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  • About
    • A description of the site
    • Introduction to some major songwriters
    • Songbook takes a step back
    • 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
    • What do you mean by “Songbook standard”?
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  • page index, drop-down (814 pages)
    • * Songbook site index
      • * Songwriter
        • Songwriters to 1954
          • Arlen, Harold
            • Harold Arlen Sings Arlen: selected recordings, 1931 to 1966
              • Shoein’ the Mare (rumba), with lyric
            • Harold Arlen: selected songs, 1929-1938
            • Harold Arlen: selected songs, 1939-1954
              • I Never Has Seen Snow
          • 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
              • Berlin, Irving: 1907-1925 and 1909-1910 selected sheet music cover galleries
              • I Want to Be In Dixie (1912): selected sheet music covers
              • When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’ (1912): selected sheet music covers
            • 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
            • Cab Calloway, part 1: selected early originals and covers, 1930-1939
            • Cab Calloway, part 2: selected additional recordings, 1934-1940
          • Carmichael, Hoagy: selected standards, 1929-1942
            • Washboard Blues
          • Donaldson, Walter: selected standards, hits, and other songs, 1918-1934
          • Ellington, Duke
            • Duke Ellington biographies
            • Duke Ellington short films and film clips, 1929-35
            • Duke Ellington: selected songs, 1927-1953 (needs repair)
          • Gershwin, George and Ira
            • George and Ira Gershwin: selected film songs, six standards composed 1936 to 1937
              • A Damsel in Distress (1937)
              • Shall We Dance (1937)
              • The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
            • George and Ira Gershwin: selected songs, 1919 to 1927
            • George and Ira Gershwin: selected standards, 1928 to 1935
              • Standards by George and Ira Gershwin introduced in Girl Crazy, 1930
            • 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 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
            • Porgy (McHugh, Fields) – 1928
              • Porgy (Fields & McHugh) – lyric transcription, 1930 Ethel Waters recording
          • Mercer, Johnny
            • Johnny Mercer, part 1: selected hits and standards, 1930 to 1935
            • Johnny Mercer, part 2: selected standards 1936 to 1939
            • Johnny Mercer, part 3: selected standards 1940 to 1949
            • Spring, Spring, Spring
          • Porter, Cole
            • Cole Porter, part 1: standards and selected hits, 1928-34
            • Cole Porter, part 2: selected standards, 1935-1939 + photo gallery
            • Cole Porter, part 3: selected standards 1940-1949
            • Cole Porter: four standards from the musical Anything Goes, 1934
          • Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
            • Rodgers & Hart: selected standards from the musicals of 1925-1934
            • Rodgers & Hart: selected standards from the musicals of 1935-1942 + gallery
          • Styne, Jule
            • Jule Styne, part 1: selected standards written with lyricist Sammy Cahn, 1942-1954 + gallery
            • Jule Styne, part 2: selected songs from Broadway musicals, 1947-64
          • Troup, Bobby
          • Van Heusen, Jimmy and Johnny Burke, selected standards
          • Warren, Harry: selected hits and standards, 1928-1946
          • Wilder, Alec
            • Alec Wilder slide show and gallery
            • Alec Wilder: selected standards
            • Alec Wilder: six early 1940s songs
            • In the Spring of the Year
          • 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
            • Gamble & Huff: selected hit songs written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, 1966-1971
            • Gamble & Huff: selected songs written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, 1972-1976
          • Gerry Goffin & Carole King: selected hits, 1960-1965
          • Motown: Holland-Dozier-Holland index: selected songs, 1963-1966
            • Motown: Holland–Dozier–Holland: selected songs, 1963
            • Motown: Holland–Dozier–Holland: selected songs, 1964
            • Motown: Holland–Dozier–Holland: selected songs, 1965
            • Motown: Holland–Dozier–Holland: selected songs, 1966
          • Smokey Robinson: selected songs written or co-written by, 1960-1967
            • (You Can) Depend On Me
          • Thom Bell
            • Thom Bell with Linda Creed or Phil Hurtt: selected co-written songs, 1970-1973
      • 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
            • Aida Overton Walker portrait art
          • 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
      • 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 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 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
      • Performing Artist
      • Selected film musicals and their songs 1929-1947 + A Star is Born (1954)
      • Songbook Eras
        • Jazz Age
        • The first and second Swing Eras
    • 1890-1899 selected hits and standards
      • Can’t lose me, Charlie (1893) – sheet music
