The Fred Waring Discography

by Penn St Univ/Univs Penn St Univ/Univs

Overview

Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians entertained America for 69 years. They were successful pioneers in many aspects of the entertainment business: stage shows, radio, television, movies, concerts, and recordings. Waring and his group made over a thousand commerical recordings starting in 1923 for the Victor Talking Machine Company and then continued with Decca Records, Capitol, Reprise, and Mega labels. This discography documents each one of the recordings as well as the transcriptions that the Pennsylvanians recorded for various program services. It is an invaluable research resource for record historians, researchers, and recording collectors.

In addition to the detailed alphabetical listing of all song recordings, the book also supplies a chronological list of each recording session and the songs recorded on that day; a list of arrangers' names and the songs for which they wrote the arrangements; a complete album listing; and a listing of all known commercial transcription recordings. This is the only complete discography available on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313299100
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/18/1996
Series:	Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference , #65
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

PETER T. KIEFER is Coordinator of Fred Waring's America, a Special Collection of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. He has been associated with Fred Waring for over 30 years. He is an accomplished sound and recording engineer and was Director of the Fred Waring Music Workshops for 15 years as well as company manager for the Fred Waring Show.

Table of Contents

Preface
Alphabetical Listing of Song Titles
Chronological Listing of Recording Sessions
Listing of Albums
Arrangers
Waring-Lang-Worth Transcriptions
Other Commercial Transcriptions

Editorial Reviews

Catalogs the enormous number of commercial recordings and transcriptions by the man who brought choral music out of the churches and classical concerts to American popular music. Covering his entire recording career from 1923 to the 1970s, includes an alphabetical listing of titles, a chronological list of recording sessions, albums, alphabetical and chronological listings of recordings made for the Waring-Lang-Worth transcriptions in 1949 and 1950, and other commercial transcriptions. Does not include off-the-air recordings from radio and television, or information about live performances. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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