Name: Radio Years, 1940
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Radio Years, 1940

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Album: Radio Years, 1940
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Theme: Apurksody
2)	Bugle Call Rag
3)	Pyramid
4)	I've Got No Strings
5)	Indian Summer
6)	Starlit Hour, The
7)	Cherokee
8)	It's a Blue World: It's A Blue World / Apurksody (Theme)
9)	Theme: Apurksody
10)	Theme: Apurksody
11)	Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E
12)	Bluebirds in the Moonlight
13)	This Changing World
14)	Foo for Two
15)	On a Little Street in Singapore
16)	Birth of Passion
17)	I've Got My Eyes on You
18)	Theme: Apurksody

Album: Radio Years, 1940
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Theme: Apurksody
2)	Bugle Call Rag
3)	Pyramid
4)	I've Got No Strings
5)	Indian Summer
6)	Starlit Hour, The
7)	Cherokee
8)	It's a Blue World: It's A Blue World / Apurksody (Theme)
9)	Theme: Apurksody
10)	Theme: Apurksody
11)	Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E
12)	Bluebirds in the Moonlight
13)	This Changing World
14)	Foo for Two
15)	On a Little Street in Singapore
16)	Birth of Passion
17)	I've Got My Eyes on You
18)	Theme: Apurksody

Performer Notes

Personnel: Gene Krupa (drums); Irene Daye (vocals); Bill Abernathy (spoken vocals); Bob Snyder (alto & baritone saxophones); Clint Neagley (alto saxophone); Sam Musiker (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Sam Donahue (tenor saxophone); Corky Cornelius, Torg Halten, Shorty Sherock (trumpet); Floyd O'Brien, Al Jordan, Sid Brantley (trombone); Tony D'Amore (piano); Ray Biondi (guitar); Biddy Bastien (acoustic bass).
Recorded in Meadowbrook, New Jersey on January 31 and February 2, 1940. Includes liner notes by Leif Anderson.
Personnel: Gene Krupa (drums, snare drum); Irene Daye (vocals); Ray Biondi (guitar); Sam Muskier, Sam Musiker (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Buddy Bastien (saxophone); Bob Snyder (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Clint Neagley (alto saxophone); Sam Donahue (tenor saxophone); Torg Halten, Corky Cornelius, Shorty Sherock (trumpet); Al Jordan, Floyd O'Brien, Sid Brantley (trombone); Tony d'Amore (piano).
Liner Note Author: Leif Anderson.
Recording information: Meadowbrook, NJ (01/31/1940-02/02/1940).
Arranger: Jimmy Mundy.
The original Gene Krupa Orchestra lasted from 1938 to 1943. Starting out as a band relying on a Benny Goodman sound spiced with large portions of showy drumming, it gradually evolved--thanks to excellent sidemen and highly competent arrangers--into one of the best and most successful groups of the swing era. On this CD, the band performs in early 1940 broadcasts from the Meadowbrook Ballroom.
The band opens with "Bugle Call Rag," a well-known contemporary favorite, and then proceeds on to a beautiful version of "Pyramid," a composition whose rhythmic repetition and haunting melody seemed quite radical in 1940. Krupa himself plays only with his hands on a large tom-tom on this number. Other selections such as "I've Got No Strings" and "Starlit Hour" feature the great Irene Daye on vocals.