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- *What do you mean by “Songbook standard”?
- A description of the site
- Introduction to some major songwriters
- Songbook top 10 and top 25 lists, Mar 2009-Feb 2013 (most popular posts and pages)
- Songbook top 10 lists, first ten years, February 2009-February 2019
- Why do my tag searches fail?
- Ye old notes to the subscriber, 2009-2012
- Contact
- page index, drop-down (826 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 30s (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 (expanded on 9 Dec 2015)
- 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
- Judy Garland gallery
- Louis Armstrong slide show and gallery
- 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 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
- Google website translator, 56 languages
- 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 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 standards and hits
- 1931 popular songs in various Songbook feature pages
- All of Me
- 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 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 selected standards and popular songs
- 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 – Top 20 singles, Billboard
- 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 + selected performing artist features
- A Thousand Miles Away / Daddy’s Home
- All I Have to Do is Dream
- Elvis Presley: early hit recordings, 1954-1956 / selected live performances, 1956-1957 (needs repair)
- 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, 1964-1969, and live performances, 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 and 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- not duped by the millennial whoop
- 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
- 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
- St. James Infirmary
- 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
- 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
Google website translation
Recent visitor favorites
Site Index, brief
- About
- 1890-1969 selected standards and hits pages
- Complete Page Index
- Songwriters to 1954
- Songwriters, 1955-1975
- Performing Artists
- Galleries: performing artist and songwriter
- Galleries: film
- Eras
- Film Musicals and Revues: selected films and songs, 1929-47 + A Star is Born (1954)
- Friends
- Acknowledgments
- Disclaimer
some of my followers
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free website and page translation
Songbook images indexed by Google
Aida Overton Walker
Rudy and Fredy Walker
Why do my tag searches fail?
Bessie Smith
Ethel Waters
Google translation
Valaida Snow
Billie Holiday
Hazel Scott
Google website translation
1. Pre-1910 Songs
1. Pre-1910 Songs, external
1. Songs 1910-19
- * 1910-1919 selected standards, hits, and special features
- * Irving Berlin index
- * Shelton Brooks: standards and selected hits 1911-1918
- 1905-1919 audio files: "Nipper’s Greatest Hits: 1901-1920" (external, mp3)
- 1910 selected standards and hits
- 1911-1913
- 1914-1916 standards
- 1914-1919 – additional popular songs (external links)
- 1916: additional popular songs
- 1917 selected standards
- 1918 selected standards and hits
- 1919
- pre-1920 popular music resources
1. Songs 1920-29
1. Songs 1930-39
- *1930-1939: selected standards and hits
- 1930 standards
- 1931 popular songs in various Songbook feature pages
- 1931 standards and hits
- 1932 standards
- 1933 standards and hits
- 1934 standards
- 1935 standards
- 1936 standards
- 1937 standards and hits
- 1938 standards and hits
- 1939 standards and popular songs
- additional 1930s hits, standards, and other notable songs
1. Songs 1940-49
- *1940-1949: selected standards, hits and popular songs
- 1940 standards
- 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
- 41- 42: Soundies 1- Cow Cow Boogie, Lazybones, A Zoot Suit
- additional 1940s hits and standards
- Alec Wilder: six early 1940s songs and an octet
1. Songs 1950-59
1.1 Song catalogs
audio files
Blues
books and authors
- A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film by Richard Barrios (1995)
- Alec Wilder Song Collection, The (2007)
- Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era by Ken Emerson (2006)
- America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs…by Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser (2006)
