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Conference mr1pst::music

Title:	MUSIC V4
Notice:	New Noters please read Note 1.*, Mod = someone else
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Wed Oct 09 1991
Last Modified:	Tue Mar 12 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	762
Total number of notes:	18706

611.0. "Songs from 1994" by CSLALL::MKELLY () Wed Feb 09 1994 12:20

    This coming June, my parents will be celebrating their 50th Wedding
    Anniversary.  I'd like to gather some music from that time (1944, and
    in particularly the Summer of 1944) and put it on tape.  I'm hoping 
    someone can help me with this.  
    
    My parents aren't into music all that much, but my mother has been
    known to listen to Eddie Arnold, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, but I
    don't know what songs they had out at that time (if any).  Any help
    would be appreciated!
    
    Thanks,
    Mike

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
611.1	Some Possibilities	LJSRV2::FEHSKENS	len - reformed architect	`Wed Feb 09 1994 12:30`	8
	Time Life has a series of CDs of popular music that may go back as far as 1944. Also, there may be Billboard Top 100 (or whatever the equivalent was back then) in one of the Billboard books that goes back that far. len.
611.2		LEZAH::CLARK		`Wed Feb 09 1994 13:26`	8
	Your search may (or may not) be complicated by the fact there was a recording ban (actually manufacturing ceased due to a dispute between record manufacturers and a musicians union) between July 1942 and the end of 1944. Your parents married during the recording ban. 8) - Jay [There are '44 radio broadcast transcriptions preserved on disc...]
611.3		LEZAH::CLARK		`Wed Feb 09 1994 16:05`	3
	P.S. BTW, I once put together a tape of 40s big band jazz for a friend's parents' 50th wedding anniversary (in '93). Not what you're looking for, though. [Not even sure it's what she was looking for. 8) ]
611.4	btw, you might want to change the note's title	PENUTS::DDESMAISONS	press on regardless	`Wed Feb 09 1994 17:13`	8
	Mike, are you at DAS, or TWO? I might be able to help you out here. If you can record from albums. I have the series mentioned in a previous note, in pristine condition. I'll take a look at them tonight, to see if years are specified. Diane