Your favorite music from 1946

Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums, 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).

 

Josh White - Ballads and Blues

 

Andre Kostelanetz's Exotic Music, arguably the first exotica album as we now understand exotica.

This was first released as an album of two 12" 78s, containing "Poinciana," "Flamingo," "Song of India," and the stunning "Lotus Land."

Here is "Lotus Land," with the cover art in the background:

 

Bernard Herrmann, Anna and the King of Siam:

 

Miklos Rozsa, The Killers:

 

1946 was a great year for bebop. Any recording with Charlie Parker and/or Dizzy Gillespie from that year is alright by me. There are way too many great recordings to list here

 

Max Steiner, The Big Sleep.

 

Charlie Parker, Be-Bop

 

Fats Navarro playing Bud Powell's Web City with K. Dorham, Bud, and Sonny Stitt

 

Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Hawaiian War Chant

 

Precisely what I was going to post, I kid you not.

 

Too bad Monk wasn't recording yet in 1946.

 

Nat King Cole - Christmas Song

 

'(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66' - King Cole Trio

 

'So Glad You're Mine' - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup


"Blues singer with guitar and drums"

 

anything recorded by bird....

 

'Rocky Road Blues' - Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys


"Old Time Singing and Playing"

 

Edith Piaf, "Le Petit Homme"
Louis Jordan, "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie"
Peggy Lee, "All the Cats Join In"
Woody Guthrie, "Miss Pavlichenko"

 

Wynonie Harris with some help from Sonny Blount

 

I predict that it will be very difficult for anyone to turn this into a Beatles thread, but I have no doubt that some intrepid obsessive will find a way, however tenuous.

 

'Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop' by Lionel Hampton & his orchestra


reportedly played live by the Beatles in 1960-61

 

I was born in 1975. Why 1946? That year is so specific the thread title make me laugh.

 

Why be so specific about the year you were born?

 

'House of the Blue Lights' - Freddie Slack with rhythm section and Ella Mae Morse with Don Raye

 

"Day By Day"

Les Brown and his Orchestra

Vocal Chorus by Doris Day