- American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder (1972)
- Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown (2009)
- Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings by Peter Petinger (2002)
- Burt Bacharach, Song by Song by Serene Dominic (2003)
- Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000 by David Jenness, Don Velsey (2006) – 2014 edition, Google eBook with preview
- Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals, The – by Dan Dietz (2018)
- Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, The — Edited by Robert Kimball, Foreword by John Updike (1992) – link fixed, 2 Sep 2020
- Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin, The — Edited by Robert Kimball (1993)
- Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, The — Edited by Robert Kimball and Linda Emmet (2001)
- Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, The — by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day et al (2009)
- Duke Ellington and his World by A. H. Lawrence, 2004
- Dvořák to Duke Ellington: a conductor explores America's music….by Maurice Peress (2004)
- Elvis Presley: A Life in Music — The Complete Recording Sessions by Ernst Jorgensen (2000)
- Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen by Bill Egan (2004)
- George Gershwin — edited and designed by Merle Armitage (1938)
- Great Men of American Popular Song by David Ewen (1970, enl. 1972)
- History of African American Theatre, A — by Errol G. Hill, James Vernon Hatch (2003)
- House That George Built, The by Wilfrid Sheed (2008)
- Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes (2008)
- Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes (2008)-2
- Listening to Classic American Popular Songs by Allen Forte, Richard Lalli, Gary Chapman (2001)
- Listening to Classic American Popular Songs by Allen Forte, Richard Lalli, Gary Chapman (2008)
- Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway by Frederick Nolan (1995)
- Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, by Tim Brooks (2004, 2005, 2010)
- Lyrics On Several Occasions, by Ira Gershwin (1959)
- My Singing Teachers by Mel Tormé (1994)
- On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning (1998)
- Poets of Tin Pan Alley by Philip Furia (1992)
- Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer, by Gene Lees (2009)
- Robert Kimball
- Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer, by Philip Furia (2004)
- Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America by Karen Sotiropoulos (2006)
- Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans by Charles B. HIrsch (2008)
- Vaudeville Old & New — by Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, and Donald McNeilly (2004)
books, dangerous
Cabaret Corner
- * The Incomparable Hildegarde
- Boswell Sisters: I'm in Training for You – 1930
- Dorothy Dandridge: Jungle Jig (aka A Jig in the Jungle) – 1941
- Dorothy Dandridge: Soundies featuring DD
- For the Birds (Chanson de la Crane)
- Greta Keller: selected recordings 1930-1938
- Hello Bluebird – 1926
- In the Spring of the Year
- Judy Garland: Mr. Monotony
- Liza Minelli: I Love a Piano, 1986
- Mandy Patinkin: Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
- Mandy Patinkin: Swanee / Mammy
- Marlene Dietrich: Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It) – 1930
- Marlene Dietrich: Hot Voodoo – 1932
- Marlene Dietrich: Mein Mann ist Verhindert
- Michael Feinstein
- Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935) short film
- Shoein' the Mare (rumba), with lyric
- St. James Infirmary: Cab Calloway, 1947
- St. James Infirmary: Cab Calloway, 1964
- Who Stole the Jam? – 1938
- Who's Your Little Who-Zis? – 1932
Civil Rights Movement
- 1946-1953: In the Postwar Era (authentichistory.com)
- 1946-1960 (authentichistory.com)
- 1954-1960: The Surge Forward (authentichistory.com)
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans (crmvet.org)
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans: Timeline (crmvet.org)
- Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Monovisions.com)
- Emmett Till (Wikipedia)
- Sit-Ins 1960-64 (crmvet.org)
- Southern Freedom Movement (crmvet.org)
dance
- Fred Astaire album (rounddancing.net)
- History of Black Dance — Victoria & Albert Museum
- Lindy Hop, The Original Swing Dance (savoystyle.com)
- Round Dancing: Choreographed Ballroom (rounddancing.net)
- Sonny Watson's StreetSwing.com
