8 LP (4 Cassette)
Released 1980
Cat No.: RDM9691-8 (RDMC90871-4) RD Code : REM (GREM-A-035 on Box)
Adaption of US 1977 set 'Remembering The '40s - A Parade Of Nostalgic Hits' (RDA 053) but with major track changes to reflect popular performances from the UK perspective.
REMEMBERING THE 40S is a collection that presents each year in music from a British perspective. Songs from the war, East-End pub songs, US imports, christmas favourites and instrumental classics are all featured over this eight volume set!
- Programme 1 - 1940
01 Quartermaster's Store - Al And Bob Harvey
02 Bless em All - Bertha Willmott
03 When You Wish Upon A Star - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Vocal Ray Eberle
04 San Antonio Rose - Bing Crosby With The Bob Crosby Orchestra
05 Run Rabbit Run - Flanagan and Allen with Jay Wilbur and his Band
06 Frenesi - Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
07 There's A Boy Coming Home On Leave - Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon
08 Siegfried Line - Flanagan & Allen
09 Pennsylvania 6 5000 - Glenn Miller And His Orchestra
10 It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow - Jack Payne and His Orchestra
11 I'll Never Smile Again - Frank Sinatra With The Pied Pipers And The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
12 Beat Me Daddy (Eight To The Bar) - Ray Mckinley And Freddie Slack With The Will Bradley Orchestra
13 Trade Winds - Bing Crosby With Dick Mcintyre And His Hawaiians
14 A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley - Elsie Carlisle
15 Roll Out the Barrel - Rex Massed Bands
16 We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn
- Programme 2 - 1941-42
17 American Patrol - Glenn Miller And His Orchestra
18 A Pair Of Silver Wings - Anne Shelton With Ambrose And His Orchestra
19 Hut Sut Song - Freddy Martin And His Orchestra
20 Do I Worry - Ink Spots
21 When They Sound The Last All Clear - Donald Peers
22 Silent Night - Bing Crosby ft John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra and Max Terr's Mixed Chorus
23 White Cliffs Of Dover - Vera Lynn With Jay Wilbur And His Band
24 Yours - Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly With Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
25 Lili Marlene - Lale Anderson
26 Chattanooga Choo-Choo - Glenn Miller And His Orchestra With Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton & The Modernaires
27 Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition - Kay Kyser And His Orchestra
28 Down Forget me not Lane - Flanagan and Allen
29 Rose O'day (The Filla-Ga-Dusha Song) - Kate Smith
30 Paper Doll - Mills Brothers
31 I Yi Yi Yi Yi (I Like You Very Much) - Carmen Miranda
32 Room Five Hundred and Four - Billy Mayerl
- Programme 3 - 1943-44
33 Holiday For Strings - David Rose
34 Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer - Anne Shelton With Ambrose And His Orchestra
35 People Will Say We're In Love - Alfred Drake & Joan Roberts
36 Sailor, Who Are You Dreaming of Tonight - Billy Cotton
37 After You've Gone - Benny Goodman Sextet
38 Besame Mucho - Kitty Kallen & Bob Eberly With Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
39 The Homecoming Waltz - Donald Peers
40 Jingle Bells - Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
41 I'm Going To Get Lit Up - Alan Breeze With The Billy Cotton Band
42 Pistol Packin' Mama - Bing Crosby With The Andrews Sisters
43 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
44 You'll never Know - Dick Haymes
45 Begin The Beguine - Eddie Heywood Orchestra
46 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five
47 Swinging On A Star - Bing Crosby
48 Skyliner - Charlie Barnet
- Programme 4 - 1944-45
49 On the Sunny Side of the Street - Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with The Sentimentalists
50 Bless You For Being An Angel - The Ink Spots
51 Trolley Song - Judy Garland
52 Sentimental Journey - Doris Day With Les Brown Orchestra
53 Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby And The Andrews Sisters
