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OFAM 2023 - If Only In My Dreams
You'll Never Know
Gems of V-Disc
Fri, Aug 4 - Thu, Aug 10
Jaqua Concert Hall, The Shedd Institute
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  • Description
  • V-Discs
  • Personnel
  • Program
Established by the Army Service Forces Special Services Division in October 1943 as a means of providing "not only of the latest and best in popular songs and marches, but also of the
You'll Never Know is one of 7 OFAM 2023 concerts presented twice:
    Evening: Fri, Aug 4, 7:30 pm
    Matinée: Thu, Aug 10, 1:30 pm
finest classical, concert, military, sacred, folk and patriotic music" to U.S. military personnel overseas, the V-DISC program produced 900 discs containing 2,345 tunes through 1949, when the program terminated. Because of the American Federation of Musician's strike from 1942-44, which forbade AFM members from working with Stateside record labels, many of the V-Disc recordings are the earliest and in some cases only recordings we have early '40s compositions. Chuck Redd and company offer up an evening of his favorites from the 1,500+ tunes that were released on V-Disc between October 1943 and the end of 1945.
The early 1940s were not an easy time for the music industry. First, in December 1940 ASCAP took on radio broadcasters, demanding higher licensing fees, so radio stations dropped all ASCAP music for over 10 months. Then in December 1941 the U.S. entered the war and it became significantly harder for musicians to tour and bands to stay together. Finally, in August 1942, in a dispute with record companies over the use of recorded music on radio, the president of the American Federation of Musicians, James Caesar Petrillo, called a strike, banning all AFM members from recording new music.
One result of the ban was the V-DISC, a special project of the Army’s Special Service Division. In October 1943, Captain George Robert Vincent convinced Petrillo to make an exception for the sake of the war effort, allowing musicians to make recordings for troops overseas. Almost immediately the V-Discs began to be shipped out, and the program continued, alongside the Armed Forces Radio Service’s radio transcription discs, into 1949, resulting in 900 discs containing 2,345 tunes featuring a lot of great music that, due to the AFM ban, was never recorded commercially in the States.
In a letter accompanying the first shipment of V-Discs sent out, Brigadier General F. H. Osborn of the Special Services Division explained the program’s goal:
     “The Special Service Division presents to the Armed Forces this preview of the V-DISC, a new feature of the Music Section, Athletic and Recreation Branch. It is pleased to make monthly releases of phonograph records, not only of the latest and best in popular songs and marches, but also of the finest classical, concert, military, sacred, folk and patriotic music, so that the individual interests of the men in the Armed Forces may be fulfilled.
     “This album of six records contains a number of the leading songs from the Army Hit Kit and several special arrangements appropriately captioned, “Music For Marching Men.”
     “V-DISCs can be played over post public address systems, for drill, in the service clubs, mess halls, movie theatres, over camp carrier radio and many other places.”
Event Personnel
Chuck Redd, director
Vocalists
Siri Vik, vocals
Musicians
Program
PROGRAM
 I'll Be Seeing You
(1938) Right This Way Irving Kahal (w) Sammy Fain (m)
 That's The Stuff Ya Gotta Watch
(1945) Noble Sissle, Buck Ram, Edgar Battle, Gail Meredith (w/m)
 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
(1919) Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield (w/m)
 I Remember You
(1942) The Fleet's In Johnny Mercer (w) Victor Schertzinger (m)
 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
(1940) Bob Russell (w) Duke Ellington (m)
 One O'Clock Jump
(1937) Count Basie (m)
 King Porter Stomp
(1923) Jelly Roll Morton (m)
 In The Blue Of Evening
(1943) Tom Adair, Al D'Artega (w/m)
 Body And Soul
(1930) Three's a Crowd Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton (w) John W. Green (m)
 Blue Skies
(1927) Betsy Irving Berlin (w/m)
 Mop Mop
(1943) Big Sid Catlett (m)
 You'll Never Know
(1943) Hello, Frisco, Hello Mack Gordon (w) Harry Warren (m)
 Embraceable You
(1930) Girl Crazy Ira Gershwin (w) George Gershwin (m)
 You Go To My Head
(1938) Haven Gillespie (w) J. Fred Coots (m)
 Nancy
(1944) Phil Silvers (w) Jimmy Van Heusen (m)
 And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
(1944) Joe Greene (w) Stan Kenton, Charles Lawrence (m)
 You Came Alone (From Out Of Nowhere)
(1931) Edward Heyman (w) Johnny Green (m)
 G. I. Stomp
(1943) Count Basie (m)
 I Got Rhythm
(1930) Girl Crazy Ira Gershwin (w) George Gershwin (m)
 Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer
(1943) Harold Adamson (w) Jimmy McHugh (m)


Performances
August, 2023
Fr 04 7:30 pYou'll Never Know: Eugene
Th 10 1:30 pYou'll Never Know: Eugene
Ticket/Venue Info
No ticketing information available.
Jaqua Concert Hall
The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts
285 E Broadway
Eugene, Oregon
541-434-7000
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OFAM 2023 Title Sponsor
The Eye Center
Shedd Presenting Sponsor