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Some Representative Soundies

‘Tis You, Babe – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra with Rosemary

47th Street Jive – June Richmond with Roy Milton and his Band

A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

Arabella and the Water Tank – Doodles Weaver

Ask Dad – Cross and Dunn

Banjo Mania – Eddie Peabody

Behind the 8-Ball – Smith and Dale

Big Fat Mamas – Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra featuring “Bullmoose” Jackson

Blitzkrieg Bombardier – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra

Blowtop Blues – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Blues of Mary’s Flat – Mary Osborne Trio with Suzanne Graves

Boogie Woogie – Meade Lux Lewis

Boogiemania – Helen Bangs and Albert Reese Jones with The Sun Tan Four

Boxcar Rhapsody – Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Breakfast In Rhythm – The Three Chefs

Brother Bill – The Jubalaires

Buzz Me – Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

By the Light of the Silvery Moon – The Dinning Sisters

Call to Arms – Cynda Glenn

Canine Capers – Max and his Gang

Cat’s Can’t Dance

Close Shave – Aurora Greeley and Leroy Broomfield

Club Lollypop

Comes the Revolution – Willie Howard

Contrast in Rhythm – Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

Cowbell Song – Priscilla Callen and Tommy Morton

Crawl, Red, Crawl – Henry “Red” Allen with J.C. Higginbotham

Dance of Shame – Faiyh Bacon

Dance Revue – Pat Rooney III

Dance With a Dolly – Liza Morrow • George Paxton and his Orchestra • Gaylord and Norma

Dancing Dolls – Johnny Boyle

Dark Eyes – Les Paul Trio

Darn That Dream – Martha Mears

Dipsy Doodle – Larry Clinton and his Orchestra

Dispossessed Blues – Lynn Albritton

Do I Worry? – Patterson and Jackson

Don’t Cry – Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra featuring Sonny Skyler

Dry Bones – Delta Rhythm Boys

Dude Cowboy – Red River Dave with Rosalie Allen

Eager Beaver – Stan Kenton and his Orchestra

Eighty-Eight Reasons Why – Johnny and George

Election Day – Cindy Walker with Red River Dave

Ella – Noro Morale and his Orchestra

Emily Brown – Bob Parrish • Chinky Grimes

Errand Boy For Rhythm – The King Cole Trio

Everybody’s Jumpin’ Now – Noble Sissle and his Orchestra with Mabel Lee

Fancy To You – Jimmy Alexander and Jane Starr

Fats Waller Medley – Fats Waller

Feed the Kitty – Rita Rio

Fella With the Fiddle – Robert “Tex” Allen

Fiddle Voyage – Rubinoff and his Violin

Five Guys Named Moe – Louis Jorday and his Tympany Five

Five Salted Peanuts – The Counts and the Countess

Frim Fram Sauce – The King Cole Trio featuring Shirley Johnson

Gee! The Jeep Jumps – The Kimloo Sisters

Git Along Little Pony – The Wakely Trio

Golfer’s Lament – Arthur Q. Bryant

Got A Penny Benny – King Cole Trio

Gotta Keep Rollin’ – Romo Vincent

Happy Cat – Dardanelle and her Boys

Harry the Hipster – Harry The Hipster Gibson

Heat’s On Again – Three Heat Waves

Hello Bill – Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra

Additions and Updates

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

Arabella and the Water Tank – Doodles Weaver

Ask Dad – Cross and Dunn

B

Banjo Mania – Eddie Peabody

Behind the 8-Ball – Smith and Dale

Big Fat Mamas – Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra featuring “Bullmoose” Jackson

Blitzkrieg Bombardier – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra

Blowtop Blues – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Blues of Mary’s Flat – Mary Osborne Trio with Suzanne Graves

Boogie Woogie – Meade Lux Lewis

Boogiemania – Helen Bangs and Albert Reese Jones with The Sun Tan Four

Boxcar Rhapsody – Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Breakfast In Rhythm – The Three Chefs

