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- page index, drop-down (808 pages)
- * Songbook site index
- * Songwriter
- Songwriters to 1954
- Arlen, Harold
- Berlin, Irving
- * Irving Berlin: selected standards and other songs, 1925-1953
- Irving Berlin sings Berlin
- Irving Berlin: selected early songs, 1907-1914 + sheet music gallery 1907-1925
- Irving Berlin: selected songs from 1916-1919 (partially constructed)
- Irving Berlin: selected songs of 1909 and 1910
- Irving Berlin: selections from Stop! Look! Listen! – 1915
- Irving Berlin: Some songs about dancing
- Irving Berlin: Songs about Florida and Hawaii, 1915 to 1925
- Irving Berlin: Songs about the South, 1911-1924
- Irving Berlin: When the Folks High-Up Do That Mean Low-Down (1930)
- Sayonara
- Brooks, Shelton: standards and selected hits, 1909 to 1918
- Calloway, Cab
- Carmichael, Hoagy: selected standards, 1929-1942 + Washboard Blues, 1925
- Donaldson, Walter: selected standards, hits, and other songs, 1918-1934
- Ellington, Duke
- Gershwin, George and Ira
- George and Ira Gershwin, part 1: selected songs 1919-1927
- George and Ira Gershwin, part 2: selected standards 1928-1935
- George and Ira Gershwin: selected film songs, six standards composed 1936 to 1937
- George Gershwin biography
- Porgy and Bess: Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and I Loves You Porgy
- Henderson, Ray: selected standards and hits 1923-1931
- Jordan, Louis: selected sides, Soundies, and feature film songs, 1941-1950
- Marks, Johnny: Christmas songs
- McHugh, Jimmy and Dorothy Fields: two early hits and six standards, 1928 to 1935
- Mercer, Johnny
- Porter, Cole
- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
- Styne, Jule
- Troup, Bobby
- Warren, Harry: selected hits and standards, 1928-1946
- Wilder, Alec – six early 1940s songs, and an octet
- 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)
- 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
- Please Stay
- 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: 68 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 index
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Songwriters to 1954
- 1890-1969 selected standards and hits index
- About
- * site description
- * Songbook and the Songwriters, a first glance at the field
- All-time most popular Songbook posts and pages (top 25, Mar 2009-Feb 2013)
- Google website translator, 56 languages
- notes to the visitor, 2009-2012
- Welcome…to tag search hell
- What do I mean by “Songbook standard”?
- 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 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
- Ethel Waters as Birmingham Bertha in On With the Show (1929) – slideshow and gallery
- 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 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
- Berlin, Irving: 1907-1925 selected sheet music cover gallery (edit: 19 August 2014)
- 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
- Doris Eaton 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
- Mary Martin: 1 November 1938 – striptease in “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” number
- 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
- When the Mockingbirds are Singing in the Wildwood, 1906 – sheet music (6 pages)
- 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 (needs repair)
- 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 (to be revised)
- 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
- Just You, Just Me (needs repair)
- 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
- Embraceable You (needs repair)
- 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
- 1932 standards
- Alone Together
- Don’t Blame Me (to be expanded)
- How Deep is the Ocean? (How High is the Sky?)
