The QM Art Deco Ball Music Hit List

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Sounds Of The 1930's

Hit Songs in 1930

Body and Soul
Georgia on My Mind
The Battles of Jericho
Beyond the Blue Horizon
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Embraceable You
I Got Rhythm
Bidin' My Time
Little White Lies
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Love for Sale
St. James Infantry

Top Records in 1930

Tiger Rag by Mills Brothers
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me by Maurice Chevalier
Ten Cents a Dance by Ruth Etting
Let Me Sing and I'm Happy by Al Jolson
Three Little Words by Ipana Troubadours
Puttin' On the Ritz by Leo Reisman
Kansas City Kitty by Rudy Vallee
Sing You Sinners by Smith Ballew

Jazz and Big Bands in 1930

Duke Ellington recorded Mood Indigo. Paul Whitman is still considered the "King of Jazz." Another popular group is the Nichols Band with Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden.

Music in 1931

Hit Songs in 1931

Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Minnie, the Moocher
Mood Indigo
All of Me
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Dancing in the Dark
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Of Thee I Sing
The Thrill is Gone
Lady of Spain
Live is Sweeping the Country

Top Records in 1931

The Peanut Vendor by Don Azpiazu
Where the Blue of the Night by Bing Crosby
Goodnight, Sweetheart by Ruth Etting
When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain by Kate Smith
You Rascal You by Jack Teagarden
Just a Gigolo by Bing Crosby
I Found a Million Dollar Baby by Ben Pollack

Jazz and Big Bands in 1931

Freddie Martin performs at the Bosser Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. 1931 also saw the introduction of Eddie Duchin, Don Redman and Henry Busse.

Music in 1932

Hit Songs in 1932

Night and Day
April in Paris
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
I Told Every Little Star
How Deep Is The Ocean
Granada
You're an Old Smoothie
Forty-Second Street
You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me

Top Records in 1932

New Tiger Rag by Louis Armstrong
Reefer Man and The Man from Harlem by Cab Calloway
If You Were the Only Girl by Rudy Vellee
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing by Duke Ellington

Music in 1933

Hit Songs in 1933

It's Only a Paper Moon
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Lazy Bones
Easter Parade
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Everything I Have Is Yours
Inka Dinka Doo
Lover
Let's Fall in Love
Temptation

Top Records in 1933

Stormy Weather by Ethel Waters
I Cover the Waterfront by Eddy Duchin
Forty-Second Street by Hal Kemp
Gold Diggers' Song by Dick Powell
Honeymoon Hotel by Freddy Martin
Heartaches by Ted Weems
Sophisticated Lady by Duke Ellington

Music in 1934

Hit Songs in 1934

Blue Moon
Anything Goes
Blow, Gabriel, Blow
I Only Have Eyes for You
Cocktails for Two
The Continental
What a Diff'rence a Day Made
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
On the Good Ship Lollipop
You and the Night and the Music
You're the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Isle of Capri
The Very Thought of You

Top Records in 1934

Honeysuckle Rose by Dorsey Brothers
Moonglow by Duke Ellington & Benny Goodman
Limehouse Blues by Fletcher Henderson
Sweet Georgia Brown by Earl Hines
Star Fell On Alabama by Jack Teagarden
Down Yonder by Gil Tanner
The Darktown Strutter's Ball by Luis Russell
Let's Fall in Love by Eddy Duchin

Jazz and Big Bands in 1934

Benny Goodman, 24, brings swing to big audiences on his National Biscuit radio series, "Let's Dance." His band includes Bunny Berigan, Jess Stacy, and Gene Krupa, with arrangements by Fletcher Henderson.