Brother Bill – The Jubalaires

Buzz Me – Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

By the Light of the Silvery Moon – The Dinning Sisters

C–D

Call to Arms – Cynda Glenn

Canine Capers – Max and his Gang

Cat’s Can’t Dance

Close Shave – Aurora Greeley and Leroy Broomfield

Club Lollypop

Comes the Revolution – Willie Howard

Contrast in Rhythm – Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

Cowbell Song – Priscilla Callen and Tommy Morton

Crawl, Red, Crawl – Henry “Red” Allen with J.C. Higginbotham

Dance of Shame – Faiyh Bacon

Dance Revue – Pat Rooney III

Dance With a Dolly – Liza Morrow • George Paxton and his Orchestra • Gaylord and Norma

Dancing Dolls – Johnny Boyle

Dark Eyes – Les Paul Trio

Darn That Dream – Martha Mears

Dipsy Doodle – Larry Clinton and his Orchestra

Dispossessed Blues – Lynn Albritton

Do I Worry? – Patterson and Jackson

Don’t Cry – Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra featuring Sonny Skyler

Dry Bones – Delta Rhythm Boys

Dude Cowboy – Red River Dave with Rosalie Allen

E–G

Eager Beaver – Stan Kenton and his Orchestra

Eighty-Eight Reasons Why – Johnny and George

Ella – Noro Morale and his Orchestra

Emily Brown – Bob Parrish • Chinky Grimes

Errand Boy For Rhythm – The King Cole Trio

Everybody’s Jumpin’ Now – Noble Sissle and his Orchestra with Mabel Lee

Fancy To You – Jimmy Alexander and Jane Starr

Fats Waller Medley – Fats Waller

Feed the Kitty – Rita Rio

Fella With the Fiddle – Robert “Tex” Allen

Fiddle Voyage – Rubinoff and his Violin

Five Guys Named Moe – Louis Jorday and his Tympany Five

Five Salted Peanuts – The Counts and the Countess

Frim Fram Sauce – The King Cole Trio featuring Shirley Johnson

Gee! The Jeep Jumps – The Kimloo Sisters

Git Along Little Pony – The Wakely Trio

Golfer’s Lament – Arthur Q. Bryant

Got A Penny Benny – King Cole Trio

Gotta Keep Rollin’ – Romo Vincent

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Happy Cat – Dardanelle and her Boys

Harry the Hipster – Harry The Hipster Gibson

Heat’s On Again – Three Heat Waves

Hello Bill – Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra

Hillbilly Holiday – Chuck Palmer and his Rangers with Peggy Diehl

Hilo Hattie – Princess Aloha with Andy Iona and his Orchestra

Hip Hip Hooray – Henry Nemo and Kay Penton

Ho Hum – The Dinning Sisters

Home on the Kitchen Range – Smith Ballew • Terry Shane

Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller

Hootin’ Nannie Annie – Texas Jim Lewis and his Lone Star Cowboys

Huckleberry Duck – The Martins

I–J

I Can’t Dance – Billie Haywood and Cliff Allen

I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem – Delta Rhythm Boys

I Got Her In the Mail – “Smoke” Wells

I May Be Wrong – Les Elgart and his Orchestra with the Tune Tellers

I Want To be Happy – Flo Petty and his All-Veteran Orchestra

I’m Just A Lucky So and So – Ray Bauduc and his Orchestra with Debby Claire

I’m Just Wild About Harry

I’m Making Believe – Warren Evans with Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

I’m the Secretary to the Sultan – Kay Starr with Snub Pollard • Recorded by Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

If I Didn’t Care – Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes – Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

If You Ever Come To Texas – Deuce Spriggins and his Orchestra with Carolina Cotton

In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room – Dave Schooler and his Twenty-One Swinghearts

It Must Be Jelly – Johnny Long and his Orchestra

Jam Session – Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Jammin’ In the Panoram – Stan Kenton and his Orchestra with Helen Huntley

Jitterbug Senorita – Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra

Joint Is Jumpin’ – “Fats” Waller

Jolly Joe – The Balators • Jack and June Blair • Dorn and Delsa

Jose O’Neill, The Cuban Heel – Wini Shaw, Joseph Vitale and The Visionettes

Juke Box Saturday Night – Glenn Miller Modernaires

Jump Children – International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Jumpin’ Jack from Hackensack – The Chanticleers

