In 1943 one of the most novel experiments in musical history began. Record companies and musicians agreed to waive fees and contractual rights to a series of stunning musical offerings to the American forces. V-Disc recordings Included the jazz greats of the period: Denny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and vocalists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby.
Paul Vaughan talks to musicians Peanuts Hucko and Yank Lawson, who played on the sessions, and to English collectors who now prize these rare recordings. He considers the relationship that developed between jazz men, American forces and English collectors.