WINGED VICTORY
Composer:
Various
Lyricist: Various
Opened: November 20,
1943, 44th Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 212
Army Air Corps Song (M/L: Robert Crawford):
1. Winged Victory, 78/Decca album
363 (Winged Victory Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Rose) [reissued on
This Is The Army/Call Me Mister/Winged Victory, CD/Broadway Decca 083102]
2.
78/Robert Crawford Mx 20/21 (Robert Crawford and His Alaskans)
3. 78/Decca
18269 (Leon Gray and Glee Club with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians)
4.
78/Decca 4374 (Bob Crosby and His Orchestra) [also 78/Decca 25254; reissued on
Where Do We Go From Here, Vol. 18, CD/Halcyon 140]
5. 8/Decca 2975 (Dick
Powell with The Norsemen Quartet and orchestra directed by Harry Sosnik) [also
78/Decca 66857]
6. 78/Capitol 501 (Skitch Henderson and his Orchestra)
7.
78/Victor 10-1167 (John Charles Thomas and Chorus with orchestra conduced by
Victor Young)
8. 78/Bluebird B 11476 (The Four King Sisters, Bill Scahllen,
and Chorus with Alvino Rey and His Orchestra) [reissued on In The Mood,
CD/Flare 231]
9. 78/V Disc 6 (Fred Waring and the Fort Slocum Band)
10.
45/Decca 9-28591 (The Goldman Band conducted by Edwin Falco Goldman)
11.
Pinocchio Says... Learn Patriotism Through Music And Movement, CAS/Madama
Caterina Brownholtz Recordings (unidentified vocal and instrumental ensembles
directed by Joe Fitzmartin) (unverified)
12. The Jazz Sides, CD/Essential
Jazz Album 039 (Tony Bennett)
13. Those Great World War II Songs, CD/Double
Gold 53042 (Bing Crosby)
14. Songs That Sent Us to War (1941-1944), CD/Radio
Years 21 (Mart Kenny)
15. Missing Chapters, Vol. 6: Blue Champagne, CD/Avid
AMSC561 (Glenn Miller and The Band Of Army Air Forces Training Command)
16.
For Love Of Country, CD/Orchard 801130 (Richard N. Friedman)
17. Red, White
& Raggs, CD/Raggs 51605 (Raggs Kid Club Band) (unverified)
18. Farewell
Performances, CD/Hindsight HCD-248 (Army Air Force Overseas Orchestra conducted
by Jerry Gray (unverified)
19. Katy Lou, CD/Gold 20 (Katy Lou, Wurlitzer
organ) (unverified)
20. America's Finest: Inspiring Patriotic Songs,
CD/Image PUR1398 (unidentified performer) (unverified)
21. The Bond Of
Friendship, CD/Bandleader 5181 (Band Of The Light Division) (unverified)
22.
A Musical Tribute To Victory WWII, CD/Start 45 (Central Band Of The Royal Air
Force)
23. D-Day 50th Anniversary, CD/Alanna 5555 (unknown
performer)
Radio transcriptions are known to exist performed by the World
Military Band conducted by Eugene La Barre, and by he Imperial Male Chorus.
Chica Chica Boom Chic (M: Harry Warren; L:
Mack Gordon) (originally used in the film THAT NIGHT IN RIO):
1. 78/Decca 23210 (Carmen
Miranda) [reissued on Carmen Miranda: The Brazilian Bombshell, CD/MCA
MSD-35370];
2. 78/Parlophone F 1850 (Peggy McCormack with Edmundo Ros and
His Rumba Band) [reissued on 16 Most Requested Songs, CD/Columbia/Legacy
CK-47130]
3. 78/Decca 3623 (Bonnie King and The Bob-O-Links with Bob Crosby
and His Orchestra) [reissued on Far Away Music, Vol. 15, CD/Halcyon 136]
4.
