100 years ago: Henry Burr hit #1 with “My Buddy”

My Buddy Henry Burr

Writer(s): Walter Donaldson (music), Gus Kahn (words) (see lyrics here) First Charted: November 4, 1922 Peak: 11 US, 6 GA, 12 SM (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 0.19 video, 0.07 streaming

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About the Song: “My Buddy” was the first hit for Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn. Donaldson previously had hits with “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree?” and “My Mammy” while Kahn had written lyrics for “Pretty Baby” and “Ain’t We Got Fun?” The pair went on to work together on “Makin’ Whoopee,” “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby,” “Carolina in the Morning,” and “Love Me or Leave Me” and wrote more hits with other partners. Both were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The song “My Buddy” became a favorite in vaudeville, DJ popularized by Al Jolson. TY2 It was “quite a tearjerker.” TY2 It is “an old-fashioned ballad that brought back people’s memories of a time before the war,” SM allowing them “to express their grief now that part of their life was no longer there.” SM The lyrics say, “Life is a book that we study / Some of its leaves bring a sigh / There it was written by a buddy/ That we must part you and I / Nights are long since you went away / I think about you all through the day.” “My Buddy” was the last of Henry Burr’s twenty-three chart-toppers as a solo artist or with Albert Campbell. He had 164 chart entries total and is considered “the #1 ballad singer of recorded music’s 1890-1930 pioneer era.” PM He was the first to chart with “My Buddy” and his was the most successful. There were also chart versions by Ernest Hare (#5, 1923), Ben Bernie (#11, 1923), and Sammy Kaye (#23, 1942). PM The song has also been recorded by Gene Autry, Chet Baker, Count Basie, Teresa Brewer, Benny Carter, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Doris Day, Dr. John, Connie Francis, Glenn Frey, Stan Getz, Jackie Gleason, Eydie Gormé, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Jeff Healey, Earl Hines, Lena Horne, Harry James, Mario Lanza, Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller, the Mills Brothers, Anne Murray, Dinah Shore, Nancy Sinatra, Kate Smith, Kay Starr, Barbra Streisand, Mel Tormé, Barry White, and Bob Wills. The song was featured in the movie Wings (1927), the Gus Kahn biopic I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951), The Black Marble (1980), and Buddy in 1997. TY2 Resources: DJ David Jasen (2002). A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999). Routledge: Taylor & Francis, Inc. Page 139. SM Sharon Mawer Charts (1900-1968) TY2 Don Tyler (2007). Hit Songs, 1900-1955. McFarland & Company, Inc.: Jefferson, North Carolina. Page 124. PM Joel Whitburn (1986). Pop Memories 1890-1954. Record Research, Inc: Menomonee Falls, WI. Pages 65-70 and 553. Related Links: First posted 4/25/2023.

SZA's "Kill Bill" hit #1 on the R&B chart for the first of 21 weeks

Kill Bill SZA

Writer(s): Solána Rowe, Rob Bisel, Carter Lang (see lyrics here) Released: January 10, 2023 First Charted: December 21, 2022 Peak: 11 BB, 14 ST, 11 RR, 30 AC, 7 A40, 121 RB, 3 UK, 3 CN, 11 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 8.0 US, 1.2 UK, 11.47 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 316.87 video, 2121.68 streaming

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About the Song: R&B singer/songwriter Solána Imani Rowe (known as SZA) was born in 1989 in St. Louis, Missouri. After several EP releases, she signed with RCA Records and released her debut album, Ctrl in 2017. It was certified three times platinum despite the absence of any songs to chart as high as the top 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Five years later, she was back with her SOS, her second album. It topped the Billboard album chart and gave SZA another triple platinum album. It also gave her five top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the album’s fifth single, “Kill Bill,” which met with the greatest success. It was released in January 2023 because of its successful streaming numbers. Three months later, a remix with rapper Doja Cat boosted the song’s success. The song spent eight weeks at #2 before finally triumphing over the Billboard Hot 100. It only spent one week on top, but was a major success on the R&B chart, spending 21 weeks at #1 and breaking the previous record by “Old Town Road.” The song title is taken from the martial arts movies Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Uma Thurman as an assassin out for revenge against her ex-boyfriend. Similarly, the song follows the protaganist’s fantasy to kill her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. Some critics “found her murder fantasites extreme but relatable to a degree.” WK “The song’s candid exploration of…unfiltered, violent emotions were a point of praise” WK for some critics. Interestingly, though, SZA has been annoyed by the song’s success. She said she put little heart or energy into making the song. As she said, “’Kill Bill’ was super easy – one take, one night.” SF Despite her feelings, the song wasn’t just a commercial success but has been well received critically as well. It garnered Grammy nominations for Record and Song of the Year. Billboard magazine called it her “first totally ubiquitous smash.” SF Resources: DMDB encyclopedia entry for SZA SF Songfacts WK Wikipedia First posted 1/4/2024; last updated 10/14/2024.

Spin: Albums of the Year, 1965-2022

Spin Magazine: Albums of the Year, 1965-2022

From 1990 to the present, Spin magazine has named an album of the year. Because they’ve also done multiple best-of-all-time lists, I have extended the album-of-the-year selections back to 1965 based on those lists. Check out other album of the year awards here. 2022: Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow 2021: Turnstile Glow On 2020: Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters 2019: Big Thief Two Hands 2018: The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 2017: Kendrick Lamar Damn. 2016: Mitski Puberty 2 2015: Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 2014: The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream 2013: Kanye West Yeezus 2012: Frank Ocean Channel Orange 2011: Fucked Up David Comes to Life 2010: Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid 2009: Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 2008: TV on the Radio Dear Science 2007: Against Me! New Wave 2006: TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain 2005: Kanye West Late Registration 2004: Kanye West The College Dropout 2003: The White Stripes Elephant 2002: The White Stripes White Blood Cells 2001: System of a Down Toxicity 2000: Radiohead Kid A 1999: Nine Inch Nails The Fragile 1998: Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 1997: Cornershop When I Was Born for the 7th Time 1996: Beck Odelay 1995: Moby Everything Is Wrong 1994: Hole Live Through This 1993: Liz Phair Exile in Guyville 1992: Pavement Slanted and Enchanted 1991: Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque 1990: Ice Cube AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted 1989: N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton 1988: Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 1987: Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times 1986: The Smiths The Queen Is Dead 1985: New Order Low-Life 1984: Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C. 1983: Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones 1982: Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out the Lights 1981: Black Flag Damaged 1980: Pretenders Pretenders 1979: Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 1978: Elvis Costello & The Attractions This Year’s Model 1977: Television Marquee Moon 1976: Ramones Ramones 1975: Patti Smith Horses 1974: Kraftwerk Autobahn 1973: Sly & the Family Stone Fresh 1972: Big Star #1 Record 1971: Marvin Gaye What’s Going On 1970: The Stooges Fun House 1969: Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II 1968: Aretha Franklin Lady Soul 1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico 1966: Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 1965: Sun Ra Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 Resources and Related Links: Spin “Lists – End of Year” (1990-2020) Dave’s Music Database: “Spin’s Top 100 Albums of All Time” Dave’s Music Database: “Other Year-End Album Awards” First posted 12/10/2022; last updated 12/22/2022.

Mojo: Albums of the Year, 1950-2022

Mojo: Albums of the Year, 1950-2022

Mojo is a British music magazine. The “End of Year Lists” link at the bottom of this page shows the year-end album lists from Mojo from 1994 on. However, the magazine has also produced multiple best-of-all-time lists over the years so those have been used to determine albums of the year prior to 1994. Check out other album of the year awards here. 2022: Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band Dear Scott 2021: Floating Points, Pharoah Saunders & the LSO Promises 2020: Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways 2019: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Ghosteen 2018: Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth 2017: LCD Soundsystem American Dream 2016: David Bowie Blackstar 2015: Julia Holter Have You in My Wilderness 2014: Beck Morning Phase 2013: Bill Callahan Dream River 2012: Jack White Blunderbuss 2011: PJ Harvey Let England Shake 2010: John Grant Queen of Denmark 2009: Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 2008: Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 2007: Radiohead In Rainbows 2006: The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 2005: Antony & the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now 2004: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus 2003: The White Stripes Elephant 2002: Solomon Burke Don’t Give Up on Me 2001: Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World 2000: Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man 1999: Tom Waits Mule Variations 1998: Beck Mutatations 1997: Radiohead OK Computer 1996: Beck Odelay 1995: Radiohead The Bends 1994: Jeff Buckley Grace 1993: Nirvana In Utero 1992: R.E.M. Automatic for the People 1991: Nirvana Nevermind 1990: Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet 1989: The Stone Roses The Stone Roses 1988: Talk Talk Spirit of Eden 1987: Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times 1986: The Smiths The Queen Is Dead 1985: Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy 1984: Lloyd Cole & the Commotions Rattlesnakes 1983: Aztec Camera High Land, Hard Rain 1982: Donald Fagen The Nightfly 1981: Black Uhura Red 1980: Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables 1979: The Clash London Calling 1978: Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town 1977: Television Marquee Moon 1976: Ramones Ramones 1975: Patti Smith Horses 1974: Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 1973: Stevie Wonder Innervisions 1972: The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street 1971: Marvin Gaye What’s Going On 1970: John Lennon Plastic Ono Band 1969: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica 1968: The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) 1967: The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1966: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 1965: Otis Redding Otis Blue 1964: The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night 1963: Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 1962: John Lee Hooker The Folklore of John Lee Hooker 1961: John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard 1960: Bobby “Blue” Bland Two Steps from the Blues 1959: Miles Davis Kind of Blue 1958: Jerome Moross The Big Country 1957: Buddy Holly & the Crickets The Chirping Crickets 1956: Johnny Burnette Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio 1955: Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours 1954: Glenn Miller The Glenn Miller Story (soundtrack) 1953: Peggy Lee Black Coffee 1952: Fred Astaire & the Oscar Peterson Quintet The Astaire Story 1951: Duke Ellington Masterpieces 1950: Miles Davis Birth of the Cool Resources and Related Links: RockListMusic.co.uk: “Mojo’s End of Year Lists” Dave’s Music Database: “Mojo’s Top 100+ Albums” (all-time list) Dave’s Music Database: “Other Year-End Album Awards” First posted 12/31/2020; last updated 12/22/2022.

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1910-1919

USA’s #1 Pop Songs: 1910-1919

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1910 to 1919. Songs could have hit #1 on either of these charts: Billboard’s pre-Hot 100 pop charts (1890-1958) (BB) Edward Foote Gardner Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century (1900-1949) (GA) Sharon Mawer Charts (1900-1968) (SM) Numbers following the letter codes indicate how many weeks the song spent at #1 on that chart. Links go to specific lists of the biggest songs of all time for that chart. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been generated by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. Also, the Gardner book indicates only the song title and not a specific artist so the artists identified here are the ones that have the highest ranked Dave’s Music Database version, hit #1 on the Billboard chart as well, and/or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner. Meanwhile the Sharon Mawer charts are bi-weekly so to reflect a more accurate depiction of how many weeks the song spent at #1, the original # was doubled. Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here. 1910: 3/1: Byron G. Harlan “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (SM: 12) 6/1: Ada Jones “Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” (SM: 4) 7/1: Elizabeth Wheeler & Harry Anthony “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” (SM: 10) 9/15: Ada Jones “Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Is the Right Little Girl for Me” (SM: 2) 10/1: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (SM: 4) 11/1: Bert Williams “Play That Barber-Shop Chord” (SM: 4) 1911: 1/1: Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own” (SM: 4) 2/1: Arthur Clough “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (SM: 6) 3/15: Ada Jones & Billy Murray with the American Quartet “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” (SM: 4) 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)” (SM: 10) 7/15: Arthur Clough & the Brunswick Quartet “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (SM: 10) 10/1: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (SM: 16) 1912: 2/1: Billy Murray & the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (SM: 12) 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Everybody’s Doing It Now” (SM: 10) 7/15: American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (SM: 8) 9/15: Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (SM: 14) 1913: 1/1: Henry Burr “That’s How I Need You” (SM: 4) 2/1: American Quartet “On the Mississippi” (SM: 4) 3/1: Ada Jones “Row Row Row!” (SM: 8) 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’” (SM: 4) 6/1: Henry Burr “When I Lost You” (SM: 6) 7/15: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (SM: 6) 9/1: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (SM: 12) 12/1: Henry Burr “Peg O’ My Heart” (SM: 6) 1914: 1/15: Harry MacDonough “There’s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me)” (SM: 4) 2/15: Billy Murray “He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, to Fix Up His Automobile” (SM: 8) 4/15: American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (SM: 4) 5/15: Peerless Quartet “This is the Life” (SM: 6) 7/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “I Love the Ladies” (SM: 3) 7/15: Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (SM: 10) 10/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon” (SM: 2) 10/15: Prince’s Orchestra “Ballin’ the Jack” (SM: 4) 11/15: Henry Burr “When You’re a Long, Long Way from Home” (SM: 4) 12/15: Morton Harvey “I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)” (SM: 4) 1915: 1/15: John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (SM: 6) 3/1: Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (SM: 8) 5/1: George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)” (SM: 12) 7/1: Peerless Quartet “I’m on My Way to Dublin Bay” (SM: 4) 9/1: James F. Harrison & James Reed “My Little Dream Girl” (SM: 2) 9/15: Henry Burr “When I Leave the World Behind” (SM: 4) 10/15: Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!” (SM: 2) 11/1: Harry MacDonough “It’s Tulip Time in Holland” (SM: 4) 12/1: James F. Harrison & James Reed “My Sweet Adair” (SM: 2) 12/15: Prince’s Orchestra “Back Home in Tennessee” (SM: 6) 1916: 2/1: Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” (SM: 8) 4/1: John Barnes Wells “Memories” (SM: 4) 5/1: Henry Burr “Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)” (SM: 4) 6/1: Al Jolson “Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula” (SM: 8) 8/1: Henry Burr “Baby Shoes” (SM: 4) 9/1: Billy Murray “Pretty Baby” (SM: 12) 12/1: Billy Murray “There’s a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl” (SM: 4) 1917: 1/1: Orpheus Quartet “Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose” (SM: 4) 2/1: Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (SM: 12) 5/1: Van & Schenk “For Me and My Gal” (SM: 12) 8/1: Charles Harrison “All the World Will Be Jealous of Me” (SM: 2) 8/15: American Quartet “Over There” (SM: 22) 1918: 2/1: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (SM: 8) 4/1: Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight” (SM: 8) 6/1: Henry Burr “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (SM: 6) 7/15: Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)” (SM: 8) 9/15: Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough “Smiles” (SM: 14) 1919: 1/1: Charles Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (SM: 2) 1/15: Charles Hart & Elliott Shaw “Rose of No Man’s Land” (SM: 2) 2/1: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (SM: 12) 5/1: Nora Bayes “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree” (SM: 4) 6/1: Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (SM: 14) 9/15: John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” (SM: 4) 10/15: Van & Schenk “Mandy” (SM: 6) 12/1: Henry Burr “Oh, What a Pal Was Mary” (SM: 6) Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: “USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1890-Present” Dave’s Music Database: “United States: Biggest #1 Songs” Dave’s Music Database: “Top 100 Songs for Each Decade” Edward Foote Gardner (2000). Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century. Paragon House: St. Paul, MN. Sharon Mawer Charts (1900-1968) Joel Whitburn (1986). Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc. Pages 642-657. First posted 12/21/2022.

