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- page index, drop-down (825 pages)
- * Songbook site index
- * Songwriter
- Songwriters to 1954
- Arlen, Harold
- Berlin, Irving
- * Irving Berlin: selected standards, 1925-1953
- I’m Getting Tired So I Can Sleep
- Irving Berlin sings Berlin
- Irving Berlin: selected “I’m” songs
- Irving Berlin: selected early songs, 1907-1914 + sheet music gallery
- Irving Berlin: selected songs of 1909 and 1910
- Irving Berlin: selected songs of 1916-1919
- Irving Berlin: selections from Stop! Look! Listen! – 1915
- Irving Berlin: sheet music galleries
- Irving Berlin: Some songs about dancing
- Irving Berlin: Songs about Florida and Hawaii, 1915 to 1925
- Irving Berlin: Songs about the South, 1911-1924
- Sayonara
- When the Folks High-Up Do That Mean Low-Down (1930)
- Brooks, Shelton: standards, 1909 to 1917
- Calloway, Cab
- Carmichael, Hoagy: selected standards, 1929-1942
- Donaldson, Walter: selected standards, hits, and other songs, 1918-1934
- Ellington, Duke
- Gershwin, George and Ira
- Henderson, Ray: selected standards and hits 1923-1931
- Jordan, Louis: selected sides, Soundies, and short and feature film songs, 1941-1950
- Marks, Johnny: Christmas songs
- McHugh, Jimmy and Dorothy Fields: two early hits and selected standards, 1928 to 1935
- Mercer, Johnny
- Porter, Cole
- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
- Styne, Jule
- Troup, Bobby
- Van Heusen, Jimmy and Johnny Burke, selected standards
- Warren, Harry: selected hits and standards, 1928-1946
- Wilder, Alec
- Williams, Spencer: 14 selected standards and hits, 1915 to 1936
- Young, Victor: selected standards
- Songwriters, 1955-1975
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- A Felicidade
- Águas de Março (Waters of March)
- Chega de Saudade (1958) and the origins of Bossa Nova
- Corcovado
- Desafinado
- Dindi
- Fotografia — Tom Jobim, 1959
- Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)
- Insensatez
- Inútil paisagem (Useless Landscape)
- Meditação (Meditation)
- more Tom Jobim songs
- O amor em paz (Once I Loved)
- Se todos fossem iguais a você / Someone to Light Up My Life
- Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer)
- Wave (Vou te contar)
- Bill Evans plays Johnny Mandel
- Burt Bacharach index
- Alfie
- Another Tear Falls
- Baby It’s You
- Burt Bacharach & Hal David: selected hit songs, 1957-1962 + Another Tear Falls
- Burt Bacharach & Hal David: selected hit songs, 1963 + This Empty Place, A Lifetime of Loneliness
- Burt Bacharach & Hal David: selected hit songs, 1964 +
- Burt Bacharach & Hal David: selected hit songs, 1965 + Here I Am
- Burt Bacharach & Hal David: selected songs, 1967
- Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard: selected songs 1960-62 and 1965
- Burt Bacharach: selected songs, 1962-1965, excluding hits
- Don’t Make Me Over / T’en vas pas comme ça — selected recordings, 1962-1990
- I Say a Little Prayer
- One Less Bell to Answer
- The Hangman – 1959
- The Look of Love
- The Windows of the World
- They Long to Be (Close to You)
- This Empty Place – 1963
- This Girl’s in Love with You — selected early recordings, 1968-1972
- This Guy’s in Love with You
- This Guy’s in Love with You — Tony Joe White, c. 1969
- Walk On By: 69 selected recordings, arranged by genre
- Who’s Got the Action
- Gamble & Huff index
- Gerry Goffin & Carole King: selected hits, 1960-1965
- Motown: Holland-Dozier-Holland index: selected songs, 1963-1966
- Smokey Robinson: selected songs written or co-written by, 1960-1967
- Thom Bell
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Songwriters to 1954
- 1890-1969 selected standards and hits index
- Acknowledgments
- African-American musical theater, 1896-1926: feature pages and galleries
- Bert Williams, George Walker, and Aida Overton Walker
- Aida Overton Walker slide show, gallery, and links
- Bert Williams and George Walker: photograph slide show and gallery, 1896-1909
- Bert Williams and George Walker: selected sheet music slide show and gallery, 1896-1909
- Bert Williams and George Walker: selections from their first recording session, 11 October 1901
- Bert Williams: selected recordings, 1910-1920 + galleries: photos and sheet music
- Williams, Bert photo gallery 1910-1920
- Williams, Bert: selected sheet music and record label slide show and gallery, 1910-1920
- Blackbirds (1926): early recordings of selected songs in the revue
- Florence Mills slide show and gallery
- musical theater, African-American, 1896 to 1926 — galleries
- Rudy and Fredy Walker page index and slide show
