[ken5050]

Fascinating recording..in a very weird way...no wonder the "Big Band Era" died along with Glen Miller. It does sound like a hillbilly band recording in a coal mine.

One question: Your write hat it's a 1940 recording..on the screen it says 1947. Even by 1940 Jo Stafford was a very big star. I can't see her doing that even in 1940. BTW..she was my dad's favorite singer. He was He was a pilot with the 8th AF in WW II..spent 3 years in England..Stafford did many USO tours...he got to meet her once..

[Fiji Hill]

"Friendship" was originally issued on the Bluebird label--#10800--on June 27, 1940. Bluebird was a subsidiary of Victor. I can't read the serial number on the Victor disc shown on the video, but it's probably a 1947 reissue.

The flip side of the Bluebird disc is The Wrong Idea by Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra--another weird tune that lampoons the "sweet" band sound of Sammy Kaye, Richard Himber, Larry Clinton, et al.