It's an evocative collection that captures the unique style and spirit of the times.

This is another in our series of collections devoted to the great innovative bandleaders of the early age of commercial recording in the 1920s and '30s, whose orchestras were primarily dance bands, performing the new music coming from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley when many future Great American Songbook standards were being composed and recorded for the first time, but also playing some 'hot' jazz-influenced music along the way. Clarinetist and pianist Nat Shilkret's orchestra recorded for Victor, as is clear from his orchestra's name, and he had more hits than we could fit on a 2-CD set, so this 47-track collection comprises as many of those hits as we could accommodate, omitting a couple of which we could not locate usable copies, and those that made the lowest positions. It includes hits not only as the Victor Orchestra, but also under the names The International Novelty Orchestra, The Troubadours and The Virginians. It features the No. 1 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes', and the Top 3 hits 'All Alone Monday', 'Hallelujah!', 'Diane', 'The Sidewalks of New York', 'Jeannine (I Dream Of Lilac Time)', 'You Were Meant For Me', 'Pagan Love Song' and 'Chant of The Jungle', with performances by featured vocalists Elliott Shaw, Johnny Marvin, Franklyn Bauer, Scrappy Lambert, Frank Munn, Lewis James, Paul Small and others. It's an evocative collection that captures the unique style and spirit of the times.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Tell Me You'll Forgive Me
• June Brought The Roses
• Let It Rain, Let It Pour
• Rio Rita
• On The Riviera
• All Alone Monday
• One Alone
• The Riff Song
• Maybe
• I Know That You Know
• Flapperette
• When Day Is Done
• What Does It Matter Now
• The Doll Dance
• Hallelujah
• Me And My Shadow
• It's A Million To One You're In Love
• Paree (Ca C'est Paris)
• Baby's Blue
• Diane (I'm In Heaven When I See You Smile)
• Thinking Of You
• Up In The Clouds
• Did You Mean It
• Dawn

Disc 2:

• Why Do I Love You
• The Sidewalks Of New York
• Dream House
• Jeannine I Dream Of Lilac Time
• Dusky Stevedore
• Out Of The Dawn
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love
• Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
• One Kiss
• Marie
• Carolina Moon
• You Were Meant For Me
• Broadway Melody
• Pagan Love Song
• Some Sweet Day
• The Lonesome Road
• Am I Blue
• Love Me
• Chant Of The Jungle
• Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
• Get Happy
• I Apologise
• Delishious

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 142 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/17/25

UPC: 824046356620