Music in 1935

Hit Songs in 1935

Begin the Beguine
The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
It Ain't Necessarily So
I Got Plenty O' Nuthin'
Lovely to Look At
Red Sails in the Sunset
Stairway to the Stars
Summertime
These Foolish Things Remind Me of You
I Loves You, Porgy
You Are My Lucky Star
When I Grow Too Old to Dream

Top Records in 1935

Cheek to Cheek by Fred Astaire
I'm in the Mood for Love by Frances Langford
It's You I Adore by Russ Morgan
The Oregon Trail by Ozzie Nelson
Lullaby of Broadway by Dick Powell
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart by Victor Young
June in January by Bing Crosby
Footloose and Fancy Free by Dorsey Brothers

Music in 1936

Hit Songs in 1936

I'm an Old Cow Hand
Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
I've Got You Under My Skin
The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful
Sing, Sing, Sing
Stompin' at the Savoy
There's a Small Hotel
W.P.A. Blues
Wiffenpoof Song
You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby

Top Records in 1936

Let's Face the Music and Dance, Let Yourself Go, The Way You Look Tonight and Pick Yourself Up by Fred Estaire
Pennies from Heaven by Bing Crosby
In the Chapel in the Moonlight by Ruth Etting
No Regrets by Billie Holiday
Love is Like a Cigarette and Welcome Stranger by Eddy Duchin
Indian Love Call by Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald

Jazz and Big Bands in 1936

Jo Jones and Buck Clayton join Count Basie. Mildred bailey sings with the new Red Norvo band. Popular boogie-woogie piano includes Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Bob Zurke. Lester Young plays with the Count Basie combo in Chicago.

Music in 1937

Hit Songs from 1937

A Foggy Day
The Donkey Serenade
Harbor Lights
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Whistle While You Work
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Johnny One Note
The Lady Is a Tramp
My Funny Valentine
September in the Rain
Thanks for the Memory
In the Still of the Night
Where or When

Top Records in 1937

Bei mir bist du Schoen by Andrew Sisters
They Can't Take That Away From Me, They All Laughed, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off and Shall We Dance by Fred Estaire
Someone to Care for Me by Deanna Durbin
Ebb Tide by Bunny Berigan
Have You Met Miss Jones? by Sammy Kaye
Sweet Leilani by Bing Crosby & Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians

Jazz and Big Bands in 1937

Benny Goodman records Sing, Sing, Sing. Charlie Parker joins the Jay McShann Band. Mary Lou Williams plays with Andy Kirk's Kansas City Band in New York. Harry James plays with Benny Goodman. Top performers included Hal Kemp, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen Mastren Bob Haggert, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Chu Berry and Harry James.

Music in 1938

Top Songs in 1938

Chiquita Banana
Falling in Love With Love
This Can't Be Love
They Say
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Get Out of Town
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
September Song
Jeepers Creepers
My Reverie
Spring is Here

Top Records in 1938

Love Walked In by Kenny Baker
I Married an Angel by Larry Clinton
It's Wonderful by Shep Fields
Thanks for the Memory and Two Sleepy People by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross
You Go to My Head by Kay Kyser
Love in the Starlight by Dorothy Lamour
One O'Clock Jump by Harry James
Begin the Beguine by Artie Shaw
Jalousie by Boston Pops, Arthur Fiedler
Beer Barrel Polka by Will Glahe
A-Tisket, A-Tasket by Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald
Boogie Woogie by Jimmy Dorsey

Jazz and Big Bands in 1938

Benny Goodman gives his first Carnegie Hall concert. The first John Hammond "From Spirituals to Swing" concert is given at Carnegie Hall with Count Basie and Joe Turner. Billie Holiday joins Artie Shaw's band.

Top performers include Casa Loma, Benny Heller, Bob Haggart, Bob Zurke, Bud Freeman and Harry James.

Music in 1939

Hit Songs in 1939

All the Things You Are
South of the Border
Frenesi
I Concentrate on You
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
I'll Never Smile Again
If I Didn't Care
My Prayer
Brazil
Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead!
Tara's Theme

Top Records in 1939

Oh, Johnny Oh by Orrin Tucker, with Bonnie Baker
Miss Thing by Count Basie
It Don't Mean a Thing by Lionel Hampton
Body and Soul by Coleman Hawkins
Indiana by Earl Hines
Some Like it Hot by Gene Krupa
Little Brown Jug, In the Mood and Sunrise Serenade by Glenn Miller
That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine by Gene Autry
Ciribiribin by Harry James
Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
Tuxedo Junction by Erskine Hawkins
Cherokee by Charlie Parker