Jungle Drums – Carmen D’Antonio

Lazy Lady – Phil Moore and the Phil Moore Four

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Lazy River – The Shadrach Boys

Let Me Off Uptown – Gene Krupa and his Orchestra with Roy Eldridge and Anita O’Day

Let’s All Back the Attack – Al Trace and his Orchestra

Let’s Get Away From it All – The Martins

Little brown Jug – Emerson Mountaineers

Little Liza, I Love You – The Dreamers Quartette

Loads of Pretty Women – Red River Dave and the Red River Boys

Long and the Short of It – Johnny Long and his Orchestra

Love For Sale – Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Love Grows On. White Oak Tree – Little Four Quartette

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Ma, he’s Making Eyes At Me – Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music featuring Candy Candido

Margie – Van Alexander and his Orchestra

Mexican Jumping Bean (Los Hijos de Beda) – Noro Morales and his Orchestra with Nino and Lenora, and Dolores

Millennium Jump – Joe Marsala Orchestra with Judy Bakay

Minnie the Moocher – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Missouri – Deuce Spriggins and his Orchestra with Hank Penny

Mistletoe – Henri Woode and his Orchestra with Tops and Wilda

Move It Over – Madeline Lee and Betty Bartley

Mr. Jackson from Jacksonville – June Richmond

Mr. X Blues -Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

Musical Stairs – Helene Tanza and the Stair-A-Tone Steppers

My Chickashay Gal – Spade Cooley and his Western Dance Gang featuring Smokey Rogers

My Sister and I – Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Bob Eberly

My Wubba Dolly – Spade Cooley and his Western Dance Gang with Carolina and Oakie Rogers

My, My, Ain’t That Somethin ‘ – Gene Rodgers and the Vs

N–O

Never Too Old To Swing – Tiny Grimes and his Orchestra

Night Train to Memphis – Jimmy Wakely and his Oklahoma Cowboys and Girls

Oh Marie – Ron Perry and his Orchestra

Oh, Susannah – The Charioteers

Oira Polka – Stanley Sielanski • Danced by the Matusz Polish Dance Group

Old Chisholm Trail – Merle Travis and the Bronco Busters

Our Teacher – Henny Youngman

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Paddlin’ Madeline Home – Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) • Nedra Merle

Paper Doll – The Mills Brothers with Dorothy Dandridge

Paran Pan Pan – Maya’s Pan-American Orchestra with Carlos and Zedra

Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy – Spike Jones and his City Slickers

Penthouse Serenade -Johnny Downs and Gale Storm • Recorded by David Rose and his Orchestra

Pistol Packin’ Papa – Red River Dave and the Cowgirl Cuties

Poet and Peasant – Milt Britton and his Band

Princess Poo-Poo-Ly – The Smoothies (Babs, Charles and Little)

Puttin’ On the Dog – Alf Latell

Q–R

Que Buena Es La Conga – Varios and Vida • Herbert Curbelo and his Orchestra

Quick Watson the Rhythm – Myra Johnson and the Harlem Honeys

Raymond Scott’s War Dance for Wooden Indians – Neeahtha and Nucomi • Recorded by Ben Pollack and his Orcheestra

Rhumba Rebop – The Mary Osborne Trio with Betty Williams

Rigoletto – Day, Dawn and Dusk

Romance Without Finance – Tiny Grimes and his Orchestra

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Sailboat In the Sky – Johnnie Johnston and Anne Carmichael

Sailor’s Hornpipe – Lowe, Hite and Stanley

San Antonio Rose – Herbie Kay and his Orchestra with Ken Nealy and Mimi Kellerman

San Fernando Valley – Dick Thomas

Satchel Mouth Baby – Dusty Brooks and the Four Tones

Savage – Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra

Scotch Boogie – Pat Flowers

Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat – Gray Gordon and his Orchestra with Meredith Blake and Cliff Ferre

Shakes Alive – unknown burlesque artist

She Lived Next Door To a Fire House – The Jesters

She Looks Cute In Her Bathing Suit – Bob Kennedy with The Seashore Cuties

She’s Crazy With the heat – The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Sho Had A Wonderful Time – Vanita Smythe

Shout! Sister, Shout! – Sister Rosetta Tharp with Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra

Side Street – Jayne and Roye Dodge

Skunk Song – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Sleep Kentucky Babe – Day, Dawn and Dusk

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! – Tex Williams

Solid Jive – Ray Bauduc and his Orchestra with Charles Whitty, Jr.

