The V Disc Years • Volumes 1 & 2 • 1944-46
Album by Woody Herman and His Orchestra
The V Disc Years • Volumes 1 & 2 • 1944-46 is a compilation album by Woody Herman and His Orchestra collecting V-Disc recordings from 1944 to 1946. The set captures Herman's mid-1940s big-band jazz, featuring driving swing arrangements, prominent brass and reed sections and early modern jazz influences that document the band's transition toward more progressive, bebop-informed writing in his career.
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Disc 1
- 1.Flying Home3:05
- 2.It Must Be Jelly2:52
- 3.Dancing in the Dawn5:13
- 4.Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe4:34
- 5.Red Top4:32
- 6.Jones Beachhead3:28
- 7.I Can’t Put My Arms Around a Memory5:18
- 8.There Are No Wings on a Foxhole2:45
- 9.Apple Honey4:39
- 10.Time Waits for No One3:54
- 11.Billy Bauer’s Tune
- 12.Golden Wedding3:02
- 13.I’ve Got the World on a String3:45
- 14.Yeah Man (Amen)2:17
- 15.He’s Funny That Way (take 1)4:30
- 16.Lover Man4:54
- 17.(Ah) Your Father’s Moustache6:13
Disc 2
- 1.Don’t Worry ’Bout That Mule3:58
- 2.125th Street Prophet4:11
- 3.I Can’t Put My Arms Around a Memory6:12
- 4.Somebody Loves Me4:55
- 5.John Hardy’s Wife4:30
- 6.Meshugah5:58
- 7.He’s Funny That Way (take 2)4:37
- 8.Secunda5:56
- 9.Jones Beachhead3:36
- 10.Caldonia3:43
- 11.Jackson Fiddles While Ralph Burns3:51
- 12.Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe5:15
- 13.Mean to Me2:57
- 14.Blowin’ Up a Storm4:13
- 15.C Jam Blues / Reprise3:25

