Your favorite music from 1943

Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums (as in literal albums of 78s bound together), a classical piece, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).

 

Vaughn Monroe - "Let's Get Lost" / "Happy-Go-Lucky" [Victor 20-1524]

Which were both from the soundtrack for the 1943 romantic comedy film, Happy Go Lucky, starring Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken and Rudy Vallee.





I was going to post the flipside, too, the title track to the film, but I can't find it on youtube at all, which is surprising to me in this case.

 

Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Bohuslav Martinů - Symphony No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8 "Stalingrad"
Olivier Messiaen - Visions de l'amen

 

A Duke Ellington Panorama⸻Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra
Victor──P138


Sump'n 'Bout Rhythm /Margie⸻Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
Parlophone──R 2884


Do Nothin' 'Till you Hear From Me /Harlem Folk Dance⸻Stan Kenton & his Orchestra
Capitol──145


Your Socks Don't Match /Up Jumped you With Love⸻Fats Waller & his Rhythm
Bluebird──30-0814


Oh Baby, Sweet Baby /You Asked for it, you got It⸻Fats Waller & his Rhythm
His Master's Voice──B.D.1036


Somebody Stole my Gal /Sugar Blues⸻Fats Waller & his Rhythm
Victor──25194


Saddest Tale /Bundle of Blues⸻Duke
Ellington & his Orchestra
Parlophone──R 2880



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Your Socks Don't Match⸻Fats Waller & his Rhythm
Bluebird──30-0814

 

'Born to Lose' - Ted Daffan's Texans (vocal - Leon Seago)


78 Record: Ted Daffan's Texans - Born To Lose (1943)
Cover versions of Born to Lose written by Ted Daffan | SecondHandSongs

 

'Comin' in on a wing and a prayer' - the Song Spinners


78 Record: The Song Spinners - Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer (1943)
one of a number of 1943 versions; later revived by Ry Cooder
Cover versions of Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer written by Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson | SecondHandSongs

 

1943, tricky one what with the recording ban and all. The discographies give the recording date for this session by the Dexter Gordon Quintet as late 1943 or around July 1944 so this may or may not qualify.

Dexter Gordon Quintet - Sweet Lorraine. Despite being the titular leader 20-year old Dexter doesn't blow a note until 3.15 mins. in, generously ceding solo space first to Harry 'Sweets' Edison on trumpet and then Nat 'King' Cole on piano.

 

King Cole Trio


"vocal by King Cole"
78 Record: King Cole Trio - All For You (1943)

 

'Ration Blues' - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five


78 Record: Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - Ration Blues (1943)

 

'The Prodigal Son' - Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys


78 Record: Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys - The Prodigal Son (1943)

 

Big Bill (Broonzy)


78 Record: Big Bill - Night Watchman Blues (1943)
reissued on V Disc in 1944
78 Record: Bill Gale - Clarinet Polka (1944)

 

The choices are going to be fewer for 1943, since that was the middle of the 1942-44 American Federation of Musicians' recording strike over (lack of) royalty payments by the labels. Most of the hits from that year were recorded in June-July 1942, just before the strike took effect.

Jump Through the Window - Roy Eldridge

 

Memphis Minnie


'Looking the World Over'
issued on a 78 with "Mr. Memphis Minnie" Little Son Joe (Lawlars)
78 Record: Little Son Joe - Black Rat Swing (1943)

 

The Golden Gate Quartet


'Dip your fingers in the water' (the source for Ray Charles' 'Leave my woman alone'?)
78 Record: Golden Gate Quartet - Stalin Wasn't Stallin' (1943)

 

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys


from "Silver City Raiders" aka "Legal Larceny" - 'Miss Molly' (Leon McAuliffe vocal)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036355/

Unedited on the 78 which referred to another film "The Lone Prairie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no8HDEzE3Co&ab_channel=cdbpdxcdbpdx
78 Record: Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Home In San Antone (1943)

 

Big Maceo


Since You Been Gone; w. Tampa Red - guitar
78 Record: Big Maceo - Anytime For You (1943)
Illustrated Big Maceo Merriweather discography

 

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup


'Mean Ole 'Frisco Blues'
78 Record: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Gonna Follow My Baby (1943)
Cover versions of Mean Old 'Frisco Blues by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup | SecondHandSongs

 

Washboard Sam and his Washboard Band


'Stop and Fix It'; w. Roosevelt Sykes - piano; Big Bill Broonzy - guitar
78 Record: Washboard Sam And His Washboard Band - Good Old Cabbage Greens (1943)

 

If only you said 1942...

 

The Modernaires...

 

Tommy McLennan


'Blue as I can be'
78 Record: Tommy McClennan - Roll Me, Baby (1943)
Illustrated Tommy McClennan discography