Big 10-Inch Record

Here is our annual Thanksgiving collection from the indefatigable and invaluable Dave Federman. Please read his touching essay, then find the link to his 32-song collection at the end.
Thanks, Dave - a happy holiday to you and to all!
Thanksgiving has long and maybe always been a national holiday that celebrates the peculiarly American longing for home. It has nothing to do with pilgrims and everything to do with pilgrimage. Its meaning lies in travel. Even in the most fractured families...

Big-voiced baritone Bob Manning became popular during his tenure with Capitol records in the 1950s, which has been covered here, here and here. But Manning (1926-97) made records and transcriptions before then, many of which have been assembled for this...

I recently had a request to re-upload a Myra Hess program that included Schumann's Études Symphoniques. It inspired me to transfer some other notable recordings by that composer. Today we begin with three relatively neglected pieces, as played by one...

I've been working my way through all of Buddy Clark's commercial recordings in the 1930s, finishing up with this selection of 21 songs for my "From the Back Room" series.
This set includes five songs with Xavier Cugat, four with Eddy Duchin, four more with a Johnny Hodges group chosen from the Ellington band, and eight with Buddy as the featured attraction on the label. The recordings date from 1934-38....