A DISCOGRAPHY MOMENT: GENE KRUPA - APRIL 8, 1946

On this day in 1946 - 80 years ago the great Gene Krupa and his orchestra recorded a series of transcription discs in Hollywood, California...

Date: April 8, 1946

Location: Radio Recorders, 7000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA
Label: Capitol

Gene Krupa and his Orchestra
Charlie Kennedy, Harry Terrill (as), Charlie Ventura, Buddy Wise (ts), Joe Koch (bar), Jimmy Millazzio, Red Rodney, Joe Triscari, Ray Triscari (t), Bob Ascher, Nick Gaglio, Tasso Harris, Dick Taylor (tb), Mike Triscari (g), Teddy Napoleon (p), Irv Lang (b), Joe Dale, Gene Krupa (d), Carolyn Grey, Buddy Stewart (v)

1. Yesterdays 
2. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home 
3. Prisoner Of Love – vBS
4. 1 Ain’t Nowhere – vCG
5.  Sweet Lorraine
6. Wire Brush Stomp
7. Old Folks At Home – vBS
8. You Go To My Head – vBS
9.  Bird House*
10. Bugle Call Rag
11. In The Moon Mist – vBS
12. Where Or When – vBS
13. It’s Up To You
14. What Is This Thing Called Love
15. Idaho

A DISCOGRAPHY MOMENT: JO STAFFORD - MARCH 26, 1946

Jo Stafford (1917-2008) was one of the greatest female vocalists in all of pop music history/. In the 1940s and 1950s she had a huge musical output. On this studio session she got to record with the great Nat King Cole on piano...

March 28, 1946 (Thursday)

Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home (with Nat King Cole - piano) (Matrix No. 1054) * Recorded for single Capitol 15171
Cindy (with Nat King Cole - piano) (Matrix No. 1055) * Recorded for single Capitol 259
Ridin’ On The Gravy Train (with Nat King Cole - piano) (Matrix No. 1056) * Originally unissued
I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time (with Nat King Cole - piano) (Matrix No. 1057) * Recorded for single Capitol 277

‘Ridin’ On The Gravy Train’ (Matrix No. 1056) was issued in 1991, on the CD ‘Capitol Collectors Series: Jo Stafford’ (Capitol CDP 7 91638 2)

THE BOX OFFICE STARS: 1946

By 1946, World War II was over, and America was getting back to normal. A part of being normal was going back to the movies. The year 1946 was one of the biggest years of movie audience attendance on record. Continuing his streak as the number one star, Bing Crosby continues his reign as the king of the box office in 1946.

Here are the box office champs of 1946:

1 Bing Crosby
2 Ingrid Bergman
3 Van Johnson
4 Gary Cooper
5 Bob Hope
6 Humphrey Bogart
7 Greer Garson
8 Margaret O?Brien
9 Betty Grable
10 Roy Rogers