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The Best Music From the 1920s to 1950s! From Swing to Oldies! With Real Retro-Vintage Commercials!
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It all started with a collection of World War II “V-discs” owned by my grandfather. Back then, the label was a morale-boosting initiative involving the production of recordings by arrangement between the U.S. government and record companies. Many popular singers, big bands, and orchestras recorded V-discs. The name referred to both the label and the discs, which were 12-inch vinyl 78rpms produced from October 1943 to May 1949.
My dad played those V-disc records a lot when i was younger, all the big bands, the blues, crooners and sirens and R&Bs always playing in the background as far as i can recall. I grew up with the music from that era, without truly knowing what it was, but enjoying it a lot.
One day on TV, was playing an old movie from the 1980s called: The Day After. The film was about a war that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several farmers family living near nuclear missile silos. It was the 1st time ever we could see the devastating power of a nuclear war on TV. I was terrified by the movie but also became fascinated by what my dad called: The Atomic Age.
I then started to study everything about that era in books my dad had at home, the public service announcements from the radio (PSAs), the nuclear shelters, the effects of fallout and radiations and of course the music playing at that time and the songs related to the era as well. My love for all the music playing during WWII up to the end of the 1950s was so great that i asked my dad for a record player who could play 78s, 45s and 33rpm vinyls.