      • The Cat Came Back
      • You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon, Crawdad Song, and other derivatives of Frog Went a-Courtin’
    • 1900-1909 selected standards and hits
      • In the Good Old Summertime
      • Shine On Harvest Moon
      • When the Mockingbirds are Singing in the Wildwood, 1906 – sheet music
      • You’re a Grand Old Flag
    • 1910 selected standards and hits + If I Was a Millionaire
      • Any Little Girl, That’s a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me
    • 1910-1919 selected standards, hits and special features
      • additional popular songs 1914-1919
      • More Candy
      • They Didn’t Believe Me
      • When You’re a Long, Long Way From Home
    • 1911-1913: selected standards and hits
      • The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
    • 1914-1916 standards
    • 1916: some additional popular songs
    • 1917 selected standards + Over There
      • (Back Home Again in) Indiana
    • 1918 selected standards and hits
      • I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
    • 1919 selected standards and hits
      • Indian Summer
      • Swanee – selected early recordings, 1919-1920
    • 1920 selected standards and hits
      • The Japanese Sandman
    • 1920-1929: selected standards and hits
    • 1921 selected standards, hits, and other songs
      • April Showers
      • My Little Bimbo
    • 1922 selected standards
      • Carolina in the Morning
    • 1923 selected standards and hits
      • Parisian Pierrot
    • 1924 selected standards
      • Everybody Loves My Baby
    • 1925 selected standards and hits
      • Always: selected early recordings, 1926-1927
      • Remember (aka “You Forgot to Remember”)
    • 1926 selected standards and hits, part 1
      • A Blues Serenade
      • Blue Skies
      • Hello Bluebird
    • 1926 selected standards and hits, part 2
    • 1927 selected standards and hits
    • 1928 standards
      • 1928 selected standards, part 1
        • Die Moritat von Mackie Messer / Mack the Knife
        • I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby
        • I Must Have That Man
      • 1928 selected standards, part 2
        • El manisero (The Peanut Vendor)
        • Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
    • 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
      • Selected additional 1930s hits, standards, and other notable songs
        • Hot Voodoo
        • It’s Time to Say Goodnight — 1934
        • Midnight, the Stars and You
        • Sweepin’ the Clouds Away
        • When April Comes Again
        • Who’s Your Little Who-Zis?
    • 1931 standards and hits
      • 1931 popular songs included within 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
      • Alone Together
      • 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 (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
        • 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
    • 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?
        • Weed Smoker’s Dream — Harlem Hamfats (1936) — with lyric, transcribed
    • 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
      • 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
      • Bésame mucho
      • Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
      • How High the Moon
      • It Never Entered My Mind
      • Let There Be Love
      • Taking a Chance on Love
      • When You Wish Upon a Star
      • White Christmas
      • Will You Still Be Mine
      • You Stepped Out of a Dream
    • 1940-1949: selected standards and hits
    • 1941 standards and hits
      • ‘Tis Autumn
      • At Last
      • Blues in the Night
      • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
      • Chattanooga Choo Choo
      • I’ll Remember April
      • It’s So Peaceful in the Country
      • Skylark
      • Take the “A” Train
      • Tangerine
      • You Don’t Know What Love Is
    • 1942 standards and hits
      • Baltimore Oriole
      • Cow Cow Boogie
      • I’ll Be Around
      • Jitterbug Waltz + Fats Waller gallery
      • Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
      • Serenade in Blue
      • There Will Never Be Another You
      • Trav’lin’ Light
      • Wait Till You See Her
    • 1943 standards and hits
      • Come Sunday
      • Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
      • I’ll Be Home for Christmas
      • My Shining Hour
      • One for My Baby
      • Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
      • Star Eyes
      • Suddenly It’s Spring
      • While We’re Young
    • 1944 standards and hits
      • ‘Round Midnight
      • Dream
      • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
      • I Love You
      • I Should Care
      • I’m Beginning to See the Light
      • It Could Happen to You
      • Long Ago (and Far Away)
      • Moonlight in Vermont
      • The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
      • You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You
    • 1945 standards
      • I Wish I Knew
      • It Might as Well Be Spring
      • Laura
      • Love Letters
      • Out of This World
      • Since I Fell for You
      • The More I See You
      • You’ll Never Walk Alone
    • 1946 standards
      • A Sunday Kind of Love
      • Baby, Baby All the Time
      • Come Rain or Come Shine
      • Route 66