- Syncopation in Music and Dance — by Philip Seyer
- The Roots of Jazz: Cakewalk
discography, 45 rpm singles
discography, 78 rpm
discography, jazz
discography, miscellaneous
- Bert Ambrose
- Bill Evans: The Complete Catalog of Recordings 1954 through 1980
- Casa Loma Orchestra (1933-1942, by session)
- Eddie Lang
- Global Dog Productions
- Hal David Songbook (first recording)
- Harry Roy
- Jack Hylton, 1927-30
- João Gilberto (joaogilberto.org)
- Joe Venuti
- Louis Armstrong (link updated, 12 July 2017)
- Louis Prima
- Miles Davis
- Nat King Cole
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
discography, vocalist and vocal group
- Al Bowlly (@albowlly.club)
- Billie Holiday Discography (billieholiday.be)
- Billie Holiday Songs
- Boswell Sisters (guymcafee.com)
- Carmen McRae
- Chris Connor (@jazzdiscography.com)
- Frank Sinatra Sessionography (jazzdiscography.com)
- Greta Keller, by Henry König @ musiktiteldb.de
- Harmony Sisters (Finland)
- JazzDiscography.com
- Jeri Southern
- Jo Stafford (@jostafford-discography.com)
- Jo Stafford @ collections.music.arizona.edu (University of Arizona website)
- Johnny Hartman (@https://attictoys.com)
- Julie London albums (@joancrawfordbest.com)
- Julie London albums (@lpdiscography.com)
- Julie London singles (@45cat.com)
- Lee Wiley
- Lucy Ann Polk
- Mel Tormé (partial) compiled by George Hulme
- Nat King Cole
- Nick Lucas
- Peggy Lee
- Rosemary Clooney
- Shirley Horn (@jazzdiscography.com)
graphic arts and design: art deco
Hard Bop
history and biography
- ARTSEDGE: Drop Me Off in Harlem
- Come Rain or Come Shine (on Harold Arlen) by John Lahr: The New Yorker, 19 Sep 2005
- Harlem Renaissance links – @42explore2.com
- Harlem Renaissance Poets and Musicians, The — by Samuel Black
- JazzStandards.com
- Music Box Revues 1921-24
- musicals 101
- On This Day in Jazz Age Music!
- PBS jazz biographies
- recording technology timeline
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
- Songwriter's Hall of Fame
- Standard of the Day
- Women in Jazz (fyicomminc.com)
Jazz
- Biographies of Jazz Musicians (links index at 42eXplore.com)
- Classic Jazz Online: A Jazz Anthology (jazz-on-line.com)
- Heptune: The Works of Cab Calloway
- J-DISC Online Jazz Discography (jdisc.columbia.edu)
- Jazz Age
- Jazz discog corner
- Jazz Discography Project (jazzdisco.org)
- Jazz standards by the year, pre-1900s to 1970s (Wikipedia)
- jazz wax
- jazz.com
- JazzDiscography.com
- JazzStandards.com
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
- Syncopation in Music and Dance — by Philip Seyer
- The Jazz Discography (lordisco.com)
- The Jazz Man
- What is a jazz standard? (jazzstandards.com)
- Women in Jazz (fyicomminc.com)
Jazz Age and earlier
- birth of jazz
- British Dance Band Encyclopedia
- Early New Orleans Jazz bands
- first jazz records
- halcyon days music
- jazz roots (jass.com)
- Mark Berresford Rare Records (jazzhound.net)
- Melody Lane
- Parlor Songs
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
- riverwalk jazz
- Starr-Gennett Records – index of informative sites
- Tim's Phonographs and Old Records
Jazz instruction
jive talkin'
Joel Whitburn criticism: chart fabrication, misrepresentation of sources, cherry picking
Judy Garland galleries
Lyrics
- * Todd's lyrics and links
- A-Z Lyrics (azlyrics.com)
- Cab Calloway, Works of (heptune.com)
- Cole Porter
- Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, The — Edited by Robert Kimball, Foreword by John Updike (1992) – link fixed, 2 Sep 2020
- Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, The — Edited by Robert Kimball and Linda Emmet (2001)
- Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, The — by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day et al (2009)
- Dean Martin lyrics
- from Easter Parade (1948) – I. Berlin (only JG songs)
- Gershwin songs (Todd Peach's page)
- heptune jazz and blues lyrics
- International Lyrics Playground
- Ira Gershwin
- Irving Berlin Songography
- Johnny Mercer
- Lazybones, 1933
- Lorenz Hart
- lorenzhart.org/canzoni
- Lyric Wikia
- Oldie Lyrics
- Oldies Lyrics Scrapbook
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Russell Songbook, The (songs played by Russell Eiffert)
music charts
music of Brazil
- "‘Once I Loved’ – In Memory and Celebration of Vinicius de Moraes on His 100th Birthday" by Josmar F. Lopes, 2012, 2014
- * MPB Cifrantiga
- Ary Barroso
- Bossa Nova Letras e Cifras
- Bossa Nova Letras e Cifras (English trans.)
