Rare EE V Disc Record Set USS Spangenberg 1946 15 X 78s Orig Box 100 Needles WOW

$

525

Exceptionally rare estate find:  15 12" 78rpm Series EE V-Discs from 1946 in original War Department shipping box, addressed to the USS Spangenberg, hull number DE-223 with the envelope containing 100 V-disc needles.  Also included is the original information/packing slip.  All records (vinylite) are in excellent condition and may have been played once or twice onboard; titles and artists are listed below.  It is important to note that the V-disc promotional program, begun in 1943, was intended as a morale booster for the troops during WWII.  The recordings are all original performances, even if the material were recorded previously, and include greetings and well-wishes from the artists. The records were to be destroyed once the war was over and very few have survived.
The USS Spangenberg was named for Kenneth Spangenberg, a native of Allentown PA, who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his bravery and fortitude aboard the USS San Francisco earlier in the war.  The Spangenberg was decommissioned in 1947 and was scrapped out of the Philadelphia Shipyard in 1965, so there is a strong Pennsylvania connection. Out of respect to all of those who have served and defended our nation, 10% of the sale price will be donated to the Wounded Warriors project.
606 Fantasia for Double String Orchestra (Parts 1 & 3) Toscanini
607 Fantasia for Double String Orchestra (Part 2)/Overture to a Fairy Tale Toscanini 608 Circus Polka Stravinsky         Trumpet Tune and Air (organ) Virgil Fox         Goldberg Variation No. 16 Landowska 609 Medley fr Disney's "Snow White" & "Pinocchio" Kostelanetz          St. Louis Blues Kostelanetz 610 In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree Ellington         Convoy Sam Donahue and the Navy Band 611 Personality Pearl Bailey        Helen of Troy Woody Herman        China Boy Muggsy Spanier 612 Night & Day/Sunrise on a Guinea Farm Claude Thornhill         Boy Meets Horn Roy Eldridge 613 The Man I Love Maria Greene         September Song Helen Forrest         Mean to Me Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes 614 Old School Teacher/Oh! What it Seemed to Be Sinatra        Frim Fram Sauce King Cole Trio        Come to Baby, Do Lena Horne 615 I Want to be Loved Benny Goodman Trio         Darktown Poker Club Phil Harris 616 All of Me/Dark Eyes Les Paul Trio        Flower Dance/Up Jumped Love/Crazy Rhythms The Three Suns 617 Esquire Swank Ellington         Mean to Me Bill Harris         Caldonia Woody Herman 618 Doctor, Lawyer Indian Chief Hoagy Carmichael & Betty Hutton        I Had but Fifty Cents/She Lived Next Door to a Firehouse The Three Jesters 619 Late at Night/My Silent Love Bill Heathcock 620 Body and Soul/Lover Art Tatum
The partial FF series set is listed separately.
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