V-Disc

V-Disc

  • 1943年 10月〜 1949年 5月(プロジェクトの始まりは 1941年)までの間に 905枚 ( Army用) が創られた。( Navy は1944年 7月〜 1945年 9月)
    "V"は勿論、"Victory" で(関係者 George Robert Vincent 説もあり)、第二次世界大戦中の兵士向け 12インチ 78rpm (SP)。
    1 インチ当たり 136本というグルーヴ(ミゾ)で 12インチで約 6分半の収録が可能になった。
  • 陸軍用(Army)と海軍用(Navy)ではラベルが少し違う。
    全てのイシューは Army 用の 905枚で網羅されることになる。
    シェラック盤もほんの一部あるが、大部分は戦地へパラシュートで専用の蓄音機といっしょに投げ落とすため、割れにくいビニライト製。
  • V-Disc は "Victory" の名のもと、最大の国家プロジェクトである戦争に参戦する兵士達のストレス解消に大いに貢献したことと思われる。
    クラシックやポピュラーなども多いが、ジャズは 1942年の「吹込ストライキ」の頃の録音が多く、また、レコード会社の契約の制限がなかったので、通常時では考えられないメンバー同士の共演などがあり、V-Disc でしか聴けないものが多く貴重。

画像の説明Vdisc Navy
Army 用 Navy 用


 V-Disc Original List

Disc No. Title MX No. Rec.Date etc.
Army 248 I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues) 440118 Navy 28
672 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me 440118
I’ll Get By 440418
760 Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? 470208
771 Don’t Explain 470208
  • EQ Curve は 250/-14 (Columbia Studio)


Army 248 (Navy 28) I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues)

I Love My Man画像の説明

Billie Holiday
18th, January 1944
Army V-disc 248 


I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t

I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t

But I’ll quit my man

I’m liar if I say I won’t

I’ve been your slave baby

Ever since I’ve been your babe

I’ve been your slave

Ever since I’ve been your babe

But before I’ll be your dog

I’ll see you in your grave

My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast

Wouldn’t give me no dinner

Squawked about my supper then he put me outdoors

Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes

I didn’t have so many

But I had a long, long ways to go

I ain’t good-looking

And my hair ain’t curls

I ain’t good-looking

And my hair ain’t curls

But my mother, she give me something

It’s going to carry me through this world

Some men like me ‘cause I’m happy

Some ‘cause I’m snappy

Some call me honey

Others think I’ve got money
Some say Billie, 
Baby you’re built for speed

Now if you put that all together

Makes me everything a good man needs

  • 1944年1月18日 Metropolitan Opera House で行われた第一回 Esquire誌の年間ポール・ウイナーによる All American Jazz Concert ガラ・コンサートの録音。
    Billie は伝説の歌姫 Marian Anderson よりも先に黒人として初めてメトロポリタン・オペラ・ハウスの舞台に登場した。
  • PERSONNEL
    "The All-Star Jam Band"
    Roy Eldridge tp; Barney Bigard cl; Coleman Hawkins ts; Jack Teagarden tb; Art Tatum p; Albert Casey g; Odcar Pettiford b; Sidney Catlett ds; Leonard Feather and another unknown ann.; Recorded on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC Tuesday, 18th January 1944.at Esquire First Annual Jazz Concert

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672 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me / I’ll Get By

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Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me
Lyrics : Bob Russell
Music : Duke Ellington
18th, January 1944
V-disc 672


(intro)
Do nothin’ till you hear from me

Pay no attention to what’s said

Why people tear the seams of anyone’s dream

Is over my head

Do nothin’ till you hear from me

At least consider our romance

If you should take the word of others you’ve heard

I haven’t a chance
True I’ve been seen with someone new

But does that mean that I’m untrue

When we’re apart the words in my heart

Reveal how I feel about you

Some kiss may cloud my memory

And other arms may hold a thrill

But please do nothin’ till you hear it from me

And you never will

True I’ve been seen with someone new

But does that mean that I’m untrue

When we’re apart the words in my heart

Reveal what I feel about you

Some kiss may cloud my memory

And other arms may hold a thrill

But don’t do nothin’ till you hear it from me

And you never will
Do nothin’ till you hear from me
(track continues to I’ll Get By)

  • 1939年に Cootie Williams のために「Concerto for Cootie」として書かれた曲に43年に歌詞が付けられた作品。ここで使われた「tear」は壊すという動詞。
    Esqire First Annual Jazz Concert でのライブ録音。
    チャンピオン達のバッキングで Billie はゆったりと恋の忠節を唄う。中でも超絶技巧の Art Tatum のピアノ伴奏は目を見張るものがあるが、それに呼応するかのように Billie は素晴らしい歌唱を披露する。天才と天才のインター・プレイには脱帽。

I’ll Get By
Lyrics : Roy Turk 
Music :  Fred E. Ahlert
18th, January 1944
V-disc 672


I’ll get by

As long as I have you

Though there’ll be rain

And darkness too

I’ll not complain

I’ll laugh it’s true
Poverty

May come to me that’s true

But what care I?