- Carl Kauba: three bronze sculptures modeled on items in c.1903 French postcard series featuring cakewalk dancers Rudy and Fredy Walker
- Le Cake-Walk au Nouveau Cirque (1903) by Louis Lumière, five short films of cakewalk dance teams performing, including Rudy and Fredy Walker
- Rudy and Fredy Walker demonstrate “Le Trans-Atlantic,” 1904 postcard series
- Rudy and Fredy Walker, c.1903 French S.I.P. postcard series #142, “Le Cake-Walk”
- Shuffle Along (1921-1922, 1928, 1933) gallery
- Shuffle Along and the return of African-American musical theater to Broadway during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
- Bert Williams, George Walker, and Aida Overton Walker
- Friends
- Galleries
- film galleries
- Charlie Chaplin galleries
- Footlight Parade (1933) slide show and gallery
- Gold Diggers of 1933 gallery
- Judy Garland gallery: “Someone at Last” number, from A Star is Born (1954)
- The Broadway Melody (1929) gallery
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 gallery
- The Uninvited (1944) gallery
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) slide show and gallery
- Ursula Andress, Casino Royale (1967), slide show and gallery
- galleries: performing artist and songwriter
- Albertina Rasch and the Albertina Rasch Dancers slide show and photo gallery
- Andrews Sisters slide show and gallery
- Antônio Carlos Jobim slide show and gallery
- Aretha Franklin: slide show, 1960-1961, and galleries 1960-1965
- Benny Goodman: selected standards index and gallery
- Berlin, Irving slide show and gallery
- Bessie Smith gallery
- Billie Holiday slideshow and gallery
- Bing Crosby slide show and galleries, c.1926-1950s
- Bing Crosby: Paramount promotional shots of the early 1930s (with glued back ears)
- Boswell Sisters gallery
- Charlie Parker gallery
- Cole Porter gallery
- Dinah Washington gallery
- Django Reinhardt and the QHCF gallery
- Doris Eaton tribute
- Dorothy Dandridge index, galleries 1 & 2, and selections from Smooth Operator
- Dorothy Dandridge slideshow and gallery (1)
- Dorothy Lamour gallery – mostly 1936-1937
- Duke Ellington slide show and gallery
- Eckstine, Billy gallery
- eden ahbez gallery
- Ethel Waters gallery
- Fanny Brice photos, Ziegfeld Follies of 1910
- Fats Waller gallery
- Frank Sinatra slide show and gallery
- Frank Sinatra: Pasadena, August 1943
- Fred and Adele Astaire slide show and gallery
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers gallery
- George Shearing gallery
- Glenn Miller gallery
- Hazel Scott slide show and gallery
- Helen Kane gallery
- Hildegarde gallery, slide show, and links
- Ivie Anderson gallery
- Jo Stafford gallery
- John Coltrane gallery
- Louis Armstrong slide shows and galleries
- Maxine Sullivan gallery
- Mel Tormé gallery, early career
- Michael Bublé gallery
- Miles Davis gallery
- Motown artist slide show and gallery, 1960-1966
- Nancy Wilson gallery
- Nat King Cole slide show and gallery
- Nat King Cole Trio – July 1946, William Gottlieb
- Patti Page gallery
- Ray Henderson gallery
- Rhythm Boys, The – gallery
- Rodgers & Hart gallery
- Rosemary Clooney gallery
- Russ Columbo slide show and gallery
- Ruth Etting gallery
- Sarah Vaughan gallery
- Sound of Music 1959 and 1965 photo gallery (sm)
- Susan Hayward gallery
- Sweet Inspirations, The: 1967-1969, and Cissy Houston: 1969-1979 — slide show and gallery
- The Beach Boys gallery, 1962-1965
- Thelonious Monk – Minton’s Playhouse, September 1947 – William P. Gottlieb
- Trio Lescano slide show and gallery
- Valaida Snow gallery
- Songbook images indexed in Google images
- film galleries
- Performing Artist
- Selected film musicals and their songs 1929-1947 + A Star is Born (1954)
- Songbook Eras
- * Songwriter
- 1890-1899 selected hits and standards
- 1900-1909 selected standards and hits
- 1910 selected standards and hits + If I Was a Millionaire
- 1910-1919 selected standards, hits and special features
- 1911-1913 selected standards and hits
- 1914-1916 standards
- 1916 – some additional popular songs
- 1917 selected standards + Over There
- 1918 selected standards and hits
- 1919 selected standards and hits
- 1920 selected standards and hits
- 1920-1929: selected standards and hits
- 1921 selected standards, hits, and other songs
- 1922 selected standards
- 1923 selected standards and hits
- 1924 selected standards
- 1925 selected standards and hits
- 1926 selected standards and hits, part 1
- 1926 selected standards and hits, part 2
- 1927 selected standards and hits
- 1928 standards
- 1929 selected standards and hits