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1900-1909

USA’s #1 Pop Songs: 1900-1909

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1900 to 1909. Songs could have hit #1 on either of these charts: Billboard’s pre-Hot 100 pop charts (1890-1958) (BB) Edward Foote Gardner Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century (1900-1949) (GA) Sharon Mawer Charts (1900-1968) (SM) Numbers following the letter codes indicate how many weeks the song spent at #1 on that chart. Links go to specific lists of the biggest songs of all time for that chart. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been generated by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. Also, the Gardner book indicates only the song title and not a specific artist so the artists identified here are the ones that have the highest ranked Dave’s Music Database version, hit #1 on the Billboard chart as well, and/or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner. Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here. 1900: 1/1: Arthur Collins “I’d Leave My Happy Home for You” (GA: 8, SM: 4) 2/3: Arthur Collins “Mandy Lee” (BB: 6) 3/1: Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (GA: 8, BB: 6, SM: 5) 3/17: George J. Gaskin “When Chloe Sings a Song” (BB: 3) Mar: Jere Mahoney “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (GA: 8, BB: 5) 4/17: Jere Mahoney “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (BB: 5) 5/15: Bryon G. Harlan “The Blue and the Gray (The Mother’s Gift to Her Country)” (GA: 16, SM: 6) 7/28: Len Spencer “Ma Tiger Lily” (BB: 5) 8/15: Dan Quinn “Strike Up the Band, Here Comes a Sailor” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 9/1: Arthur Collins “Ma Tiger Lily” (BB: 6) 9/15: Joseph Natus “The Fatal Rose of Red” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 10/13: Haydn Quartet “Because” (BB: 4) 10/15: Harry MacDonough “I Can’t Tell You Why I Love You But I Do” (GA: 8, SM: 3) 11/10: George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (BB: 8) 12/1: Jere Mahoney “For Old Times’ Sake” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 1901: 1/5: Albert Campbell “Ma Blushin’ Rosie” (BB: 7) 2/1: Arthur Collins & Joe Natus “Coon! Coon! Coon!” (GA: 4, SM: 3) 2/23: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (BB: 3) 3/15: Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (GA: 12, SM: 7, BB: 3) 3/16: S.H. Dudley “When Reuben Comes to Town” (BB: 3) 5/11: Harry MacDonough with Grace Spencer “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” (BB: 7) 6/29: Bryon G. Harlan with Frank Stanley, Joe Belmont, & the Florodora Girls “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” (BB: 3) 7/10: Bryon G. Harlan “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven” (GA: 12, BB: 5, SM: 3) 7/20: Cal Stewart “Jim Lawson’s Horse Trade with Deacon Witherspoon” (BB: 3) 8/1: S.H. Dudley & Harry MacDonough “Sweet Annie Moore” (SM: 1) 9/14: J.W. Myers “In the Shade of the Palm” (BB: 1) 9/21: Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee Dance” (BB: 3) 10/1: Bert Williams & George Walker “Good Morning, Carrie” (BB: 5, SM: 4) 10/12: Harry MacDonough “The Tale of a Bumblebee” (BB: 4) Oct: Dan Quinn “Good Evening, Carrie” (GA: 8, BB: 3) 11/9: Harry MacDonough “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” (BB: 3) 12/1: Harry MacDonough “I’ll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 12/21: Will Denny “Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me” (BB: 4) 1902: 1/1: Sousa’s Band “Creole Belles” (SM: 6) Jan: Metropolitan Orchestra “Creole Bells” GA: 12) 3/1: Len Spencer “The Arkansaw Traveler” (BB: 11) 4/1: J.W. Myers “Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield (Alabama)” (GA: 4, SM: 1) 4/15: J. Aldrich Libbey “On a Sunday Afternoon” (SM: 6) 5/10: J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon” (GA: 12, BB: 6) 6/21: J.W. Myers “Way Down in Old Indiana” (BB: 5) 7/15: Dan Quinn “Rip Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man” (SM: 1) 7/26: Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (BB: 8, GA: 4) 8/1: Arthur Collins “Please Go ‘Way and Let Me Sleep” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 9/1: Dan Quinn “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (SM: 1) 9/15: Harry MacDonough “In the Good Old Summertime” (SM: 5) 9/20: Bryon G. Harlan “The Mansion of Aching Hearts” (BB: 3) 10/11: Harry MacDonough “The Mansion of Aching Hearts” (BB: 4) 11/8: J.W. Myers “In the Good Old Summertime” (BB: 7) 12/1: Dan Quinn “Mr. Dooley” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 12/27: Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree” (GA: 12, SM: 6, BB: 3) 1903: 1/1: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Down Where the Wurzburger Flows” (BB: 5, GA: 4, SM: 2) 2/21: Mina Hickman “Come Down Ma Evening Star” (BB: 5) 3/28: Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (GA: 8, BB: 6) 5/1: Harry MacDonough “Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha)” (GA: 12, SM: 6, BB: 4) 5/9: John Philip Sousa’s Band with Harry MacDonough & S.H. Dudley “In the Good Old Summertime” (GA: 8, BB: 4) 6/6: Harry MacDonough with John Bieling “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” (BB: 4) 8/1: Henry Burr “Come Down Ma Evening Star” (BB: 4) 8/29: Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh on an Automobile” (BB: 4) 8/1: Mina Hickman “Congo Love Song” (GA: 8, SM: 5) 9/26: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Hurrah for Baffin’s Bay” (BB: 5) 10/15: Bryon G. Harlan “Always in the Way” (GA: 8, SM: 3) 10/31: Arthur Collins “Goodbye Eliza Jane” (BB: 4) 12/1: Billy Murray “Bedelia” (SM: 7, BB: 3) 12/5: Arthur Collins “Any Rags?” (BB: 5) 1904: 1/9: Haydn Quartet “Bedelia” (GA: 12, BB: 7) 3/15: Billy Murray “Navajo” (GA: 8, BB: 5, SM: 3) 3/19: Richard Jose “Silver Threads Among the Gold” (BB: 4) May: Bryon G. Harlan & Frank Stanley “Blue Bell” (GA: 12, BB: 3) May: Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Blue Bell” (GA: 12, SM: 5, BB: 4) 7/9: Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Toyland” (BB: 2) 7/15: Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (BB: 9, GA: 8, SM: 4) 9/15: Billy Murray “Come Take a Trip in My Airship” (GA: 4, BB: 4, SM: 2) 9/24: Bryon G. Harlan “All Aboard for Dreamland” (BB: 2) 10/8: Billy Murray “Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?)” (BB: 3) 10/29: Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (BB: 10) 10/15: Mina Hickman “Goodbye Little Girl, Goodbye” (GA: 4, SM: 3) 12/1: Billy Murray “Teasing (I Was Only Teasing You)” (SM: 1) 12/15: Bob Roberts “I May Be Crazy, But I Ain't No Fool” (GA: 4, SM: 1) 12/24: Columbia Male Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (BB: 3) 1905: 1/1: Bob Roberts “Back Back Back to Baltimore” (GA: 8, SM: 4) 2/25: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (aka “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy”) (GA: 8, BB: 8, SM: 3) 4/15: Henry Burr (as Irving Gillette) “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” (GA: 16, SM: 8, BB: 7) 6/10: Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear” (BB: 11) 7/15: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (BB: 5) 8/15: Ada Jones “Keep a Little Cosey Corner in Your Heart for Me” (SM: 1) 9/30: Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Dearie” (GA: 4, BB: 2) 9/1: Arthur Collins “My Irish Molly-O” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 10/1: Bryon G. Harlan “Would You Care?” (GA: 8, SM: 4) 10/14: Billy Murray “In My Merry Oldsmobile” (BB: 7) 12/1: Bryon G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (GA: 12, SM: 6) 12/2: Bryon G. Harlan “Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door” (BB: 5) 1906: 1/6: Billy Murray “Everybody Works But Father” (BB: 3) 1/27: Corinne Morgan with the Haydn Quartet “How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?” (BB: 2) 2/10: Bryon G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (BB: 9) 2/24: Harry Tally “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (BB: 1) 3/1: Harry MacDonough “Dearie” (SM: 3) 4/15: Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?” (GA: 8, SM: 3) 4/21; Corinne Morgan “So Long Mary” (BB: 3) 5/12: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (BB: 10, GA: 8, SM: 3) 7/15: Ada Jones “Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me)” (GA: 8, SM: 4) 7/21: Bert Williams “Nobody” (BB: 9) 9/15: Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie” (SM: 5) 9/22: Bryon G. Harlan “The Good Old U.S.A.” (BB: 4) 10/20: Albert Campbell “Love Me and the World Is Mine” (BB: 3, SM: 1) 11/10: Henry Burr “Love Me and the World Is Mine” (BB: 7) 12/1: Bryon G. Harlan “Won't You Come Over to My House?” (GA: 4, SM: 1) 12/29: Bert Williams “Let It Alone” (BB: 2) 1907: 1/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Arrah Wanna” (SM: 4) 1/12: Albert Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Camp Meetin’ Time” (BB: 2) 1/26: Bert Williams “He’s a Cousin of Mine” (BB: 2) Jan: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Arrah Wanna” (GA: 8) 2/12: Bryon G. Harlan “My Gal Sal” (BB: 10) 3/1: Helen Trix “The Bird on Nellie’s Hat” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 4/1: Vesta Victoria “Poor John!” (SM: 2) 4/20: Ada Jones “I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave” (BB: 2) Apr: Ada Jones “Poor John!” (GA: 4) 5/1: Billy Murray “San Antonio (Cowboy Song)” (SM: 2) 5/4: Harry MacDonough with Elise Stevenson “Because You’re You” (BB: 2) 5/18: Bryon G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (GA: 20, BB: 11, SM: 9) May: Billy Murray “San Antonio (Cowboy Song)” (GA: 4) 8/3: Bryon G. Harlan “Nobody’s Little Girl” (BB: 3) 8/24: Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (new version)” (BB: 4) 9/21: Billy Murray “Harrigan” (BB: 9, SM: 6, GA: 2) 11/23: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk” (BB: 6) 1908: 1/4: Harry MacDonough “My Dear” (BB: 5) 1/15: Bryon G. Harlan “Two Blue Eyes (Two Little Baby Shoes)” (GA: 4, SM: 1) 2/1: Billy Murray “The Best I Get Is Much Obliged to You” (SM: 1) 2/8: Billy Murray “Under Any Old Flag at All” (BB: 6) 2/15: Elise Stevenson & Harry MacDonough “I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz)” (SM: 3) Feb: Victor Orchestra “I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz)” (GA: 8) 3/21: Alan Turner “As Long As the World Rolls On” (BB: 6) 4/1: Billy Murray “I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark” (GA: 8, SM: 3) 5/2: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart?” (BB: 3) 5/15: Victor Orchestra “The Glow-Worm” (GA: 8, SM: 6, BB: 5) 6/27: Lucy Isabell Marsh “The Glow-Worm” (GA: 8, BB: 5) 8/1: Elise Stevenson “Are You Sincere?” (BB: 4) 8/29: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D” BB: 4) Aug: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (GA: 8, BB: 7) 9/15: Harvey Hindermeyer “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (GA: 8, BB: 7, SM: 2) 9/15: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Down in Jungle Town” (SM: 1) 9/26: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine” (BB: 5) 10/1: Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Sunbonnet Sue” (GA: 16, SM: 8, BB: 5) 1909: 1/23: Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson “Good Evening, Caroline” (BB: 5) 2/1: Eddie Morton “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew” (SM: 3) 2/27: Arthur Collns & Bryon G. Harlan “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew” (BB: 6) Feb: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew” (GA: 4) 3/15: Harry MacDonough & Miss Walton “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (GA: 12, BB: 9, SM: 5) 6/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!” (SM: 4) 6/12: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (GA: 12, BB: 5) June: Blanche Ring “Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!” (GA: 8) 7/13: Henry Burr “To the End of the World with You” (BB: 3) 8/1: Ada Jones “My Pony Boy” (GA: 4, SM: 2) 8/7: Ada Jones & the Victor Light Opera “The Yama Yama Man” (BB: 5) 9/1: Henry Burr “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” (GA: 8, BB: 8, SM: 4) 11/1: Blanche Ring “I've Got Rings on My Fingers” (GA: 4, BB: 2, SM: 2) 11/20: Ada Jones “I've Got Rings on My Fingers” (GA: 4, BB: 4) 12/1: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (GA: 12, BB: 9, SM: 6) 12/18: Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (BB: 11, GG: 3) Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: “USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1890-Present” Dave’s Music Database: “United States: Biggest #1 Songs” Dave’s Music Database: “Top 100 Songs for Each Decade” Edward Foote Gardner (2000). Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century. Paragon House: St. Paul, MN. Sharon Mawer Charts (1900-1968) Joel Whitburn (1986). Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc. Pages 642-657. Last updated 12/15/2022.

New Musical Express: Albums of the Year, 1963-2022

New Musical Express: Albums of the Year, 1963-2022

This UK music magazine started as a newspaper in 1952, known for publishing the initial British singles charts. It ceased print publication in January 2018, but still maintains a website. They have published annual album-of-the-year lists since 1974. This list also factors in pre-1974 album-of-the-year awards based on appearances on best-of-all-time lists from NME. Check out other album of the year awards here. 2022: Arctic Monkeys The Car 2021: Sam Fender Seventeen Going Under 2020: Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 4 2019: Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 2018: The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 2017: Lorde Melodrama 2016: The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It 2015: Grimes Art Angels 2014: St. Vincent St. Vincent 2013: Arctic Monkeys AM 2012: Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III 2011: PJ Harvey Let England Shake 2010: These New Puritans Hidden 2009: The Horrors Primary Colours 2008: MGMT Oracular Spectacular 2007: Klaxons Myths of the Near Future 2006: Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 2005: Bloc Party Silent Alarm 2004: Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand 2003: The White Stripes Elephant 2002: Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head 2001: The Strokes Is This It 2000: Queens of the Stone Age Rated R 1999: The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin 1998: Mercury Rev Deserter’s Songs 1997: Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space 1996: Beck Odelay 1995: Tricky Maxinquaye 1994: Oasis Definitely Maybe 1993: Björk Debut 1992: Sugar Copper Blue 1991: Nirvana Nevermind 1990: Happy Mondays Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches 1989: De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising 1988: Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 1987: Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show 1986: Prince & the Revolution Parade 1985: Tom Waits Rain Dogs 1984: Bobby Womack The Poet II 1983: Elvis Costello Punch the Clock 1982: Marvin Gaye Midnight Love 1981: Grace Jones Nightclubbing 1980: Joy Division Closer 1979: Talking Heads Fear of Music 1978: Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town 1977: David Bowie Heroes 1976: Bob Dylan Desire 1975: Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks 1974: Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 1973: Roxy Music For Your Pleasure 1972: The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street 1971: David Bowie Hunky Dory 1970: John Lennon Plastic Ono Band 1969: The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed 1968: The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) 1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico 1966: The Beatles Revolver 1965: The Beatles Rubber Soul 1964: The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night 1963: Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Resources and Related Links: NME.com (New Musical Express official site) RockListMusic.co.uk: “NME Albums of the Year and End of Year Critic Lists” Dave’s Music Database: “The Top 100+ Albums” (all-time list) Dave’s Music Database: “Other Year-End Album Awards” First posted 12/30/2020; last updated 12/9/2022.

Don Tyler: Top 1000+ Songs, 1900-1955

The Top 1000+ Songs from 1900 to 1955 According to Don Tyler

Author Don Tyler published Hit Parade 1920-1955 in 1985. It featured more than 800 songs, organized by year and listed by song title with the songwriters indicated. In 2007, he expanded the work in Hit Songs, 1900-1955 – this time with over 1200 titles. Between the two works, he cited more than 1400 titles. They are listed here in alphabetical order by song titles followed by the songwriters, the highest-ranked version of the song in Dave’s Music Database, and the year of its release. Click here to see other lists from critics and individuals and here to see other lists from publications and/or organizations.

A

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
A - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)	Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise	Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1949
Aba Daba Honeymoon, The	Walter Donaldson w/m), Arthur Fields (m/w)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1914
About a Quarter to Nine	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Ozzie Nelson	1935
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder	Herbert Dillea (m), Arthur Gillespie (w)	Harry MacDonough	1901
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive	Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers	1945
Address Unknown	Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, and Gene Autry (w/m)	The Ink Spots	1939
After You've Gone	Turner Layton (m), Henry Creamer (w)	Marion Harris	1919
Again	Dorcas Cochran/Lionel Newman	Doris Day & the Mellomen	1949
Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life	Rida Johnson Young (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Fred Waring with Tom Waring	1928
Ain't Misbehavin'	Thomas "Fats" Waller (m), Harry Brooks (m), Andy Razaf (w)	Fats Waller	1929
Ain't She Sweet?	Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w)	Ben Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot	1927
Ain't That a Shame (aka "Ain't It a Shame")	Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino	Fats Domino	1955
Ain't We Got Fun?	Gus Kahn, Raymond B. Egan, Richard Whiting	Van & Schenck	1921
Alabamy Bound	Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Bud Green	Blossom Seeley	1925
Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?)	Harry Von Tilzer (m), Andrew B. Sterling (w)	Billy Murray	1904
Alexander's Ragtime Band	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1911
Alice Blue Gown (aka "In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown")	Harry Tierney (m), Joseph McCarthy (w)	Edith Day	1920
All Aboard for Dreamland	Harry Von Tilzer (m), Andrew B. Sterling (w)	Byron G. Harlan	1904
All Alone	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Al Jolson with Ray Miller's Orchestra	1925
All by Myself	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ted Lewis	1921
All I Do Is Dream of You	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Jan Garbrer with Fritz Heilbron	1934
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth	Don Gardner (w/m)	Spike Jones & His City Slickers with George Rock	1948
All My Life	Sidney D. Mitchell (w), Sam H. Stept (m)	Fats Waller	1936
All My Love (Bolero)	Mitchell Parish (w), Maurice Ravel (m), Paul Duran (adapted)	Patti Page with Harry Geller's Orchestra	1950
All of Me	Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks	Louis Armstrong	1932
All or Nothing at All	Arthur Altman (m), Jack Lawrence (w)	Harry James with Frank Sinatra	1939
All the Things You Are	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1939
All Through the Day	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Perry Como	1946
Almost Like Being in Love	Frederick Loewe (m), Alan Jay Lerner (w)	Frank Sinatra	1947
Alone	Arthur Freed (w), Nacio Herb Brown (m)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Cliff Weston	1936
Always	Irving Berlin (m/w)	George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce	1926
Am I Blue?	Akst, Harry (m), Grant Clarke (w)	Ethel Waters	1929
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)	Albert Gamse (w), Joseph M. Lacalle (m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell	1941
American Patrol	F.W. Meacham (m)	John Philip Sousa's Band	1901
Among My Souvenirs	Lawrence Wright) (m), Al Dubin (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young	1928
Amor	Ricardo Lopez Mendez, Gabriel Ruiz, Sunny Skylar	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1944
Anchors Aweigh (U.S. Navy Song)	Alfred Hart Miles (w), Royal Lovell (w), Charles A. Zimmerman (m), George D. Lottman	U.S. Naval Academy Band	1921
And the Angels Sing	Ziggy Elman (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Martha TIlton	1939
And Then Some	Tot Seymour (w), Vee Lawnhurst (m)	Ozzie Nelson	1935
And This Is My Beloved	Alexander Borodin (m), Robert Wright (w), George Forrest (w)		1953
Angel Child	George Price, Abner Silver, Benny Davis	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1922
Angelus, The	Robert B. Smith (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Christie MacDonald with Reinald Werrenrath & the Victor Male Chorus	1913
Annabelle	Lew Brown (w), Ray Henderson (m)	Lawrence Welk	1939
Anniversary Song, The	Al Jolson/Saul Chaplin/Jan Ivanovici	Al Jolson	1947
Anniversary Waltz, The	Al Dubin (w), Dave Franklin (m)	Bing Crosby with Victor Young's Orchestra	1941
Another Op'nin', Another Show	Cole Porter (m/w)		1949
Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Is the Right Little Girl for Me	Fred Fisher (m), Thomas J. Gray (w)	American Quartet with Billy Murray	1910
Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me	William Jerome (w), Jean Schwartz (m)	Will Denny	1901
Any Old Port in a Storm	Arthur J. Lamb (w), Kerry Mills (m)	Frank Stanley	1908
Any Rags?	Thomas S. Allen	Arthur Collins	1903
Any Time (aka "Any Time Blues")	Herbert Happy Lawson	Eddie Fisher	1951
Anything Goes	Cole Porter (m/w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Ramona Davies	1934
Anything You Can Do	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ethel Merman & Ray Middleton	1946
April in Paris	Vernon Duke (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w)	Count Basie	1956
April in Portugal	Jimmy Kennedy (w), Raul Ferrao (m)	Les Baxter	1953
April Showers	Buddy DeSylva, Louis Silvers	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1921
Are You Sincere?	Albert Gumble/Alfred Bryan	Elise Stevenson	1908
Arkansaw Traveler	Sandford C. Faulkner (m), Joseph Tosso	Len Spencer	1902
As Long As the World Rolls On	George Graff (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Alan Turner	1908
As Time Goes By	Herman Hupfeld (m/w)	Dooley Wilson	1942
At Sundown When Love Is Calling Me Home	Walter Donaldson (m/w)	George Olsen with Bob Borger, Fran Frey, & Bob Rice	1927
At the Balalaika	Bob Wright and George "Chet" Forrest (w), George Posford (m)	Orrin Tucker with Gil Mersohn	1940
At the Woodchoppers' Ball	Joe Bishop (w), Woody Herman (m)	Woody Herman	1939
At Your Command	Harry Tobias, Harry Barris, and Bing Crosby (w/m)	Bing Crosby	1931
A-Tisket, A-Tasket	Ella Fitzgerald, Al Feldman	Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's Orchestra	1938
Auf Widerseh'n	Herbert Reynolds (w), Sigmund Romberg (m)	Harry MacDonough with Olive Kline (as Alice Green)	1915
Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart	Geoffrey Parsons and John Turner (w), Eberhard Storch (m)	Vera Lynn with Ronald Shaw's Orchestra	1952
Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart	Geoffrey Parsons and John Turner (w), Eberhard Storch (m)		1952
Auld Lang Syne	Robert Burns (adapted by)		1711
Autumn Leaves	Joseph Kosma (m), Jacques Prévert (w), Johnny Mercer (w)	Roger Williams	1955
Avalon	Vincent Rose (m/w), Buddy DeSylva (w), Al Jolson (w)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1920

B

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Babalu	Bob Russell (English w), Marguerita Lecuona (Spanish w/m)	Xavier Cugat & Miguelito Valdes	1944
Baby Face	Benny Davis (w), Harry Akst (m)	Jan Garber with Benny Davis	1926
Baby It's Cold Outside	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting	1949
Baby Shoes	Al Piantadosi (m), Joe Goodwin (w), Ed Rose (w)	Henry Burr	1916
Baby Take a Bow			1934
Back in the Saddle Again	Gene Autry and Ray Whitley (w/m)	Gene Autry	1939
Back in Your Own Back Yard	Dave Dreyer (m), Al Jolson (m), Billy Rose (w)	Ruth Etting	1928
Bali Ha'i	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)		1949
Bali Ha'i	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1949
Ballad of Davy Crockett, The	George Bruns, Tom Blackburn	Bill Hayes	1955
Ballerina (aka "Dance Ballerina Dance")	Carl Sigman (m), Bob Russell (w)	Vaughn Monroe	1947
Ballin' the Jack	Jim (James Henry) Burris (w), Chris Smith (m)	Prince's Orchestra	1914
Bambalina	Vincent Youmans (m), Otto Harbach (w), Oscar Hammerstein (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1923
Band Played On, The	Charles B. Ward (m), John F. Palmer (w)	Dan Quinn	1895
Barney Google	Con Conrad, Billy Rose	Ernest Hare with Billy Jones	1923
Battle Hymn of the Republic, The (aka "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!")	Julia Ward Howe (w), William Steffe (m)		1861
Baubles, Bangles and Beads	Alexander Borodin (m), Robert Wright (w), George Forrest (w)	Peggy Lee	1953
Be Anything, But Be Mine	Irving Gordon (w/m)	Eddy Howard	1952
Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee	Stanley Murphy (w), Henry I. Marshall (m)	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1912
Be My Love	Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn	Mario Lanza	1950
Beale Street Blues	W.C. Handy (m/w)	Prince's Orchestra	1917
Beautiful Lady in Blue, A	Sam M. Lewis (w), J. Fred Coots (m)	Jan Garber with Lew Palmer	1936
Beautiful Ohio	Robert A. King as as Mary Earl (m), Ballard MacDonald (w)	Henry Burr	1919
Because	Edward Teschmacher (w), Helen Guy as Guy d'Hardelot (m)	Perry Como with Russ Case's Orchestra	1948
Because	Charles Horwitz (w), Frederick V. Bowers (m)	Haydn Quartet	1900
Because	Edward Teschmacher (w), Helen Guy as Guy d'Hardelot (m)		1902
Because of You	Dudley Wilkinson (m), Arthur Hammerstein (w)	Tony Bennett with Percy Faith's Orchestra	1951
Because You're You	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Harry Mac Donough & Elise Stevenson	1907
Bedelia	Jean Schwartz (m), William Jerome (w)	Haydn Quartet	1904
Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)	Wladimir Timm, Jaromir Vejvoda, Lew Brown	Will Glahe	1939
Begin the Beguine	Cole Porter (m/w)	Artie Shaw	1938
Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You're Grand)	Sholom Secunda (m), Sammy/Jacob Jacobs Cahn (w)	The Andrews Sisters	1938
Bell-Bottom Trousers	Moe Jaffe (w/m)	Guy Lombardo with Jimmy Brown	1945
Bells of St. Marys, The	Douglas Furber (w), A.Emmett Adams (m)	Frances Alda	1920
Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)	Sunny Skylar (w), Conseulo Velazquez (m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen	1944
Bess, You Is My Woman	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Dubose Heyward (w)	Porgy and Bess Cast	1935
Best Things in Life Are Free, The	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	George Olsen with Bob Borger	1927
Betty Co-Ed	J. Paul Fogarty, Rudy Vallee	Rudy Vallee	1930
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Bill Snyder	1950
Beyond the Blue Horizon	Richard A. Whiting (m), W. Franke Harling (m), Leo Robin (w)	Jeannette MacDonald	1930
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo	David/Hoffman/Livingston	Jo Stafford with Gordon MacRae	1949
Bidin' My Time	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Foursome	1930
Big Apple, The	Buddy Bernier (w), Bob Emmerich (m)	Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright	1937
Bill	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), P.G. Wodehouse (w)	Helen Morgan	1928
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?	Hughie Cannon (m/w), Johnnie Queen	Arthur Collins	1902
Bird in a Gilded Cage, A	Arthur J. Lamb (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Steve Porter	1900
Birth of the Blues, The	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young	1926
Black Bottom	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Johnny Hamp	1926
Blue Bell	Theodore F. Morse (m), Edward Madden (w)	Byron G. Harlon & Frank Stanley	1904
Blue Champagne	Grady Watts, Frank Ryerson (w/m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1941
Blue Moon	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	The Marcels	1961
Blue Orchids	Hoagy Carmichael (w/m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1939
Blue Room, The	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	The Revelers	1926
Blue Skies	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ben Selvin	1927
Blue Tango	Mitchell Parish (w), Leroy Anderson (m)	Leroy Anderson & His "Pops" Concert Orchestra	1951
Blueberry Hill	Vincent Rose, Al Lewis, Larry Stock	Fats Domino	1956
Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)	Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Woody Herman	1941
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me	Arthurn N. Swanstone, Chas. R. Mc Carron, Carey Morgan	Ted Lewis	1920
Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)	Bernie Hanighen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1937
Body and Soul	Johnny Green (m), Edward Heyman (w), Robert Sour (w), Frank Eyton (w)	Coleman Hawkins	1940
Boo Hoo	E. Heyman, C. Lombardo, J.J. Loeb	Guy Lombardo	1937
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The	Don Raye/Hughie Prince	The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1941
Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)	R. Morbelli and L. Astore (m), Eddie Y. Stanley (w)	Rosemary Clooney	1952
Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Jan Garber with Leo Bennett	1934
Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)	Bob Russell (w), Ary Barroso (m)	Xavier Cugat	1943
Breeze and I, The	Al Stillman (w), Ernesto Lecuona (m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1940
Breezin' Along with the Breeze	Richard A. Whiting, Seymour Simons, Haven Gillespie, Jerome H. Remick	Johnny Marvin	1926
Bring Me a Rose	Charles Shisler		1916
Broadway Melody	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Ben Selvin	1929
Broadway Rhythm	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Guy Lombardo	1935
Broadway Rose	Eugene West (w), Martin Fried (m), Otis Spencer (m)	Peerless Quartet	1921
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?	Jay Gorney (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w)	Rudy Vallee	1932
Bugle Call Rag	Elmer Schoebel (m), Billy Meyeres (m), Jack Pettis (m)	The Mills Brothers	1932
Bushel and a Peck, A	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Perry Como & Betty Hutton with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1950
But Not for Me	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Ella Fitzgerald	1959
Button Up Your Overcoat	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Helen Kane	1929
Buttons and Bows	Jay Livingston (m), Ray Evans (w)	Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys	1948
By Heck	Henry R. Stern as S.R. Henry (m), L. Wolfe Gilbert (w)	Byron G. Harlan with Will Robbins	1915
By the Beautiful Sea	Harold R. Atteridge (w), Harry Carroll (m)	Heidelberg Quintet	1914
By the Light of the Silvery Moon	Edward Madden (w), Gus Edwards (m)	Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet	1910
By the River St. Marie	Edgar Leslie (w), Harry Warren (m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1931
By the Waters of Minnetonka	Thurlow Lieurance (m), J.W. Cavanass (w)	Alice Nielsen	1915
Bye Bye Blackbird	Ray Henderson (m), Mort Dixon (w)	Gene Austin	1926