I’ll get by

As long as I have you

I’ll get by

As long as I have you

Though there’ll be rain

And darkness too

I’ll not complain

I’ll laugh it’s true
Poverty

May come to me that’s true

But what care I? 

I’ll get by

As long as I have you

  • PERSONNEL
    "The All-Star Jam Band"
    Roy Eldridge tp; Barney Bigard cl; Coleman Hawkins ts; Jack Teagarden tb; Art Tatum p; Albert Casey g; Odcar Pettiford b; Sidney Catlett ds; Leonard Feather and another unknown ann.; Recorded on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC Tuesday, 18th January 1944.at Esquire First Annual Jazz Concert
    YouTube


760 Miss New Orleans

Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?

Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
?
Lyric : Eddie DeLange
Music ; Louis Alter
8th, February 1947
V-disc 760


Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans

I miss it most night and day

I know I’m not wrong

The feelings getting stronger

The more I stay away
Miss the moss colored vines

The tall sugar pines

Where mockingbirds seem to sing

And I’d like to see the lazy Mississippi

A hurry in to spring

Oh, the mardi grass the memories

Of Creole tunes that fill the air

I dream the oleanders in spring

That’s when I’m wishing that I was there

Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans

When that’s where you left your heart

And there’s one thing more

I miss the one I care for

More than I miss New Orleans

(Billie Holiday singing)

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans

I miss it each night and day

I know I’m not wrong

The feelings getting stronger

The longer I stay away
Miss the moss covered vines

The tall sugar pines

Where mockingbirds use to sing

And I’d like to see the lazy Mississippi

A hurry in to spring

The mardi grass memories

Of Creole tunes that fill the air

I dream of oleanders in June

And still I’m wishing that I was there

Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans

I miss it each night and day

And there’s something more
I miss the one I care for

More than I miss New Orleans

  • 1947年のUA映画「New Orleans」の主題歌として使われた曲。映画の中でBillieとLouis Armstrongが演奏し唄った。
    (Billieはピアノ弾き語りもある。映画では短いがワンコーラスのサウンド・トラックが後にLPで発売される)
    他にバーニィ・ビガード、キッド・オーリィ、ウディ・ハーマンなど豪華なゲスト・ミュージシャン出演だが、内容の貧弱な映画と酷評される。
  • この盤はSatchmoのCarnegie Hall ConcertにBillieがゲスト出演したときのBillieの歌とWNEWで放送したときのSatchmoの録音をつなぎ合わせて戦時レコードの12インチV-Discに納めている。
  • PERSONNEL
    Louis Armstrong tp & vc.; with Edmond Hall & His Cafe Society Band
    Mouse Randolph tp; Edmond Hall cl; Henderson Chambers tb; Charlie Batman p; John Williams b; James Crawford ds; Recorded on the stage of Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at 7th. Avenue, NYC Sataday, 8th February 1947.
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771 Don’t Explain

Don't Explain

Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr.
8th, February 1947
V-disc 771


(BH self intro:
Thank you very much, Ladies and Gentlemen,
and now I’d like to sing a song, that I wrote,
its title is Don’t Explain)

Hush now, don’t explain

I know you raise Cain

I’m glad you’re back

Don’t explain

Quiet, don’t explain

You mixed with some dame

Skip that lipstick

Don’t explain

You should know I love you

And what love endures

All my thoughts are of you

For I’m so completely yours
Cry to hear folks chatter

And I know you cheat

But right and wrong, don’t matter

When you’re with me, sweet

Hush now, don’t explain

You’re my joy and pain

My life’s yours, love

Don’t explain

  • Carnegie Hall Concertの実況録音。
  • PERSONNEL
    Louis Armstrong tp & vc.; with Edmond Hall & His Cafe Society Band
    Mouse Randolph tp; Edmond Hall cl; Henderson Chambers tb; Charlie Batman p; John Williams b; James Crawford ds; Recorded on the stage of Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at 7th. Avenue, NYC Sataday, 8th February 1947.
    YouTube