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Like a Breath of Springtime
- Louise
- Mean to Me
- More Than You Know
- Puttin’ On the Ritz
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Stardust
- Te quiero dijiste / Magic is the Moonlight
- Under a Texas Moon
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- With a Song in My Heart
- You Do Something to Me
- 1930 selected standards
- Body and Soul
- But Not for Me
- Exactly Like You
- Georgia On My Mind
- I Got Rhythm
- Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt / Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It)
- Love for Sale
- Memories of You
- Mood Indigo
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Rockin’ in Rhythm
- Tar Paper Stomp (1930), Hot and Anxious (1931), There’s Rhythm in Harlem (1935), and In the Mood (1938)
- Walkin’ My Baby Back Home
- You’re Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)
- 1930-1939: selected standards and hits
- 1931 selected standards and hits
- 1931 popular songs included within various Songbook feature pages
- All of Me (needs repair)
- As Time Goes By
- Beautiful Love
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Dancing In the Dark
- Home (When Shadows Fall)
- I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)
- I Surrender Dear
- Just Friends
- Out of Nowhere
- Prisoner of Love
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- 1932 selected standards
- 1933 standards and hits
- 42nd Street (1933)
- April in Paris
- I Cover the Waterfront
- It’s Only a Paper Moon (needs repair)
- Lazybones
- Lazybones – lyric
- Let’s Fall in Love
- One Morning in May
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Smoke Rings
- Sophisticated Lady
- Stormy Weather
- Stormy Weather: selected vocal harmony group recordings, 1952-1965
- The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money) and Shadow Waltz
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- When You’ve Got a Little Springtime In Your Heart
- 1934 standards
- All Through the Night
- As Long as I Live
- Autumn in New York
- Blue Moon
- For All We Know
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Ill Wind
- June in January — selected recordings, 1934 to 1960
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Moonglow
- My Old Flame
- P.S. I Love You (Jenkins, Mercer)
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Tabú (Taboo)
- The Very Thought of You
- 1935 standards and hits
- Begin the Beguine
- Cheek to Cheek
- I Can’t Get Started
- I’m In the Mood for Love
- If I Should Lose You
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Just One of Those Things
- Last Night When We Were Young
- Let’s Face the Music and Dance
- Little Girl Blue
- March Winds and April Showers
- My Romance
- Para Vigo me voy (Say Si Si)
- The Music Goes ‘Round and Around
- 1936 standards
- A Fine Romance
- Caravan
- Easy to Love
- I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- I’ve Got You Under My Skin
- Pennies from Heaven
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Stompin’ at the Savoy
- Swing Time
- The Glory of Love
- The Way You Look Tonight
- There Is No Greater Love
- These Foolish Things
- Tornerai / J’Attendrai / Komm zurück / Věřím vám / I’ll Be Yours
- Why Don’t You Do Right?
- 1937 standards and hits
- Bei Mir Bistu Shein / Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Schoen): selected early recordings, 1937-1938
- Easy Living
- Harbor Lights
- In the Still of the Night
- My Funny Valentine
- My Little Buckaroo
- September in the Rain
- That’s What I Like About the South
- They Can’t Take That Away from Me
- Too Marvelous for Words
- Where or When
- Whistle While You Work and Heigh-Ho — from Snow White (1937)
- 1938 standards and hits
- Change Partners
- Deep Purple: selected early recordings, 1934 and 1938-39
- Heart and Soul
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
- Love Is Here to Stay
- Lush Life
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Na Baixa do Sapateiro (Bahia)
- Prelude to a Kiss
- September Song
- Spring Is Here
- The Nearness of You
- This Can’t Be Love
- Tu-li-Tulip Time / Tulipan
- You Go to My Head
- 1939 standards and popular songs
- All the Things You Are
- Avant de mourir / My Prayer
- Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me
- Flying Home
- I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
- I’ll Never Smile Again
- Imagination
- Jumpin’ Jive
- Moonlight Serenade
- Over the Rainbow — Judy Garland
- Over the Rainbow — selected other recordings
- Perfidia
- Some Other Spring
- Tuxedo Junction
- What’s New?