Some Of These Days – Maxine Sullivan

Song and Dance Man – “Taps” Miller

Sports a la Mode – Merriel Abbott Dancers

St. James Infirmary – Jerry Bergen, with Julianne Merritt and Stan Kenton and his Orchestra

Stardust – Will Osborne and his Orchestra with Maxine and Marilyn

Stop That Dancin’ Up There – Kay Starr, Jimmy Dodd, Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

Stuck With It – The Gibsons

Stuff Like That There – Mary Kaaihue Trio

Sugar Hill Masquerade – Walter Fuller and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers

Swanee Swing – La Villa Tullos

Sweet Sue – Six Hits and a Miss with the Lorraine Page Orchestra

Sweet Sue, Just You – Charles Magnante and his Trio

Swing For Sale – The Charioteers

Swing Shift Swing – Gael Amber

Swingin’ On Nothing – Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra

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Tain’t Yours – Una Mae Carlisle

Take It and Git – Thelma White and her All Girl Orchestra with Ellen Connor

Take Me Back Baby – Count Basie and his Orchestra

Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle – Carson Robison and his Buckaroos

Take Me Out To the Ball Game – Men and Maids of Melody

Take My All – Ray Eberle

Take the “A” Train – Delta Rhythm Boys

Tenement Symphony – Bob Carroll, Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

That Ol’ Ghost Train – Les Hite and his Orchestra

That Swingin’ Soldier Man – Gus Van

That’s My Weakness Now – The Korn Kobblers

That’s the Moon – Nita Norman

The Chair Song – Phil Moore and the Phil Moore Four

The Coffee Song – Matty Malneck and his Orchestra with Dorothy Claire

The Man Who Comes Around – Jim Mercer

The Pollard Jump – The Sun Tan Four with Nickey [sic] O’Daniel

The Puppet Who Dances Bebop – Madilyn Russell

The Saints Come Marching In – Wingy Manone

They Go Wild (Simply Wild Over Me) – Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra

Time On My Hands – Rose Murphy

Tis You Babe – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra with Rosemary

Toot That Trumpet – Francine Everett, Cook and Brown, the Sepia Steppers

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Under the Bamboo Tree – Lenny Herman and his Band with Renee Russell

Virginia, Georgia and Caroline – Can Calloway and his Orchestra

We the Cats Shall Hep Ya – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

When Hitler Kicks the Bucket – Toni Lane

When You Were Sweet Sixteen – Lee Sullivan

Where Has My Little Dog Gone – Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra

Who Dunit To Who – June Richmond

Who Put the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder? – The Maxwell Girls

Why Did I Fall For Abner? – Merle Travis and Carolina Cotton

William Tell – Frank Cook

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Some Representative Soundies

‘Tis You, Babe – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra with Rosemary

47th Street Jive – June Richmond with Roy Milton and his Band

A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

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Some Representative Soundies

‘Tis You, Babe – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra with Rosemary

47th Street Jive – June Richmond with Roy Milton and his Band

A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

A

A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

B

Banjo Mania – Eddie Peabody

Behind the 8-Ball – Smith and Dale

Big Fat Mamas – Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra featuring “Bullmoose” Jackson

Blitzkrieg Bombardier – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra

Blowtop Blues – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Blues of Mary’s Flat – Mary Osborne Trio with Suzanne Graves

Boogie Woogie – Meade Lux Lewis

Boogiemania – Helen Bangs and Albert Reese Jones with The Sun Tan Four

Boxcar Rhapsody – Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Breakfast In Rhythm – The Three Chefs

