GI Jive – Benny Goodman, Bugle Call Rag. ep703, 1944.

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Hosted by GI Jill.

1. Benny Goodman plays, Bugle Call Rag.
2. Long Ago and Far Away.
3. Johnny Mercer sings, GI Jive.
4. Harry James plays, Backbeat Boogie.

Note: YANK, The Army Weekly: From the beginning the Enlisted editors and writers knew what Enlisted men wanted. Jazz, laughs, and Pretty Girls.

Every issue featured a Pin-Up Girl. Cartoons were a part of the magazine, starting with Sad Sack, the hapless private who was “drafted” into the magazine in May 1942 and featured until he and the magazine were “formally discharged” in 1945.