V-Disc the gray day away

 As a person careful (ahem) with spondulix it tickles me that V-Discs are (as a government product) in the public domain.

It's yet another gray rainy day here, middle of January and the snow is almost completely melted.  When the sun finally does come out I'm going to rush outside and try to soak up as much sunshine as I can.  But until then I thought I'd listen to a few V-Discs to brighten things up.  First, quite a few V-Discs have been uploaded to Youtube by vdiscdaddy:

https://www.youtube.com/@vdiscdaddy/videos

Here are a few of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDhbZQQ4iU    Sunday in Brooklyn

Although most of the V-Discs that survive are popular music of the World War II era, they also include symphonic, choral and religious music.  Sunday in Brooklyn is a piece that I'd never heard of, there really aren't any other performances to stream.  The intro by the composer is interesting - some of the records have spoken intros but most are best wishes rather than a comment on the record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7rImuFQfoc    Roy Eldridge and Jimmy Mundy

I like the big bands, especially Jimmy Mundy's (which again doesn't seem to exist for streaming other than V-Discs) but the Roy Eldridge tune is amazing, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5GABAJFFNA    Dinah Shore: Along the Navajo Trail

I think Along the Navajo Trail is Dinah's best song.

There's also a more methodical collection of V-Discs on archive.org starting with:

https://archive.org/details/V-discs1-991943-1944

Bob  Wills interjections can be jarring to the uninitiated but they grown on you:

https://archive.org/download/V-discs100-1991944/1944-01-xx-115-V-Disc-A-Bob-Wills-and-his-Texas-Playboys---San-Antonio-Rose.mp3

I can only figure that the amount of noise and static is from the record being played over and over again :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm