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Podcast: bigbandbash's podcast
Episode: The Complete RCA Bluebird Recordings of Artie Shaw Part 1
Description: Hello everyone and Happy New Year. I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Benny Goodman's orchestra was the first big band that I ever listened to. But I kept reading about his rival, Artie Shaw. So I bought a vinyl two record set called This is Artie Shaw. Well I was just knocked out with those 1938 recordings. When RCA started it's Complete Bluebird reissues, I bought them from a record store that wasn't having much success selling them They put them in the cutout bin and I snatched them up. On the program today we will start at...