C

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Cabin in the Sky	Vernon Duke (m), John Latouche (w)	Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest	1940
California Here I Come	Joseph Meyer, Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson	Al Jolson with Isham Jones' Orchestra	1924
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ada Jones & the American Quartet	1910
Camp Meetin' Time	Harry Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1906
Candy	David Mack, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer	Johnny Mercer with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers	1945
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Ben Bernie with Vaughn Deleath	1928
Can't We Be Friends?	Kay Swift (m), Paul James aka James Warburg (w)	Libby Holman	1929
Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline?	William H. Gardner (w), Caro Roma (m)	George MacFarlane	1914
Canto Siboney	Dolly Morse (w), Ernesto Lecuona (m)		1929
Caravan	Duke Ellington (m), Juan Tizol (m), irving Mills (w)	Duke Ellington	1937
Careless	Dick Jurgens, Eddy Howard, and Lew Qualding (w/m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1940
Careless Hands	Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman (w/m)	Mel Tormé	1949
Carelessly	Charles and Nick Kenny (w), Norman Ellis (m)	Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson's Orchestra	1937
Carioca, The	Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Gus Kahn (w)	Enric Madriguera with Patricia Gillmore	1934
Carolina in the Morning	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Van & Schenck	1923
Carolina Moon	Benny Davis (w), Joe Burke (m)	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1929
Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)	Junie McCree (w), Albert Von Tilzer (m)	Billy Murray	1910
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny	James A. Bland (m/w)	Alma Gluck	1915
Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer)	T. Lawrence Seibert (w), Eddie Newton (m), Wallace Saunders	American Quartet with Billy Murray	1910
Cathedral in the Pines	Charles and Nick Kenny (w/m)	Shep Fields & Jerry Stewart	1938
Cecelia	Dave Dreyer (m), Herman Ruby (w)	"Whispering" Jack Smith	1925
Change Partners	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Fred Astaire with Ray Noble's Orchestra	1938
Changing Partners	Joe Darion (w), Larry Coleman (m)	Patti Page	1953
Chant of the Jungle	Arthur Freed (w), Nacio Herb Brown (m)	Roy Ingraham	1929
Charleston	James P. Johnson (m), Cecil Mack (w)	Arthur Gibbs & His Gang	1924
Charley, My Boy	Ted Fio Rito (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Eddie Cantor	1924
Charmaine	Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack	Guy Lombardo with Weston Vaughan	1927
Chasing Shadows	Benny Davis (w), Abner Silver (m)	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1935
Chattanooga Choo Choo	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)	Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires	1941
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy	Harry Stone and Jack Stapp (w/m)	Red Foley	1950
Cheek to Cheek	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers with Leo Reisman's Orchestra	1935
Cheerful Little Earful	Harry Warren (m), Ira Gershwin and Billy Rose (w)	Tom Gerun & His Orchestra	1930
Cherie	Leo Woods (w), Irving Bibo (m)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1921
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White	Jacques Larue, Mack David	Perez "Prez" Prado	1955
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)	Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, and Mack David (w/m)	Perry Como & the Satisfiers with Lloyd Shaffer's Orchestra	1947
Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)	Fred Fisher (m/w)	Ben Selvin	1922
Chickery Chick	Sylvia Dee (w), Sidney Lippman (m)	Sammy Kaye with Nancy Norman & Billy Williams	1945
China Boy	Dick Winfree, Phil Boutelje, Art Tatum	McKenzie & Condon's Chicagoans	1927
Chinatown, My Chinatown	Jean Schwartz (m), William Jerome (w)	American Quartet	1915
Chinese Lullaby	Robert Hood Bowers	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1929
Chloe (Song of the Swamp)	Neil Moret, Gus Kahn	Jones, Spike, & His City Slickers with Red Ingle	1945
Chong, He Comes from Hong Kong	Harold Weeks (w/m)	Columbia Saxophone Sextette	1919
Christmas Song, The (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)	Mel Tormé, Robert Wells (w)	Nat "King" Cole	1946
Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)	Bob Hilliard (w), Carl Sigman (m)	Louis Prima	1947
Clair De Lune (aka "Au Clair De La Lune")	Claude Debussy (m)	Claude Debussy	1811
Clap Yo' Hands	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Roger Wolfe Kahn	1927
Close to My Heart	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1915
Cocktails for Two	Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston	Duke Ellington	1934
Cold Cold Heart	Hank Williams	Hank Williams	1951
Collegiate	Moe Jaffe, Nat Bonx	Fred Waring	1925
Come Down Ma Evening Star	Robert B. Smith (w), John Stromberg (m)	Mina Hickman	1903
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine	Fred Fisher (m), Alfred Bryan (w)	Ada Jones with Billy Murray & the American Quartet	1911
Come on-a My House	Ross Bagdasarian and William Saroyan (w/m)	Rosemary Clooney	1951
Come Rain or Come Shine	Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Margaret Whiting with Paul Weston's Orchestra	1946
Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship	Ren Shields (w), George Evans (m)	Billy Murray	1905
Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer	Harold Adamson (w), Jimmy McHugh (m)	The Song Spinners	1943
Continental, The (You Kiss While We're Dancing)	Con Conrad (m), Herb Magidson (w)	Leo Reisman	1934
Cool Water	Bob Nolan (w/m)	The Sons of the Pioneers	1941
Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Rosemary Clooney	1954
Crinoline Days	Irving Berlin	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1923
Cross Over the Bridge	Bennie Benjamin and George Weiss (w/m)	Patti Page	1954
Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon	Eily Beadell, Nell Tollerton	Blue Barron & His Orchestra	1949
Cry	Churchill Kohlman	Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads	1951
Cry Baby Cry	Jimmy Eaton (w), Terry Shand (m)	Larry Clinton with Bea Wain	1938
Cry Me a River	Arthur Hamilton (m/w)	Julie London	1957
Cry of the Wild Goose, The	Terry Gilkyson (w/m)	Frankie Laine with Harry Geller's Orchestra	1950
Crying in the Chapel	Artie Glenn (w/m)	The Orioles	1953
Cuban Love Song	Dorothy Fields (w), Jimmy McHugh and Herbert Stothart (m)	Ruth Etting	1932
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine	Otto A. Harbach (w), Karl L. Hoschna (m)	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1908
Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich, and You, A	Joseph Meyer (m), Al Dubin (w), Billy Rose (w)	Gertrude Lawrence & Jack Buchanana	1926
Curse of an Aching Heart, The	Al. Piantadosi (m), Henry Fink (w)	Will Oakland	1913

D

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Daddy	Bobby Troup (m/w)	Sammy Kaye	1941
Daddy You've Been a Mother to Me	Fred Fisher (m/w)	Henry Burr	1920
Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in Her Stocking	Terry Shand (m), Jimmy Eaton (w), Mickey Leader (w)	Russ Morgan with Al Jennings	1944
Dance with Me Henry (Wallflower)	Johnny Otis, Hank Ballard, Etta James	Georgia Gibbs	1955
Dancing in the Dark	Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Artie Shaw	1941
Dancing on the Ceiling	Richard Rodgers (m)/Lorenz Hart (w)	Jack Hylton	1932
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes	Al Dubin (w), Joe Burke (m)	Nat Shilkret with Lewis James	1930
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes	Al Dubin (w), Joe Burke (m)		1930
Danny Boy	Fred Weatherly (w) (traditional, adapted by)	Ernestine Schumann-Heink	1918
Dardanella	Johnny S. Black (m), Felix Bernard (m), Fred Fisher (w)	Ben Selvin	1920
Darktown Strutters' Ball, The	Shelton Brooks (m/w)	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	1917
Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup	Anna Sosenko (w/m)	Hildegarde with Harry Sosnik's Orchestra	1943
Darn That Dream	Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Eddie De Lange (w)	Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey	1940
Day in, Day Out	Rube Bloom (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Bob Crosby's Orchestra with Helen Ward	1939
Dear Hearts and Gentle People	Sammy Fain (m), Bob Hilliard (w)	Bing Crosby with Perry Botkin's Orchestra	1949
Dear Old Girl	Richard Henry Buck (w), Theodore F. Morse (m)	J.W. Myers	1903
Dear Old Pal of Mine	Harold Robe (w), Liet. Gitz Rice (m)	Sascha Jacobsen	1919
Dearie	Clare Kummer (m/w)	Corrine Morgan with the Haydn Quartet	1905
Deep in My Heart	Sigmund Romburg (m), Dorothy Donnelly (w)	Franklyn Baur with Benny Krueger	1924
Deep in the Heart of Texas	June Hershey/Don Swander	Alvino Rey with Bill Schallen & Skeets Herfurt	1942
Deep Night	Charlie Henderson/Rudy Vallee	Rudy Vallee	1929
Deep Purple	Peter DeRose (m), Mitchell Parish (w)	Larry Clinton with Bea Wain	1939
Delicado	Jack Lawrence (w), Waldyr Azevedo (m)	Percy Faith	1952
Der Fuehrer's Face	Oliver Wallace	Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Carl Grayson & Willie Spicer	1942
Desert Song, The	Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Otto Harbach (w), Frank Mandel (w)	Nat Shilkret with Mischa Russell's Orchestra	1927
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend	Jule Styne (m), Leo Robin (w)	Marilyn Monroe	1953
Diane (I’m in Heaven When I See You Smile)	Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack	Nat Shilkret	1927
Did I Remember?	Harold Adamson (w), Walter Donaldson (m)	Shep Fields & Charles Chester	1936
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?	Mack Gordon (w), Harry Revel (m)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1933
Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)	Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh	Perry Como with Russ Case's Orchestra	1945
Diga-Diga-Doo	Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Duke Ellington & Irving Mills	1928
Dinah	Harry Akst (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Bing Crosby & the Mills Brothers	1932
Dipsy Doodle, The	Larry Clinton (w/m)	Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright	1937
Do Do Do	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Gertrude Lawrence & Oscar Shaw	1927
Do I Worry?	Stanley Cowan and Bobby Worth (w/m)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers	1941
Do It Again	George Gershwin (m), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1922
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief	Paul Francis Webster (w), Hoagy Carmichael (m)	Betty Hutton with Paul Weston's Orchestra	1945
Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight?	Ernest Breuer (m), Marty Bloom (w), Billy Rose (w)	Ernest Hare with Billy Jones	1924
Doggie in the Window, The	Bob Merrill (m/w)	Patti Page	1953
Doin' What Comes Naturally	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Freddy Martin with Glenn Hughes	1946
Dolores	Frank Loesser (w), Louis Alter (m)	Bing Crosby	1941
Donkey Serenade, The	Rudolf Friml (m), Herbert Stothart (m), Bob White (w), Chet Forrest (w)	Allan Jones with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1938
Don't Be That Way	Mitchell Parish (w), Edgar Sampson and Benny Goodman (m)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra	1938
Don't Blame Me	Jimmy McHugh (m)/Dorothy Fields (w)	Charles Agnew & His Stevens Hotel Orchestra with Stanley Jacobsen	1933
Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)	Joe Marsala (w/m)	Gordon Jenkins with Betty Brewer	1949
Don't Fence Me In	Cole Porter, Robert Fletcher	Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters & Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1944
Don't Get Around Much Anymore	Duke Ellington (m), Bob Russell (w)	The Ink Spots	1943
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes	Slim Willet, Cactus Pryor, and Barbara Trammel (w/m)	Perry Como & the Ramblers with the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra	1952
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me	Sam Stept, Charlie Tobias, Lew Brown	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, & the Modernaires	1942
Don't Wake Me Up, I'm Dreaming	Beth Slater Whitson (w), Herbert Ingraham (m)	Walter Van Brunt	1911
Down Among the Sheltering Palms	James Brockman (w), Abe Olman (m)	Lyric Quartet	1915
Down by the Old Mill Stream	Tell Taylor (m/w)	Harry MacDonough	1911
Down Hearted Blues	Lovie Austin (m), Alberta Hunter (w)	Bessie Smith	1923
Down Where the Wurzburger Flows	Vincent P. Bryan (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1902
Down Yonder	L. Wolfe Gilbert, arranged by Doc Watson	Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers	1934
Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)	Johnny Mercer (m/w)	The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston's Orchestra	1945
Dream a Little Dream of Me	Wilbur Schwandt (m), Fabian Andre (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Wayne King & Ernie Burchill	1931
Dream Valley	Charles and Nick Kenny (w), Joe Burke (m)	Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan	1940
Dreamy Melody	Ted Koehler, Frank Magine, C. Naset	Art Landry	1923

E

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Eadie Was a Lady	Richard Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown (m), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Ethel Merman	1933
Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)	Jesse Belvin, Curtis Williams, and Gaynel Hodge (w/m)	The Penguins	1954
East of the Sun and West of the Moon	Brooks Bowman (m/w)	Tom Coakley & Carl Ravazza	1935
Easter Parade	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Leo Reisman's Orchestra with Clifton Webb	1933
Easy to Love	Cole Porter (m/w)	Shep Fields with Dick Robertson	1936
Ebb Tide	Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin	Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra with Gail Reese	1937
Ebb Tide	Carl Sigman and Robert Maxell (w/m)	Frank Chacksfield	1953
El Capitan March	John Philip Sousa (m)	John Philip Sousa's Band	1895
Elmer's Tune	Elmer Albrecht, Sammy Gallop, Dick Jurgens	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1941
Embraceable You	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Red Nichols with Dick Robertson	1930
Empty Saddles	J. Keirn Brennan (w), Billy Hill (m)	Bing Crosby	1936
Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)	Carl Sigman (m), Herb Magidson (w)	Guy Lombardo with Kenny Gardner	1950
Every Day Is Ladies' Day with Me	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Neil McCay	1907
Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own	Otto Harbach (w), Karl Hoschna (m)	Harry MacDonough wiith Lucy Isabelle Marsh	1910
Everybody Loves My Baby	Spencer Williams (m), Jack Palmer (w)	Aileen Stanley	1925
Everybody Two-Step	Wallie Herzer (m), Earl C. Jones (w)	American Quartet	1912
Everybody Works But Father	Jean Havez (m/w)	Billy Murray	1905
Everybody's Doing It Now	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1912
Exactly Like You	Jimmy McHugh (m)/Dorothy Fields (w)	Ruth Etting	1930

F

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Falling in Love with Love	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Frances Langford with Harry Sosnik's Orchestra	1939
Fanny	Harold Rome	Eddie Fisher	1954
Far Away Places	John Whitney, Alex Kramer	Margaret Whiting	1948
Fascinating Rhythm	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Cliff Edwards	1925
Feather Your Nest	Kendis & Brockman, Howard Johnson	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1921
Ferry Boat Serenade (La Piccinina)	Harold Adamson (w), Eldo di Lazzaro (m)	The Andrews Sisters	1940
Feudin' and Fightin'	Al Dubin (w), Burton Lane (m)	Dorothy Shay	1947
Fine and Dandy	Kay Swift (m), Paul James aka James Warburg (w)	Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Frank Luther	1930
Fine Romance, A (A Sarcastic Love Song)	Jerome Kern (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1936
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue	Ray Henderson (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1926
Five Minutes More	Sammy Cahn (w), Jule Styne (m)	Frank Sinatra	1946
Flat Foot Floogee, The	Slim Gaillard/Slam Stewart/Bud Green	Slim & Slam	1938
Flying Down to Rio	Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Gus Kahn (w)	Rudy Vallee	1934
Foggy Day in London Town, A	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Fred Astaire with Ray Noble's Orchestra	1937
Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread	Rube Bloom (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1940
For Me and My Gal	George Meyer (m), Edgar Leslie (w), E. Ray Goetz (w)	Judy Garland & Gene Kelly	1942
Forever and Ever (Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat)	Malia Rose (w), Franz Winkler (m)	Russ Morgan & the Skylarks	1949
Forever Is a Long, Long Time	Darl MacBoyle (w), Albert Von Tilzer (m)	Charles Hart	1918
Forgive Me	Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w)	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1927
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Billy Murray	1906
Forty-Second (42nd) Street	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Dudley Mecum	1933
Frenesi	Ray Charles and S.K. Russell (w), Albert Dominguez (m)	Artie Shaw	1940
Friendship	Cole Porter (m/w)	Kay Kyser with Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Jack Martin, & Ish Kabibble	1940
Frosty the Snowman	Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins	Gene Autry & the Cass County Boys with Carl Cotner's Orchestra	1950

