1931 popular songs included within various Songbook feature pages
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This page is an addendum to our index page:
The page includes some hit songs for which an exclusive feature page hasn’t been created, but which are included within larger feature pages. Also included are some songs, or specific recordings, which either were not or may not have been hits.
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- Got the Bench, Got the Park (Al Sherman, Al Lewis & Fred Phillips) – A version of this song by the Rhythm Boys is in my page on the group.
- I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store) (m. Harry Warren, w. Mort Dixon, Billy Rose) — We’ve a brief separate feature page which may be expanded, and the same recordings are found in the page Warren, Harry: selected hits and standards, 1928-1946.
- Kicking The Gong Around (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) — included in the Cab Calloway, part 1 feature page
- Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway, Irving Mills) — Several versions are included in the Cab Calloway, part 1 feature page.
- Who’s Your Little Who-Zis? (m. Ben Bernie, Al Goehring, w. Walter Hirsch) – The title is a link to the small special feature.
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In addition to the standards I Surrender Dear and Out of Nowhere, the following Bing Crosby singles from 1931 can be found on my page Bing Crosby 1927-34:
- Just One More Chance
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
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The Boswell Sisters had hits with the following 1931 songs which you can find recordings of in my 1931 and 1932 Boswell Sisters pages.
- (With You On My Mind I Find) I Can’t Write the Words (Gerald Marks, Buddy Fields)
- I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store) – (Warren, Rose, Dixon)
- Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On (West, McCaffrey, Ringle)
- When I Take My Sugar To Tea (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal & Pierre Norman Connor)
1932 recording
- Was That The Human Thing To Do? (w. Joe Young m. Sammy Fain)