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200 Of The Best Songs From The Swing Era

Call Number: MP1630.28 .A127 1996
Imprint: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, 1996
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Song Title Composer
(I'm afraid) The masquerade is over Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel
Air mail special Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy, Charlie Christian
All or Nothing at all Jack Lawrence, Arthur Altman
All the things you are Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
All through the day Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
April in paris E. Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke
Aren't you glad you're you Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
Baby, won't you please come home Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Be careful, it's my heart Irving Berlin
Between the devil and the deep blue sea Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen
Bewitched Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Bijou Ralph Burns
Blue and sentimental Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Count Basie
Blue Flame Leo Corday, James Noble, Joe Bishop
Broadway Bill Byrd, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode
By myself Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
Candy Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer
Caravan Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol
Cheek to cheek Irving Berlin
Chelsea bridge Billy Strayhorn
Cherokee Ray Noble
Close as pages in a book Dorothy Fields, Sigmund Romberg
Come rain or come shine Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen
Come Sunday Duke Ellington
Darn that dream Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen
Day by day Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston
Dearly beloved Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern
Doctor Jazz Walter Melrose, Joseph \King\ Oliver
Don't explain Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog
Don't get around much anymore Bob Russell, Duke Ellington
Don't take your love from me Henry Nemo
Don't you know I care (or don't you care to know) Mack David, Duke Ellington
Down under Dizzy Gillespie
Easy living Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Easy Street Alan Rankin Jones
Easy to love (a.k.a you'd be so easy to love) Cole Porter
Ev'ry time we say goodbye Cole Porter
Ev'rything I love Cole Porter
Everything but you Duke Ellington, Harry James, Don Geroge
Everything happens to me Tom Adair, Matt Dennis
Fella with an umbrella Irving Berlin
Fine and mellow Billie Holiday
Fine romance, a Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern
Flamingo Ed Anderson, Ted Grouya
Folks who live on the hill, the Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
Foolin' myself Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin
For dancers only Don Raye, Vic Schoen, Sy Oliver
For you, for me, for evermore Geroge Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Full moon and empty arms Buddy Kaye, Ted Mossman
God bless' the child Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday
Golden Earrings Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Victor Young
Gone with the wind Heb Magidson, Allie Wrubel
Good-bye Gordon Jenkins
Handful of stars, a Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro
Heart and soul Frank Loesser, Hoagy Carmichael
House I live in, the Lewis Allen, Earl Robinson
How are things in Glocca Morra E. Y. Harburg, Burton Lane
I can't get started with you Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke
I concentrate on you Cole Porter
I could write a book Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
I couldn't sleep a wink last night Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
I didn't know what time it was Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
I don't know why (I just do) Roy Turk, Fred Ahlert
I don't want to walk without you Frank Loesser, Jule Styne
I got it bad and that ain't good Paul Francis Webster, Duke Ellington
I gotta right to sing the blues Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen
I hadn't anyone till you Ray Noble
I hear a rhapsody George Frajos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre
I just found out about love Jimmy McHugh., Harold Adamson
I let a song go out of my heart Duke Ellington, Henry Nemo, John Redmond, Irving Mills
I love you Cole Porter
I remember you Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
I see your face before me Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
I should care Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston
I wish I were in love again Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
I'll be around Alec Wilder
I'll be seeing you Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain
I'll never smile again Ruth Lowe
I'll take romance Oscar Hammerstein II, Ben Oakland
I'll walk alone Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
I'm beginning to see the light Don George, Jonny Hodges, Duke Ellington, Harry James
I'm glad there is you (in this world of ordinary people) Paul Madeira, Jimmy Dorsey
I'm just a lucky so and so Mack David, Duke Ellington
I'm old fashioned Johnny Mercer, Jerome kern
I've found a new baby (a.k.a I found a new baby) Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams
I've got my love to keep me warm Irving Berlin
I've got you under my skin Cole Porter
I've heard that song before Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
If I loved you Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Imagination Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
In a sentimental mood Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz
In the blue of evening Tom Adair, D'Artega
In the mood Joe Garland
In the still of the night Cole Porter
Is you is, or is you ain't (ma' baby) Billy Austin, Louis Jordan
It could happen to you Jonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
It might as well be spring Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
It never entered my mind Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
