Great Records Of The Decade: 40's Hits, Vol. 1

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Great Records of the Decade: 40's Hits, Vol. 1

This is music that even my high school class loves. It is fun and the kids identify with the well done music from years gone past. Fun!!! One of my kids stole my first one! LOL!!!

Some classics and some really fun songs from the Forties

When you listen to Volume 1 of the "40's Hits" you might think the dominant artists of the decade were Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting. Each has three songs in this collection, including their famous duet of "Baby It's Cold Outside." Bing Crosby gets too songs, a solo on "Swinging on a Star" (this version is not the one from the film "Going My Way") and backed by the Andrews Sisters on "Don't Fence Me In." The girls go solo on "Rum and Coca-Cola," where they do some interesting Trinidad lingo. There are a couple of other fun songs on this album from Peggy Lee and Tex Williams. You also get Nat "King" Cole's "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" and Judy Garland's "The Trolley Song." You will have no problems looking over these songs and finding at least five tracks you do not have in your music collection and need to add. The packaging is bare minimum, but the songs are first rate.