G

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Gal in Calico, A	Leo Robins (w), Arthur Schwartz (m)	Johnny Mercer	1946
Gee But It's Great to Meet a Friend from You Own Home Town	William Tracey (w), James McGavisk (m)	Billy Murray	1911
Gentleman Is a Dope, The	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Jo Stafford	1947
Georgette	Ray Henderson	Ted Lewis	1922
Georgia on My Mind	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Stuart Gorrell (w)	Ray Charles	1960
Get Happy	Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w)	Nat Shilkret with Phil Dewey, Frank Luther, & Leo O'Rourke	1930
Get Your Kicks on Route 66	Bobby Troup (m/w)	Nat "King" Cole	1946
GI (G.I.) Jive	Johnny Mercer	Louis Jordan	1944
GI (G.I.) Jive	Johnny Mercer		1944
Giannina Mia	Otto Hauerbach (w), Rudolph Friml (m)	Emma Trentini	1913
Gimme a Little Kiss (Will Ya? Huh?)	Maceo Pinkard, Roy Turk, Jack Smith	"Whispering" Jack Smith	1926
Girl Friend, The	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	George Olsen with Larry Murphy, Bob Borger, & Fran Frey	1926
Girl on the Magazine, The	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Harry MacDonough	1916
Girl That I Marry, The	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Eddy Howard	1947
Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl	Albert Von Tilzer (m), Lew Brown (w)	Sam Ash	1918
Give My Regards to Broadway	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Billy Murray	1905
Glory of Love, The	Billy Hill (w/m)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Helen Ward	1936
Glow-Worm, The	Paul Lincke (m), Lilla Cayley Robinson (w)	Victor Orchestra	1908
God Bless America	Irving Berlin	Kate Smith	1939
Gold Diggers' Song, The (We're in the Money)	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Dick Powell	1933
Golden Earrings	Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (w), Victor Young (m)	Peggy Lee	1947
Gone with the Wind	Allie Wrubel (m), Herb Magidson (w)	Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton	1937
Good Evening, Caroline	Jack Norworth (w), Albert Von Tilzer (m)	Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson	1909
Good Morning	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Abe Lyman	1939
Good Morning Carrie	Chris Smith, Elmer Bowman	Bert Williams & George Walker	1902
Good Night, Ladies	Harry Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)		1911
Good Old U.S.A., The	Jack Drislane (w), Theodore F. Morse (m)	Byron G. Harlan	1906
Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!	Billy Baskette/C. Francis Reisner/Benny Davis	American Quartet	1917
Goodbye Dolly Gray	Will D. Cobb and Paul Barnes (m/w)	Big Four Quartet	1901
Goodbye Eliza Jane	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Arthur Collins	1903
Goodbye Girls I'm Through	John Golden (w), Ivan Caryll (m)	Lambert Murphy	1915
Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)	J. Keirn Brennan (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Henry Burr	1916
Goodnight Irene	Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, John Lomax	The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra	1950
Goodnight My Love	Mack Gordon (w), Harry Revel (m)	Benny Goodman & Ella Fitzgerald	1937
Goodnight Sweetheart	Ray Noble, James Campbell, Reg. Connelly, Rudy Vallee	Wayne King	1931
Goody Goody	Matty Malneck (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Helen Ward	1936
Great Day	Vincent Youmans (m), Billy Rose (w), Edward Eliscu (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bing Crosby	1929
Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)	E. Rivera and Eddie Woods (w), Nilo Menendez (m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell	1941
Guy Is a Guy, A	Oscar Brand (w/m)	Doris Day	1952
Gypsy, The	Billy Reid (w/m)	The Ink Spots	1946

H

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here	D.A. Esrom (w), Theodore Morse (m), Arthur Sullivan (m)	Irving Kaufman & the Columbia Quartet	1918
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue	Sunny Skylar (w/m)	Gordon MacRae	1948
Half as Much	Curley Williams (w/m)	Rosemary Clooney with Percy Faith's Orchestra	1952
Hallelujah!	Vincent Youmans (m), Clifford Grey (w), Leo Robin (w)	Nat Shilkret with Franklyn Baur	1927
Hands Across the Table	Mitchell Parish (w), Jean Delettre (m)	Lucienne Boyer	1934
Happy Days Are Here Again	Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w)	Ben Selvin	1930
Happy Wanderer, The	Antonia Ridge (English words), Friedrich-Wilhelm Moller (m)	Frank Weir	1954
Harbor Lights	Hugh Williams/Jimmy Kennedy	Frances Langford with George Stoll's Orchestra	1937
Hard-Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah	Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w), Bob Bigelow (w), Charles Bates (w)	Dolly Kay	1924
Harrigan	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Billy Murray	1907
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?	C.W. Murphy (m/w), Will Letters (m/w)	Nora Bayes	1910
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	Ralph Blane (m), Hugh Martin (w)	Judy Garland with George Stoll's Orchestra	1944
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	Ralph Blane (m), Hugh Martin (w)		1944
He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings	Eric Maschwitz (w), Michael Carr (m)	Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt	1942
Heart	Richard Alder and Jerry Ross (w/m)	Eddie Fisher	1955
Heart and Soul	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Larry Clinton with Bea Wain	1938
Heartaches	Al Hoffman (m), John Klenner (w)	Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner	1947
Hearts of Stone	Eddie Ray (w), Ruby Jackson (m)	The Fontane Sisters with Billy Vaughn's Orchestra	1954
Hearts of Stone	Eddie Ray (w), Ruby Jackson (m)	The Jewels	1954
Heat Wave	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Glen Gray with Mildred Bailey	1933
Heaven Can Wait	Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Edgar DeLange (w)	Glen Gray with Clyde Burke	1939
Heigh Ho	Morey/Churchill	Seven Dwarfs	1937
Hello Central, Give Me Heaven	Charles K. Harris (m/w)	Byron G. Harlan	1901
Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land	Jean Schwartz (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1918
Hello Frisco!	Gene Buck (w), Louis A. Hrsch (m)	Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton	1915
Hello Hawaii, How Are You?	Bert Kalmar (w), Edgar Leslie (w), Jean Schwartz (m)	Prince's Orchestra	1916
Hello Ma Baby	Joseph E. Howard (m/w), Ida Emerson (m/w)	Arthur Collins	1899
Hello Young Lovers	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1951
Here Comes the Show Boat	Maceo Pinkard (m), Billy Rose (w)	Vaughn Deleath	1928
Here in My Arms	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Leo Reisman	1926
Here in My Heart	Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, Bill Borrelli (w/m)	Al Martino	1952
Hernando's Hideaway	Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (w/m)	Archie Bleyer	1954
He's a Cousin of Mine	Cecil Mack (w), Chris Smith (m), Silvio Hein (m)	Bert Williams	1907
He's a Devil in His Own Home Town	Grant Clarke (w), Irving Berlin (m)	Billy Murray	1914
He's a Rag Picker	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Peerless Quartet	1915
Hey There	Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (w/m)	Rosemary Clooney with Buddy Cole's Orchestra	1954
Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha)	Neal Moret (m), James O'Dea	Harry MacDonough	1903
High and the Mighty, The	Ned Washington (w), Dmitri Tiomkin (m)	Les Baxter	1954
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Darlin')	Ned Washington, Dmitri Tiomkin	Tex Ritter	1952
High on a Windy Hill	Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney (w/m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1941
Hindustan	Oliver Wallace (m/w), Harold Weeks (m/w)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1919
Hitchy Koo	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m)	American Quartet	1912
Hold Me	Art Hickman/Ben Black	Art Hickman	1920
Hold My Hand	Richard Myers, Jack Lawrence	Don Cornell with Jerry Carr's Orchestra	1954
Hold My Hand	Richard Myers, Jack Lawrence	Nat "King" Cole	1955
Holiday for Strings	David Rose (m), Sam Gallop (w)	David Rose	1943
Home Sweet Home	John Howard Payne (w), arranged by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (m)		1823
Honey	Seymour Simons/Haven Gillespie/Richard A. Whiting	Rudy Vallee	1929
Honeysuckle Rose	Thomas "Fats" Waller (m), Andy Razaf (w)	Fats Waller	1935
Hoop-Dee-Doo	Milton DeLugg/Frank Loesser	Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1950
Hooray for Hollywood	Richard A. Whiting (m), Johnny Mercer (w)		1937
Hot Lips (He's Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)	Henry Lange, Henry Busse, Lou Davis	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1922
How about You?	Tom Adair (m), Ralph Freed (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra	1942
How Are Things in Glocca Mora?	Burton Lane (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w)	Buddy Clark & Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1947
How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life		Fred Astaire & Jane Powell	1951
How Deep Is the Ocean?	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1932
How High the Moon	Morgan Lewis (m), Nancy Hamilton (w)	Les Paul & Mary Ford	1951
How Important Can It Be?	Bennie Benjamin and George Weiss (w/m)	Joni James	1955
How Soon Will I Be Seeing You?	Carroll Lucas (w), Jack Owens (m)	Jack Owens & Eddie Bellantyne's Orchestra	1947
How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?	Edward Laska (w), Jerome Kern (m)	Corrine Morgan with the Haydn Quartet	1906
Huggin' and Chalkin'	Clancy Hayes and Kermit Goell (w/m)	Hoagy Carmichael	1946
Hurrah for Baffin's Bay	Vincent Bryan (w), Theodore F. Morse (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1903
Hut-Sut Song, The (A Swedish Serenade)	Leo Killian, Ted McMichael, and Jack Owens (w/m)	Freddy Martin with Eddie Stone	1941

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SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
I Ain't Got Nobody	Roger Graham (w), Dave Peyton (m), Spencer Williams (m)	Sophie Tucker	1927
I Believe	Irvin Graham/Jimmy Shirl/Al Stillman	Frankie Laine	1953
I Can Dream, Can't I?	Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w)	The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra	1949
I Can't Begin to Tell You	James Monaco (m), Mark Gordon (w)	Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro's Orchestra	1945
I Can't Get Started	Vernon Duke (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra	1938
I Can't Give You Anything But Love	Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Cliff Edwards	1928
I Could Write a Book	Richard Rodgers (m)/Lorenz Hart (w)	Dinah Washington	1940
I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night	Jimmy McHugh (m)/Harold Adamson (w)	Frank Sinatra with the Bobby Tucker Singers	1944
I Cover the Waterfront	Johnny Green (m), Edward Heyman (w)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1933
I Cried for You	Gus Arnheim (m), Abe Lyman (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Benny Krueger	1923
I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Louise Tobin	1939
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier	Alfred Bryan (w), Al Piantadosi	Peerless Quartet	1915
I Don't Care	Jean Lenox, Harry O. Sutton	Damita Jo	1953
I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm on My Way	George Fairman (m/w)	Peerless Quartet	1918
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire	Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham	Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton, Donna Wood, & Don Juans	1941
I Don't Want to Walk without You	Jule Styne (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Harry James	1942
I Double Dare You	Jimmy Eaton (w), Terry Shand (m)	Russ Morgan with Bernice Parks	1938
I Feel a Song Comin' On	Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Frances Langford with Mahlon Merrick & His Music	1935
I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store	Harry Warren (m), Billy Rose (w), Mort Dixon (w)	Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon	1931
I Get a Kick Out of You	Cole Porter (m/w)	Ethel Merman with Johnny Green's Orchestra	1934
I Get So Lonely When I Dream about You	Pat Ballard (w/m)	The Four Knights	1954
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good	Duke Ellington (m), Paul Francis Webster (w)	Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson	1941
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Dubose Heyward (w)	Leo Reisman	1935
I Got Rhythm	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Red Nichols	1930
I Got the Sun in the Morning	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Les Brown with Doris Day	1946
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w)	Louis Armstrong	1933
I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (The Blue Pajama Song)	Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Rudy Vallee	1932
I Had the Craziest Dream	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)	Harry James with Helen Forrest	1942
I Hear a Rhapsody	George Fragos, Jack Baker, and Dick Gasparre (w/m)	Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra with Bob Carroll	1941
I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave	Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards (m/w)	Ada Jones	1907
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame	Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young (w), Ralph Erwin (m)	Smith Ballew & His Orchestra	1929
I Know That You Know	Vincent Youmans (m), Anne Caldwell (w)	Nat Shilkret	1927
I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen	Irving Berlin (w/m)	Sammy Kaye with Don Cornell	1942
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart	Duke Ellington (m)/Irving Mills (w)/Henry Nemo (w)/John Redmond (w)	Duke Ellington	1938
I Love a Lassie (My Scotish Bluebell)	Harry Lauder (m/w), Gerald Grafton (m/w)	Harry Lauder	1907
I Love a Parade	Ted Koehler (w), Harold Arlen (m)	Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Frank Luther	1932
I Love a Piano	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Billy Murray	1916
I Love Louisa	Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz	Leo Reisman's Orchestra with Fred Astaire	1931
I Love My Wife, But, Oh, You Kid!	Harry Armstrong, Billy Clark	Dorothy Drew	1909
I Love Paris	Cole Porter (m/w)	Les Baxter	1953
I Love the Ladies	Grant Clarke (w), Jean Schwartz (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1914
I Love the Name of Mary	George Graff Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m), Chauncey Olcott (m)	Will Oakland	1911
I Love You	Cole Porter (m/w)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1944
I Love You	Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1924
I Love You for Sentimental Reasons	William "Pat" Best, Derek Watson (w/m)	Nat "King" Cole Trio	1946
I Love You Truly	Carrie Jacobs-Bond (m/w)	Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown)	1912
I Loves You, Porgy	George Gershwin (m)/Ira Gershwin (w)/Dubose Heyward (w)	Porgy and Bess Cast	1935
I Need You Now	Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs	Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra	1954
I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You	Tom Pitts/Ray Egan/Roy Marsh	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1921
I Only Have Eyes for You	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	The Flamingos	1959
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Tommie Connor	Jimmy Boyd with Norman Luboff's Orchestra	1952
I Saw Stars	Maurice Sigler, Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman (w/m)	Freddy Martin & Elmer Feldkamp	1934
I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Isles	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Ed Moran (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1916
I Surrender Dear	Harry Barnes (m), Gordon Clifford (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bing Crosby	1931
I Used to Love You, But It's All Over Now	Albert Von Tilzer	Frank Crumit	1921
I Wanna Be Loved by You	Johnny Green (m), Billy Rose (w), Edward Heyman (w)	The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra	1950
I Wanna Be Loved by You	Harry Ruby (m), Herbert Stothart (m), Bert Kalmar (w)	Helen Kane with Leonard Joy's Orchestra	1928
I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad	William Dillon (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Peerless Quartet	1911
I Want to Be Happy	Vincent Youmans (m), Irving Caesar (w)	Vincent Lopez	1924
I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Eldia Morris	1914
I Want What I Want When I Want It	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Frank Stanley	1906
I Went to Your Wedding	Jessie Mae Robinson (w/m)	Patti Page	1952
I Wish I Didn't Love You So	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Vaughn Monroe	1947
I Wonder What's Become of Sally	Jack Yellen (w), Milton Ager (m)	Al Jolson with Carl Fenton's Orchestra	1924
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	Joseph E. Howard (m) Harold Orlob (m), Frank R. Adams (w), Will M. Hough (w)	Henry Burr	1909
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder	Darwin Frank Hutchins (w/m)		1947
I Won't Dance	Jerome Kern (m)/Oscar Hammerstein II (w)/Otto Harbach (w)/Dorothy Fields (w)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1935
I Won't Tell a Soul I Love You	Ross Parker and Hughie Charles (w/m)	Andy Kirk & Pha Terrell	1938
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider	Eddie Munson (m), Eddie Leonard (w)	Red Nichols	1927
If (They Made Me a King)	Robert Hargreaves and Stanley J. Damerell (w), Tochard Evans (m)	Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1951
If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight	James P. Johnson (m), Henry Creamer (w)	McKinney's Cotton Pickers with George Thomas	1930
If I Didn't Care	Jack Lawrence	The Ink Spots	1939
If I Give My Heart to You	Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs, Jimmy Brewster (aka Milt Gabler)	Doris Day & the Mellomen	1954
If I Had a Talking Picture of You	Ray Henderson (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Lew Brown (w)	Johnny Hamp with Cliff Gamet	1929
If I Had My Way I’d Live Among the Gypsies	Lou Klein (w), James Kendis (m)	Peerless Quartet	1914
If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake	Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, Clem Watts	Eileen Barton & the New Yorkers	1950
If I Knock the 'L' Out of Kelly, It Would Still Be Kelly to Me	Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w), Bert Grant (m)	Marguerite Farrell	1916
If I Loved You	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Perry Como with Russ Case's Orchestra	1945
If I Was a Millionaire	Will D. Cobb (w), Gus Edwards (m)		1910
If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You	Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Enric Madriguera	1934
If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie	Buddy DeSylva (m/w)	Eddie Cantor	1925
I'll Be Home for Christmas	Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1943
I'll Be Seeing You	Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1944
I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time	Neville Fleeson, Albert Von Tilzer	Charles Harrison	1920
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise	George Gershwin (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Ira Gershwin as Arthur Francis (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1922
I'll Buy That Dream	Herb Magidson (w), Allie Wrubel (m)	Dick Haymes with Helen Forrest & Victor Young's Orchestra	1945
I'll Buy That Dream	Herb Magidson (w), Allie Wrubel (m)	The Pied Pipers	1945
I'll Dance at Your Wedding	Herb Magidson (w), Ben Oakland (m)	Ray Noble & Buddy Clark	1947
I'll Follow My Secret Heart	Noel Coward (w/m)	Ray Noble	1934
I'll Get by As Long As I Have You	Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w)	Harry James with Dick Haymes	1941
I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again	Harry Woods (w/m)	Ozzie Nelson	1935
I'll Never Smile Again	Ruth Lowe (m/w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers	1940
I'll Never Stop Loving You	Nicholas Brodszky (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Doris Day	1955
I'll Remember April	Gene DePaul (m), Don/Patricia Johnston Raye (w)	Woody Herman	1942
I'll Say She Does	Buddy DeSylva, Gus Kahn, Al Jolson	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1919
I'll See You in My Dreams	Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Isham Jones with Ray Miller & Frank Bessinger	1925
I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs	Al Dubin (w), Harry Warren (m)	Eddy Duchin & Jimmy Newell	1936
I'll String Along with You	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Marcellino	1934
I'll Take Romance	Ben Oakland (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Rudy Vallee	1938
I'll Walk Alone	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Dinah Shore	1944
I'm a Big Girl Now	Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, and Milton Drake (w/m)	Sammy Kaye with Betty Barclay	1946
I'm All Bound Round with the Mason Dixon Line	Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w), Jean Schwartz (m)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1918
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows	Frederick Chopin (m), Harry Carroll (m), Joseph McCarthy (w)	Charles Harrison	1918
I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande	Johnny Mercer (m/w), Harry Warren (m)	Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra	1936
I'm Beginning to See the Light	Duke Ellington (m), Johnny Hodges (m), Harry James (m), Don George (w)	Harry James with Kitty Kallen	1945
I'm Falling in Love with Someone	Victor Herbert, Rida Johnson Young	John McCormack	1911
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles	Jean Kenbrovin (m/w), John William Kellette (m/w)	Ben Selvin	1919
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You	George Bassman (m), Ned Washington (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra	1936
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter	Fred E. Ahlert (m), Joe Young (w)	Fats Waller	1935
I'm in the Mood for Love	Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Little Jack Little	1935
I'm Just a Vagabond Lover	Leon Zimmerman, Rudy Vallee	Rudy Vallee	1929
I'm Just Wild about Harry	Eubie Blake (m), Noble Sissle (w)	Marion Harris	1922
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover	Mort Dixon, Harry Woods	Art Mooney	1948
I'm Making Believe	Mack Gordon (w), James V. Monaco (m)	The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald	1944
I'm on My Way to Mandalay	Al Bryan (w), Fred Fisher (m)	Henry Burr with Albert Campbell & Will Oakland	1914
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1936
I'm Sitting on Top of the World	Ray Henderson (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Al Jolson with Carl Fenton's Orchestra	1926
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry	N.J. Clesi (m/w)	Henry Burr	1918
I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town	Albert Von Tilzer (m), Lew Brown (w)		1912
I'm Walking Behind You	Billy Reid	Eddie Fisher with Sally Sweetland & Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra	1953
I'm Yours	Robert Merrill (w/m)	Don Cornell with Norman Leyden's Orchestra	1952
I'm Yours	E.Y. Harburg (w), Johnny Green (m)	Bert Lown with the Biltmore Rhythm Boys	1930
Imagination	Jimmy Van Heusen (m)/Johnny Burke (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1940
In a Little Gypsy Tea Room	Edgar Lesie (w), Joe Burke (m)	Bob Crosby with Frank Tennille	1935
In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)	Mabel Wayne (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton	1927
In a Monastery Garden	Albert William Ketelby (m)		1921
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town	Little Jack Little (m), John Siras (m), Joe Young (w)	Ted Lewis	1932
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town	Little Jack Little (m), John Siras (m), Joe Young (w)		1932
In My Merry Oldsmobile	Vincent Bryan (w), Gus Edwards (m)	Billy Murray	1905
In the Blue of the Evening	Tom Adair (w), Alfonso D'Artega (m)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra	1943
In the Chapel in the Moonlight	Billy Hill (w/m)	The Bachelors	1965
In the Chapel in the Moonlight	Billy Hill (w/m)	Shep Fields	1936
In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Bing Crosby with Jane Wyman	1951
In the Good Old Summertime	Ren Shields (w), George Evans (m)	Haydn Quartet	1903
In the Middle of a Kiss	Sam Coslow (w/m)	Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis	1935
In the Mood	Andy Razaf, Joe Garland	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1939
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Henry Burr (as Irving Gillette)	1905
In the Still of the Night	Cole Porter (m/w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1937
In the Sweet Bye and Bye	Joseph Philbrick Webster (m), Sanford F. Bennett	Harry MacDonough with John Bieling	1903
In the Valley of Yesterday	Harry Verona (m), Fred C. Farrell (w)	Harry MacDonough	1910
Indian Love Call	Rudolf Friml (m), Otto Harbach (w), Oscar Hammerstein (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1925
Indian Summer	Victor Herbert (m), Al Dubin (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1939
Indiana	James Hanley (m), Ballad MacDonald (w)	Conway's Band	1917
Intermezzo (Souvenir De Vienne)	Robrert Henning (w), Heinz Provost (m)	Guy Lombardo	1941
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall	Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher (w/m)	The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald	1944
Ireland Must Be Heaven for My Mother Came from There	Joe McCarthy (m/w), Howard Johnson (m/w), Fred Fischer (m/w)	Charles Harrison	1916
Is It True What They Say About Dixie	Gerald Marks, Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1936
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't Ma' Baby	Louis Jordan and Billy Austin (w/m)	Louis Jordan	1944
Isle O' Dreams	George Graff Jr. (w), Chauncey Olcott (m)		1912
Isle of Capri	Jimmy Kennedy (w), Will Grosz (m)	Ray Noble with Al Bowlly	1934
Isn't It Romantic?	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Maurice Chevalier with Jeannette MacDonald	1932
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'	Wendell Hall	Wendell Hall	1923
It Ain't Necessarily So	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Leo Reisman	1935
It All Depends on You	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1927
It Can't Be Wrong	Kim Gannon (w), Max Steiner (m)	Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners	1943
It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing	Duke Ellington (m), Irving Mills (w)	Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson	1932
It Had to Be You	Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Isham Jones	1924
It Is No Secret	Stuart Hamblen (w/m)	Jo Stafford	1950
It Isn't Fair	Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer, Sylvester Sprigato	Sammy Kaye with Don Cornell	1950
It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane	Joe Burke (m), Edgar Leslie (w)	Guy Lombardo with Lebert Lombardo	1937
It Might As Well Be Spring	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Dick Haymes with George Stoll's Orchestra	1945
Italian Street Song (Zing, Zing)	Rida Johnson Young (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Lucy Isabelle Marsh & the Victor Light Opera Co.	1911
It's a Big Wide Wonderful World	John Rox	Buddy Clark & Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1949
It's a Grand Night for Singing	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein (w)	Dick Haymes with Earl Hagen's Orchestra	1946
It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary	Jack Judge (m/w), Harry Williams (m/w)	John McCormack	1915
It's a Lovely Day Today	Irving Berlin	Doris Day with George Siravo's Orchestra	1951
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie	Billy Mayhew	Fats Waller	1936
It's All Right with Me	Cole Porter (m/w)		1953
It's Been a Long, Long Time	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Bing Crosby & the Les Paul Trio	1945
It's Been So Long	Harold Adamson (w), Walter Donaldson (m)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Helen Ward	1936
It's Delightful to Be Married	Anna Held (w), V. Scotto (m)		1907
It's De-Lovely	Cole Porter (m/w)		1936
It's Easy to Remember	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Bing Crosby with George Stoll's Orchestra	1935
It's in the Book	Johnny Standley and Art Thorsen (w/m)	Johnny Standley	1952
It's Love, Love, Love	Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney, and Mack David (w/m)	Guy Lombardo with Skip Nelson	1944
It's Magic	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Doris Day	1948
It's Nobody's Business But My Own	Will E. Skidmore (w/m), Marshall Walker (w/m)	Bert Williams	1919
It's Only a Paper Moon	Harold Arlen (m), E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (w), Billy Rose (w)	Ella Fitzgerald with the Delta Rhythm Boys	1945
It's the Talk of the Town	Jerry Livingston (m), Marty Symes (w), Al J. Neiburg (w)	Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent	1933
It's Tulip Time in Holland	Dave Radford (w), Richard A. Whiting (m)	Henry Burr	1915
I've Got a Crush on You	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Frank Sinatra	1948
I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'	Harry Link (m), Thomas "Fats" Waller (m), Billy Rose (w)		1929
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)	Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton	1942
I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams	Johnny Burke (w), James V. Monaco (m)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1938
I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now	Irving Berlin (w/m)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1919
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Les Brown	1948
I've Got Rings on My Fingers	Maurice Scott (m), Weston (w), Barnes (w)	Ada Jones	1909
I've Got the World on a String	Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w)	Cab Calloway	1932
I've Got You Under My Skin	Cole Porter (m/w)	Ray Noble with Al Bowlly	1936
I've Heard That Song Before	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Harry James with Helen Forrest	1943
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Jack Denny with Paul Small	1932