- Brazilliance | Record Covers of Brazil 1952-1977, editor Andreas Dünnewald
- Daniella Thompson | Musica Brasiliensis
- João Gilberto (joaogilberto.org)
- Músicos do Brasil: Uma Enciclopédia Instrumental
Musical theater and film musicals
- Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals, The – by Dan Dietz (2018)
- Development of musical theatre
- Footlight Notes
- George M. Cohen Broadway shows
- Hollywood Musicals – by Carlene
- Music Box Revues 1921-24
- Musical Theatre — Wikipedia
- Musicals/Dance films – filmsite.org
- Musicals101.com by John Kenrick
- Performing Arts Archive: On (and Off) Broadway Programs
- Reviews: Musicals Tonight! inc.
- Shuffle Along (1921) – blackpast.org
- Singin' and Dancing Back in Time
performer official or broad information site
- Andrews Sisters (vocalgroup.org/inductees)
- Barbara Streisand 1961-65
- BettyCarter.org
- Billie Holiday Discography (billieholiday.be)
- Billie Holiday songs (discography and session data)
- Billy Murray
- Billy Murray Scrapbook
- Bing Crosby discography
- Bix Beiderbecke: bixography.com
- Doris Day
- Ella Fitzgerald (redsugar.com)
- Florence Mills
- Florence Mills: music and shows
- Frank Sinatra (menziera.com)
- Frank Sinatra: Songs by Sinatra
- Ginger Rogers (gingerrogers.com)
- Jeri Southern
- Judy Garland links
- Judy Room
- Lee Morse
- Louis Armstrong
- Louis Armstrong bio and discography
- Marlene Dietrich
- Michael Feinstein
- Michael Feinstein: purefeinstein.com
- Modernaires, The
- Nora Bayes
- Ray Charles Video Museum
- Reri Grist
- Ricordando il Trio Lescano
- Rosemary Clooney
- Ruby Keeler fanzine (shadowwaltz.com)
- Ruth Etting
- Sophie Tucker
- Ted Lewis "The Jazz King"
- Trio Sorelle Lescano (ildiscobolo.net)
- Whispering Jack Smith
photo gallery, internal
photographs, black entertainer
photographs, black history
- ARTSEDGE: Drop Me Off in Harlem
- DiscoverBlackHeritage (flickr, 982 items)
- flickr pool (676 members)
- Harlem Renaissance images – by Ielle Laf (Pinterest)
- James Van Der Zee (tumblr.com)
- Lasca Sartoris
- Maryland State Archives: Blacks in Annapolis
- Portrait of a City: Scurlock Photographic Studio's Legacy to Washington, D.C. (Smithsonian Inst. NMAH)
- Russell Lee, Chicago (Library of Congress)
- vieilles_annonces (flickr)
- vieilles_annonces (flickriver.com)
photographs, film and film stars
- All That Jazz (jazz-99.livejournal.com)
- Bing Crosby gallery (theredlist.fr) – closed as of 10 Feb 2020
- Comet Over Hollywood – by Jessica Pickens
- Dr. Macro's HQ Movie Scans
- Film Reference (filmreference.com)
- fookdamorph
- George Hurrell photos and prints (hurrellphotos.com)
- Golden Silents
- Hollywood Heyday
- Les Icônes du 7ème Art
- LucyWho.com
- Opera-gloved celebrities, 1920s-1960s (operagloves.com) — evidently defunct as of April 2017
- Operator 99
- Packard Pictorial
- Reel Classics
- Show People (moviediva.com)
- Trouble in Paradise (pre-code cinema)
- Vintage Vanities and Old Hollywood Glamour (Love Your Place)
- Vitaphone Varieties
photographs, historical
- Autochromists of Belgium
- Bound For Glory: America in Color 1939-1943 (@denverpost.com) – link fixed, 9/8/2020
- Bound For Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943, Library of Congress online exhibition
- George Hurrell photos and prints (hurrellphotos.com)