- 1940 selected standards
- 1940-1949: selected standards and hits
- 1941 standards and hits
- 1942 standards and hits
- 1943 standards and hits
- 1944 standards and hits
- 1945 standards
- 1946 standards
- 1947 standards
- 1948 standards
- 1949 standards
- 1950 selected standards
- 1950-1954 selected standards and hits
- 1951 – Top 20 singles, Billboard
- 1951 selected standards
- 1952 – Top 20 singles, Billboard
- 1952 selected standards
- 1953 selected standards
- 1954 selected standards
- 1955-1959 selected standards and hits
- A Thousand Miles Away / Daddy’s Home
- All I Have to Do is Dream
- Giant Steps (John Coltrane) – 1959
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- Je t’appartiens / Let It Be Me
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Just in Time
- Long Black Veil
- Manhã de Carnaval
- My Favorite Things
- My Foolish Heart: selected vocal harmony group recordings, 1956-1966
- On the Street Where You Live
- Somewhere
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face — selected early recordings, 1962-1972
- The Party’s Over
- They Say It’s Spring
- Till There Was You
- Tragedy – 1958
- Unchained Melody
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- Wild Is the Wind
- 1960s: performer and song
- 1960s: selected performers
- Aretha Franklin: selected early recordings of standards, 1961-1965
- Bill Evans Trio: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
- Marta Kubišová: selected recordings and live performances, 1964-1969, with slide show and gallery
- The Beach Boys: selected songs, 1962-1965
- The Delfonics: selected hit recordings, 1968-1971
- Tommy James and the Shondells: Hanky Panky, 1964, and selections from 1967 to 1969
- 1960s: selected songs
- “Baby Love” and The Supremes in Amsterdam and London, October 1964, with slide show & galleries
- Anti-war songs, 1960 to 1970 (selected)
- California Dreamin’
- Come Saturday Morning
- Daydream (John Sebastian)
- Didn’t Want to Have to Do It
- Didn’t We
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right — selected early recordings, 1962-1965
- Early Morning Rain
- Everydays (Stephen Stills)
- Get Well Soon, The Elegants (c. 1960) and Come Home Soon, The Intruders (1961)
- Hit the Road Jack
- I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
- Love (Can Make You Happy)
- More (Theme from Mondo Cane) — selected early recordings, 1962-1966
- Never My Love
- One Too Many Mornings
- Our Winter Love
- Sad Girl
- Someday Soon
- That Sunday, That Summer
- The Last Waltz (La dernière valse)
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone — selected early recordings, 1960-1968
- Which Way You Goin’ Billy?
- Yes, I’m Ready
- You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice
- 1960s: selected performers
- 1970s selected performers and songs
- 1970s: selected songs
- Always Friends + original ZOOM season 1 (1972) theme and address songs, including lyrics
- Blackberry Winter
- Do You Know Where You’re Going To (1973) and Theme From Mahogany (1975)
- Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely
- Long Long Time
- Midnight Plane to Houston / Midnight Train to Georgia
- Rainy Days and Mondays
- Touch Me In the Morning
- We’ve Only Just Begun
- Cissy Houston: selected recordings, 1970-1977
- ZOOM page and post index and gallery
- ZOOM albums and singles, 1973-1978
- ZOOM links
- ZOOM lyrics
- ZOOM season 1 (1972) cast: selected song and dance numbers
- ZOOM season 2 (1972-1973) casts 1-3: selected song and dance numbers
- ZOOM season 3 (1973-1974) casts 1 & 2: selected song and dance numbers
- ZOOM season 4 (1974-1975) cast: selected song and dance numbers
- ZOOM season 5 (1976) cast: selected song and dance numbers
- ZOOM season 6 (1977-1978) cast: selected song and dance numbers
- ZOOM seasons 1-3 (1972-1974) casts: The Cat Came Back and various folk songs
- 1970s: selected songs
- Albertina Rasch Dancers
- Andrews Sisters
- Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby: selected hit recordings 1943-1951
- Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing (1939)
- Benny Goodman in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
- Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra: Nineteen “I’m” songs, recorded 1928-1940
- Bessie Smith
- Bing Crosby pages