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SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Ja Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing Jing Jing)	Bob Carleton	Arthur Fields	1919
Jalousie (Jealousy)	Jacob Gade (m)	Boston Pops Orchestra with Arthur Fielder	1935
Jambalaya on the Bayou	Hank Williams (w/m)	Hank Williams	1952
Japanese Sandman, The	Richard A. Whiting (m), Ray Egan (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1920
Jazz Me Blues, The	Tom Delaney	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	1921
Jealous	Jack Little (m), Tommie Malie and Dick Finch (w)	Marion Harris	1924
Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time)	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Nat Shilkret (m)	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1928
Jeepers Creepers	Harry Warren (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Al Donahue with Paula Kelly	1938
Jersey Bounce	Bobby Plater, Tiny Bradshaw, Ed Johnson	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Peggy Lee	1942
Jingle Jangle Jingle	Joseph J. Lilley/Fran Loesser	Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway	1942
Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland	Kay Twomey (w), Al Goodhart (m)	Kenny Baker & Harry Sosnik's Orchestra	1942
Johnny One-Note	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis	1937
June in January	Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w)	Bing Crosby with George Stoll's Orchestra	1934
June Is Bustin' Out All Over	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Hildegarde with Guy Lombardo's Orchestra	1945
June Night	Cliff Friend (w), Abel Baer (m)		1924
Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight	M.K. Jerome (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Henry Burr	1918
Just a Gigolo	Loenello Casucci (m), Irving Caeser (w), Julius Brammer (w)	Ted Lewis	1931
Just a Girl That Men Forget	Al Dubin and Fred Rath (w), Joe Garron (m)	Henry Burr	1923
Just a Little Street Where Old Friends Meet	Gus Kahn (w), Harry Woods (m)	Isham Jones with Frank Hazzard	1932
Just a Memory	B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown (w), Ray Henderson (m)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1927
Just an Echo in the Valley	Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly (w/m)	Bing Crosby	1933
Just One More Chance	Arthur Johnston (m), Sam Coslow (w)	Bing Crosby with Victor Young's Orchestra	1931
Just One of Those Things	Cole Porter (m/w)	Richard Himber with Stuart Allen	1935

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SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Ka-Lu-A	Jerome Kern (m), Anne Caldwell (w)	Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown) with Elliott Shaw	1922
Keep It a Secret	Jessie Mae Robinson (w/m)	Jo Stafford	1952
Keep the Home Fires Burning	Lena Guilbert Ford (w), Ivor Novello (m)	James F. Harrison (as Frederick J. Wheeler)	1915
Kiss in the Dark, A	Victor Herbert (m), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Amelita Galli-Curci	1923
Kiss Me Again (If I Were on the Stage)	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Olive Kline	1916
Kiss of Fire	Lester Allen, Robert Hill	Georgia Gibbs	1952
Kiss to Build a Dream On, A	Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver's Orchestra	1951
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine	Joel Newman/traditional (m), Peter Seeger and Lee Hays (w)	Jimmie Rodgers	1957
Kitten on the Keys	Zez Confrey	Zez Confrey	1921
K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)	Geoffrey O'Hara (m/w)	Billy Murray	1918
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)	Forest Wilson, Jake Porter, and Eunice Levy (w/m)	Perry Como	1955

L

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
La Vie En Rose	Edith Piaf (w), Louiguy (m)	Edith Piaf	1950
Lady Is a Tramp, The	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1937
Lady of Spain	Erell Reaves (w), Tochard Evans (m)	Ray Noble	1931
Lady of the Evening	Irving Berlin (w/m)	John Steel	1923
L'Amour Toujours L'Amour (Love Everlasting)	Rudolf Friml (m), Catherine Chisholm Cushing (w)		1922
Lamp Is Low, The	Bert Shefter, Mitchell Parish, Peter DeRose, Maurice Ravel	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1939
Last Night on the Back Porch	Lew Brown (w), Carl Schraubstader (m)	Paul Whiteman & the American Quartet	1923
Last Night Was the End of the World	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)		1912
Last Round-Up, The	Billy Hill (m/w)	George Olsen with Joe Morrison	1933
Last Time I Saw Paris, The	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Kate Smith	1940
Laugh Clown Laugh!	Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young (w), Ted FioRito (m)	Fred Waring	1928
Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside	Ben Raleigh (w), Bernie Wayne (m)	Dinah Shore	1946
Laura	David Raskin (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Woody Herman	1945
Lazy Bones	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Ted Lewis	1933
Learnin' the Blues	Dolores Vicki Silvers	Frank Sinatra	1955
Leave it to Jane	Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w)	Edith Hallor et al	1917
Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella	Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w), Francis Wheeler (w)	Roger Wolfe Kahn with Franklyn Baur	1928
Let It Alone	Alex Rogers (w), Bert Williams (m)	Bert Williams	1906
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Vaughn Monroe	1945
Let Me Call You Sweetheart	Leo Friedman (m/w), Beth Slater Whitson (m/w)	Peerless Quartet	1911
Let Me Go, Lover!	Jenny Lou Carson, Al Hill	Joan Weber	1954
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1937
Let's Dance	Fanny Baldridge (w), Joseph Bonime and Gregory Stone (m)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra	1935
Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love	Cole Porter (m/w)	Irving Aaronson & His Commanders with Jack Armstrong	1929
Let's Face the Music and Dance	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1936
Let's Fall in Love	Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1934
Let's Get Lost	Jimmy McHugh (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Vaughn Monroe with the Four Lee Sisters	1943
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee	Irving Berlin	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	1932
Let's Misbehave	Cole Porter (m/w)	Ben Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot	1928
Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep	Herman Hupfeld (m/w)	Rudy Vallee	1932
Let's Swing It	Charles Tobias and Charles Newman (w), Murray Mencher (m)	Ray Noble & the Freshmen	1935
Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1907
Life Is a Song	Joe Young (w), Fred Ahlert (m)	Ruth Etting	1935
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w)	Rudy Vallee	1931
Lights of My Home Town, The	Charles K. Harris (m/w)	Peerless Quartet	1916
Lights Out (Close Your Eyes and Dream of Me)	Billy Hill (w/m)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1936
Li'l Liza Jane	Countess Ada De Lachau (m/w)	Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band	1917
Linda	Jack Lawrence and Ann Ronell (w/m)	Ray Noble & Buddy Clark	1947
Linger Awhile	Vincent Rose (m), Harry Owens (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1924
Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka "The Mocking Bird")	Septimus Winner as Alice Hawthorne (w), Richard Milburn (m)	John Yorke Atlee	1890
Little Bird Told Me, A	Harvey Brooks (w/m)	Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters	1948
Little Bit Independent, A	Edgar Leslie (w), Joseph A. Burke (m)	Fats Waller	1935
Little Bit of Heaven, A (Shure, They Call It Ireland)	J. Keirn Brennan (b), Ernest R. Ball (m)	George MacFarlane	1915
Little Brown Jug, The	Joseph Eastburn Winner as R.A. Eastburn (m/w)		1869
Little Dutch Mill	Ralph Freed (w), Harry Barris (m)	Bing Crosby with Jimmy Grier's Orchestra	1934
Little Girl Blue	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Janis Joplin	1969
Little Grey Home in the West	Miss D. Eardley-Wilmot (w), Hermann Frederic Lohr (m)	Charles Harrison	1914
Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day	Maurice Siglar and Al Hoffman (w), Mabel Wayne (m)	Emil Coleman with Jerry Cooper	1934
Little on the Lonely Side, A	Dick Robertson, James Cavanaugh, and Frank Weldon (w/m)	Frankie Carle with Paul Allen	1945
Little Pal	B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown (w), Ray Henderson (m)	Al Jolson	1929
Little Things Mean a Lot	Edith Lindeman (w), Carl Stutz (m)	Kitty Kallen with Jack Pleis' Orchestra	1954
Little White Cloud That Cried, The	Johnnie Ray (w/m)	Johnnie Ray	1952
Little White Cloud That Cried, The	Johnnie Ray (w/m)		1952
Little White Lies	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon	1930
Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Gus Kahn (w)	Al Jolson with Bob Haring's Orchestra	1929
Long Ago and Far Away	Jerome Kern (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Dick Haymes with Helen Forrest & Camarata's Orchestra	1944
Look for the Silver Lining	Jerome Kern (m), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Marion Harris	1921
Look Out for Jimmy Valentine	Gus Edwards (m), Edward Madden (w)		1911
Lookout Mountain	Halsey K. Mohr (m), Joe Goodwin (w)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1917
Lost	Johnny Mercer and Macy O. Teetor (w), Phil Obman (m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1936
Lost in a Fog	Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Rudy Vallee	1934
Louise	Richard A. Whiting (m), Leo Robin (w)	Maurice Chevalier with Leonard Joy's Orchestra	1929
Louisiana Hayride	Howard Dietz (w), Arthur Schwartz (m)	Leo Reisman's Orchestra with Arthur Schwartz	1932
Love and Marriage	James Van Heusen	Frank Sinatra	1955
Love for Sale	Cole Porter (m/w)	Libby Holman	1931
Love in Bloom	Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w)	Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson's Orchestra	1934
Love in the Sand			1922
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing	Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster	The Four Aces	1955
Love Is Here to Stay	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Larry Clinton with Bea Wain	1938
Love Is Mine	Edward Teschmacher (w), Clarence G. Gartner (m)	Enrico Caruso	1912
Love Is Sweeping the Country	Ira Gershwin (w), George Gershwin (m)		1931
Love Is the Sweetest Thing	Ray Noble (w/m)	Ray Noble with Al Bowlly	1933
Love Letters in the Sand	Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny, J. Fred Coots	Pat Boone	1957
Love Me and the World Is Mine	Dave Reed Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Henry Burr	1906
Love Me or Leave Me	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Ruth Etting	1929
Love Nest, The	Louis A. Hirsch	John Steel	1920
Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses	John Openshaw	Carl Fenton	1923
Love Somebody	Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney (w/m)	Doris Day & Buddy Clark with George Siravo's Orchestra	1948
Love Thy Neighbor	Mack Gordon (w), Harry Revel (m)	Bing Crosby with Nat Finston's Orchestra	1934
Love Walked In	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan	1938
Loveliest Night of the Year, The	Paul Francis Webster (w), Juventino Rosas (m)	Mario Lanza	1951
Lovely to Look At	Jerome Kern (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1935
Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, A	Jimmy McHugh (m)/Harold Adamson (w)	Frank Sinatra with the Bobby Tucker Singers	1944
Lover	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton	1933
Lover Come Back to Me	Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton	1929
Love's Own Sweet Song	C.C.S. Cushing (w), E.P. Heath (w), Emmerich Kalman (m)	Charles Harrison & Grace Kerns	1914
Lovin' Sam, The Sheik of Alabam'	Jack Yellen (w), Milton Ager (m)	Nora Bayes	1923
Luck Be a Lady	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Frank Sinatra	1965
Lullaby of Broadway	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Bob Crosby	1935
Lullaby of the Leaves	Joe Young (w), Bernice Petkere (m)	George Olsen	1932