Brother Bill – The Jubalaires

Buzz Me – Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

By the Light of the Silvery Moon – The Dinning Sisters

C–D

Call to Arms – Cynda Glenn

Canine Capers – Max and his Gang

Cat’s Can’t Dance

Close Shave – Aurora Greeley and Leroy Broomfield

Club Lollypop

Comes the Revolution – Willie Howard

Contrast in Rhythm – Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

Cowbell Song – Priscilla Callen and Tommy Morton

Crawl, Red, Crawl – Henry “Red” Allen with J.C. Higginbotham

Dance of Shame – Faiyh Bacon

Dance Revue – Pat Rooney III

Dance With a Dolly – Liza Morrow • George Paxton and his Orchestra • Gaylord and Norma

Dancing Dolls – Johnny Boyle

Dark Eyes – Les Paul Trio

Darn That Dream – Martha Mears

Dipsy Doodle – Larry Clinton and his Orchestra

Dispossessed Blues – Lynn Albritton

Do I Worry? – Patterson and Jackson

Don’t Cry – Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra featuring Sonny Skyler

Dry Bones – Delta Rhythm Boys

Dude Cowboy – Red River Dave with Rosalie Allen

E–G

Eager Beaver – Stan Kenton and his Orchestra

Eighty-Eight Reasons Why – Johnny and George

Ella – Noro Morale and his Orchestra

Emily Brown – Bob Parrish • Chinky Grimes

Errand Boy For Rhythm – The King Cole Trio

Everybody’s Jumpin’ Now – Noble Sissle and his Orchestra with Mabel Lee

Fancy To You – Jimmy Alexander and Jane Starr

Fats Waller Medley – Fats Waller

Feed the Kitty – Rita Rio

Fella With the Fiddle – Robert “Tex” Allen

Fiddle Voyage – Rubinoff and his Violin

Five Guys Named Moe – Louis Jorday and his Tympany Five

Five Salted Peanuts – The Counts and the Countess

Frim Fram Sauce – The King Cole Trio featuring Shirley Johnson

Gee! The Jeep Jumps – The Kimloo Sisters

Git Along Little Pony – The Wakely Trio

Golfer’s Lament – Arthur Q. Bryant

Got A Penny Benny – King Cole Trio

Gotta Keep Rollin’ – Romo Vincent

H

Happy Cat – Dardanelle and her Boys

Harry the Hipster – Harry The Hipster Gibson

Heat’s On Again – Three Heat Waves

Hello Bill – Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra

Hillbilly Holiday – Chuck Palmer and his Rangers with Peggy Diehl

Hilo Hattie – Princess Aloha with Andy Iona and his Orchestra

Hip Hip Hooray – Henry Nemo and Kay Penton

Ho Hum – The Dinning Sisters

Home on the Kitchen Range – Smith Ballew • Terry Shane

Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller

Hootin’ Nannie Annie – Texas Jim Lewis and his Lone Star Cowboys

Huckleberry Duck – The Martins

I–J

I Can’t Dance – Billie Haywood and Cliff Allen

I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem – Delta Rhythm Boys

I Got Her In the Mail – “Smoke” Wells

I May Be Wrong – Les Elgart and his Orchestra with the Tune Tellers

I Want To be Happy – Flo Petty and his All-Veteran Orchestra

I’m Just A Lucky So and So – Ray Bauduc and his Orchestra with Debby Claire

I’m Just Wild About Harry

I’m Making Believe – Warren Evans with Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

I’m the Secretary to the Sultan – Kay Starr with Snub Pollard • Recorded by Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

If I Didn’t Care – Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes – Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

If You Ever Come To Texas – Deuce Spriggins and his Orchestra with Carolina Cotton

In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room – Dave Schooler and his Twenty-One Swinghearts

It Must Be Jelly – Johnny Long and his Orchestra

Jam Session – Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Jammin’ In the Panoram – Stan Kenton and his Orchestra with Helen Huntley

Jitterbug Senorita – Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra

Joint Is Jumpin’ – “Fats” Waller

Jolly Joe – The Balators • Jack and June Blair • Dorn and Delsa

Jose O’Neill, The Cuban Heel – Wini Shaw, Joseph Vitale and The Visionettes

Juke Box Saturday Night – Glenn Miller Modernaires

Jump Children – International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Jumpin’ Jack from Hackensack – The Chanticleers

