April, 1924.

Red Nichols & The Five Pennies - American Patrol (1960)

Happy 4th of July!

Red Nichols c / Pete Beilmann, Sr. tb / Joe Rushton, Jr. bass sax / Bill Wood cl / Bobby Hammack p / Rollie Culver d.