FolkLib Index - Wisconsin Big Bands Discography

          Recordings released by Big Bands from Wisconsin. This refers to groups that play non-rock popular dance music comparable to the Glenn Miller Orchestra of the 1940's. Jazz bands are listed on the Jazz Discography page. Every group on this page will be listed in my forthcoming book, FolkLib Index: Wisconsin Discography. However, as discographies for Bunny Berigan and Woody Herman have already been published in two or more other books, none of their titles will be listed in my book.

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          {A} = from my personal collection
          {n} = see library for other sources
          #? = I think an album exists in this format, LP, CS, or CD but I haven't seen a copy, so I don't know what its catalog number is
          ? = I don't know whether or not an album exists in this format

B  
• Berigan, Bunny - Fox Lake, Hilbert?, Madison
            Sources:   #dh134   #gv94-5   #hy103   #ir292-303   #iv167   #iz62 - Published Discography
  As far as I know, Bunny Berigan the only musician on these recordings who ever lived in Wisconsin.
  1. .1951 - Bunny Berigan 1937-38 (10"LP: LPT-10) - RCA Victor
  2. .1952 - Bunny Berigan Plays Again (LP: LPT-1003) - RCA Victor
  3. .1955 - Take It, Bunny (LP: LN-3109) - Epic
  4. .1959 - Great Dance Bands of the 30s and 40s (LP: LPM-2078) - RCA Victor
  5. .195? - Bunny (LP: CAL-550) - RCA Camden
  6. .1966 - Bunny (LP: LPV-550) - RCA Victor
  7. .196? - Bunny Berigan and His Boys (LP: LA-16004) - Epic
  8. 19?? - Three Of A Kind (LP: DLP-907) {A} - Callahan, Edwards and Eyries
               Design Records
               Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Bunny Berigan
  9. .197? - Bunny Berigan 1932-37 (LP: C-10) - Biograph
  10. .197? - The Complete Bunny Berigan, Vol. 1 (LP: AXM2-5584) - Bluebird
  11. .1982 - The Greatest White Trumpeter of All Time (LP: SH-2065) {A}
                "Rare Radio Recordings, 1936-1939", Sandy Hook Records, Sandy Hook, CT
                with George Auld, Joe Dixon, Sonny Lee, Joe Lippman, Nat Lobovsky, Gail Reese, Dave Tough, Dick Wharton
  12. .1987 - The Complete Bunny Berigan, Vol. 2 (LP: 5657-1-RB) - Bluebird
  13. .1988 - Bunny Berigan 1937-38 (LP: HSR-239) - Hindsight
  14. .198? - Down by the Old Mill Stream (LP: JA-11) - Jazz Archives
  15. .1990 - The Complete Bunny Berigan, Vol. 3 (LP: 9953-1-RB) - Bluebird
  16. .2002 - Bunny Berigan: Sophisticated Swing (2CD: 20.1918-HI) {A} (History Records, Germany)
  Various Artists Collections
  • None known
• Big Band Reunion - "Jazz"
  G  
• Garber, Jan And His Orchestra - NC / PA / GA / Chicago, IL / (Kewaskum)
  1. .1978 - The Uncollected Jan Garber And His Orchestra {A} (LP: HSR-130/CD: HCD-130)
               Hindsight Records, Burbank, CA
               Jack Barrow, Lee Bennett, M.C. "Muddy" Berry, Norman "Dink" Donahue, Charlie Ford, George Fortier, Jan Garber, Fritz Heilbron, Freddie Large, Jerry Large, Al Powers, Doug "Shad" Roe, Harry "Buddy" Wallace
  2. .19?? - The Uncollected Jan Garber And His Orchestra, Vol. 2 (LP: #?) (Hindsight)
  3. .19?? - ? (LP: HSR-155) (Hindsight)
  4. .1981 - The Great American Dance Bands (LP: IN-216) {A} (Hindsight)
               re-issue of selections from HSR-130 and HSR-155 above
  5. .19?? - The Great Jan Garber (CD: HCD-331) (Hindsight)
  6. .19?? - Jan Garber & His Orchestra play 22 original Big Band Hits (CD: HCD-403) (Hindsight)
  7. .19?? - Wind Beneath My Wings (CD: #?) (label?)
  8. .19?? - Hot Years, The 1925 - 1930 (CD: #?)
               (label?)
  9. .19?? - A Melody from the Sky (CD: #?)
               (label?)
  10. .19?? - Jan Garber and His Orchestra Play (10" LP: 1867) (Royale)
  11. .19?? - The Fabulous Dance Band Of Jan Garber (LP: GMR-80036) (Good Music)
  Various Artists Collections
  • 19?? - Great Musical Memories featuring Eddy Howard, Freddy Martin, Jan Garber, and Andy Kirk (CD: HCD-322) (Hindsight)
  • Note: A Web search found many more LP/CS/CD, including a book:
    "Jan Garber And His Orchestra" by Charles Garrod, Complete discography, index, 28 cm.; 78, 15 p., Zephyr Hills: Joyce Record Club [1992]
    which means his recordings won't be listed in my book
  