It's a blue world Robert Wright, George Forrest
It's been a long, long time Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
It's only a pater moon Billy Rose, E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen
Jersey bounce Robert Wright, Bobby Plater, Tiny Bradshaw, Edward Johnson, Robert Wright
Jitterburg waltz Thomas \Fats\ Waller, Richard Maltby
Johnny come lately Billy Strayhorn
June in January Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Lady is a tramp, the Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Lady's in love with you, the Frank Loesser, Burton Lane
Last time I saw Paris, the Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
Let's get away from it all Tom Adair, Matt Dennis
Let's get lost Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh
Let's hanve another cup o' coffee Irving Berlin
Like someone in love Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
Long ago (and far away) Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern
Lovely way to spend an evening, a Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
Lover man (oh, where can you be?) Jimmy Davis, Roger \Ram\ Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman
Marie Irving Berlin
Moonlight becomes you Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
Moonlight in vermont John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf
My funny Valentine Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
My heart belongs to daddy Cole Porter
My last affair Haven S. Johnson
My shining hour Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen
My ship Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill
My silent love Edward Heyman, Dana Seusse
Nearness of you, the Ned Washington, Hoagy Carmichael
Night we called it a day, the Tom Adair, Matt Dennis
Nightingale sang in Berkley Square Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin
No more Bob Russell, Toots Camarata
Nobody's heart Lorenz Hart, Richrad Rodgers
Nuages Django Reinhardt, Jacques Larue
Old feeling, the Lew Brown, Sammy Fain
On a slow boat to China Frank Loesser
One for my baby (and one more for the road) Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen
Out of this world Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen
Pennies from heaven John Burke, Arthur Johnston
People will say we're in love Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Poinciana (song of the tree) Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon
Polka dots and moonbeams Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
Prelude to a kiss Irving Gordon, Irving Mills, Duke Ellington
Rain Check Billy Strayhorn
Ridin' high Cole Porter
Right as the rain E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen
Russian Lullaby Irving Berlin
Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Say it (over and over again) Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh
Sentimenatal journey Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer
Sinner kissed an angel, a Mack David, Ray Joseph
Skylark Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
Sleepy lagoon Jack Lawrence, Eric Coates
Someday my prince will come Larry Morey, Frank Churchill
Something I dreamed last night Sammy Fain, Herbert Magidson, Jack Yellen
Something to live for Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
Speak low Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill
Star-crossed lovers, the Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
Stompin' at the savoy Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf
Stormy Weather (keeps rainin' all the time) Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen
String of pearls, a Eddie DeLange, Jerry Gray
Sunrise serenade Jack Lawrence, Frankie Carle
Surrey with the fringe on top, the Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Sweet and lovely Gus Arnheim, Charles N. Daniels, Harry Tobias
Swinging on a star Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
Take the \A\ train Billy Strayhorn
Tangerine Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
Thanks for the memory Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
That old black magic Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen
That ole devil called love Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts
Them there eyes Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Taubner
There is no greater love Marty Symes, Isham Jones
There will never be another you Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
There's small hotel Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
These foolish things (remind me of you) Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link
Things ain't waht they used to be Mercer Ellington
Thinking of you Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
This can't be love Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
This love of mine Frank Sinatra, Sol Parker, Henry Sanicola
This year's kisses Irving Berlin
Tuxedo Junction Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson, Julian Dash
Undecided Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers
Until the real thing comes along Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
Up with the Lark Jerome Kern
Very thought of you, the Ray Noble
Violets for your furs Tom Adair, Matt Dennis
Wait till you see her Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
What a diff'rence a day made Stanley Adams, Maria Grever
When you wish upon a star Ned Washington, Leigh Harline
Where or when Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Who wouldn't love you Bill Carey, Carl Fischer
Who? Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
Why can't I? Lorenz Hart, Rochard Rodgers
Why don't you do right (get me some money, too!) Joe McCoy
Wild root Woody Herman, Neal Hefti
Will you still be mine Will you still be mine Tom Adair, Matt Dennis
Willow weep for me Ann Ronell
Yes indeed Sy Oliver
You don't know what love is Don Raye, Gene DePaul
You turned the tables on me Sidney Mitchell, Louis Alter
You'd be so nice to come home to Cole Porter
You're Blas Bruce Sievier, Ord Hamilton
You're easy to dance with Irving Berlin
You're nearer Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers