| Up Swing | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Various |
| Cover: | Up Swing.png |
| Released: | February 17, 1944 |
| Recorded: | 1936–1941 |
| Genre: | Dance band, swing, jazz |
| Label: | Victor |
Up Swing is a compilation album of phonograph records released by bandleaders Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Artie Shaw in 1944 as a part of the Victor Musical Smart Set series. The set, a progenitor to greatest hits releases, features some of the most popular Dance Band Era recordings by the four bandleaders.
Released in the middle of the 1942-44 recording ban, the album reached number four on the August 4, 1945 Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart,[1] which would soon become the standard. A February 1944 issue of Billboard Magazine highlighted Miller's disc specifically: "Re-issue of this swell tune is one of eight sides comprising Victor's new album, "Up Swing." A close race, but this disk wins. Miller fans, new and old, should eat it up."[2] However, Swing Magazine's Bob Kennedy preferred Shaw's disk and declared the album "an absolute must for collectors."[3]
These reissued songs were featured on a 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Victor P-146.
Disc 1: (20-1549)
Disc 2: (20-1550)
Disc 3: (20-1551)
Disc 4: (20-1552)
In 1951, RCA Victor reissued the set on 10" LP as RCA Victor LPT-12.[4]