1930-1939: selected standards and hits

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• 1920-1929
• 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, additional 1930s hits and standards

1930 standards

Body and Soul
But Not for Me
Embraceable You (closed for repair)
Exactly Like You
Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It)
Georgia On My Mind
I Got Rhythm
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?)

other 1930 songs
I’m in Training for You
It Seems to be Spring
Sweepin’ the Clouds Away

1931 standards

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 Surrender Dear
Just Friends
Out of Nowhere
Prisoner of Love
When Your Lover Has Gone

See also the page 1931 popular songs included within various Songbook feature pages, which contains internal links to pages featuring recordings by the Boswell Sisters, Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, etc. of various other 1931 songs.

1932 standards

Alone Together
April in Paris
How Deep is the Ocean?
(I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a 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 You Ain’t Got That Swing)
Lover
Night and Day*
Try a Little Tenderness
Willow Weep for Me

musical film:
The Big Broadcast (1932)

1933 standards and hits

42nd Street (1933)
Close Your Eyes
The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money) and Shadow Waltz
I Cover the Waterfront
It’s Only a Paper Moon
Lazybones
Let’s Fall in Love
One Morning in May 
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Smoke Rings
Sophisticated Lady
Stormy Weather
Under a Blanket of Blue
When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart

1934 standards

As Long as I Live
Autumn in New York
Blue Moon
For All We Know
Ill Wind
I Only Have Eyes for You
June in January
Miss Otis Regrets
Mein Mann ist Verhindert
Moonglow
My Old Flame
P. S. I Love You (Jenkins, Mercer)
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
(Tabú) Taboo
The Very Thought of You

Cole Porter: four standards from the 1934 musical Anything Goes:

I Get a Kick Out of You
Anything Goes
You’re the Top
All Through the Night (separate feature page)

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
Little Girl Blue
The Music Goes Round and Round
My Romance
Porgy and Bess: Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and I Loves You Porgy
Let’s Face the Music and Dance

hit songs
March Winds and April Showers
Para Vigo me voy / Say Si Si

1936 standards

A Fine Romance
Caravan
Easy to Love
The Glory of 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
There Is No Greater Love
These Foolish Things
Tornerai / J’Attendrai / Komm zurück / Věřím vám / I’ll Be Yours
The Way You Look Tonight
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
Hooray for Hollywood
In the Still of the Night
My Funny Valentine
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

1938 standards and hits

Change Partners
Deep Purple
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)
The Nearness of You
Prelude to a Kiss
September Song
Spring is Here
This Can’t Be Love
Tu-li-Tulip Time
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) – Judy Garland recordings and live performances
Over the Rainbow – selected other recordings
Perfidia
Some Other Spring
Tuxedo Junction
What’s New?

1940-1949

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* “Night and Day” (Cole Porter) —  in the page Cole Porter, part 1: standards and selected hits, 1928-34