| Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
| Artie Shaw |
Nightmare |
Begin the Beguine |
Membran |
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| Henri Salvador |
Bedelia |
Saint-Germain-Des-Pres |
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| Django Reinhardt |
Tea for Two |
The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order |
JSP |
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| Billie Holiday |
I'll Never Be the Same |
Lady Day |
Sony |
|
| Duke Ellington Orchestra |
Chelsea Bridge |
The Blanton Webster Band |
RCA |
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| Duke Ellington Orchestra |
Moon Mist |
The Blanton Webster Band |
RCA |
inst. |
| Sarah Vaughan o/ Count Basie |
I Cried For You |
Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan |
Blue Note |
happy birthday Sarah Vaughan! |
| Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown |
September Song |
Sarah Vaughan + Clifford Brown |
Polygram |
Vaughan said this was her favorite album |
| Sarah Vaughan & Symphony Sid |
Body and Soul, Symphony Sid Wishes Happy Birthday to Sarah Vaughan |
Perdido! Live at Birdland 1953 |
Verve |
live radio broadcast |
| Sarah Vaughan |
Shulie a Bop |
Swingin' Easy |
Mercury |
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| Ella Fitzgerald |
Someone to Watch Over Me |
George and Ira Gershwin Songbook |
Verve |
|
| Frank Sinatra |
One for My Baby |
Only the Lonely |
Capitol |
|
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| Woody Herman |
At the Woodchopper's Ball |
Hits of '39 |
ASV Living Era |
great request! |
| Harry Roy & His Orchestra |
Darktown Strutter's Ball |
Anthology of British Vintage Jazz 1930-1944 |
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| Bob Crosby and the Bobcats |
At the Jazz Band Ball |
At the Jazz Band Ball |
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| Louis Jordan |
Bounce the Ball |
Let the Good Times Roll |
Bear Family |
this is the closest I've got to a song about basketball |
| Les Brown |
Flip Lid |
The Uncollected Les Brown 1944-1946 |
Hindsight |
Brown attended Duke and got his start as a bandleader leading the Duke dance orchestra |
| Doris Day o/ Les Brown |
Dig It |
Complete Recordings with Les Brown |
Jazz Factory |
|
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| Les Brown |
Leap Frog |
Best of the Big Bands |
|
inst. |
| Johnny Long v/ Frances Lane |
Chickery Chick |
Live at the Hotel New Yorker 12/1/1945 |
Collector's Choice |
Long followed Brown as the leader of the Duke dance orchestra in the late 1930s |
| Johnny Long v/ Frances Lane |
As Long as I Live |
Live at the Hotel New Yorker 12/1/1945 |
Collector's Choice |
|
| Johnny Long |
The Continental |
Live at the Hotel New Yorker 12/1/1945 |
Collector's Choice |
|
| Charlie Barnet |
Let's Dance at the Make-Believe Ballroom |
The Golden Age of American Dance Bands |
Jasmine |
|
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| Johnny Long |
Carribean Clipper |
Live at the Hotel New Yorker 12/1/1945 |
Collector's Choice |
inst. |
| Benny Goodman Orchestra |
Swingtime in the Rockies |
Madhattan Room 20 Nov 1937 |
otr-cat.com |
|
| Gene Krupa Orchestra |
Wire Brush Stomp |
Instrumental Mr. Krupa |
Jasmine |
|
| Gene Krupa Orchestra v/ Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge |
Let Me Off Uptown |
Masters of Jazz Female Vocal Classics |
Columbia |
|
| Benny Goodman Quartet |
Avalon |
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert |
Columbia |
|
|
| Benny Goodman Quartet |
'S Wonderful |
I Got Rhyhtm: The Music of George Gershwin |
|
inst. |
| Duke Ellington Orchestra |
Jack the Bear |
The Blanton Webster Band |
RCA |
great request! Always happy to play Ellington |
| Duke Ellington Orchestra |
Ko-Ko |
The Blanton Webster Band |
RCA |
|
| Pearl Bailey |
Saturday Night Fish Fry |
Takes Two to Tango |
ASV |
happy birthday! |
| Pearl Bailey & the Charioteers |
Who? |
The Great American Composers - Jerome Kern |
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| Pearl Bailey & the Charioteers |
Takes Two to Tango |
Takes Two to Tango |
ASV |
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| Eartha Kitt |
Cest Si Bon |
Legendary |
BMG |
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| Julie London |
Sway |
Cha-Cha de Amor |
Capitol |
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| Sammy Davis Jr. o/ Buddy Rich |
Once in Love with Amy |
The Sounds of '66 |
Collector's Choice |
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| Doris Day |
Whatever Will Be, Will Be |
A Day at the Movies |
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happy 91st birthday this coming Friday! |
