The Big Band Era

	The music content of this page has been replaced by that on the Ridley Park High School Class of '44 Jukebox now under construction.

Big Band Era Songs Currently on RPHS Jukebox:

FROM 1940: All This And Heaven Too - Charlie Barnet Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller Breeze And I - Jimmy Dorsey I'll Never Smile Again - Tommy Dorsey Maybe - Ink spots Our Love Affair - Ted Weems Pompton Turnpike - Charlie Barnet Practice Makes Perfect - Bob Chester Trade Winds Tommy Dorsey Same Old Story - Billie Holiday When The Swallows Come Back From Capistrano - Ink spots FROM 1941: Do You Care - Blue Barron Green Eyes - Jimmy Dorsey I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - Tommy Tucker I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest - Harry James Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 - Freddy Martin Till Reveille- Kay Kyser Time Was - Jimmy Dorsey Yes Indeed - Tommy Dorsey You And I - Glenn Miller You And I - Tommy Dorsey Yours - Xavier Cugat

FROM 1942: At Last - Glenn Miller Be Careful It's My Heart - Bing Crosby Be Careful It's My Heart - Tommy Dorsey Blue Blazes - Tommy Dorsey He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings - Kay Kyser I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Sammy Kaye I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller Idaho - Benny Goodman Manhattan Serenade - Harry James My Devotion - Charlie Spivak Serenade In BLue - Glenn Miller FROM 1943: I Heard You Cried Last Night - Harry James Mission To Moscow - Benny Goodman Paper Doll - Mills Brothers People Will Say We're In Love - Bing Crosby Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter Sunday Monday Or Always - Bing Crosby FROM 1944: Amor - Andy Russell I'll Be Seeing You - Tommy Dorsey I'll Get By - Ink Spots Dorsey Long Ago And Far Away - Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby

Sources:
Elston Brooks, I've Heard Those Songs Before - The Weekly Top Ten Tunes for the Last Fifty Years, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1981.
D. Russell Connor and Warren W. Hicks, B G On The Record, A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman, Arlington House, 1969.
Clifton Daniel, Editor in Chief, 20th Century Day by Day, DK Publishing, Inc., New York, NY, 1999.
John Flower, Moonlight Serenade - A Bio-discography of the Glenn Miller Civilian Band, Arlington House, 1972.
Philip Furia, Poets of Tin Pan Alley - A History of America's Great Lyricists, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Charles Garrod, et. al., Various Big Band Discographies, Joyce Record Club Publications, Zephyrhills, FL
Lon A. Gault, Ballroom Echoes, Andrew Corbet Press, 1989.
Dick Jacobs & Harriet Jacobs, Who Wrote That Song?, Writer's Digest Books, 1994.
Brian Rust, The American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942, Arlington House, 1975.
Gunther Schuller, The Swing Era, Oxford University Press, 1989.
George T. Simon, The Big Bands (4th Ed.), Schirmer Books, 1981.
George T. Simon, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, Da Capo Press, Inc., 1974.
Joel Whitburn, Pop Memories 1890-1954, The History of American Popular Music, Record Research Inc., 1986.

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