      • Stella by Starlight
      • Tenderly
      • The Three Bears
    • 1947 standards
      • Almost Like Being in Love
      • Autumn Leaves (Les feuilles mortes)
      • But Beautiful
      • Early in the Mornin’
      • eden ahbez and Nature Boy
      • Golden Earrings
      • Maybe You’ll Be There
      • No Moon at All
      • On Green Dolphin Street
      • Time After Time
    • 1948 standards
      • Baby, It’s Cold Outside
      • So In Love
    • 1949 standards
      • Early Autumn
      • My Foolish Heart
    • 1950 selected standards
      • I’ve Never Been in Love Before
      • The End of a Love Affair
    • 1950-1954 selected standards and hits
      • Would I Love You (Love You, Love You) / Mucho, mucho, mucho (Es que yo te quiero tanto)
    • 1951 – Top 20 singles, Billboard
    • 1951 selected standards
      • A Weaver of Dreams
      • I’m a Fool to Want You
      • It’s All in the Game
      • Non Dimenticar (T´ho voluto bene)
    • 1952 – Top 20 singles, Billboard
    • 1952 selected standards
      • Lullaby of Birdland
      • My One and Only Love
      • That’s All
      • When I Fall in Love
      • You Belong to Me
    • 1953 selected standards
      • Cry Me a River
      • Ebb Tide
      • Here’s That Rainy Day
      • Secret Love
    • 1954 selected standards
      • Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
      • Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
      • Misty
      • Smile
    • 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
        • So It’s Spring
      • 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 & galleries
        • Anti-war songs, 1960 to 1970 (selected)
        • California Dreamin’
        • Come Saturday Morning
        • Daydream (John Sebastian)
          • Daydream (Sebastian) — selected barbershop quartet and choral versions
        • 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
    • 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 4 (1974-1975) cast: song and dance numbers
        • ZOOM season 5 (1976) cast: song and dance numbers
        • ZOOM seasons 1-3 (1972-1974) casts: The Cat Came Back and various folk 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
      • Bessie Smith: selected recordings 1927-1933
      • Bessie Smith: selected recordings, 1923-1926
    • Bing Crosby pages
    • Bing Crosby: selected recordings, 1927-1934
    • Bobby Troup sings Troup
    • Boswell Sisters: profile + selected recordings 1925 & 1930
      • I’m in Training for You – 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
      • Soundies featuring Dorothy Dandridge
    • early morning songs
      • Early in the Morning – Charlie Feathers demo, w/lyrics
    • Earth Angel to Good Timin’: doc’s pick of 12/8 and 6/8 time songs, 1954-1978
      • 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 1, 1954-1959 – “Earth Angel” to “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”
      • 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 2, 1960-1963 – “At Last” to “Surfer Girl”
      • 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 3, 1964-1978 – “The Warmth of the Sun” to “Good Timin'”
    • Elvis Presley sings classic American pop standards
    • Ethel Waters: selected recordings, 1921-1934
    • film theme songs and leitmotifs, selected
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    • 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
      • girl group: selected recordings, 1955-1959
      • The Angels and the Starlets: selected recordings, 1960 to 1962
      • The Clickettes: selected recordings, 1958-1963
      • The Reason Why — 3 versions: Dale Hawkins, Linda Burns, and The Dolls
      • The Shirelles: selected early charting and top ten singles, 1958-1963
    • 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
      • A Star is Born (1954)
      • Judy Garland external links
      • Judy Garland photo gallery
      • Mr. Monotony and Get Happy
      • The Judy Garland Show, Episode 15: “The Christmas Show,” taped 6 December 1963
    • 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
      • Motortown Revue UK Tour, 1965
      • Motown’s 1962 Motortown Revue
    • 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
      • Million Dollar Notes (1935)
      • Red Nichols & his World Famous Pennies (1936)
      • Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (1929)
    • 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
      • Autumn songs
        • Summertime Sweethearts
      • other standards and popular songs of winter
      • Selected holiday season songs, index
        • Selected Christmas and holiday season songs
        • Some other popular holiday season songs
          • Happy Holiday / Holiday Inn
        • White Christmas: selected vocal harmony group recordings, 1948-1965
      • Songs of Spring
      • Songs of Summer
    • 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
    • Theme from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    • To Have and Have Not (1944) film clips
    • traditional songs
      • Crawdad Song — selected recordings, 1933-1967
    • 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
      • Bambi (1942): selected songs
        • Let’s Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
        • Little April Shower
    • 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
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