Big Band Bash

Repeat - New Year's Radio Dance Party 1945-1946

Happy New Year to everyone as we welcome in the New Year. On the show today is a repeat of program I produced in 2016 called New Year's Radio Dance Party 1945-1946. The A

Repeat - Christmas Eve 1941

Merry Christmas everyone. I am sorry that I am a little late in getting this weeks show posted. This is a repeat of a show I produced in 2011. There are a couple of segme

Repeat - A 1940s Christmas

For the next few weeks, I am repeating a couple of shows that I produced almost ten years ago. This first one was called A 1940's Christmas. I tried to pick out as many s

We Remember Pearl Harbor and Glenn Miller

Hello everyone. This episode of Big Band Bash is a repeat of a show I produced in 2011 where we paid tribute to the men and women who lost their lives during the attack o

Your Hit Parade Part 5 1948-1949

This week we continue our look at the radio program Your Hit Parade with part five featuring music from the years of 1948 and 1949. This is from a 10 cd set and I have co

Your Hit Parade Part 4 1946-1947

This week we continue our look at the radio program Your Hit Parade with part four featuring music from the years of 1946 and 1947. This is from a 10 cd set and I have co

Your Hit Parade Part 3 1944-1945

This week we continue our look at the radio program Your Hit Parade with part three featuring music from the years of 1944 and 1945. This is from a 10 cd set and I have c

Your Hit Parade Part 2 1942-1943

This week we continue our look at the radio program Your Hit Parade with part two featuring music from the years of 1942 and 1943. This is from a 10 cd set and I have com

Your Hit Parade Part 1 1940-1941

On our program today we start part one of a five-part series on the radio program Your Hit Parade. Each Saturday evening the biggest song hits of the week were presented

Reader's Digest: The Late 1940's Part Two

We continue this week with part two of a Reader's Digest records production called These Were Our Songs, The Late 1940's. This was a seven vinyl album set and rereleased

Gene Krupa Revisted

Well I apologize but I ran into some family problems and was not able to finish part two of the Reader's Digest set I promised for this week. So to substitute I have chos

Reader's Digest: The Late 1940's Part One

This is another set I managed to get a copy of. It was produced by Reader's Digest records and called These Were Our Songs, The Late 1940's. This was a seven vinyl album

Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands

From the patriotic show, The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, I am playing three radio remotes. The bands we will be listening to are Les Brown, Gene Krupa, and Charlie

Reader's Digest: The Late 1930's Part Two

We continue this week with Part Two of a Reader's Digest collection called These Were Our Songs, The Late 1930's. This featues music from the years of 1936 -1939. This se

Reader's Digest: The Late 1930's Part One

I managed to get a copy of this set from Reader's Digest Records. It is called These Were Our Songs, The Late 1930's. This was a seven vinyl album set and rereleased as a

September Songs and Others

September 21st is right around the beginning of Autumn. I thought I would do something different this week and celebrate the Autun time of the year with songs about Septe

Time Life - The Swing Era 1944-1945 Part 2

This week I am following up with Part 2 of the Time-Life series, The Swing Era, with the second half from the years of 1944-1945. I had so much fun tracking down the orig

Time Life - The Swing Era 1944-1945 Part 1

This week we return to the Time-Life series, "The Swing Era", with the volume from the years of 1944-1945. These were still the war years but there were still some great

The Vocal Groups

This week on Big Band Bash I'll be taking a look at many of the vocal groups that sang with the big bands and on their own. There were several popular groups back then an

My Big Band Revival Part 2

We continue this week with Part two of my Big Band Revival. I got the ides from the many churches I see having revivals. I needed to get excited again about the great ban