Since you are interested in Going Hollywood, Vol. 2: 1936-1939, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Bea Wain
My Reverie [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] Bea Wain's major successes were as Larry Clinton's band singer, most famously with My reverie, one of four American number one hits. This compilation contains some of her Larry Clinton tracks and some of her solo music after she quit Larry's band,... |
Benny Goodman
Carnegie Hall, January 16th, 1938 - The complete Concert [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Goodman became the first real jazz musician to capture a mass bourgeois white audience in America and carried him to this fantastic performance at Carnegie Hall. |
Betty Grable
The Pin-Up Girl [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/1997 ] Thank God for modern technology. Here you have recordings that otherwise, you would only be able to listen to and view from screenings. What a gem she was, and through these sound recordings that capture her magic, an appreciation of her talent,... |
Betty Hutton
The Blonde Bombshell In Hollywood [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] "Rumbustious, exuberant, screwball". Just some of the words used to describe the wacky talent of Betty Hutton. Just check out the opener on this two disc set "OL' MAN MOSE" if any proof is needed of her frenetic style! |
Bill Coleman
A Smooth One - 'Live' In Manchester, May 1967 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] Trumpeter Coleman, strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong, belongs to that generation of jazz musicians (He was born in 1904) who set the standard for instrumental performances in the 1930's. |
Bing Crosby
Going Hollywood, Vol. 1: 1930-1936 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/1998 ] Out on the West Coast of America, in Spokane, Washington, in 1925, two young men decided to 'up roots' and leave their home town. Of little significance except to the people involved, you might say there was nothing unusual about such an event. |
Cass Dalley
You Can't Blame A Girl For Tryin' [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Oct/2002 ] Visually she was a cross between an uncoiling spring and Walt Disney's cartoon character Goofy. Aurally she came at you like an express train roaring out of a tunnel. Vaguely in the same mould as Martha Raye, Judy Canova and Carol Burnett, she was... |
Don Cornell
Most Of All [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] Don Cornell was a popular singer in the 1940s and 1950s and here for the first time on CD are all of his charting hits! |
Doris Day
A Day To Remember [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] From her first national prominence with Les Brown's Orchestra through her compelling solo releases and also featuring songs from the motion pictures 'Romance On The High Seas', 'Young Man With A Horn' and 'My Dream Is Yours' this is Doris Day as you... |
Eddie Fisher
Every Song I Have Is Yours [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] This compilation of Eddie Fisher's early tracks are a delight. A great package of fifty numbers and almost every one a winner. |