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

[ramblin_rosie]

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.)

*1. In The Mood - Glenn Miller
2. God Bless America - Kate Smith (actually, the recording I have is video--she sings it in This Is the Army)
3. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland / Glenn Miller
*4. Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) - Benny Goodman
*5. Silent Night, Holy Night - Bing Crosby
6. Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway (might have this on tape somewhere, but I'm not sure)
7. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
8. Crossroads Blues - Robert Johnson
*9. Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller
10. If I Didn't Care - Ink Spots (I think I *might* have heard this on the radio once, but mostly what's coming to mind is the spoof in Glenn Miller's "Jukebox Saturday Night")
?11. Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington (would probably recognize it if I heard it)
~12. One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie / Benny Goodman / Harry James
13. Wabash Cannon Ball - Roy Acuff
14. Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye And Bye) - Carter Family
15. Stormy Weather - Ethel Waters / Leo Reisman (Harold Arlen) (the version(s) I have are Glenn Miller)
16. Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins / Paul Whiteman / Libby Holman
17. I'm In The Mood For Love - Louis Armstrong / Little Jack Little (Spike Jones is what I have... Billy Barty doing a Liberace impersonation, featuring Sir Frederick Gas and his Sadavarius. It's HILARIOUS.)
18. Begin The Beguine - Artie Shaw
19. I Can't Get Started - Bunny Berigan
20. A Tisket, A Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's Orchestra
21. All Or Nothing At All - Frank Sinatra with Harry James
22. Don't Be That Way - Benny Goodman
23. Pennies From Heaven - Bing Crosby / Eddy Duchin / Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday (Don't you know each cloud contains...)
24. Roll 'Em Pete - Pete Johnson & Joe Turner
25. Tea For Two - Art Tatum
26. Heartaches - Ted Weems
27. Cheek To Cheek - Fred Astaire / Eddy Duchin / Guy Lombardo (again, on video, this time with Danny Kaye and Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show)
28. Deep Purple - Larry Clinton (Bea Wain) / Jimmy Dorsey
29. Boogie Woogie - Tommy Dorsey
30. Woodchopper's Ball - Woody Herman
31. Stein Song (University Of Maine) - Rudy Vallee
32. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington (Ivie Anderson) / Mills Brothers
~33. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? - Bing Crosby / Rudy Vallee
34. Night And Day - Fred Astaire & Leo Reisman / Eddy Duchin
35. Cherokee - Charlie Barnet (another video, this time from Hogan's Heroes [Poor Carter....])
36. Marie - Tommy Dorsey (Jack Leonard) ("Flensheeeeim, my heart is breaking....")
37. Puttin' On The Ritz - Harry Richman With Earl Burtnett
38. The Way You Look Tonight - Fred Astaire / Guy Lombardo / Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday (we did this one in choir!)
39. Star Dust - Louis Armstrong / Benny Goodman / Tommy Dorsey (another Glenn Miller... not sure if I have it from peacetime, but I know I have it with the Allied Expeditionary Forces Band)
40. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - Andrews Sisters (means you're grand!)
41. And The Angels Sing - Benny Goodman (Martha Tilton)
42. All Of Me - Louis Armstrong / Paul Whiteman (Mildred Bailey)
43. Cocktails For Two - Duke Ellington (another Spike Jones, which is an absolute classic)
~44. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - Tommy Dorsey
- 45. Heart And Soul - Larry Clinton. (not quite as bad with the lyrics, but still waaaaay overplayed)
?46. Stompin' At The Savoy - Benny Goodman / Chick Webb
47. Back In The Saddle Again - Gene Autry
*48. Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Sons Of The Pioneers
49. My Prayer - Ink Spots / Glenn Miller
50. Once In A While - Tommy Dorsey / Horace Heidt
51. These Foolish Things - Benny Goodman / Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday
52. Thanks For The Memory - Bob Hope & Shirley Ross / Shep Fields
53. Indian Love Call - Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
?54. Blue Moon - Glen Gray / Benny Goodman (If this is in fact the same one as the Marcels recorded ["Bompbububompbubudangdadangdangdadadingadongding"], which my usual lyrics site seems to think it is, then I know it.)
?55. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Ray Noble (Howard Phillips) / Billie Holiday / Red Norvo (Mildred Bailey)
56. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie - Fats Waller
57. Happy Days Are Here Again - Ben Selvin / Benny Meroff / Leo Reisman
58. Caravan - Duke Ellington
59. (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive - Cab Calloway
60. What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday
61. My Reverie - Larry Clinton / Bing Crosby
62. Alexander's Ragtime Band - Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Boswell Sisters (did you know Alexander was played by Tyrone Power?)
63. Did You Ever See A Dream Walking - Eddy Duchin / Guy Lombardo / Bing Crosby
?64. Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller / Red Norvo
65. Just A Gigolo - Ted Lewis / Ben Bernie / Bing Crosby (man, flashbacks to the '04 campaign...)
66. Blue Yodel #9 (Standing On The Corner) - Jimmie Rodgers & Louis Armstrong
67. Sugar Blues - Clyde McCoy
68. King Porter (Stomp) - Benny Goodman
~69. Red Sails In The Sunset - Bing Crosby / Guy Lombardo / Mantovani
*70. Summertime - Billie Holiday / Sidney Bechet (and the livin's easy...)
71. Goody-Goody - Benny Goodman / Bob Crosby / Freddy Martin
72. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Paul Whiteman / Leo Reisman / Emil Coleman (I know the Nat King Cole version best)
?73. Moon Glow - Benny Goodman / Duke Ellington
74. Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey
75. Sweet Leilani - Bing Crosby
76. Tiger Rag - Mills Brothers
77. The Peanut Vendor - Don Azpiazu / California Ramblers / Red Nichols
?78. I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams - Bing Crosby / Russ Morgan
79. Until The Real Thing Comes Along - Andy Kirk / Fats Waller
80. In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - Ted Lewis / Ted Black
81. The Last Round-Up - George Olsen (Joe Morrison) / Guy Lombardo / Don Bestor / Gene Autry
~82. The Very Thought Of You - Ray Noble
83. Jumpin' At The Woodside - Count Basie
84. Goodnight, Sweetheart - Wayne King / Guy Lombardo / Bing Crosby (I always associate this with the '50s, too.)
85. Beer Barrel Polka - Will Glahe / Andrews Sisters (Ding boom tarrarrel!)
86. Carelessly - Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday
~87. Flat Foot Floogee - Slim & Slam / Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers
88. Sittin' On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
89. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Marian Anderson
90. I Got Rhythm - Red Nichols / Ethel Waters / Louis Armstrong
91. Organ Grinder's Swing - Jimmie Lunceford / Benny Goodman
92. Little Brown Jug - Glenn Miller (such a tearjerker in The Glenn Miller Story when they finally do play it!)
93. The Object Of My Affection - Boswell Sisters / Jimmie Grier
94. Let's Fall In Love - Eddy Duchin
95. Lullabye Of Broadway - Dorsey Brothers (Bob Crosby)
~96. The Glory Of Love - Benny Goodman (That's the story of...)
97. Forty-Second Street - Don Bestor / Hal Kemp (Had to look this one up to make sure it was the same one I was thinking of.)
~98. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bing Crosby
99. Prisoner Of Love - Russ Columbo
?100. Inka Dinka Doo - Jimmy Durante

Explains a lot, doesn't it? :D

Comments

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

Oh I think I'm going to have to do this one. I know most of the ones you do with a few exceptions. And I know a few you don't. I don't own any of these though but I know a few of them really well. It comes from being in band growing up and watching Abbott and Costello movies and a few other oldies but goodies as they say. :)

[shirebound]

I wish I had time (and wrist energy) to do memes like this, but I do enjoy seeing them. Now I'll be humming all day. :)