- Bing Crosby: selected recordings, 1927-1934
- Bobby Troup sings Troup
- Boswell Sisters: profile + selected recordings 1925 & 1930
- Boswell Sisters: selected recordings of 1931
- Boswell Sisters: selected recordings of 1932
- Boswell Sisters: selected recordings of 1933
- Boswell Sisters: selected recordings of 1934
- Boswell Sisters: selected recordings of 1935
- Chaplin in Sunnyside (1919) with wood nymphs
- Christina Aguilera photos
- Clarence Williams: selected recordings, 1923 to 1929
- Clips from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
- Close Your Eyes — 1933
- Crawdad Song — lyric (Woody Guthrie version)
- Disclaimer
- doc’s 60s and 70s summer picks #1
- Don’t be duped by the millennial whoop
- Dorothy Dandridge
- early morning songs
- Earth Angel to Good Timin’: doc’s pick of 12/8 and 6/8 time songs, 1954-1978
- Elvis Presley sings classic American pop standards
- Ethel Waters: selected recordings, 1921-1934
- film theme songs and leitmotifs, selected
- follow
- Footlight Parade (1933)
- For the Birds (Chanson de la Crane)
- Fox Chase & Lost John — selected recordings, 1923 to 1972
- Fred and Adele Astaire
- Fred Astaire pages
- girl groups
- Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra (1942)
- Golden Gate – 1928
- Greta Keller: selected early recordings 1930-1938
- Gus Edwards: The Star Maker
- Harold Arlen and Richard Rodgers Medley – Judy Garland and Diahann Carroll
- Hazel Scott
- Home
- Hooray for Hollywood, Bob Burns, and bazookas
- Hot Feet (Wendell Hall) – 1927, with lyric
- I Wanna Dance with the Girl In My Arms
- instrumental compositions
- Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
- Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959) – Newport Jazz Festival 1958
- Joel Whitburn criticism: chart fabrication, misrepresentation of sources, cherry picking
- Judy Garland
- Jule Styne: selected standards written with lyricist Sammy Kahn, 1942-1954, and selected songs from Broadway musicals, 1947-64
- Julie London sings Bobby Troup, 1955-1967
- King of Jazz (1930)
- Latin standards: selected songs, 1928-1972
- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, 1926 selections
- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five: recordings of 1925-1928 (in revision)
- Love Thy Neighbor – Bing Crosby, 1934
- Malagueña salerosa (La malagueña)
- Mamie Smith
- Michael Feinstein
- Motown
- Palesteena (1920) and Nix on the Glow-Worm, Lena (1910)
- Patriots vs. Ravens AFC Championship, 22 Jan 2012: Evans drop…or catch?
- Paul Whiteman talks about George Gershwin and the creation of Rhapsody in Blue
- Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)
- pre-1920 popular music audio files, external links
- pre-1920 popular music resources
- Red Nichols & his Five Pennies: early short films
- Reefer Songs, 1930-1945
- Ruth Etting: selected recordings 1927-35
- selected autumn music playlist videos
- selections from Paul McCartney’s Kisses on the Bottom, 2012
- Selections from Verve Remixed, 2002
- Sérgio Mendes and Brasil ’66: selected recordings, 1966 to 1970
- Some early R&B vocal harmony group cross-over hits of the 1950s
- Songs of the seasons
- Soundies
- Swing ballrooms: The Savoy, The Palomar & The Harvest Moon Ball
- The Big Broadcast (1932)
- The Broadway Melody (1929) film
- The Girl on the Magazine – 1915
- The Gumm Sisters on film, 1929-30 and 1935
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- The Incomparable Hildegarde
- The Mills Brothers: selected recordings, 1929-1939
- The Revelers and The Comedian Harmonists
- The Rhythm Boys (needs repair)
- Theme from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- To Have and Have Not (1944) film clips
- traditional songs
- Unsung lyrics, transcribed by doc
- Valaida Snow: selected recordings, 1935-1946, and gallery
- Vocal harmony group interpretations of standards, 1931 to 1966 recordings
- Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song – Season 1, Episode 1
- Walt Disney: selected songs from animated Disney films, 1937-1942
- Who Stole the Jam? (1938)
- women in jazz
- Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1938)
- YES — Time and a Word, 1970 + “Survival” from the debut album, 1969
- * Songbook site index
- sitemap
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