Artist: Gene Krupa
Album: 1940, Vol. 2
Genre: Big Band, Swing
Label: Classics
Released: 1996
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Never Took a Lesson in My Life (3:00)
- And So Do I (2:49)
- Tonight (Perfidia) (3:03)
- Looking for Yesterday (2:56)
- The Sergeant Was Shy (2:58)
- (Shout Wherever You May Be) I Am an American (3:25)
- I'll Never Smile Again (3:03)
- Only Forever (2:53)
- Love Lies (3:00)
- Washington and Lee Swing (2:56)
- The World Is in My Arms (2:52)
- Who? (2:41)
- Drummer Boy (2:52)
- I'm Waiting for Ships That Never Come In (2:55)
- The Big Do (2:49)
- St. Louis Blues (2:44)
- The Babe Takes a Bow (3:00)
- Old, Old Castle in Scotland (3:08)
- Rhumboogie (2:42)
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (2:39)
- Two Dreams Met (2:47)
- Time Out (3:00)
- Birth of Passion (3:05)
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The seventh in the Classics label's chronological reissuance of all the early recordings led by Gene Krupa mostly documents his big-band sides of June to Sept. 1940. Unfortunately, 12 of the 21 numbers have dominant vocals by the rather routine singer Howard Dulany, greatly lowering the value of this CD. The other nine selections (which also include three Irene Daye vocals) are on a much higher level, with the highlights including "The Sergeant Was Shy," "Washington and Lee Swing," "Who," a previously unreleased "St. Louis Blues," and "Rhumboogie." This CD concludes with a pair of fine instrumentals from earlier periods that were not released at the time. Recommended primarily to swing completists rather than to more general collectors.
Review by Scott Yanow