[78-L] Sinatra and other singers and the 1942-1944 AFM ban

[Rodger Holtin]

Can somebody provide a list or a link that will enumerate
with numbers and dates the Frank Sinatra Columbias cut during the AFM ban?
 
I’ve found a hodge-podge of conflicting/incomplete notes.
 
Looking at the few I’ve been able to trace, it looks like the
majors did very, very little recording during the ban.  I would have thought they’d have done more of
the a cappella stuff than they did, or at least more than I have found.  Established
ol’ Bing did only four tunes; Como, trying to build a career only six; Frankie
about the same but can’t tell for sure.  Same for Dick Haymes and Dinah Shore, I found only four each – were there
others?   Larger question – do we  know how many of those a cappella records were
made?  Anybody bothered to build a discography of them?  Did Capitol bother recording at all?  I've never seen an a cappella Capitol.

 
Rodger


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