54 There Goes That Song Again - Adelaide Hall
55 You Always Hurt The One You Love - Mills Brothers
56 We ll Gather Lilacs In the Spring - Olive Gilbert and Muriel Barron
57 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
58 It Might As Well Be Spring - Dick Haymes
59 Money Is the Root of All Evil - Andrews Sisters
60 Till the End of Time - Perry Como
61 Roll Me Over - Primo Scala Accordian Band
62 There, I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe and The Norton Sisters
63 I Can't Begin To Tell You - Bing Crosby With Carmen Cavallaro
64 Opus One - Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra
- Programme 5 - 1946
65 (Give Me) Five Minutes More - The Squadronaires
66 Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow - Lew Stone and his Novatones
67 Old lamp lighter - Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra with the Billy Willliams Choir
68 South America, Take it Away - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra
69 The Glow Worm - Spike Jones
70 I'm Always Chasing Rainbows - Perry Como
71 Anniversary Song - Anne Shelton
72 MacNamara's Band - Bing Crosby
73 Ole Buttermilk Sky - Hoagy Carmichael
74 They Say It's Wonderful - Perry Como
75 Humoresque - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
76 Let Bygones Be Bygones - Issy Bonn
77 To Each his Own - Ink Spots
78 The Coffee Song - Edmundo Ros
79 Prisoner of Love - Perry Como
80 Cement Mixer (Put-ti Put-ti)- Squadronaires
- Programme 6 - 1947
81 Confess - Buddy Clark and Doris Day
82 Open The Door Richard - Louis Jordan
83 Ballerina by Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra
84 I ll Make Up For Everything - Vera Lynn
85 The Shoemaker s Serenade - Johnny Denis and his Ranchers
86 I ll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms) - Eddy Arnold
87 Hear My Song, Violetta - Mantovani Orchestra
88 Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba - Perry Como
89 Fiddle Faddle - Kingsway Symphony Orchestra conducted by Camarata
90 My Love Is Only for You- Primo Scala and his Accordian Band
91 Easter Parade - Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
92 The Stars Will Remember - Scotty McHarg
93 I Wish I Didn't Love You So- Dick Haymes
94 Alexander's Ragtime Band - Bing Crosby and Al Jolson with Morris Stoloff and his Orchestra
95 May I Call You sweetheart - Issy Bonn
96 Dark Town Poker Club - Phil Harris
- Programme 7 - 1948
97 Buttons And Bows - Dinah Shore
98 Nature Boy - Mantovani's Orchestra
99 A Tree In The Meadow - Sam Browne with Bert Thompson And His Orchestra
100 Galway Bay - Bing Crosby
101 Because - Perry Como
102 Silver Wedding Waltz - Vera Lynn
103 When You're in Love - Reggie Goff
104 Manana - Edmundo Ros
105 Jumping Bean Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
106 Lazy River - Mills Brothers
107 All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) - Spike Jones And His City Slickers
108 The Wishing Waltz - Sam Browne
109 Now Is The Hour - Bing Crosby
110 You re Still The Only Girl In The World - Issy Bonn
111 Fats Domino - The Fat Man
112 La Vie En Rose - Raymond Legrand
- Programme 8 - 1949
113 Ghost Riders In The Sky - Vaughn Monroe
114 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
115 Bird Song At Eventide - Ronnie Ronalde
116 Careless Hands - Bing Crosby
117 Hop Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot) - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
118 On The 545 - Joy Nichols & Benny Lee
119 'A' You're Adorable - Perry Como
120 Confidentially - Reg Dixon
121 I've got a Loverly Bunch of Coconuts - Billy Cotton and his Band
122 Cruising Down The River - Russ Morgan
123 How Can You Buy Killarney - Lee Lawrence
124 Peter Cottontail - Gene Autry
125 Is It Too Late - Denny Dennis
126 The Four Winds And The Seven Seas - Bing Crosby
127 Crystal Gazer - Reggie Goff with the Stapletons
128 Dry Bones - Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
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