Would you believe 'Through The Years Volume 9' in time for Christmas? That seems to be the working schedule - just days after volume 8 was officially released comes news of volume 9.
The promised tracks are:-

1    L8805          Christmas Is A-Comin' (Frank Luther)
2    L8806           The First Snowfall (Johnny Burke, Paul Francis Webster)
3    L8807           The Possibility's There  (Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen)  with Peggy Lee
4    L8808           The Next Time It Happens (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers)
5      L8816        Something In Common   (James Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
6    L8817        Look To Your Heart (James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)
7     L8818        Suddenly Ther's A Valley  (Meyer, Jones)
8    L8819        Moments To Remember (Stillman, Allen)
9      L8820        Is Christmas Only A Tree  (Rebek)
10    L8821         The Longest Walk (Spielman, Pola)
11    L8895        John Barleycorn  (Schwarz, Anderson)
12    L8896        When You're In Love  (Schwarz, Anderson)
13    L9150        April Showers  (B G (Buddy) De Sylva, Louis Silvers)
14    L9151           Blues In The Night  (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
15    L9152           Prisoner Of Love  (Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill, Leo Robin)
16    L9153           Memories Are Made Of This (Richard Dehr, Terry Gilkyson, Frank Miller)
17    L9154           My Blue Heaven  (Walter Donaldson, George Whiting)
18    L9155           Paper Doll  (Johnny S. Black)
19    L9156           Ain't Misbehavin'  (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller)
20    L9157           When My Baby Smiles At Me  (Ted Lewis, Andrew B Sterling, Billy Munro)
21    L9162           A Little Kiss Each Morning  (Harry M. Woods)
22    L9163           This Love Of Mine  (Sol Parker, Henry Sanicola, Frank Sinatra)
23    L9164           Mona Lisa  (Jay Livingston, Raymond B Evans)
24    L9165           Thanks For The Memory  (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
25    L9584          Around The World  (Harold Adamson, Victor Young)
26    L9585           I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day  (Henry W Longfellow, Johnny Marks) 

Quite a few relative rarities in there.
That's the good news, but the as we all know, this is the penultimate release in the series.
ICC members will of course be getting their order forms with the current issue of 'Bing'.

I now see that the on-line version of my discography does not mention three or four of these titles. They have 'fallen off the end' of the Decca sequence, due to my mis-coding of the selection criteria in the final report. My apologies to those who might by some small chance have been relying on that part.

Last edited by Richard Baker (16/11/2011 6:46 pm)