M

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Ma Blushin' Rosie	Edgar Smith (w), John Stromberg (m)	Albert Campbell	1900
Ma Tiger Lily	Clay M. Greene (w), A.B. Sloane (m)	Arthur Collins	1900
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me	Sidney Clare (w), Con Conrad (m)	Ted Lewis	1922
Macushla	Dermot MacMurrough (m), Josephine V. Rowe (w)	John McCormack	1910
Mairzy Doats	Milton Drake, Al Hoffman,and Jerry Livingston (w/m)	The Merry Macs	1944
Make Believe	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bing Crosby	1928
Make Believe	Theodore F. Morse	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1908
Make Believe	Benny Davis/Jack Shilkret	Nora Bayes	1921
Make Believe	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)		1927
Make Believe Island	Mary Ann Mercer/Will Grosz	Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra with Mary Ann Mercer	1940
Make 'Em Laugh	Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown	Donald O'Connor	1952
Make Love to Me!	Bill Norvas and Allan Copeland (w), New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Walter Melrose (m)	Jo Stafford	1954
Make Yourself Comfortable	Bob Merrill (w/m)	Sarah Vaughn	1955
Makin' Whoopee	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Eddie Cantor	1929
Mama Inez	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Eliseo Grenet (m)	Maurice Chevalier with Leonard Joy's Orchestra	1931
Mambo Italiano	Bob Merrill (w/m)	Rosemary Clooney & the Mellomen	1954
Mam'selle	Goulding, Edmund (m)/Mack Gordon (w)	Art Lund	1947
Man from the South with a Big Cigar in His Mouth, The	Rube Bloom and Harry Woods (w/m)	Ted Weems with Art Jarrett & Parker Gibbs	1930
Man I Love, The	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Marion Harris	1928
Man That Got Away, The (aka "The Gal That Got Away")	Harold Arlen (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Judy Garland with Ray Heindorf & the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra	1954
Man with the Mandolin, The	James Cavanaugh and John Redmond (w), Frank Weldon (m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Marion Hutton	1939
Managua, Nicaragua	Albert Gamse (w), Irving Fiels (m)	Freddy Martin with Stuart Wade	1947
Manana Is Soon Enough for Me	Peggy Lee, Dave Barbour	Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour's Orchestra	1948
Mandy	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Van & Schenck	1919
Mandy Lee	Thurland Chattaway (m/w)		1899
Manhattan	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Ben Selvin	1925
Mansion of Aching Hearts, The	Arthur J. Lamb (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Harry MacDonough	1902
Many Times	Carl Sigman (English words), Felix Stahl (m)	Eddie Fisher	1953
Maple Leaf Rag	Scott Joplin (m), Sydney Brown (w)	Scott Joplin	1899
Marcheta (A Love Song of Old Mexico)	Victor Schertzinger (m/w)	Olive Kline & Elsie Baker	1922
Margie	Benny Davis, Con Conrad, J. Russell Robinson	Eddie Cantor	1921
Maria Elena	S.K. Russell (w), Lorenzo Barcelata (m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1941
Marianne	Terry Gilkyson, Frank Miller, Richard Dehr	Terry Gilkyson & the Easy Riders	1957
Marie	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1937
Marta (Rambling Rose of the Wildwood)	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Moises Simons (m)	Tracy Arthur	1932
Mary's a Grand Old Name	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Donald Brian	1906
Masquerade	Paul Francis Webster (w), John Jacob Loeb (m)	Ted Black & His Orchestra with Dick Robertson	1932
Maybe	Allan Flynn and Frank Madden (w/m)	The Ink Spots	1940
Me and My Shadow	Dave Dreyer (m), Al Jolson (m), Billy Rose (w)	"Whispering" Jack Smith	1927
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis	Arthur B. Sterling (w), Kerry Mills (m)	Billy Murray	1904
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland	Beth Slater Whitson (w), Leo Friedman (m)	Henry Burr	1910
Melody from the Sky, A	Sidney D. Mitchell (w), Louis Alter (m)	Jan Garber with Leo Bennett	1936
Memories	Egbert Van Alstyne, (m), Gustave Kahn (w)	John Barnes Wells	1916
Memory Lane	B.G. DeSylva (w), Larry Spier and Con Conrad (m)	Fred Waring with Tom Waring	1924
Memphis Blues, The	W.C. Handy (m), George A. Norton, Charles Tobias, Peter DeRose	Prince's Orchestra	1914
Merry Widow Waltz, The	Franz Lehar	Victor Orchestra	1907
Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, The	Cliff Friend, Dave Franklin	Russ Morgan with Jimmie Lewis	1937
Mexicali Rose	Jack B. Tenney/Helen Stone	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1938
Mighty Like a Rose (aka "Mighty Lak' a Rose")	Frank L. Stanton (w), Ethelbert Nevin (m)	George Alexander	1903
Mimi	Richard Rodgers (m)/Lorenz Hart (w)	Maurice Chevalier with Nat Finston's Orchestra	1932
Mine	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Emil Coleman	1933
Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)	Cab Calloway, Irving Mills	Cab Calloway	1931
Misirlou	Bob Russell, Fred Wise, Milton Leeds (English words), Nick Roubanis (m)	Harry James	1941
Miss Annabelle Lee (Who's Wonderful, Who's Marvelous)	Lew Pollack (m), Sidney Clare (w)	Ben Selvin	1927
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I	Harry Tierney (m), Bert Hanlon (w), Benny Ryan (w)	Anna Wheaton	1917
Mississippi Mud	Harry Barris	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Al Rinker, Harry Barris, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Bing Crosby, & Irene Taylor	1928
Missouri Waltz (Hush-A-Bye Ma Baby)	Frederick K. Logan (m), James Royce as James R. Shannon (w)	Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown)	1917
Mister Five by Five	Don Raye (w), Gene DePaul (m)	Harry James	1942
Moanin' Low	Ralph Rainger (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Libby Holman	1929
Mockin' Bird Hill	Vaughn Horton (w/m)	Les Paul & Mary Ford	1951
Moments to Remember	Robert Allen (m), Al Stillman (m)	The Four Lads	1955
Mona Lisa	Jay Livingston (m), Ray Evans (w)	Nat "King" Cole with Les Baxter's Orchestra	1950
Montmartre Rose	Tommy Lyman and C.E. Wheeler (w/m)		1925
Mood Indigo	Duke Ellington (m), Barney Bigard (m), Irving Mills (m/w), Mitchell Parish (w)	Duke Ellington	1931
Moon Got in My Eyes, The		Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1937
Moon Love	Mack David and Mack Davis (w), Andre Kostelanetz (m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1939
Moon Over Miami	Joe Burke (m), Edgar Leslie (w)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1936
Moonglow	Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills	Benny Goodman's Orchestra	1934
Moonlight and Roses Bring Mem'ries of You	Neil Moret (m), Edwin H. Lemare (w), Ben Black (w)	John McCormack	1925
Moonlight Bay	Edward Madden (w), Percy Wenrich (m)	American Quartet	1912
Moonlight Becomes You	Jimmy Van Heusen (m)/Johnny Burke (w)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1942
Moonlight Cocktail	Luckey Roberts (m), Kim Gannon (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle & the Modernaires	1942
Moonlight in Vermont	Karl Suessdorf (m), John Blackburn (w)	Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra with Margaret Whiting	1945
Moonlight on the Ganges	Sherman Myers (m), Chester Wallace (w)	Paul Whiteman with Austin Young	1926
Moonlight Serenade	Glenn Miller (m), Mitchell Parish (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1939
More I See You, The	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)	Dick Haymes	1945
More I See You, The	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)		1945
More Than You Know	Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Billy Rose (w)	Ruth Etting	1929
Most Beautiful Girl in the World, The	Richard Rodgers (m)/Lorenz Hart (w)		1935
M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)	Theodore Morse (m), Howard Johnson (w)	Henry Burr	1916
Mother Machree	Chauncey Olcott (m), Ernest R. Ball (m), Rida Johnson Young (w)	Will Oakland	1911
Mountain Greenery	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Roger Wolfe Kahn	1926
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name		Victor Young	1934
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean	Ed Gallagher, Al Shean	Ed Gallagher & Al Shean	1922
Mr. Sandman	Pat Ballard (w/m)	The Chordettes	1954
Mule Train	Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Fred Glickman (w/m)	Frankie Laine with the Muleskinners	1949
Music Goes 'Round and 'Round, The	Edward Farley (m), Michael Riley (m), Red Hodgson (w)	Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright	1935
Music Maestro Please!	Allie Wrubel (m), Herb Magidson (w)	Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright	1938
Music! Music! Music!	Stephen Weiss, Bernie Baum	Teresa Brewer & the Dixieland All Stars	1950
Muskrat Ramble	Kid Ory	Louis Armstrong	1926
My Adobe Hacienda	Louise Massey and Lee Penny (w/m)	Eddy Howard	1947
My Angel (Angela Mia)	Lew Pollack (w), Erno Rapee (m)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Al Rinker	1928
My Baby Just Cares for Me	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Ted Weems	1930
My Bird of Paradise	Irving Berlin	Peerless Quartet	1915
My Blue Heaven	Walter Donaldson (m), George A. Whiting (w)	Gene Austin	1927
My Buddy	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Henry Burr	1922
My Country 'Tis of Thee (America) (aka "God Save the King")	Samuel Francis Smith (w), Thomas Arne (m)		1831
My Darling My Darling	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Jo Stafford with Gordon MacRae	1948
My Dear	Dave Reed Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Harry MacDonough	1907
My Devotion	Roc Hillman and Johnny Napton (w/m)	Vaughn Monroe	1942
My Dreams Are Getting Bigger All the Time	Mann Curtis (w), Vic Mizzy (m)	Les Brown with Doris Day	1945
My Foolish Heart	Victor Young (m), Ned Washington (w)	Gordon Jenkins with Eileen Wilson	1950
My Funny Valentine	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Hal McIntyre with Ruth Gaylor	1945
My Gal Sal	Paul Dresser (m/w)	Byron G. Harlan	1907
My Happiness	Barney Bergantine (m), Betty Peterson (w)	Jon & Sandra Steele	1948
My Heart Belongs to Daddy	Cole Porter (m/w)	Mary Martin with Eddy Duchin's Orchestra	1939
My Heart Cries for You	Percy Faith (m), Carl Sigman (w)	Guy Mitchell	1950
My Heart Sings (All of a Sudden)	Harold Rome (w), Philippe Herpin (m)	Guy Lombardo with Stuart Foster	1945
My Heart Stood Still	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Al Rinker, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young	1928
My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)	Glen Gray with Eugenie Baird	1943
My Honey's Lovin' Arms	Joseph Meyer (m), Herman Ruby (w)	Isham Jones	1922
My Little Dream Girl	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Anatol Friedland (m)	James F. Harrison & James Reed	1915
My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii	Bill Cogswell, Tom Harrison, and Johnny Noble (w/m)	Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Marcellino	1934
My Mammy	Walter Donaldson (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1921
My Man (Mon Homme)	Maurice Yvain (m), Jacques Mardochee Charles, Albert Willemetz (French lyrics), Channing Pollock (English lyrics)	Fanny Brice & Rosario Bourdon's Orchestra	1922
My Melancholy Baby	Ernie Burnett (m), George A. Norton (w)	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1928
My Moonlight Madonna	Paul Francis Webster (w), Zedenko Fibich (m), adpated by William Scotti	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton	1933
My Old Kentucky Home	Stephen Foster (m/w)	Edison Male Quartette	1898
My Old Kentucky Home	Stephen Foster (m/w)		1853
My Own Iona	Anatol Ferdinand (m), Carey Morgan (m), L. Wolfe Gilbert (w)	Horace Wright & Rene Dietrich	1917
My Own True Love (Tara's Theme)	Mack David, Max Steiner	Leroy Holmes	1954
My Pony Boy	Charley O'Donnell (m), Bobby Heath (w)	Ada Jones	1909
My Prayer (Avant de Mourir)	Georges Boulanger, Carlos Goemz Barrera, Jimmy Kennedy	The Platters	1956
My Reverie	Claude Debussy (m), Larry Clinton (w)	Larry Clinton with Bea Wain	1938
My Romance	Richard Rodgers (m)/Lorenz Hart (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1936
My Rosary of Dreams	E.F. Dusenberry (m/w), C.M. Denison (m/w)		1911
My Shining Hour	Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Glen Gray with Eugenie Baird	1943
My Silent Love	Dana Suesse (m), Edward Heyman (w)	Ruby Newman with Gordon Graham	1932
My Sister and I	Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney (w/m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly	1941
My Sunny Tennessee	Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Herman Ruby	Peerless Quartet	1922
My Sweetie Went Away	Roy Turk (w), Lou Handman (m)	Billy Murray & Ed Smalle	1923
My Time Is Your Time	Leo Dance (m), Eric Little (w)	Rudy Vallee	1929
My Wild Irish Rose	Chauncey Olcott (m/w)	George J. Gaskin	1899

N

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Nature Boy	Eden Ahbez (m/w)	Nat "King" Cole with Frank DeVol's Orchestra	1948
Navajo	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Billy Murray	1904
Near You	Francis Craig (m), Kermit Goell (w)	Francis Craig with Bob Lamm	1947
Nearness of You, The	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Ned Washington (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1940
Nevertheless I'm in Love with You	Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w)	Jack Denny with Rob May	1931
Nevertheless I'm in Love with You	Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w)	Paul Weston & the Normon Luboff Choir	1950
New York, New York	Leonard Bernstein (m)/Betty Comden (w)/Adolph Green (w)	Gene Kelly with Frank Sinatra & Jules Munshin	1949
Nice Work if You Can Get It	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Fred Astaire with Ray Noble's Orchestra	1937
Night and Day	Cole Porter (m/w)	Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman's Orchestra	1932
Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful, The	Dana Suesse (m), Billy Rose and Irving Kahal (w)	George Hall	1936
No No Nora	Ted Fio Rito (m), Ernie Erdman (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Eddie Cantor	1923
No Other Love	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Perry Como with Henri Rene's Orchestra	1953
Nobody	Bert Williams (m), Alex Rogers (w)	Bert Williams	1906
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out	Jimmie Cox	Bessie Smith & Jimmie Cox	1929
Nobody's Little Girl	Jack Drislane (w), Theodore F. Morse (m)	Byron G. Harlan	1907
Nobody's Sweetheart	Elmer Schebel, Erne Erdman, Gus Kahn, Billy Meyers	Isham Jones	1924
Nola	Felix Arndt (m), James F. Burns, Sunny Skylar, and Nola Arndt (w)	Vincent Lopez	1922
Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)	Maewa Kaihau, Dorothy Stewart, Clement Scott (w/m)	Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers	1948

O

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?	Clarence A. Stout (w/m)	Bert Williams	1919
O Katharina!	Fritz Lohner and L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Richard Fall (m)	Ted Lewis	1925
O Mein Papa (Oh My Papa)	John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons (w), Paul Burkhard (m)	Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra	1953
Object of My Affection, The	Pinky Tomlin, Coy Poe, Jimmie Grier	Jimmie Grier & Pinky Tomlin	1934
Oceana Roll, The	Lucien Denni (m), Roger Lewis (w)	Arthur Collins	1911
Of Thee I Sing	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Ben Selvin	1932
Oh Gee, Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, I'm in Love	Ernest Breuer (m), Olsen and Johnson (w)	Eddie Cantor	1923
Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Arthur Fields	1918
Oh How I Miss You Tonight	Mark Fisher and Benny Davis (w), Joe Burke (m)	Ben Selvin (as the Cavaliers)	1925
Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That's Love in Honolulu)	Stanley Murphy (w), Charles McCarron (w), Albert Von Tilzer (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1916
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!	Edward Rose (w), Abraham Olman (m)	American Quartet	1917
Oh Lady Be Good	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1925
Oh Look at Me Now	Joe Bushkin (m), John De Vries (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, & the Pied Pipers	1941
Oh Me! Oh My! Oh You!	Vincent Youmans (m), Arthur Francis (w)	Frank Crumit with the Paul Biese Trio	1921
Oh Promise Me	Reginald DeKoven (m), Clement Scott (w)	George J. Gaskin	1893
Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & the Sportsmen Glee Club	1943
Oh What a Pal Was Mary	Pete Wendling (m), Edgar Leslie (w), Bert Kalmar (w)	Henry Burr	1919
Oh What It Seemed to Be	Frankie Carle, Bennie Benjamin, and George Weiss (w/m)	Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes	1946
Oh You Beautiful Doll	Nat D. Ayer (m), Seymour Brown (w)	Billy Murray & the American Quartet	1911
O-H-I-O (O-My!-O!)	Jack Yellen (w), Abe Olman (m)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1921
Ol' Man River	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1927
Old Grey Mare, The (Whiffle Tree)	Frank Panella (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1918
Old Lamplighter, The	Charles Tobias (w), Nat Simon (m)	Sammy Kaye with Billy Williams	1946
Old Master Painter, The	Haven Gillespie (w), Beasley Smith (m)	Richard Hayes with Mitch Miller's Orchestra	1949
Old Spinning Wheel, The	Billy Hill	Ray Noble with Al Bowlly	1933
Ole Buttermilk Sky	Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Brooks	Kay Kyser & Michael Douglas	1946
On a Slow Boat to China	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood	1948
On a Sunday Afternoon	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	J.W. Myers	1902
On the Alamo	Gilbert Keys (w), Joy Lyons (w), Isham Jones (m)	Isham Jones	1922
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe	Harry Warren (m), Johnny Mercer (w), Kay Thomspon (w), Ralph Blane (w), Roger Edens (w)	Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers	1945
On the Beach at Waikiki	G.H. Stover (w), Henry Kailimai (m)		1915
On the Good Ship Lollipop	Sidney Clare, Richard A. Whiting	Shirley Temple	1934
On the Good Ship Mary Ann	Gus Kahn (w), Grace LeBoy (m)		1914
On the Road to Mandalay	Rudyard Kipling (w), Oley Speaks (m)	Frank Croxton	1913
On the Sunny Side of the Street	Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Ted Lewis	1930
On Top of Old Smoky	traditional	The Weavers with Terry Gilkyson	1951
On Treasure Island	Joe Burke (m), Edgar Leslie (w)	Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright	1935
On Wisconsin!	William T. Purdy (m), Carl Beck	Prince's Orchestra	1915
Once in a While	Michael Edwards (m), Bud Green (w)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra	1937
Once in Love with Amy	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Roy Bolger & Sy Oliver's Orchestra	1949
One Alone	Sigmund Romberg (m), Otto Harbach (w), Oscar Hammerstein (w)	Nat Shilkret	1927
One Dozen Roses	Roger Lewis and Country Washburne (w), Dick Jurgens and Walter Donovan (m)	Harry James & Jimmy Saunders	1942
One for My Baby and One More for the Road	Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Frank Sinatra	1949
One Kiss	Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg	Nat Shilkret	1929
One Night of Love	Gus Kahn (w), Victor Schertzinger (m)	Grace Moore	1934
One O'Clock Jump	Count Basie	Count Basie	1937
One Rose That's Left in My Heart, The	Del Lyon and Lani McIntire (w/m)	Art Kassel with Billy Leach	1937
One Song	Larry Morey (w), Frank Churchill (m)	Artie Shaw	1938
Only Forever	Johnny Burke (w), James V. Monaco (m)	Bing Crosby	1940
Only You and You Alone	Ande Rand, Buck Ram	The Platters	1955
Open the Door, Richard	Dusty Fletcher, John Mason (w), Jack McVea, Dan Howell (m)	Count Basie with Harry Edison & Bill Johnson	1947
Orchids in the Moonlight	Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (w), Vincent Youmans (m)	Rudy Vallee	1934
Original Dixieland One-Step	Dominic James LaRocca		1937
Our Love	Buddy Bernier and Bob Emmerich (w), Larry Clinton (m)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard	1939
Out of Nowhere	Johnny Green (m), Edward Heyman (w)	Bing Crosby with Victor Young's Orchestra	1931
Over the Rainbow	Harold Arlen (m), E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (w)	Judy Garland	1939
Over There	George M. Cohan (m/w)	American Quartet	1917

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SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile	George Powell (aka Charles Asaf) (w), Felix Powell (m)	Knickerbocker Quartet	1917
Pagan Love Song	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Bob Haring with Copley Plaza Orchestra	1929
Palesteena (Lena from Palesteena)	Con Conrad (m), J. Russell Robinson (w)	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	1921
Papa Loves Mambo	Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Bix Reichner	Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1954
Paper Doll	Johnny S. Black	The Mills Brothers	1942
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers	Leon Jessel	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1923
Paradise	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Leo Reisman with Frances Maddux	1932
Paris in the Spring	Mack Gordon (w), Harry Revel (m)	Ray Noble with Al Bowlly	1935
Peanut Vendor, the (El Manicero)	Moises Simons, Marion Sunshine, Gilbert Wolfe	Don Azpiazu with Arturo Machin	1930
Peg O' My Heart	Alfred Bryan (w), Fred Fisher (m)	The Harmonicats	1947
Peggy O'Neil	Harry Pease, Ed. G. Nelson, Gilbert Dodge	Billy Jones (as Victor Roberts)	1921
Pennies from Heaven	Arthur Johnston (m), Johnny Burke (w)	Bing Crosby with George Stoll's Orchestra	1936
Penny Serenade	Hal Halifax (w), Melle Weersma (m)	Guy Lombardo	1939
People Will Say We're in Love	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & the Sportsmen Glee Club	1943
Personality	Johnny Burke (w), Jimmy Van Heusen (m)	Johnny Mercer	1946
Peter Cottontail	Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins	Gene Autry	1950
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie	Clarence "Pine Top" Smith	Clarence "Pinetop" Smith	1929
Pistol Packin' Mama	Al Dexter (w/m)	Al Dexter & His Troops	1943
Play a Simple Melody	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Billy Murray with Edna Brown	1916
Play Fiddle Play	Jack Lawrence (w), Emery Deutsch (m)	Ted Lewis	1932
Play That Barber-Shop Chord	William Tracey (w), Lewis F. Muir (m)	Bert Williams	1910
Playmates	Saxie Dowell	Kay Kyser with Sully Mason	1940
Please	Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w)	Bing Crosby with Anson Weeks' Orchestra	1932
Please Be Kind	Saul Chaplin (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey	1938
Please Be Kind	Saul Chaplin (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Frank Sinatra & Count Basie	1962
Please Mr. Sun	Sid Frank (w), Ray Getzov (m)	Johnnie Ray	1952
Poor Butterfly	Raymond Hubbell (m), John L. Golden (w)	Victor Military Band	1917
Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)	Carmen Lombardo, Stanley Rochinski	Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters	1948
Practice Makes Perfect	Don Roberts and Ernest Gold (w/m)	Bob Chester & His Orchestra with Al Stuart	1940
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Kay Kyser & Glee Club	1942
Preacher and the Bear, The	George Fairman, Joe Arizona (m/w)	Arthur Collins	1905
Precious Little Thing Called Love, A	Lou Davis (w), J. Fred Coots (m)	George Olsen with Ethel Sutta	1929
Pretend	Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman, Frank Lavere (w/m)	Nat "King" Cole with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra	1953
Pretty Baby	Gus Kahn (w), Tony Jackson (m), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Billy Murray	1916
Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, A	Irving Berlin (m/w)	John Steel	1919
Prisoner of Love	Leo Robin, Clarence Gaskill, Russ Columbo	Perry Como	1946
Prisoner's Song, The	Guy Massey	Vernon Dalhart	1924
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet	Stanley Murphy (w), Percy Weinrich (m)	Haydn Quartet	1909
Put the Blame on Mame	Doris Fisher and Allan Roberts (w/m)	Anita Ellis	1946
Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)	Junie McCree (w), Albert Von Tilzer (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1911
Puttin' on the Ritz	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Harry Richman	1930

R

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Rag Mop	Johnnie Lee Wills and Deacon Anderson (w/m)	The Ames Brothers	1950
Ragging the Baby to Sleep	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m)	Al Jolson with Walter B. Rogers' Orchestra	1912
Rags to Riches	Richard Adler, Jerry Ross	Tony Bennett with Percy Faith's Orchestra	1953
Ragtime Cowboy Joe	Grant Clarke, Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams	Bob Roberts	1912
Ramona	Mabel Wayne, L. Wolfe Gilbert	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1928
Ranger's Song, The	Joseph McCarthy (w), Harry Tierney (m)		1926
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Seymour Brown (w), Albert Gumble (m)	American Quartet	1914
Red Roses for a Blue Lady	Sid Tepper, Roy Brodsky	Vaughn Monroe	1949
Red Sails in the Sunset	Jimmy Kennedy (w), Hugh Williams (m)	The Platters	1960
Red Sails in the Sunset	Jimmy Kennedy (w), Hugh Williams (m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1935
Red Wing (An Indian Fable)	Thurland Chattaway (w), Kerry Mills (m)	Frank Stanley & Henry Burr	1907
Remember	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Isham Jones	1925
Remember Me?	Al Dubin (w), Harry Warren (m)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1937
Remember Pearl Harbor	Don Reid (w/m), Sammy Kaye (m)	Sammy Kaye	1942
Rhapsody in Blue	George Gershwin	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with George Gershwin	1924
Rhythm Is Our Business	Sammy Cahn (w), Jimmie Lunceford and Saul Chaplin (m)	Jimmie Lunceford with Willie Smith	1935
Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)	Larry Coleman, Joe Darion, and Norman Gimbel (w/m)	Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis' Orchestra	1953
Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	Stan Jones	Vaughn Monroe	1949
Riff Song, The	Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Sigmund Romberg (m)	Nat Shilkret	1926
Right Church But the Wrong Pew, The	Cecil Mack (w), Chris Smith (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1909
Rio Rita	Harry Tierney (m), Joseph McCarthy (w)	Ben Selvin	1926
Rise 'N Shine	Vincent Youmans (m), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Ramona Davies	1933
River Stay 'Way from My Door	Harry M. Woods (m), Mort Dixon (w)	Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo's Orchestra	1932
Road to Morocco, The	Johnny Burke (w), Jimmy Van Heusen (m)	Bing Crosby & Bob Hope with Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1945
Roamin' in the Gloamin'	Sir Harry Lauder (m/w)	Harry Lauder	1912
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody	Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w), Jean Schwartz (m)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1918
Room Full of Roses, A	Tim Spencer	Sammy Kaye with Don Cornell	1949
Rosalie	Cole Porter (m/w)	Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan	1937
Rosary, The	Ethelbert Nevins (m), Robert Cameron Rogers (w)	William H. Thompson	1902
Rose Marie	Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Rudolf Friml (m)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1925
Rose O'Day (The Filla-Da-Gusha Song)	Charles Tobias (w), Al Lewis (m)	Freddy Martin with Eddie Stone	1942
Rose of Washington Square	James F. Hanley	Kentucky Serenaders	1920
Roses of Picardy	Frederick Weatherly (w), Hayden Wood (m)	Lambert Murphy	1918
Row Row Row!	Jimmy V. Monaco (m), William Jerome (w)	Ada Jones	1913
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Johnny Marks	Gene Autry & the Pinafores	1949
Rum and Coca Cola	Morey Amsterdam (w), Lionel Belasco (m)	The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1945
Runnin' Wild	A. Harrington Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood	Ted Lewis	1923
Russian Lullaby	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Roger Wolfe Kahn with Henry Garden	1927

