Hey there, Hepcats! - Happy New Years to all of you! Over the holidays I had a chance to clean up some great music. Most of the tracks came from a show called "Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands". If you are unfamiliar with the show, it was a 15 minute program that featured the hottest bands of the day and aired nationally. "Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands" was sponsored by Coca-Cola and ran from 1943 to about 1950. The show would travel around the United States to different Military Bases and Manufacturing Plants.
Here are some of artists and performances that I recently added to The Swing City Radio Rotation:
Charlie Barnet - Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands (AFRS) - Ep 777 - Mar 14, 1945
Charlie Spivak - Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands (AFRS) - Ep 731 - Jan 19, 1945
Al Donahue - Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands (AFRS) -Nov 10, 1943
Johnny Long - Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands (AFRS) - Ep 810 - Apr 21, 1945
Tommy Tucker - Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands (AFRS) - Ep 814 - Apr 26, 1945
Tommy Dorsey - Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands (AFRS) - Jan 17, 1942
The performances listed above yielded a few dozen new additions to the "always growing" playlist. Also added were a few tracks from a Red Nichols radio remote from The Hotel Netherlands, Cincinnati, OH recorded on March 31, 1939 and a Frankie Trumbauer Radio Broadcast from The Hickory House recorded in February of 1937.
Enjoy!
Listen to: "Boarding House Bounce" by Tommy Tucker from 1945
