Fitch Bandwagon

wonderful, thanks a lot! the krupa and Goodman one´s are very rare!
Keep boppin´
marcel

In the interest of continuity, even though these were posted earlier in a different forum, I'm including them again here.

Fitch Bandwagon 1941-12-07 NET 171 Horace Heidt - Piano Concerto in B Flat (poor sound)
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Fitch Bandwagon 1942-03-08 NET 184 Edwin Franko Goldman Band - On The Hudson (flux)
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And now for today's offerings:
I wish the sound was as good as this one on all of them

Fitch Bandwagon 1942-04-05 NET 188 Jimmy Dorsey - Blue Skies
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According to my count, Phil Harris appeared at least 9 times on the Bandwagon during the Big Band phase of the show, before he and Alice Faye became regulars in 1946. I still haven't nailed down some of the shows so the count could eventually be more than 9.

Fitch Bandwagon 1942-05-03 NET 192 Phil Harris - Hash Brown (upcut, cmcls edited)
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I don't have a script for this last one for today, so I took a stab at the name of the opening number. Hope it's not too far off base.

Fitch Bandwagon 1942-05-17 NET 194 Harry Owens - Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle (upcut, cmcls edited)
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One final research thing before I leave the thread today.
Will you please take a look at this clipping from the Jan 4, 1942 Charlie Spivak appearance. It's not easy to read and I'm having the darndest time identifying the title of the number. Any thoughts?

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cdm,

It might be Papa Nicolini
There seems to be the letter I ending the second word of song

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hotmix99 wrote:cdm,

It might be Papa Nicolini
There seems to be the letter I ending the second word of song

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Awesome sleuthing Hotmix!! Thank you.
My wife thought it might be Nana Musolini

thanks for another wave of great, rare, big band Music!!!

Keep boppin´
marcel

Thanks for the shows Completedayman!
You were exactly right it is: "Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle". A search engine check verified that. Also, I agree that the song on the Charlie Spivak script is "Papa Niccolini". It was a popular song during this time. Glenn Miller at least made his recording of the song on October 20, 1941.

Thanks Harlow. Did not know that Glenn recorded this. Documentation updated.

CDM
Here is a sound upgrade:

Fitch Bandwagon 44-02-20 Jan Savitt and Alec Templeton

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Harlow Wilcox wrote:CDM
Here is a sound upgrade:

Fitch Bandwagon 44-02-20 Jan Savitt and Alec Templeton

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Harlow Wilcox thanks for the upgrade

Harlow Wilcox wrote:CDM
Here is a sound upgrade:

Fitch Bandwagon 44-02-20 Jan Savitt and Alec Templeton

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Thanks Harlow. I'm now trying to go in sequence on these but I have a flac version of this one which I should be posting in a few days time. See what you think when I do.

Continuing on, this one has been edited quite a bit but the show is verified.

Fitch Bandwagon 1942-05-24 NET 195 Bob Crosby - Jersey Bounce (19 mins - EDITED)
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On Nov 1, 1942 AFRS (Special Services Division) started picking up the shows and shipping them out to the forces. For about the first 10 months or so they maintained the 30 min format, minus the Fitch connection of course, calling it The Bandwagon.

Fitch Bandwagon 1942-12-06 AFRS 006 Guy Lombardo - Brazil
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And finally for today two versions of the same show - one complete (for the greybelts amongst you) and the other slightly upcut but in much better sound. You pays your money …………..

Fitch Bandwagon 1942-12-20 AFRS 008 Chico Marx - Abraham COMPLETE
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Fitch Bandwagon 1942-12-20 AFRS 008 Chico Marx - Abraham UPCUT BTR SND
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By the way, I forgot to mention before, if you like the music here then come on over to the Whale Room where it's wild and wooly. Share a thought or two, mostly fabricated of course, enjoy the posts and the music and don't be afraid to let your hair down (if you have any to let down that is). You only live once!!

CompleteDayMan thanks for todays shows

Sorry for the Interruption CDM. I was just so excited about getting an upgrade to you.

No problem at all Harlow. I really do appreciate the effort, especially with this program. It's really very hard to find new programs or upgraded ones.

First for today.
Fitch Bandwagon 1943-02-21 NET 234 Johnny Long - A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
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This next one is very interesting in that it is a collection of four tunes featuring Charlie Spivak, with no open or close, no commercials and not much dialog. I'm guessing that the four tunes came from both sides of two 78s. My research so far shows that Charlie appeared 3 times on the Bandwagon, 42-01-04, 43-03-28 and 44-02-13. The last date can be ruled out since Tom Reddy would have been the host. It's also not the first date since we have that show. Therefore by process of deduction, until we have proof to the contrary, I'm including it here.

Fitch Bandwagon 1943-03-28 NET 239 (until proven otherwise) Charlie Spivak - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (4 numbers, op, cl, dial, comm deleted)
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Finally for today.

Fitch Bandwagon 1943-04-11 AFRS 024 Vaughn Monroe - You're A Grand Old Flag
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CompleteDayMan wrote:First for today.
Fitch Bandwagon 1943-02-21 NET 234 Johnny Long - A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
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Singer Gene Williams was only 17-years-old at the time.