This day in music history. sound effect.... echo.

This three recording represent the fallout of the protracted musicians strike of the early 1940's over royalty payments. Singer's recorded music without musicians/instruments... singing acapella supported by background singers. Two of the unforeseen consequences would occur: 1) The waning popularity of Big Bands... only Ellington and Count Basie would survive. 2) Bebop would emerge without any recordings of its beginnings.

And #3: real good singers didn't always need musicians backing them up.

Timmy84 said:

And #3: real good singers didn't always need musicians backing them up.

That was a given.

at least we thought.

TD3 said:

Timmy84 said:

And #3: real good singers didn't always need musicians backing them up.

That was a given.

at least we thought.

Good point.

Fats Waller didn't have the same problem as well, right? This was the time period when he was heard all over the V-Disk label, doing all these radio broadcasts.

And I remember reading that Lady sang this during the strike, but had to use her alias instead of her name,,,,

Harlepolis said:

Fats Waller didn't have the same problem as well, right? This was the time period when he was heard all over the V-Disk label, doing all these radio broadcasts.

And I remember reading that Lady sang this during the strike, but had to use her alias instead of her name,,,,

The V-Disk program was a noted exception... all because the military/the Army leaned on striking musicians to record for the arm services. As far a Billie Holiday recordings during that time period; it's my understand she recorded those records before the strike...they were in the pipeline. Those records were released under an alias because she feared a backlash from her colleagues if and when the strike ended.

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[Edited 4/24/12 6:39am]