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100 prime big-band and pop tunes taken from rare (and mostly unreleased) AFRS Recording Sessions, transcriptions and airchecks from 1936 to 1946, the songs that lifted us out of the Depression and got us through the war! Includes "In the Mood" Maj. Glenn Miller & the Army Air Forces Overseas Orchestra, "One O’Clock Jump" Count Basie, "Sentimental Journey" Les Brown, "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" Betty Grable, "Tuxedo Junction" Erskine Hawkins, "Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland, "Swingin’ on a Star" Frank Sinatra, "Your Feet’s Too Big" Fats Waller, "To Each His Own" Eddy Howard, "Stardust" Artie Shaw, "I’ll Be Seeing You" Tommy Dorsey, "Daddy" Sammy Kaye, "I’m Just Wild About Harry" Louis Prima & Alice Faye, "Take the "A" Train" Duke Ellington, "I’ll Follow My Secret Heart" Carmen Cavallaro, "Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor" Freddy Martin and more from Charlie Spivak, Jimmy Dorsey, Blue Barron, Woody Herman, Harry James, Andy Kirk, Ozzie Nelson, Dick Jurgens, Glen Gray, Clyde McCoy, Art Kassel, Hal McIntyre, Larry Clinton, Bob Crosby, Raymond Scott, Bunny Berigan, Henry Busse, Horace Heidt, Eddie Miller, George Paxton, Jimmie Lunceford…just about every big band and bandleader of note!