S

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
S' Wonderful	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Sarah Vaughn	1954
Sailboat in the Moonlight, A	Carmen Lombardo, John Jacob Loeb	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1937
Sam's Song	Lew Quadling, Jack Elliott	Bing Crosby with Gary Crosby & Matty Matlock's Orchestra	1950
San Fernando Valley	Gordon Jenkins (w/m)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1944
San Francisco	J. Gordon Temple, James G. Dewey	Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright	1936
Satan Takes a Holiday	Larry Clinton (w/m)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra	1937
Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Frank Sinatra	1945
Say It Isn't So	Irving Berlin (m/w)	George Olsen with Paul Small	1932
Say It with Music	Irving Berlin	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1921
Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)	Al Stillman and Francia Luban (w), Ernesto Lecuona (m)	The Andrews Sisters	1940
Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)	Al Stillman and Francia Luban (w), Ernesto Lecuona (m)		1940
Says My Heart	Burton Lane (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey	1938
Scatter-Brain	Frankie Masters, Kahn Keene, Carl Bean, Johnny Burke	Frankie Masters	1939
School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)	Gus Edwards (m), Will D. Cobb (w)	Byron G. Harlan	1907
Second Hand Rose	Grant Clarke, James F. Hanley	Fanny Brice & Rosario Bourdon's Orchestra	1922
Secret Love	Sammy Fain (m), Paul Francis Webster (w)	Doris Day	1953
Seems Like Old Times	Carmen Lombardo (m), John Jacob Loeb (w)	Guy Lombardo with Don Rodney	1946
Semper Fidelis	John Philip Sousa (m)	United States Marine Band	1890
Send Me Away with a Smile	Louis Weslyn (m/w), Al Piantadosi (m/w)	John McCormack	1917
Sentimental Journey	Ben Homer, Les Brown, Bud Green	Les Brown with Doris Day	1945
Sentimental Me	Jimmy Cassin (w), Jim Morehead (m)	Ray Anthony with Ronnie Deauville	1950
September in the Rain	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1937
September Song	Kurt Weill (m), Maxwell Anderson (w)	Walter Huston	1939
Serenade	Dorothy Donnelly (w), Sigmund Romberg (m)	Efrem Zimbalist	1921
Shade of the Palm, The	Owen Hall (w), Thomas A. Barrett as Leslie Stuart (m)		1900
Shadow Waltz	Harry Warren (m)/Al Dubin (w)	Bing Crosby with Jimmy Grier's Orchestra	1933
Shake, Rattle and Roll	Charles Calhoun (w/m)	Big Joe Turner	1954
Sh-Boom	William Edwards, Carl Feaster, Claude Feaster, James Keyes, Floyd McRae	The Chords	1954
Sheik of Araby, The	Ted Snyder, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler	Ray Miller	1922
She's a Latin from Manhattan	Al Dubin (w), Harry Warren (m)	Victor Young with Hal Burke & the Tune Twisters	1935
She's Funny That Way	Neil Moret aka Charles N. Daniels (m)/Richard A. Whiting (w)	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1929
Shine on Harvest Moon	Jack Norworth (w), Nora Bayes (m)	Harry MacDonough with Miss Walton	1909
Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy	Sammy Gallop (w), Guy Wood (m)	Stan Kenton & June Christy	1946
Shoo-Shoo Baby	Phil Moore (w/m)	The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1943
Should I?	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Scrappy Lambert	1930
Show Me the Way to Go Home	Irving King (w/m)	Vincent Lopez	1926
Shrimp Boats	Paul Mason Howard and Paul Weston (w/m)	Jo Stafford	1951
Shuffle Off to Buffalo	Al Dubin (w), Harry Warren (m)	Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis	1933
Side by Side	Harry MacGregor Woods	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra & the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, & Harry Barris)	1927
Sierra Sue	Joseph Buell Carey (w/m)	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1940
Silver Threads Among the Gold	Eben E. Rexford (w), Hart Pease Danks (m)	Richard Jose	1904
Sin (It's No Sin)	Chester R. Shull (w), George Hoven (m)	Eddy Howard	1951
Sincerely	Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed	The McGuire Sisters	1954
Sing Sing Sing with a Swing	Louis Prima, Leon Berry	Benny Goodman's Orchestra	1938
Singin' in the Rain	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukelele Ike")	1929
Sioux City Sue	Max C. Freedman (w), Dick Thomas (w)	Bing Crosby & the Jesters with Bob Haggart's Orchestra	1946
Sixteen Tons	Merle Travis	Tennessee Ernie Ford	1955
Sleep	Earl Lebieg (w/m)	Fred Waring	1923
Sleepy Lagoon	Jack Lawrence (w), Eric Coates (m)	Harry James	1942
Sleepy Time Down South	Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse (w/m)		1931
Sleepy Time Gal	Richard A. Whiting, Ange Lorenzo, Joseph Alden, Ray Egan	Ben Bernie & Arthur Fields	1926
Slipping Around	Floyd Tillman	Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely	1949
Slow Poke	Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart	Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys	1951
Small Fry	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer with Victor Young's Orchestra	1938
Smarty (You Know It All)	Burton Lane, Ralph Freed	Fats Waller	1937
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile	Charles O'Flynn and Jack Meskill (w), Max Rich (m)	Ben Selvin with Joe & Don Mooney	1931
Smiles	Lee Roberts (m), J. Will Callahan (w)	Joseph C. Smith with Harry MacDonough	1918
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w)	The Platters	1958
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)	Merle Travis, Tex Williams	Tex Williams	1947
Snuggled on Your Shoulder, Cuddled in Your Arms	Carmen Lombardo and Joe Young (w/m)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1932
Snuggled on Your Shoulder, Cuddled in Your Arms	Carmen Lombardo and Joe Young (w/m)	Kate Smith	1932
So in Love	Cole Porter (m/w)	Patti Page	1949
So in Love	Cole Porter (m/w)		1948
So Long Mary	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Corrine Morgan	1906
So Rare	Jack Sharpe (w), Jerry Herst (m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1937
Soft Lights and Sweet Music	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	1932
Softly As in a Morning Sunrise	Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Larry Young	1928
Solitude	Duke Ellington (m), Eddie DeLange (w), Irving Mills (w)	Duke Ellington	1934
Some Enchanted Evening	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1949
Some of These Days	Shelton Brooks (m/w)	Sophie Tucker	1911
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place	Dick Howard, Bob Ellsworth, and Russ Morgan (w/m)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Peggy Lee	1942
Somebody Loves Me	George Gershwin (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Ballard McDonald (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1924
Somebody Stole My Gal	Leo Woods (w/m)	Ted Weems	1924
Somebody's Coming to My House	Irving Berlin (m/w)		1913
Someday My Prince Will Come	Frank Churchill (m), Larry Morey (w)	Adriana Caselotti	1937
Someday You'll Want Me to Want You	Jimmie Hodges (w/m)	Hoosier Hot Shots with Sally Foster	1946
Someone to Watch Over Me	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Gertrude Lawrence	1926
Something to Remember You By	Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Libby Holman	1930
Something's Gotta Give	Johnny Mercer (m/w)	The McGuire Sisters	1955
Sometimes I'm Happy	Vincent Youmans (m), Irving Caesar (w)	Roger Wolfe Kahn	1927
Somewhere a Voice Is Calling	Arthur F. Tate	John McCormack	1916
Song Is Ended But the Melody Lingers On, The	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ruth Etting	1928
Song Is You, The	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Jack Denny with Paul Small	1932
Song of India	Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1921
Song of Love, The	Dorothy Donnelly (w), Sigmund Romberg (m)	Lucy Isabelle Marsh with Royal Dadmun	1922
Song of Songs (Chanson du Coeur Brise)	Clarence Lucas (w), Maurice Vancaire (w), Harold Vicars as Moya (m)	Grace Kerns	1915
Song of the Islands	Charles E. King (m/w)	Wayne King	1930
Song of the Vagabonds	Brian Hooker (w), Rudolf Friml (m)	Dennis King & the Victor Light Opera Co.	1926
Song of the Volga Boatmen	Russian folk song (w/m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1941
Song That Stole My Heart Away, The	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Henry Burr	1914
Sonny Boy	Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Al Jolson	Al Jolson	1928
Soon	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Bing Crosby with George Stoll's Orchestra	1935
Sophisticated Lady	Duke Ellington (m), Mitchell Parish (w), Irving Mills (w)	Duke Ellington	1933
Sound Off	Willie Lee Duckworth (w/m)	Vaughn Monroe	1951
South America, Take It Away	Harold Rome	Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters & Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1945
South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)	Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr	Shep Fields & Hal Derwin	1939
Spain	Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Isham Jones	1924
Spaniard That Blighted My Life, The	Billy Merson (m/w)	Al Jolson with Walter B. Rogers' Orchestra	1913
Sparrow in the Tree Top	Bob Merrill (w/m)	Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters & Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1951
Speak Low (When You Speak, Love)	Kurt Weill (m), Ogden Nash (w)	Billie Holiday	1943
S'posin'	Paul Denniker (m), Andy Razaf (w)	Rudy Vallee	1929
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year	Frank Loesser (m/w)	Morton Downey with Jimmy Lytell's Orchestra	1944
Springtime of Life, The	Robert B. Smith (w), Victor Herbert (m)		1914
St. George and the Dragonet	Stan Freberg (w), Walter Schumann (m)	Stan Freberg with Daws Butler & June Foray	1953
St. Louis Blues	W.C. Handy (m/w)	Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong	1925
Stairway to the Stars	Matty Malneck (m), Frank Signorelli (m), Mitchell Parish (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1939
Stardust	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Mitchell Parish (w)	Artie Shaw	1941
Stars and Stripes Forever, The	John Philip Sousa (m)	John Philip Sousa	1897
Stars Fell on Alabama	Frank S. Perkins (m), Mitchell Parish (w)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1934
Star-Spangled Banner, The	Francis Scott Key (w), John Stafford Smith		1814
Stay As Sweet As You Are	Mack Gordon, Harry Revel	Jimmie Grier with Harry Foster	1934
Stein Song (University of Maine)	Lincoln Colcord (w), E.A. Fenstad (m) arr. Rudy Vallee	Rudy Vallee	1930
Stompin' at the Savoy	Benny Goodman (m), Edgar Sampson (m), Chick Webb (m), Andy Razaf (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra	1936
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)	Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w)	Ethel Waters	1933
Stout-Hearted Men	Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein (w)	Perry Askam	1930
Strange Music	Robert Wright, George Forrest	James Melton	1944
Stranger in Paradise	Robert Wright, George Forrest	Tony Bennett with Percy Faith's Orchestra	1953
Streets of New York	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Billy Murray	1907
Strike Up the Band	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Red Nichols	1930
String of Pearls, A	Jerry Gray (m), Eddie DeLange (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1942
Strip Polka	Johnny Mercer (w/m)	Kay Kyser with Jack Martin	1942
Stumbling	Zez Confrey	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1922
Sugar Blues	Clarence Williams, Lucy Fletcher	Clyde McCoy	1931
Summertime	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Dubose Heyward (w)	Billie Holiday	1936
Sunbonnet Sue	Will D. Cobb (w), Gus Edwards (m)	Haydn Quartet	1908
Sunday, Monday or Always	Johnny Burke (w), James Van Heusen (m)	Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers	1943
Sunrise Serenade	Frankie Carle, Jack Lawrence	Glen Gray	1939
Sunshine of Your Smile, The	Leonard Cooke (w), Lillian Ray (m)	John McCormack	1916
Surrender	Bennie Benjamin and George Weiss (w/m)	Perry Como with Russ Case's Orchestra	1946
Surrey with the Fringe on Top, The	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Alfred Drake with Jay Blackton's Orchestra	1943
Swanee	George Gershwin (m), Irvng Caesar (w)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1920
Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart)	Richard Gerard Husch as Richard H. Gerard (w), Harry Armstrong (m)	Haydn Quartet with John Bieling & S.H. Dudley	1904
Sweet and Lovely	Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules Lemara (aka Charles N. Daniels)	Gus Arnheim with Donald Norvis	1931
Sweet Georgia Brown	Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard	Ben Bernie	1925
Sweet Leilani	Harry Owens	Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre & His Hawaiians	1937
Sweet Little Buttercup	Herman Paley (m), Alfred Bryan (w)	Elizabeth Spencer & the Shannon Four	1918
Sweet Sue, Just You	Victor Young, Will Harris	Ben Pollack with Franklyn Baur	1928
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, The	Byron D. Stokes, F. Dudleigh Vernor (m)	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	1927
Sweethearts	Robert B. Smith (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Christie MacDonald	1913
Sweethearts on Parade	Carmen Lombardo (m), Charles Newman (w)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1928
Swingin' Down the Lane	Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Isham Jones	1923
Swinging on a Star	Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Johnny Burke (w)	Bing Crosby with the Williams Brothers Quartet and John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1944
Sylvia	Clinton Scollard (w), Oley Speaks (m)		1914
Sympathy	Otto Hauerbach (w), Rudolf Friml (m)	Walter Van Brunt with Helen Clark	1913
Symphony	Jack Lawrence (w), Alex Alstone (m)	Freddy Martin & Clyde Rogers	1945

T

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Take Me Out to the Ball Game	Albert Von Tilzer (m), Jack Norworth (w)	Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet	1908
Take My Heart	Joe Young (w), Fred H. Ahlert (m)	Eddy Duchin with Jerry Cooper	1936
Taking a Chance on Love	Vernon Duke (m), Ted Fetter (w), John Latouche (w)	Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest	1940
Tale of a Bumble Bee, The	Frank Pixley (m)	Harry MacDonough	1901
Talk of the Town, The	Chester Cohn, Gus Kahn	Ted Weems	1933
Tangerine	Victor Schertzinger (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell	1942
Tea for Two	Vincent Youmans (m), Irving Caesar (w)	Marion Harris	1925
Teach Me Tonight	Gene DePaul (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	Dinah Washington	1954
Tell Me Pretty Maiden	Owen Hall (w), Leslie Stuart (m)	Harry MacDonough with Grace Spencer	1901
Tell Me That You Love Me	Al Silverman (w), Cesare A. Bixio (m)	Freddy Martin	1935
Temptation (Tim-Tay-Shun)	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Red Ingle & the Natural Seven with Jo Stafford	1947
Temptation (Tim-Tay-Shun)	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Artie Shaw	1940
Ten Cents a Dance	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Ruth Etting	1930
Ten Little FIngers and Ten Little Toes Down in Tennessee	Harry Pease (w), Johnny White (w), Ira Schuster and Ed G. Nelson (m)	Irving Kaufman	1922
Tenderly	Walter Gross (m), Jack Lawrence (w)	Rosemary Clooney	1952
Tennessee Waltz	Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart	Patti Page	1950
Thanks for Everything	Mitchell Parish (w), Matty Malneck and Frank Signorelli (m)	Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest	1939
Thanks for the Memory	Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w)	Shep Fields with Bob Goday	1937
That Haunting Melody	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Al Jolson with Walter B. Rogers' Orchestra	1912
That International Rag	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Victor Military Band	1914
That Lucky Old Sun	Beasley Smith (m), Haven Gillespie (w)	Frankie Laine with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires & Harry Geller's Orchestra	1949
That Old Black Magic	Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Skip Nelson	1943
That Old Feeling	Sammy Fain (m), Lew Brown (w)	Shep Fields with Bob Goday	1937
That Old Gang of Mine	Billy Rose and Mort Dixon (w), Ray Henderson (m)	Billy Murray & Ed Smalle	1923
That's All I Want from You	M. Rotha (w/m)	Jaye P. Morgan	1955
That's Amore	Jack Brooks, Harry Warren	Dean Martin	1953
That's A-Plenty	Henry Creamer (w), Bert A. Williams (m)	Arthur Collins	1909
That's Entertainment	Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Fred Astaire	1953
That's for Me	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Jo Stafford	1945
That's My Desire	Helmy Kresa (m), Carroll Loveday (m)	Frankie Laine	1947
That's My Weakness Now	Sam Stept (m), Bud Green (w)	Helen Kane with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1928
That's Why They Call Me "Shine"	Cecil Mack (w), Ford Dabney (m)	Aida Overton Walker	1910
There Are Such Things	Abel Baer and Stanley Adams (w), George W. Meyer (m)	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers	1942
There I Go	Hy Zaret (w), Irving Weiser (m)	Vaughn Monroe	1940
There Must Be a Way	Sammy Gallop, David Saxon, and Robert Cook (w/m)	Charlie Spivak	1945
There Never Was a Girl Like You	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Byron G. Harlan	1908
There Never Was a Girl Like You	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Harry MacDonough	1909
There Never Was a Girl Like You	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	James McCool	1906
There Ought to Be a Moonlight Saving Time	Irving Kahal and Harry Richman (w/m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1931
There! I've Said It Again	Redd Evans, Dave Mann	Vaughn Monroe	1945
There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin When the Yanks Go Marching In	John DeVries (w), Joe Bushkin (m)	Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters & Vic Schoen's Orchestra	1944
There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover	Nat Burton (w), Walter Kent (m)	Kay Kyser	1941
There'll Be Some Changes Made	W. Benton Overstreet (m), Billy Higgins (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Louise Tobin	1941
There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway	Howard Johnson (w), Fred Fisher (m)	Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown)	1916
There's a Gold Mine in the Sky	Charles and Nick Kenny (w/m)	Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton	1937
There's a Long, Long Trail	Stoddard King, Zo Elliott	James F. Harrison & James Reed	1915
There's a Quaker Down in Quaker Town	David Berg (w), Alfred Solman (m)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1916
There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder	Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer	Al Jolson	1928
There's a Small Hotel	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Hal Kemp & Maxine Grey	1936
There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere	Paul Roberts, Shelby Darnell	Elton Britt	1942
There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie	Jack Meskill, Harry Richman, Pete Wendling	Harry Richman	1930
There's No Business Like Show Business	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Ethel Merman	1946
There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays	Bob Allen, Al Stillman	Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra	1954
These Foolish Things Remind Me of You	Harry Link (m)/Jack Strachey (m)/Eric Maschwitz, aka Holt Marvel (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Helen Ward	1936
They Call the Wind Maria	Frederick Loewe (m), Alan J. Jerner (w)	Mariners	1951
They Can't Take That Away from Me	George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1937
They Didn't Believe Me	Jerome Kern (m), Herbert Reynolds (w)	Harry MacDonough with Olive Kline (as Alice Green)	1915
They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me	Fred Fisher (m), Joe McCarthy (w)	Marion Harris	1917
They Say	Ed Heyman (w), Paul Mann and Stephen Weiss (m)	Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest	1938
They Say It's Wonderful	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Frank Sinatra	1946
They're Either Too Young or Too Old	Arthur Schwartz (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Kitty Kallen	1943
They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii	Joe Goodwin (w), Halsey K. Mohr (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1917
Thine Alone	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)		1917
Thing, The	Charles R. Grean (w/m)	Phil Harris with Walter Scharf's Orchestra	1950
Third Man Theme, The	Anton Karas	Anton Karas	1950
This Is the Army, Mr. Jones	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Horace Heidt	1943
This Is the Life	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Peerless Quartet	1914
This Love of Mine	Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Frank Sinatra, et al	Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra	1941
This Ole House	Stuart Hamblen (w/m)	Rosemary Clooney	1954
This Year's Kisses	Irving Berlin (w/m)	Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis	1937
Thou Swell	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Ben Selvin (as the Broadway Nitelites)	1928
Three Coins in the Fountain	Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w)	The Four Aces with Jack Pleis' Orchestra	1954
Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)	Saxie Dowell (w/m)	Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt, Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble	1939
Three Little Words	Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w)	Duke Ellington with the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker & Harry Barris)	1930
Three O'Clock in the Morning	Dorothy Terriss, Julian Robledo	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1922
Through the Years	Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Heyman (w)		1931
Tico Tico	Ervin Drake (w), Zequinha Abreu (m)	The Andrews Sisters	1944
Tiger Rag	Original Dixieland Jazz Band (m), Harry DeCosta	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	1918
Til Reveille	Bobby Worth (w), Stanley Cowan (m)	Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt, Ginny Simms, Max Williams, & Jack Martin	1941
Till I Waltz Again with You	Sidney Prosen	Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis' Orchestra	1952
Till the Clouds Roll By	Jerome Kern (m/w), P.G. Wodehouse (w), Guy Bolton (w)	Anna Wheaton with James Harrod	1917
Till the End of Time	Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman (w/m)	Perry Como with Russ Case's Orchestra	1945
Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold	George Graff Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Alan Turner	1912
Till We Meet Again	Richard A. Whiting (m), Raymond B. Egan (w)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1919
Time on My Hands (You in My Arms)	Vincent Youmans (m), Harold Adamson (w), Mack Gordon (w)	Smith Ballew & His Orchestra	1931
Tip Toe Through the Tulips	Joe Burke (m), Al Dubin (w)	Nick Lucas	1929
Ti-Pi-Tin	Raymond Leveen (w), Maria Grever (m)	Horace Heidt with Lysbeth Hughes & Larry Cotton	1938
To Each His Own	Ray Evans (w), Jay Livingston (m)	Eddy Howard	1946
To the End of the World with You	George Graff Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Henry Burr	1909
Together	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Jack Fulton	1928
Tonight We Love (Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor)	Bobby Worth (w), Ray Austin and Freddy Martin (m)	Tony Martin	1941
Tonight You Belong to Me	Lee David, Billy Rose	Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1927
Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat for Me)	Arthur Richardson, Ross MacLean	Arthur Godfrey	1947
Too Many Tears	Al Dubin (w), Harry Warren (m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1932
Too Marvelous for Words	Richard A. Whiting (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra	1937
Too Young	Sid Lippman (m), Sylvia Dee (w)	Nat "King" Cole with Les Baxter's Orchestra	1951
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)	James R. Shannon (m/w)	Chauncey Olcott	1913
Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo-Bye!)	Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo	Al Jolson	1922
Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1935
Touch of Your Hand, The	Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w)	Leo Reisman	1934
Toyland	Glen MacDonough (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Corrine Morgan with the Haydn Quartet	1904
Trade Winds	Charles Tobias (w), Cliff Friend (m)	Bing Crosby with Dick McIntyre's Orchestra	1940
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The	Ballard MacDonald (w), Harry Carroll (m)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1913
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!	Victor Herbert (m), Rida Johnson Young (w)		1910
Tree in the Meadow, A	Billy Reid (w/m)	Margaret Whiting	1948
Trolley Song, The	Ralph Blane (m), Hugh Martin (w)	Judy Garland with George Stoll's Orchestra	1944
Truckin'	Ted Koehler (w), Rube Bloom (m)	Fats Waller	1935
Try a Little Tenderness	Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelley	Otis Redding	1966
Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old 'Tucky Home	George W. Meyer (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Vernon Dalhart with the Criterion Trio	1921
Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Bob Nolan	The Sons of the Pioneers	1934
Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday	J. Keirn Brennan (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Orpheus Quartet	1916
Tuxedo Junction	Erskine Hawkins (m), Bill Johnson (m), Julian Dash (m), Buddy Feyne (w)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1940
Tweedle Dee	Winfield Scott	LaVern Baker	1955
Twelfth Street Rag	Euday L. Bowman (m), Andy Razaf (w)	Pee Wee Hunt	1948
Two Cigarettes in the Dark	Paul Francis Webster (w), Lew Pollack (m)	Johnny Green with George Bouler	1934
Two Cigarettes in the Dark	Paul Francis Webster (w), Lew Pollack (m)		1934
Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time (Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt)	Joe Young (w), Robert Stolz (m)		1930
Two Sleepy People	Hoagy Carmichael (m), Frank Loesser (w)	Fats Waller	1938
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena	Mitchell Parish (w), Issachar Mirron and Yehiel Haggiz (m)	The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra	1950

