RDA184-2 - Original Hits of the Big Bands on CD

4 CD Set

Song Listing:

Great Band Theme Songs: Let's Dance (Benny Goodman), Summerime (Bob Crosby), Contrasts (Jimmy Dorsey), Skyliner (Charlie Barnet), Does Your Heart Beat for Me? (Russ Morgan/ The Morgan Trio- Vocal), Auld Lang Syne (Guy Lombardo)

The Year Is 1936: I Want To Be Happy (Benny Goodman), Shoe Shine Boy (Louis Armstrong), Bugle Call Rag (Ray Noble), You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes (Benny Goodman/ Helen Ward - Vocal), Oh Yes Take Another Guess (Benny Goodman/ Ella Fitzgerald - Vocal), Did I Remember (Tommy Dorsey / Edythe Wright - Vocal)

The Year Is 1937: Somebody Else Is Taking My Place (Russ Morgan/ The Morganaires - Vocal), Satan Takes A Holiday (Tommy Dorsey), This Year's Kisses (Benny Goodman/ Margaret McCrae - Vocal), One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie), In the Still of the Night (Tommy Dorsey/ Jack Leonard - Vocal), For Dancers Only (Jimmie Lunceford)

The Year is 1938: Lullaby in Rhythm (Benny Goodman), They Say (Artie Shaw/ Helen Forrest - Vocal), Yancy Special (Bob Crosby / Bob Zurke - Piano), A Tisket A Tasket (Chick Webb/ Ella Fitzgerald - Vocal), I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Tommy Dorsey/ Jack Leonard - Vocal), Jumpin' at the Woodside (Count Basie)

The Year is 1939: My Prayer (Glenn Miller/ Ray Eberle - Vocal), Margie (Jimmie Lunceford/ Trummy Young - Vocal), Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (Jimmy Dorsey/ Helen O'Connell - Vocal), My Isle of Golden Dreams (Glenn Miller), Undecided (Chick Webb/ Ella Fitzgerald - Vocal), Woodchoppers' Ball (Woody Herman), Beautiful Ohio (Glenn Miller), 720 in the Books (Jan Savitt/ Bon Bon - Vocal), Over the Rainbow (Glenn Miller/ Ray Eberle - Vocal), Jeepers Creepers (Louis Armstrong/ Louis Armstrong - Vocal), rose of Washington Square (Benny Goodman)

The Year Is 1940: In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town (Johnny Long), Say It Over and Over Again (Tommy Dorsey/ Frank Sinatra - Vocal), In a Mellow tone (Duke Ellington), It All Comes Back to Me Now (Hal Kemp/ Bob Allen - Vocal), Java Jive (The Ink Spots), Amapola (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell- Vocal), I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight (Glenn Miller/ Ray Eberle - Vocal),Corn Silk (Wayne King), Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (Glenn Miller/ Jack Lathrop - Vocal), High on a Windy Hill (Vaughn Monroe/ Vaughn Monroe - Vocal), A Nightingale Sang in Berkely Square (Glenn Miller/ Ray Eberle - Vocal), So Long (Russ Morgan/ Russ Morgan - Vocal)

The Year Is 1941: It's Alwasy You (Tommy Dorsey/ Frank Sinatra - Vocal), Blues in the Night (2 parts) (Jimmie Lunceford), Take the A Train (Glenn Miller), I Understand (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly - Vocal), All Too Soon (Duke Ellington), Paradiddle Joe (Tony Pastor/ Tony Pastor - Vocal), Maria Elena (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly - Vocal), Golden Wedding (Woody Herman), You're My Thrill (Charlie barnet/ Lena Horne - Vocal), Enlloro (2 parts) (Carmen Cavallaro), This Time the Dream's on Me (Glenn Miller/ Ray Eberle - Vocal), Adios (Stan Kenton)

The Year Is 1942: Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry (Jimmy Dorsey/ Helen O'Connell - Vocal), Violets for Your Furs (Tommy Dorsey/ Frank Sinatra - Vocal), Oh Miss Jaxon (Charlie Barnet/ Peanuts Holland - Vocal), I'm Gonna Move to the OUtskirts of Town (Jimmie Lunceford/ Dan Grissom - Vocal), Skylark (Glenn Miller - Ray Eberle - Vocal), Lamento Gitano (Stan Kenton), There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover (Glenn Miller/ Ray Eberle - Vocal, tangerine (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell - Vocal), Beyond the Blue Horizon (Artie Shaw), Miss You (Sammy Kaye/ Ray Michaels - Vocals), Harvard Square (Vaughn Monroe), Brazil (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell - Vocal)

The Year is 1943: Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (Duke Ellington), Star Eyes (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Ellington), Star Eyes (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen - Vocal), Cow Cow Boogie (Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots), Take It Easy (Guy Lombardo), So Tired (Russ Morgan/ Russ Morgan - Vocal), You Belong to My Heart (Xavier Cugat/ Bing Crosby - Vocal)

The Year is 1944: You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You (Russ Morgan/ Russ Morgan - Vocal), Bell Bottom Trousers (Tony Pastor/ Ruth McCullough and Tony Pastor - Vocal), I Should Care (Tommy Dorsey/ Bonnie Lou Williams and The Sentimentalists - Vocal), Cherry (Louis Armstrong/ Louis Armstrong and The Mills Brother - Vocal), Hamp's Boogie Woogie (Lionel Hampton), My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time (Vaughn Monroe/ Vaughn Monroe - Vocal), Besame Mucho (Jimmy Dorsey/ Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen - Vocal), Amor (Guy Lombardo), Don't You Know I Care or Don't You Care To Know (Duke Ellington/ Al Hibbler - Vocal), On the Alamo (Alvino Rey), Like Someone in Love (Tommy Dorsey/ Bonnie Lou Williams - Vocal), Speak Low (Guy Lombardo/ Billy Leach - Vocal)

The Year Is 1945: These Foolish Things Remind Me of You (Artie Shaw), Cruising Dow the River (Russ Morgan/ The Skylarks - Vocal), Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (Louis Jordan/ Louis Jordan - Vocal), Symphony (Freddy Martin - Clyde Rogers - Vocal), I Can't Begin To Tell You (Bin Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro), Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Lionel Hampton/ Lionel Hampton - Vocal)