Jungle Drums – Carmen D’Antonio

Lazy Lady – Phil Moore and the Phil Moore Four

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Lazy River – The Shadrach Boys

Let Me Off Uptown – Gene Krupa and his Orchestra with Roy Eldridge and Anita O’Day

Let’s All Back the Attack – Al Trace and his Orchestra

Let’s Get Away From it All – The Martins

Little brown Jug – Emerson Mountaineers

Little Liza, I Love You – The Dreamers Quartette

Loads of Pretty Women – Red River Dave and the Red River Boys

Long and the Short of It – Johnny Long and his Orchestra

Love For Sale – Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Love Grows On. White Oak Tree – Little Four Quartette

M

Ma, he’s Making Eyes At Me – Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music featuring Candy Candido

Margie – Van Alexander and his Orchestra

Mexican Jumping Bean (Los Hijos de Beda) – Noro Morales and his Orchestra with Nino and Lenora, and Dolores

Millennium Jump – Joe Marsala Orchestra with Judy Bakay

Minnie the Moocher – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Missouri – Deuce Spriggins and his Orchestra with Hank Penny

Mistletoe – Henri Woode and his Orchestra with Tops and Wilda

Move It Over – Madeline Lee and Betty Bartley

Mr. Jackson from Jacksonville – June Richmond

Mr. X Blues -Cecil Scott and his Orchestra

Musical Stairs – Helene Tanza and the Stair-A-Tone Steppers

My Chickashay Gal – Spade Cooley and his Western Dance Gang featuring Smokey Rogers

My Sister and I – Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Bob Eberly

My Wubba Dolly – Spade Cooley and his Western Dance Gang with Carolina and Oakie Rogers

My, My, Ain’t That Somethin ‘ – Gene Rodgers and the Vs

N–O

Never Too Old To Swing – Tiny Grimes and his Orchestra

Night Train to Memphis – Jimmy Wakely and his Oklahoma Cowboys and Girls

Oh Marie – Ron Perry and his Orchestra

Oh, Susannah – The Charioteers

Oira Polka – Stanley Sielanski • Danced by the Matusz Polish Dance Group

Old Chisholm Trail – Merle Travis and the Bronco Busters

Our Teacher – Henny Youngman

P

Paddlin’ Madeline Home – Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) • Nedra Merle

Paper Doll – The Mills Brothers with Dorothy Dandridge

Paran Pan Pan – Maya’s Pan-American Orchestra with Carlos and Zedra

Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy – Spike Jones and his City Slickers

Penthouse Serenade -Johnny Downs and Gale Storm • Recorded by David Rose and his Orchestra

Pistol Packin’ Papa – Red River Dave and the Cowgirl Cuties

Poet and Peasant – Milt Britton and his Band

Princess Poo-Poo-Ly – The Smoothies (Babs, Charles and Little)

Puttin’ On the Dog – Alf Latell

Q–R

Que Buena Es La Conga – Varios and Vida • Herbert Curbelo and his Orchestra

Quick Watson the Rhythm – Myra Johnson and the Harlem Honeys

Raymond Scott’s War Dance for Wooden Indians – Neeahtha and Nucomi • Recorded by Ben Pollack and his Orcheestra

Rhumba Rebop – The Mary Osborne Trio with Betty Williams

Rigoletto – Day, Dawn and Dusk

Romance Without Finance – Tiny Grimes and his Orchestra

S

Sailboat In the Sky – Johnnie Johnston and Anne Carmichael

Sailor’s Hornpipe – Lowe, Hite and Stanley

San Antonio Rose – Herbie Kay and his Orchestra with Ken Nealy and Mimi Kellerman

San Fernando Valley – Dick Thomas

Satchel Mouth Baby – Dusty Brooks and the Four Tones

Savage – Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra

Scotch Boogie – Pat Flowers

Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat – Gray Gordon and his Orchestra with Meredith Blake and Cliff Ferre

Shakes Alive – unknown burlesque artist

She Lived Next Door To a Fire House – The Jesters

She Looks Cute In Her Bathing Suit – Bob Kennedy with The Seashore Cuties

She’s Crazy With the heat – The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Sho Had A Wonderful Time – Vanita Smythe

Shout! Sister, Shout! – Sister Rosetta Tharp with Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra

Side Street – Jayne and Roye Dodge

Skunk Song – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Sleep Kentucky Babe – Day, Dawn and Dusk

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! – Tex Williams

Solid Jive – Ray Bauduc and his Orchestra with Charles Whitty, Jr.

