Songskis for Somber Slovaks
"Ready comrades?"
BOLSHEVIK (Moe Jaffe - Nat Bonx) WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS, vPoley McClintock, Fred Waring and the Band [35528-13 / Vic 20146] NY, 8/10/46
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (Anthony Newley - Leslie Bricusse, from the United Artists motion picture) JACK JONES, vocal with orchestra conducted by Jack Elliott, from the LP Jack Jones .... Bewitched, circa 1962
KATINKA (Ben Russell - Henry Tobias) GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUSIC voc Fran Frey-Bob Borger-Bob Rice Vic 20100-A (35732-3). NY 6/30/26. [A hot-ski fox-trotski for Wilski!]
"Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeousie..."
RUSSIAN RAG (Cobb) JOSEPH KNECHT'S WALDORF-ASTORIA DANCE ORCHESTRA [Canadian HMV 216236-B] Montreal, c1920
THE VULGAR BOATMAN (Clare - Monaco) THE YACHT CLUB BOYS, quartet with piano, Br 3269-B, NY 7/20/26
SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN ("Russian Folk Song," arranged by Bill Finegan) GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA, instrumental, 1/17/41
THERE'S A CZECHO SLOVAK THAT'S WAITING FOR ME (Fields - Hall) THE HOME TOWNERS (FRED HALL'S SUGAR BABIES) vArthur Fields (as "Bud Bernie") NY, 11/18/29 [Romeo 1179-B / 9152-3]
VLADIVOSTOCK [#1] (Bee - Packay) SAVOY ORPHEANS at The Savoy Hotel, London. Instrumental, feat. Frank Guarente, Rec. Hayes, Middlesex, 7/15/27 [HMV B
5373 / Bb-11134-1]
VLADIVOSTOCK [#2 different song] (Box - Cox) MRS. JACK HYLTON AND HER BAND, unknown (but good) vocalist, London, 8/8/35 [9" English Crown 2-B / H-140-1]
KATUSHA (Blanter - Signer - Zaret) THE KING COLE TRIO, rec LA, 4/13/45, unissued Capitol single first released on Cole Mosiac box, 1992.
I MUST GO TO MOSCOW (Dixon - Flatow - Breuer, from Ziegfeld Follies) GEORGE BEAVER (actually IRVING KAUFMAN) "Comedy Song," [Cameo 406 mx. #606-A] NY, 8/23
SO YOU LEFT ME FOR THE LEADER OF A SWING BAND? rendered via Nazi Propaganda as SO YOU LEFT ME FOR THE LEADER OF THE SOVIETS? Charlie and his Orchestra, vCharlie, German propaganda record, Berlin c1942
"A system of plunder and decadence."
NO, NO JOE (Fred Rose) HANK WILLIAMS AND HIS DRIFTING COWBOYS as "Luke The Drifter" [MGM 10806] 8/31/50
THERE'S A HOLE IN THE IRON CURTAIN () MICKEY KATZ AND HIS KATZENJAMMERS featuring MEL BLANC [Capitol 45: #F4185] LA c 1952
TSCHAIKOVSKY (AND OTHER RUSSIANS) (Kurt Weill - Ira Gershwin, from Lady in the Dark) DANNY KAYE with Orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel, NY 1/28/41
SONG OF SIBERIA (Lewis, Sherman and Moret) THE KNICKERBOCKERS (BEN SELVIN'S ORCHESTRA) vSmith Ballew, NY 8/12/29 [Columbia 1940-D / 148865-2]
SIBERIA (Cole Porter, from the original Broadway cast recording ofSilk Stockings, 1954) Henry Lascoe, Leon Belasco, David Opatoshu, 3/6/55.
SONYA (YUP, ALAY, YUP!) (Fisher - Schafer) THE CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS vBilly Jones, NY 6/9/25 [Columbia 419-D / 140673-1]
THAT RUSSIAN WINTER (Irving Berlin) BOB CROSBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA, vBob Crosby, Standard Transcription, c1942
SHE WAS JUST A TARTAR'S DAUGHTER (Joe Alger) FRAN FREY, vocal with Victor Young and his Orchestra, excerpt from the OKAY AMERICA medley, 4/14/32. A saucy tartar, comradeskis!
MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW (traditional, adapted by Kenny Ball) KENNY BALL AND HIS BAND, rec in London, c1959
OTCHI-TCHOR-NI-YA (traditional) JIMMY DURANTE AND FRIEND, excerpt from the soundtrack of It Happened In Brooklyn, 1946.
OTCHI-TCHOR-NI-YA (traditional, as performed in The Glenn Miller Story) LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ALL-STARS, vLouis Armstrong, NYC, March 19, 1954 [Decca mx 86062]
EVER HOMEWARD (Polish folk song, adapted by Sammy Cahn - Jules Styne, from the RKO film Miracle of the Bells) rec. 12/8/47, sung in Polish and English.
I PLAYED FIDDLE FOR THE CZAR (Gordon - Revel) DICK ROBERTSON AND HIS ORCHE [Crown 3427-B / 1948-1] NY, late 1932.
RUSSIAN LULLABY (Irving Berlin) JIMMY RUSHING, with the Sir Charles Thompson (org) Quartet, featuring Buddy Tate (ts). 6/19/59
MASHINKA (?) THE BARRY SISTERS (Pert and Gay) with Jan Bart, tenor, from The Yiddish Swing Hour, Sam Medoff and the Yiddish Swingtet, transcribed (?) radio b'cast, circa early '40s.