78/Okeh 6121 (Harry Cool with Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra)
5. 78/Columbia
35995 (Lena Romay with Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra)
[reissued on The Very Best Of Xavier Cugat, CD/Greatest Hits Spain 7704]
6.
Weekend In Havana/That Nigght In Rio, Curtain Calls 100/14 (Carmen Miranda and
Don Ameche)
7. Weekend In Havana/That Night In Rio, Curtain Calls 100/14
(Alice Fay and Don Ameche) [reissued on Alice Faye, CD/Great Movie Themes CD
60011]
8. Language & Love, CD/Verve 849195-2 (Joyce Silveira P.
DeJesus)
9. Sookie! Sookie!, CD/Lube (The Swingin' Swamis)
10. Teddy
Stauffer's Original Teddys, CD/Elite Spec (Tedd Stauffer's Original
Teddys)
11. MTV Ao Vivo, CD/Universal International 816564 (Ivete
Sangalo)
12. Dance!: Die Tanzschule Mambo, CD/Aabaa (unknown
performer)
13. The Boys From Brazil, CD/Iya Basta 1400 (The Boys From
Brazil)
14. Don Baretto 1939-1943, CD/Harlequin 36 (Don Baretto)
15. Whip
It, CD/Orchard 2988 (Del Rubio Triplets)
16. Melodier Som Bedara 1941,
CD/Universal AB (Diana Miller)
17. From Broadway To Bebop, CD/Concord Jazz
4615 (Susannah McCorkle with musical direction by Allen Farnham)
18.
L'Anthologie: 1943-1966, CD/XXI-21 1502 (Alys Robi)
19. Music From Her
Films, CD/B.D. Jazz 109 (unknown performer)
My Dream Book Of Memories (M/L: David
Rose):
1. Winged Victory, 78/Decca album
363 (Winged Victory Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Rose) [reissued on
This Is The Army/Call Me Mister/Winged Victory, CD/Broadway Decca 083102]
Nobody's Love Is Like Mine (M/L:
?):
1. 78/RCA 20-1889 (Rosalie Allen
with Zeke Manners and pit band) [also 78/V-Disc 168; reissued on The Golden Age
Of Zeke Manners & His Gang, CD/Cattle CCD 230]
Note: While the composer
of this song is unknown to the author at this time, there are other recordings
of a song with this title attributed to Ralph Stanley.
The Whiffenpoof Song (M/L: Meade Minnigerode, George S.
Pomeroy, and Tod B. Galloway with special lyrics by Moss Hart):
1. Winged Victory, 78/Decca album
363 (Winged Victory Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Rose) [reissued on
This Is The Army/Call Me Mister/Winged Victory, CD/Broadway Decca 083102]
2.
On The Street Where You Live, CD/Blueprint BP346CD (John Greaves)
Note: No
attempt has been made to compile discological information for anything other
than the Moss Hart version of this song.
Winged Victory (M/L: David Rose):
1. Winged Victory, 78/Decca
album 363 (Winged Victory Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Rose)
[reissued on This Is The Army/Call Me Mister/Winged Victory, CD/Broadway Decca
083102]
You're So Sweet To Remember (aka
"You're So Nice To Remember") (M: David Rose; L: Leo Robin) (cut prior to
opening):
1. 78/Musicraft 15027 (Tony
Dexter with Billie Rogers and Orchestra)
2. And Me, CD/Sunflower 2128 (Billy
Thornburn's Organ Dance Band) (unverified)
A radio transcription is known to
exist performed by the David Rose Orchestra.
Unrecorded Material:
*Auld Lang Syne (M/L:
Anonymous)
Gee Mom, I Want To Go Home
*Mademoiselle From Armentieres
(Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo)
*Pennsylvania Polka (M/L: Lester Lee and Zeke
Manners)
*Silent Night (M/L: Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber)
When The War
Is Over (M: Carmen Dragon; L: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee)
*I have
not attempted to compile discological information for these well known songs.