Some Of These Days – Maxine Sullivan

Song and Dance Man – “Taps” Miller

Sports a la Mode – Merriel Abbott Dancers

St. James Infirmary – Jerry Bergen, with Julianne Merritt and Stan Kenton and his Orchestra

Stardust – Will Osborne and his Orchestra with Maxine and Marilyn

Stop That Dancin’ Up There – Kay Starr, Jimmy Dodd, Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

Stuck With It – The Gibsons

Stuff Like That There – Mary Kaaihue Trio

Sugar Hill Masquerade – Walter Fuller and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers

Swanee Swing – La Villa Tullos

Sweet Sue – Six Hits and a Miss with the Lorraine Page Orchestra

Sweet Sue, Just You – Charles Magnante and his Trio

Swing For Sale – The Charioteers

Swing Shift Swing – Gael Amber

Swingin’ On Nothing – Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra

T

‘Tis You, Babe – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra with Rosemary

Tain’t Yours – Una Mae Carlisle

Take It and Git – Thelma White and her All Girl Orchestra with Ellen Connor

Take Me Back Baby – Count Basie and his Orchestra

Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle – Carson Robison and his Buckaroos

Take Me Out To the Ball Game – Men and Maids of Melody

Take My All – Ray Eberle

Take the “A” Train – Delta Rhythm Boys

Tenement Symphony – Bob Carroll, Joe Reichman and his Orchestra

That Ol’ Ghost Train – Les Hite and his Orchestra

That Swingin’ Soldier Man – Gus Van

That’s My Weakness Now – The Korn Kobblers

That’s the Moon – Nita Norman

The Chair Song – Phil Moore and the Phil Moore Four

The Coffee Song – Matty Malneck and his Orchestra with Dorothy Claire

The Man Who Comes Around – Jim Mercer

The Pollard Jump – The Sun Tan Four with Nickey [sic] O’Daniel

The Puppet Who Dances Bebop – Madilyn Russell

The Saints Come Marching In – Wingy Manone

They Go Wild (Simply Wild Over Me) – Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra

Time On My Hands – Rose Murphy

Tis You Babe – Skeets Tolbert and his Orchestra with Rosemary

Toot That Trumpet – Francine Everett, Cook and Brown, the Sepia Steppers

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47th Street Jive – June Richmond with Roy Milton and his Band

Under the Bamboo Tree – Lenny Herman and his Band with Renee Russell

Virginia, Georgia and Caroline – Can Calloway and his Orchestra

We the Cats Shall Hep Ya – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

When Hitler Kicks the Bucket – Toni Lane

When You Were Sweet Sixteen – Lee Sullivan

Where Has My Little Dog Gone – Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra

Who Dunit To Who – June Richmond

Who Put the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder? – The Maxwell Girls

Why Did I Fall For Abner? – Merle Travis and Carolina Cotton

William Tell – Frank Cook

Additions and Updates

Click here for additions and corrections to The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Juke Box Film Shorts of the 1940s

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

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A Feller Who Play’s In a Band – Will Osborne and his Orchestra and Susan Miller

A Musical Joke – Mills Philharmonic Orchestra

A Zoot Suit – Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White • Recorded by Ted Fio Rito and his Skylined Music

Adventures In Boogie Woogie – Robert Crum

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – “Fats” Waller

Ain’t She Pretty – The Three Peppers

All Ruzzitt Buzzitt – Dallas Bartley and his Band

Along the Navajo Trail – John Shadrach Horace with Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers

Am I Lucky – Dusty Brooks and his Four Tones

Any Bonds Today – Barry Wood

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