- I Don’t Stand a Ghost of Chance With You
- I’ll Never Be the Same
- I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
- Isn’t It Romantic
- It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
- Lover
- Try a Little Tenderness
- Willow Weep for Me
- 1933 standards and hits
- 42nd Street (1933)
- April in Paris
- I Cover the Waterfront
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
- Lazybones
- Lazybones – lyric
- Let’s Fall in Love
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Smoke Rings
- Sophisticated Lady (needs repair and amendment)
- 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
- Yesterdays
- 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
- Solitude (to be revised)
- Tabú (Taboo)
- The Very Thought of You
- 1935 standards and hits
- Begin the Beguine
- Cheek to Cheek
- Goodbye (to be amended)
- 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
- 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 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, part 1 (1937)
- Bei Mir Bistu Shein / Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Schoen): selected early recordings, part 2 (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 (needs repair)
- 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
- All the Things You Are
- Avant de Mourir / My Prayer
- Darn That Dream
- 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
- 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 – 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
- 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
- Little Richard: selected early film appearances
- 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
- 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 gallery
- Anti-war songs, 1960 to 1970 (selected)
- Come Home Soon — The Intruders, 1961
- 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)
- 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 performer and song
- 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)
- Django Reinhardt: selected early recordings
- doc’s 60s and 70s summer pick #1
- Dorothy Dandridge
- early morning songs
- Elvis Presley sings classic American pop standards
- Ethel Waters: selected recordings, 1921-1934
- follow
- Footlight Parade (1933)
- For the Birds (Chanson de la Crane)
- 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 (1960) – 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 (.ra audio files)
- Louis Armstrong defines swing
- 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
- Seasonal Standards and other songs of the seasons
- Selected popular dances of the Jazz Age
- 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
- 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
- Top ten Oasis songs (official) — Send your camel to bed
- 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
- 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
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Google website translation
1. Pre-1910 Songs
1. Pre-1910 Songs, external
- 1905-1919 audio files: "Nipper’s Greatest Hits: 1901-1920" (external, mp3)
- Car Tunes: 1905-1917 audio files and sheets
- Jazz and Popular Music 1850 to 1900 (musicforpianos.com)
- Minstrel Songs Old and New (Benjamin Robert Tubb)
- Music from 1866 to 1899 (Benjamin Robert Tubb)
- Music of Stephen Collins Foster
- Parlor Songs
- Popular Songs in American History (Lesley Nelson)
- pre-1920 popular music resources
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
1.2 sheet music and sheet music covers
- Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music
- Beth Slater Whitson, Songs of (bethslaterwhitson.com/bswmusic.html)
- Classic Ragtime Piano — sheet music compiled and organized by Ted Tjaden
- Cotton Club Parade
- coverbrowser.com
- Dr. Macro — Ziegfeld Follies covers 1901-1931 + mp3 files
- Duke University: historic American sheet music (link corrected, 5 February 2017)
- Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music, Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections
- Hackley Sheet Music Collection of African American Themes in the E. Azalia Hackley Collection, Digital Collections of the Detroit Public Library
- Hapa Haole Songs (squareone.org)
- Hawaiian and hapa-haole sheet music, 1867-1960s (hawaiianhistory.org)
- Kampko Vintage Sheet Music Shoppe
- Levy Sheet Music Collection (Johns Hopkins University)
- Library of Congress Digital Collections — Civil War Sheet Music Collection
- Library of Congress Digital Collections — Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922
- Library of Congress Digital Collections — Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860
- Library of Congress Digital Collections — Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
- pdmusic.org’s digitally archived sheet music resources index
- Perfessor Bill Edwards
- UCLA: archive of popular American music
- University of Colorado digital sheet music collection
- University of Mississippi Libraries: Sheldon Harris Collection — very small images, of very poor quality
