We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) - Cogane, Nelson
Amapola - Gamse
Piano Concerto in B Flat - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
String of Pearls - DeLange, Eddie
White Christmas - Berlin, Irving
Tangerine - Mercer, Johnny
I've Heard That Song Before - Cahn, Sammy
(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo - Gordon, Mack
All or Nothing at All - Altman, Arthur
Paper Doll - Black, Johnny [1]
You'll Never Know - Gordon, Mack
Don't Fence Me In - Fletcher, Robert H.
Mairzy Doats - Drake, Milton
Candy - David, Mack
Till the End of Time - Kaye, Buddy
There! I've Said It Again - Evans, Redd
Rum and Coca-Cola - Amsterdam, Morey
Track Listings (20) - Disc #4
Stardust - Carmichael, Hoagy
Tuxedo Junction - Dash, Julian
Green Eyes - Menendez, Nilo
You Made Me Love You - McCarthy, Joseph [2
Cow Cow Boogie - Carter, Benny [1]
There Are Such Things - Adams, Stanley
Why Don't You Do Right? - McCoy, Joe [1]
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Fisher, Doris
Opus One - Oliver, Sy
You Will Always Hurt the One You Love - Fisher, Doris
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - Mercer, Johnny
Sentimental Journey - Brown
Tampico - Fisher
Route 66 - Troup, Bobby
MacNamara's Band - Bonham, Guy
Ol' Buttermilk Sky - Brooks
Prisoner of Love - Columbo, Russ
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody - Lewis
The Gypsy - Reid
Heartaches - Hoffman
The Era of Big Band Swing Represented the First Real Instance of Jazz Music, Or Very Close Derivatives of Jazz, Becoming Part of the Mainstream of Popular Music. The Tunes Became Standards of the Time that People Whistled ... more »on their Way to Work, the Musicians Became Superstars Mobbed by Fans, and Top Names Like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Harry James Sold Records by the Millions. Swing, was the Pop of Its Day!« less
The Era of Big Band Swing Represented the First Real Instance of Jazz Music, Or Very Close Derivatives of Jazz, Becoming Part of the Mainstream of Popular Music. The Tunes Became Standards of the Time that People Whistled on their Way to Work, the Musicians Became Superstars Mobbed by Fans, and Top Names Like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Harry James Sold Records by the Millions. Swing, was the Pop of Its Day!
"This 4-disc CD set gives you the very best of 30's and 40's music. Most of the songs included were number 1 hits. They include such classics as Night and Day; Begin the Beguine; Over the Rainbow; Minnie the Moocher; In the Mood; White Christmas; Paper Doll; Stardust; Opus One; Sentimental Journey and many others. All are by the original artists and almost all have high sound quality.
The cost is very reasonable considering that the CD has 80 songs."
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Family Service | Glendale, California | 06/06/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"For your first collection of what used to be termed "standards" from this era, you can't do better than this. A wonderful sampler, well-packaged, with some sparse but useful notes, well remastered without losing the essence.
I've never heard most of these numbers before in my life (and I'm 53!) so this collection not only has the value of quality, but also novelty. There were a lot of good songs and singers back then!
Those of us - like me - who only encountered these people when they were doddering out their last years in an occasional television special will be amazed to find that there were very good reasons they were so popular. I was particularly astonished at the young Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. There's nothing like them today.
Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