U

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Ukelele Lady	Gus Kahn (w), Richard A. Whiting (m)	Vaughn Deleath	1925
Umbrella Man, The	James Cavanaugh and Larry Stock (w), Vincent Rose (m)	Kay Kyser with Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt	1938
Unchained Melody	Alex North (m), Hy Zaret (w)	The Righteous Brothers	1965
Under Any Old Flag at All	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Billy Murray	1908
Under the Bamboo Tree	Robert Cole, J. Rosamund Johnson	Arthur Collins	1902
Under the Yum Yum Tree	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1911
Unforgettable	Irving Gordon (m/w)	Natalie Cole & Nat "King" Cole	1991
Until the Real Thing Comes Along	Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L.E. Freeman	Andy Kirk & Pha Terrell	1936

V

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Valencia (A Song of Spain)	Clifford Grey (w), John Padilla (m)	Paul Whiteman with Franklyn Baur	1926
Varsity Drag, The	Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w)	George Olsen	1927
Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)	Larry Russell, Inez James, Buddy Pepper	Les Paul & Mary Ford	1953
Very Thought of You, The	Ray Noble (m/w)	Ray Noble with Al Bowlly	1934
Vesti La Giubba	Ruggero Leoncavallo (m/w)	Mario Lanza	1951
Vieni, Vieni	Rudy Vallee (w), Vincent Scotto (m)	Rudy Vallee	1937
Vienna Dreams (Wien, du Stadt Meiner Traume)	Rudolf Sieczynski (m)		1937

W

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Wabash Blues	Fred Meinken	Isham Jones	1921
Wagon Wheels	Peter DeRose (w), Billy Hill (m)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bob Lawrence	1934
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Byron G. Harlan	1906
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee	L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m)	Heidelberg Quintet	1912
Wake the Town and Tell the People	Jerry Livingston (m), Sammy Gallop (w)	Minday Carson	1955
Walking My Baby Back Home	Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w)	Charleston Chasers (as Johnny Walker & His Orchestra)	1931
Wallflower, The (Roll with Me Henry)	James Etta Rogers, Phyliss Otis	Etta James & the Peaches	1955
Waltz Me Around Again, Willie	Will D. Cobb (w), Ren Shields (m)	Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet	1906
Wang Wang Blues	Leo Wood, Gus Mueller, "Buster" Johnson, Henry Busse	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1920
Wanted	Jack Fulton and Lois Steele (w/m)	Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra	1954
Wanting You	Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Robert Mission with Marianne Beaunoir	1928
Warsaw Concerto	Richard Addinsell (m)	Freddy Martin	1943
Washington and Lee Swing	C.A. Robbins (w), Thornton Whitney Allen (m), Mark W. Sheafe (m)	Meyer Davis	1925
Way Down in Old Indiana	Paul Dresser (m/w)	J.W. Myers	1902
Way Down South	George Fairman (m)	Heidelberg Quintet	1912
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Turner Layton, Henry Creamer	Peerless Quartet	1922
Way Out Yonder in the Golden West	Percy Wenrich (m/w)	Avon Comedy Four	1916
Way You Look Tonight, The	Jerome Kern (m), Dorothy Fields (w)	Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra	1936
We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	Robert Sour (w), Henry Manners (m)		1940
We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye	Harry Woods (w/m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1932
We Kiss in a Shadow	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Frank Sinatra	1951
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)	Sammy Mysels, Dick Robertson and Nelson Cogane (w/m)	The Ink Spots	1940
Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine	Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w), Willie Raskin (w)	Gene Austin with Ed Smalle & Dick Robertson & Leonard Joy's Ochestra	1929
Wedding of the Painted Doll, The	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Leo Reisman's Orchestra with Lew Conrad	1929
We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock	Max Freedman, Jimmy DeKnight	Bill Haley & His Comets	1954
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes	María Grever (m), Stanley Adams (w)	Dinah Washington	1959
What Is This Thing Called Love?	Cole Porter (m/w)	Leo Reisman	1930
What You Goin' to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round? (Rufus Rastas Johnson Brown)	Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m)	Arthur Collins	1905
Whatever Lola Wants	Richard Adler, Jerry Ross	Alma Cogan	1957
What'll I Do?	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1924
What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You?	Coy Poe and Jimmie Grier (w), Truman "Pinky" Tomlin and Earl Hatch (m)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1935
Wheel of Fortune	Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss	Kay Starr	1952
Wheel of Fortune	Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss		1952
When Chloe Sings a Song	Edgar Smith (w), John Stromberg (m)	George J. Gaskin	1900
When Did You Leave Heaven?	Richard A. Whiting (m), Walter Bullock (w)	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1936
When I Grow Too Old to Dream	Sigmund Romberg (m)/Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent	1935
When I Leave the World Behind	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Henry Burr	1915
When I Lost You	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Henry Burr	1913
When I Take My Sugar to Tea	Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman	The Boswell Sisters & the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra	1931
When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	1912
When I'm with You	Mack Gordon (w), Harry Revel (m)	Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis	1936
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling	Chauncey Olcott (w) George Graff Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Chauncey Olcott	1913
When It's Springtime in the Rockies	Mary Hale Woolsey and Milton Taggart (w), Robert Sauer (m)	Ben Selvin	1930
When My Baby Smiles at Me	Bill Munro (m), Andrew B. Sterling (w), Ted Lewis (w)	Ted Lewis	1920
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street	Jimmy McHugh (m), Gene Austin (w), Irving Mills (w)	Aileen Stanley with Gene Austin & Nat Shilkret's Orchestra	1925
When Reuben Comes to Town	J. Cheever Goodwin (w), Maurice Levi (m)	S.H. Dudley	1901
When the Lights Go on Again All Over the World	Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, and Bennie Benjamin (w/m)	Vaughn Monroe	1942
When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	1913
When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain	Harry Woods, Howard Johnson, Kate Smith	Kate Smith	1931
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along	Harry M. Woods (m/w)	Al Jolson with Carl Fenton's Orchestra	1926
When the Saints Go Marching In	James M. Black/Katharine E. Purvis		1896
When We Are Dancing I Get Ideas	Dorcas Cochran (w), Julio C. Sanders (m)	Tony Martin	1951
When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1908
When We're Alone (Penthouse Serenade)	Will Jason, Val Burton	Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Frank Luther	1932
When You Were Sweet Sixteen	James Thornton (m/w)	George J. Gaskin	1900
When You Were Sweet Sixteen	James Thornton (m/w)		1898
When You Wish Upon a Star	Leigh Harline (m), Ned Washington (w)	Cliff Edwards with the Ken Darby Singers & Victor Young's Orchestra	1940
When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose	Jack Mahoney (w), Percy Weinrich (m)	American Quartet	1914
When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver	Charles Tobias (w), Peter DeRose (m)	Frank Luther & Carson Robison	1931
When You're a Long, Long Way from Home	Sam M. Lewis (w), George M. Meyer (m)	Henry Burr	1914
When You're Away	Henry Blossom (w), Victor Herbert (m)	Olive Kline	1915
When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles with You	Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay	Seger Ellis	1928
When Yuba Plays Rumba on the Tuba	Herman Hupfield (w/m)	Rudy Vallee	1931
Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?	George W. Meyer (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1916
Where Did You Get That Girl?	Bert Kalmar (w), Harry Puck (m)	Walter Van Brunt	1913
Where Is Your Heart (Song from "Moulin Rouge")	William Engvick (w), George Aurie (m)	Percy Faith's Orchestra with Felicia Sanders	1953
Where or When	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Hal Kemp with Bob Allen	1937
Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day	Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w), Bing Crosby (w)	Bing Crosby	1932
Where the Morning Glories Grow	Gus Kahn (w), Raymond Egan (w), Richard A. Whiting (m)	Elizabeth Spencer & the Sterling Trio	1918
Where the River Shannon Flows (new version)	James I. Russell (m/w)	Harry MacDonough	1910
Where Was I?	Al Dubin (w), Frankie Harling (m)	Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra with Mary Ann McCall	1940
Whiffenpoof Song, The	Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy, Tod B. Galloway	Bing Crosby with Fred Waring's Glee Club	1947
Whip-Poor-Will	Jerome Kern (m), Buddy DeSylva (w)	Isham Jones	1921
Whispering	John Schonberger (w), Richard Coburn (w), Vincent Rose (m)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1920
Whispering	John Schonberger (w), Richard Coburn (w), Vincent Rose (m)		1920
Whispers in the Dark	Leo Robin (w), Fred Hollander (m)	Bob Crosby's Orchestra with Kay Weber	1937
Whistle While You Work	Morey, Churchill	Seven Dwarfs	1937
Whistler and His Dog, The	Arthor Pryor (m)	Prince's Orchestra	1905
White Christmas	Irving Berlin (m/w)	Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & John Scott Trotter's Orchestra	1942
Who Wouldn't Love You	Carl Fisher (m), Bill Carey (w)	Kay Kyser with Trudy Babbitt & Harry Babbitt	1942
Who?	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Otto Harbach (w)	George Olsen	1926
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?	Frank E. Churhill, Ann Ronnell	Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Florence Case, Frank Sherryl, & Charles Yontz	1933
Who's Sorry Now?	Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w), Ted Snyder (w)	Connie Francis	1958
Why Do I Love You?	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Nat Shilkret	1928
Why Don't You Believe Me	Lew Douglas, King Laney, Roy Roddle	Joni James with Lew Douglas's Orchestra	1952
Why Was I Born?	Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Libby Holman	1930
Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?	James J. Walker (w), Ernest R. Ball (m)	Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough	1906
Winter Wonderland	Felix Bernard (m), Richard B. Smith (w)	Guy Lombardo	1934
Wise Old Owl, A	Joe Ricardel (w/m)	Al Donahue with Dee Keating	1941
Wish You Were Here	Harold Rome	Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra	1952
Wishing Will Make It So	Buddy DeSylva (w/m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Ray Eberle	1939
With a Song in My Heart	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Leo Reisman's Orchestra with Ran Weeks	1929
With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming	Mack Gordon (w), Harry Revel (m)	Leo Reisman's Orchestra with George Bueler	1934
With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldn't Do)	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Busse, Henry, & His Orchestra	1937
Without a Song	Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Billy Rose (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bing Crosby	1929
Woman Is Only a Woman, But a Good Cigar Is a Smoke, A	Harry B. Smith (w), Victor Herbert (m)		1905
Wonderful Guy, A	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Mary Martin	1949
Wonderful Guy, A	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Margaret Whiting	1949
Wonderful One	Paul Whiteman and Ferde Grofé (m), Theodora Morse (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	1923
Won't You Come Over to My House?	Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m)	Byron G. Harlan	1907
Woodpecker Song, The	Harold Adamson (w), Eldo di Lazzaro (m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Marion Hutton	1940
Woody Woodpecker	George Tibbles and Ramez Idriss (w/m)	Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood	1948
Words Are Flying	Bennie Benjamin and George Weiss (w/m)		1946
World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, The	Ernest Seitz (m), Gene Lockhart (w)	Isham Jones	1922
Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart?	Wallace Irwin (w), Alfred G. Robyn (m)	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1908

Y

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Yama Yama Man, The	George Collin Davis (w), Karl Hoschna (m)	Ada Jones & the Victor Light Opera Co.	1909
Yankee Doodle Boy	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Billy Murray	1905
Yellow Rose of Texas, The	Don George	Mitch Miller	1955
Yes Sir! That's My Baby	Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w)	Gene Austin & Billy Carpenter	1925
Yes! We Have No Bananas	Frank Silver, Irving Cohn	Billy Jones	1923
Yesterdays	Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w)	Leo Reisman with Frank Luther	1933
Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!	Will D. Cobb (w), John H. Flynn (m)	Blanche Ring	1909
Yoo-Hoo	Al Jolson	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1922
You Always Hurt the One You Love	Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher (w/m)	The Mills Brothers	1944
You and I	Meredith Willson (w/m)	Glenn Miller's Orchestra	1941
You and the Night and the Music	Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w)	Libby Holman with Richard Himber's Orchestra	1935
You Are Love	Jerome Kern (m)/Oscar Hammerstein II (w)		1927
You Are My Lucky Star	Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1935
You Are My Sunshine	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Jimmie Davis	1940
You Belong to Me	Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart	Jo Stafford	1952
You Belong to Me	Harry B. Smith (w), Victor Herbert (m)		1916
You Belong to My Heart	Agustín Lara, Gilbert		1944
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me	Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman	Maurice Chevalier with Leonard Joy's Orchestra	1930
You Call Everybody Darlin'	Sam Martin, Ben Trace, Clem Watts (w/m)	Al Trace & Bob Vincent	1948
You Can't Be True, Dear	Hans Otten/Gerhard Ebeler (German)/Hal Cotten (English)	Ken Griffin & Jeff Wayne	1948
You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming	Dave Franklin and Cliff Friend (w/m)	Teddy Wilson	1937
You Do	Mack Gordon (w), Josef Myrow (m)	Dinah Shore	1947
You Do Something to Me	Cole Porter (m/w)	Leo Reisman	1930
You Go to My Head	J. Fred Coots (m), Haven Gillespie (w)	Larry Clinton with Bea Wain	1938
You Gotta Be a Football Hero to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls	Al Sherman, Buddy Fields, Al Lewis	Ben Bernie	1933
You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)	Jimmy Monaco (m), Joseph McCarthy (w)	Al Jolson with Charles Prince's Orchestra	1913
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby	Harry Warren (m), Johnny Mercer (w)	Bing Crosby with Bob Crosby's Orchestra	1938
You Oughta Be in Pictures (My Star of Stars)	Edward Heyman (w), Dana Suesse (m)	Rudy Vallee	1934
You Took Advantage of Me	Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young	1928
You Turned the Tables on Me	Louis Alter (m), Sidney D. Mitchell (w)	Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Helen Ward	1936
You Walk By	Ben Raleigh (w), Bernie Wayne (m)	Eddy Duchin with Johnny Drake	1941
You Were Meant for Me	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Nat Shilkret with Scrappy Lambert	1929
You Were Meant for Me	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Connee Boswell & Victor Young's Orchestra	1948
You Were Meant for Me	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	Ben Selvin	1929
You Were Meant for Me	Sissle/Blake		1924
You Were Never Lovelier	Jerome Kern (m), Johnny Mercer (w)		1942
You Were Only Fooling When I Was Falling in Love	Larry Fotine (m), Billy Faber (w), Fred Meadows (w)	The Ink Spots	1948
You You You	Robert Mellin (w), Lotar Olias (m)	The Ames Brothers with the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra	1953
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To	Cole Porter (m/w)	Dinah Shore	1943
You'd Be Surprised	Irving Berlin	Eddie Cantor	1920
You'll Never Know	Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w)	Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners	1943
You'll Never Walk Alone	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Frank Sinatra	1945
Young and Foolish	Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt	Edmund Hockridge	1956
Young at Heart	Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards	Frank Sinatra	1954
Younger Than Springtime	Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w)	Billy Tabbert	1949
Your Cheatin' Heart	Hank Williams (m/w)	Hank Williams	1953
You're a Grand Old Flag (aka "The Grand Old Rag)	George M. Cohan (m/w)	Billy Murray	1906
You're a Sweetheart	Jimmy McHugh (m), Harold Adamson (w)	Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol	1938
You're All I Need	Gus Kahn (w), Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann (m)	Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood	1935
You're an Old Smoothie	Richard A. Whiting, Nacio Herb Brown	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Ramona Davies	1933
You're Breaking My Heart	Pat Genaro, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Sunny Skylar	Vic Damone with Glen Osser's Orchestra	1949
You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?)	Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn	Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo	1930
You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me	Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w)	Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Orchestra	1933
You're in Love	Otto Hauerbach (w), Edward Clark (w), Rudolf Friml (m)	Lyric Quartet	1917
You're My Everything	Harry Warren (m)/Mort Dixon (w)/Joe Young (w)	Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Frank Luther	1931
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Ray Henderson	Ben Selvin & Jack Palmer	1928
You're the Top	Cole Porter (m/w)	Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Peggy Healy & John Hauser	1934
Yours (Quiereme Mucho)	Jack Sherr (w), Gonzalo Roig (m)	Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell	1941
You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mama at All	Con Conrad (m), Billy Rose (w)	Dolly Kay with Frank Westphal's Orchestra	1923

Z

SONG	WRITER(S), m = music, w = words	Performer with Highest Rated Version	Year
Zigeuner	Noel Coward	Evelyn Laye	1929
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart	James F. Hanley (m/w)	Judy Garland with George Stoll's Orchestra	1943
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert	James Baskett	1946

Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: lists from critics and individuals Dave’s Music Database: lists from publications and/or organizations Don Tyler (1985). Hit Parade 1920-1955. Quill – William Morrow: New York, NY. Don Tyler (2007). Hit Songs, 1900-1955. McFarland & Company, inc.: Jefferson, North Carolina. First posted 12/7/2022.