- watermarked: A Date in Time
audio files
Blues
books and authors
- A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film by Richard Barrios (1995)
- 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 Lyrics of Cole Porter, The — Edited by Robert Kimball, Foreword by John Updike (1992)
- 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 (2009) Gene Lees
- Robert Kimball
- Robert Kimball (interview, PBS Newshour, 2009)
- 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
- 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
- Twisted (Annie Ross version)
- 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)
- Emmett Till (EmmettTillMurder.com)
- 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
- * jazzdiscography.com
- Bill Evans: The Complete Catalog of Recordings 1954 through 1980
- Casa Loma Orchestra (1933-1942, by session)
- Django Montreal . com
- Duke Ellington sessionography at A Duke Ellington Panorama (click on "Sessions)
- Eddie Lang
- Global Dog
- Hal David Songbook (first recording)
- Harry Roy
- Jack Hylton, 1927-30
- Jazz Discography Project (jazzdisco.org)
- 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, 45 rpm singles
discography, 78 rpm
discography, vocalist and vocal group
- * jazzdiscography.com
- Al Bowlly (memorylane.org.uk)
- Billie Holiday Discography (billieholiday.be)
- Billie Holiday Songs
- Bing Crosby
- 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)
- Jeri Southern
- Jo Stafford (pdf)
- Johnny Hartman
- Julie London albums (joancrawfordbest.com)
- Julie London albums (lpdiscography.com)
- Julie London singles (45cat.com)
- Lee Wiley
- Mel Tormé (partial) compiled by George Hulme
- Nat King Cole
- Nick Lucas
- Peggy Lee
- Rosemary Clooney
- Shirley Horn (jazzdiscography.com)
documentary
film theme songs and leitmotifs
- 1933 – 42nd Street
- 1934 – I Only Have Eyes for You (Dames)
- 1936 – Anything Goes
- 1936 – Easy to Love (Born to Dance)
- 1940 – When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
- 1942 – As Time Goes By (Casablanca)
- 1944 – Laura
- 1944 – Long Ago and Far Away (Cover Girl)
- 1944 – Stella by Starlight (The Uninvited)
- 1945 – Out of This World
- 1946 – Les Feuilles mortes (Les Portes de la nuit)
- 1947 – On Green Dolphin Street
- 1949 – My Foolish Heart
- 1952 – Singin' in the Rain
- 1952 — The Ballad of High Noon
- 1954 – Theme from The High and the Mighty
- 1957 – Wild Is the Wind
- 1959 – Theme from A Summer Place (orig. "Molly and Johnny Theme")
- 1962 – More (Theme from Mondo Cane)
- 1962 – Theme from To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein)
fine art: impressionism
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)
- Heptune: The Works of Cab Calloway
- Jazz Age
- Jazz Discography Project (jazzdisco.org)
- Jazz standards by the year, pre-1900s to 1970s (Wikipedia)
- jazz wax
- jazz.com
- jazzstandards.com
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
- Syncopation in Music and Dance — by Philip Seyer
- The Jazz Man
- What is a jazz standard? (jazzstandards.com)
- Women in Jazz (fyicomminc.com)
Jazz Age and earlier
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)
- 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
- 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
- Bing Crosby Internet Museum
- 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 Database
- Judy Garland links
- Judy Garland Scrapbook
- 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
- "Heritage" by Courtney Lee at pinterest.com
- Anthrocivitas: AfroAmerican Vintage Photos & Portraits (all pre 1930's)
- DiscoverBlackHeritage (flickr, 982 items)
- flickr pool (676 members)
- 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)
- 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 (acidcow.com)
- Bound For Glory: America in Color 1939-1943 (denverpost.com)
- 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
- Anthrocivitas: AfroAmerican Vintage Photos & Portraits (all pre 1930's)
- Billie Holiday Discography (billieholiday.be)
- Bob Willoughby — Jazz (willoughbyphotos.com)
- Bob Willoughby, a selection
- Early New Orleans Jazz bands
- Herman Leonard
- Jazz in Photo
- jazzhound.net/photographs (link fixed, 28 Dec 2015)
- jazzhouse.org
- jazztimes.com – John Coltrane
- Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
- 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
- Dad's Old Time 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)
recordings of popular songs rankings (lasting popularity)
Reviews
Sondheim
Songbook image collections
Songbook Music: Genres and Styles
songwriter
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
- Hoagy Carmichael (myspace)
- 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)
- Lorenz Hart & Marshall Barer
- Melody Lane song index
- Reviews by Josmar Lopes
- Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven
- Yiddish Radio Project
- Ziegfeld Girls, A to Z
Victor Recordings
video artist
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