  H  
• Herman, Woody - Milwaukee
            Sources:   #gv528   #iv61   #iz307 - Published Discography
  [personal collection and others]
  1. .1949 - Sequence in Jazz (LP: CL-6026) - RCA Victor
  2. .1949 - Dance Parade (LP: CL-6049) - RCA Victor
     Are one of these, "Wisconsin's 1st LP"? I don't know, but I will continue researching this subject.
     145 more Woody Herman LP's are listed on p. 212-14, Tim Neely, "Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide" (2000)
  3. .2002 - Woody Herman: Blues On Parade (2CD: 20.1908-HI) {A} (History Records, Germany)
  78's:
  • .19?? - Why Talk About Love? / I Double Dare You (78: 1523) (DW) Matrix: 62712B / 62711B {A} (Decca)
  
  J  
• Jurgens Orchestra, The Dick - Sacramento, CA / Chicago, IL / Madison
            Sources:   #ju252 - Published Discography
  1. .1977 - Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra Vol. I (LP: HSR-111) {A}
               Hindsight Records, Burbank, CA
               Dick Jurgens, Floyd "Cookie" Adams, Art Aievoli, Carl Brandt, Al Grimes, Eddy Howard, Ronnie Kemper, Eddie Kuehler, Bob Lee, Art Modell, Stan Noonan, Lou Quadling, Jimmy Shevenko, Lou Vacca, Harold Winder
  2. .1979 - Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra Vol. II (LP: HSR-138) {A}
               Hindsight Records, Burbank, CA
               same as previous
  78's:
  • .19?? - Little Sir Echo / Red Skies in the Night (78: 4677) (DW) Matrix: 1-7 W24500 / 1-7 W24503 {A} (Vocalion)
  K  
• King, Wayne - Savannah, IL / Chicago, IL / the "Waltz King" once owned a cottage on Waubee Lake in Oconto County
            Sources:   #jy299-300
  1. .19?? - Golden Favorites (LP: DL-4309) {A}
               Decca Records
               with the Jack Halloran Singers
  Session Work
  • None known
    Various Artists Collections
  • None known
  
  R  
• Ring Orchestra, The Don [SIC: This is not "The Dick Jurgens Orchestra"] - McFarland
  Note: Because these recordings are illegally labeled, "The Dick Jurgens Orchestra, Directed by Don Ring", they will not be listed in my forthcoming book. None of the members of the band will have a Session Discography at this site or be mentioned in my book. As far as I know Don Ring has never released any recordings under his own name.
  1. .19?? - Volume 6 (CS: ?/CD: no #) {A}
  2. .19?? - Volume 7 (CS: ?/CD: no #) {A}
  Various Artists Collections
  • None known
    Contact: Don Ring Orchestra, P.O. Box 5, McFarland, WI 53556 - (608) 838-8123 or (608) 838-9927
  
  S  
• Swing Nouveau - no known recordings - Milwaukee

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