Come on along, come on along, let me take you by the hand....

fannishliss is trying to start a meme, mainly for the entertainment and education of the Captain America fandom, but it's too much fun for me to pass up. So here goes... how well do you know these top hits from the 1930s and '40s?

BOLD the ones you know right off the bat.
Add ASTERISKS if you LOVE the song (you may also MINUS if you dislike a song that much).
Put a QUESTION MARK if it rang a bell but you'd need to look it up to be sure, or you you feel like you should know it but don't quite. I am putting a Tilde on ones I know vaguely.
UNDERLINE if you have a recording of this song (or know it super well), and ITALICIZE if it is the same performer. :)
Optional: put the year you were born and the year your older parent was born.
(I think I won't--most of this knowledge comes from my grandparents anyway.)

( Fire up that time machine... )

Explains a lot, doesn't it? :D