- Library of Congress' photostream (flickr)
- Shorpy Historical Photo Archive
- Sky Scraper City ("old" NYC photos thread)
- Vintage Photos
photographs, jazz
- Billie Holiday Discography (billieholiday.be)
- Bob Willoughby — Jazz (willoughbyphotos.com) – link updated, 1/14/2021
- Bob Willoughby, a selection
- Early New Orleans Jazz bands
- Herman Leonard
- Jazz in Photo
- jazzhouse.org
- jazztimes.com – John Coltrane
- Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
- Mark Berresford Rare Records > Recording Artist Photographs (jazzhound.net/photographs)
- Stolen Moments: A Pictorial Essay
- The Jazz Man – picture gallery
- Willliam P. Gottlieb Collection: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
photographs, pop
photographs, songwriter
photographs, theater
radio
- Cladrite Radio
- Echoes of the Past (Irv Mitchell) – radio links at bottom
- jango
- Jimmie Jazz Shows
- live365.com
- Old Time Radio Catalog
- Pandora
- Radio Dismuke
- Riverwalk Jazz: Jim Cullum Jazz Band
- Sky.fm
- The War of the Worlds – 30 October 1938
- VI Corps Proudly Presents the Music of WWII
- Washington DC Jazz Network
- WW II – Mail Call (antiqueradios.com)
- WW II – news broadcasts (Radio Days)
- WW II news broadcasts (Old Radio World)
Sondheim
Songbook image collections
Songbook Music: Genres and Styles
Swing Era
- Big Band and Swing history
- Big Band Library
- Big Bands Database
- British Dance Band Encyclopedia
- British Dance Band Show – playlists and gallery (John Wright)
- Bruno Leicht's Old and New Swing
- John Wright's British Dance Band Show
- Lindy Hop, The Original Swing Dance (savoystyle.com)
- Swing Time (fr.)
- Swingmusic.net
- Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
terminology
Tin Pan Alley
tribute or fan site or page
- Billy Murray
- Billy Murray Scrapbook
- Django Reinhardt (patrus53.com)
- Dorothy Jean Dandridge (myspace)
- eden ahbez photo gallery (Joe Romersa's tribute page)
- Eden's Island (a blog about eden ahbez)
- Florence Mills
- Gershwin Fan
- Gilbert Bécaud, d'hier à demain
- Ginger Rogers: Finding Ginger
- Hi De Ho blog
- Judy Garland links
- Leo Reisman
- Libby Holman (http://boppinbob.multiply.com)
- Lionel Hampton Story 1908-2002
- Lorenz Hart & Marshall Barer
- Rodgers & Hammerstein Fan Page
- Ruth Etting
- Shelton Brooks
- Ted Lewis "The Jazz King"
- The Supremes
- Valaida Snow (lascasartoris.tumblr.com)
- Vivian Talks Ginger Rogers
Uncat
- Article: Defining the Great American Songbook — By Christopher Loudon 02/08/10 (Jazz Times)
- Beach Boys albums reviews (Only Solitaire)
- Beach Boys chronology (Cork in the Ocean Production)
- Brill Building Pop (Spectropop)
- Copyright Encyclopedia
- Бай мир бисту шейн / Bei Mir Bistu Shein / Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Schoen)
- Glenn Miller disappearance conspiracy theories compared and criticized
- Great American Songbook (greatamericansongbook.net)
- History-of-songs (Where did songs come from?)
- Irving Berlin's Music Box Revues 1921-1924 (AmericanClassicsMusic.org)
- Les étoiles d'ArtLubie: musique
- Lorenz Hart & Marshall Barer
- Melody Lane song index
- Reviews by Josmar Lopes
- Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven
- Yiddish Radio Project
Victor Recordings
video artist
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