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The History of Pop Radio 1920-1951

Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen

Style: Music Hall, Country, Soundtrack, Big Band, Swing, Musical

Country: Germany

Label(s): History (205514)

1.01. Edith Day - Alice Blue Gown 2:52

1.02. Gene Austin & Aileen Stanley - When My Sugar Walks Down the Street 2:41

1.03. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Charleston 2:41

1.04. Gene Austin - Sweet Child I'm Wild About You 3:04

1.05. Fanny Brice - My Man 3:31

1.06. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Whispering 3:19

1.07. Vernon Dalhart - The Prisoner's Song 3:16

1.08. Gene Austin - My Bundle of Love 2:18

1.09. Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians - Collegiate 3:02

1.10. Al Jolson - April Showers 3:00

1.11. Gene Austin - Ya Gotta Know How to Love 2:45

1.12. Gertrude Lawrence - Do Do Do 3:06

1.13. Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders - Black Bottom 3:11

1.14. Gene Austin - Ev'rything's Made for Love 2:58

1.15. George Gershwin & Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Rhapsody in Blue 8:59

1.16. Al Jolson - Toot Toot Tootsie 2:10

1.17. Gene Austin - Ain't She Sweet 2:40

1.18. Nathaniel Shilkret & Victor Symphony Orchestra - Luck Lindy 2:26

1.19. Al Jolson - Blue Skies 2:44

1.20. Gene Austin - The Lonesome Road 3:39

10.1. Billie Holiday - Travlin' Light 3:13

10.10. Webster Booth - Smilin' Through 2:03

10.11. Lena Horne - Honey in the Honeycomb 1:54

10.12. Leslie Hutchinson - You Stepped Out of a Dream 2:46

10.13. Gene Kelly & Judy Garland - For Me and My Gal 3:08

10.14. George Evans - Yankee Doodle Boy 3:13

10.15. Margaret Whiting - That Old Black Magic 2:39

10.16. Tony Martin - Where in the World 3:09

10.17. George Evans - Lamplighter's Serenade 2:58

10.18. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo 3:13

10.19. Dinah Shore - Three Little Sisters 2:09

10.2. R.A.O.C. Blue Rockets - The Girl Who Broke the Sgt. Majors Heart 2:59

10.20. Kay Harding - Green Eyes 3:01

10.3. The Nat King Cole Trio - All for You 3:22

10.4. Johnny Mercer - They Didn't Believe Me 2:46

10.5. Ella Mae Morse - Shoo Shoo Baby 3:15

10.6. Lena Horne - Life's Full O'Consequences 1:50

10.7. Carroll Gibbons - You Walk By 3:05

10.8. Paul Robeson - Absent 2:04

10.9. Tex Ritter - Jingle Jangle (I've Got Spurs That...) 2:46

11.01. Frank Sinatra - Night and Day 3:06

11.02. Xavier Cugat - Brazil 2:46

11.03. Jo Stafford - It Could Happen to You 3:04

11.04. Nat King Cole - Sweet Lorraine 3:07

11.05. Ella Mae Morse - No Love, No Nothin 2:35

11.06. Fred Astaire - One for My Baby 4:58

11.07. Georgina - Always in My Heart 3:04

11.08. Billy Eckstine - Skylark 3:06

11.09. Bing Crosby - Deep in the Heart of Texas 2:41

11.10. Marjorie Kingsley - Miss You 2:35

11.11. Carl Grayson - Cocktails for Two 2:57

11.12. Joya Sherrill - I'm Beginning to See the Light 3:12

11.13. Carmen Mastren & Ray McKinley - Pistol Packin' Mama 3:06

11.14. Doris Day - Sentimental Journey 3:11

11.15. Liza Morrow - Symphony 3:07

11.16. Wynonie Harris - Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well 2:58

11.17. Nat King Cole - Bring Another Drink 2:18

11.18. Sarah Vaughan - No Smoke Blues 2:27

11.19. The Pied Pipers - The Trolley Song 2:59

11.20. Jo Stafford - I'll Be with You 3:04

12.01. Dottie Reid - It's Only a Paper Moon 2:49

12.02. Jo Stafford - There's No You 3:15

12.03. Nat King Cole - Don't Blame Me 3:22

12.04. Louis Jordan - Caldonia 2:41

12.05. June Christy - Tampico 2:41

12.06. Bob Wills - Roly Poly 2:35

12.07. Doris Day - You Won't Be Satisfied 3:03

12.08. Champion Jack Dupree - Let's Have a Ball 2:23

12.09. June Christy - Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' 2:34

12.10. Danny Kaye - Ballin' the Jack 2:18

12.11. Margaret Whiting & Gerry Gray - Guilty 3:10

12.12. Nat King Cole - Baby, Baby All the Time 3:00

12.13. Buddy Clark & Anita Gordon - Linda 3:15

12.14. Sarah Vaughan - Don't Blame Me 3:46

12.15. Merle Travis - Cincinnati Lou 2:35

12.16. Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie 2:44

12.17. Dinah Shore - Doin' What Comes Natur'lly 3:10

12.18. Tex Williams - I Got Texas in My Soul 2:56

12.19. Peggy Lee - Everything's Moving too Fast 2:58

12.20. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's Allright 2:52

13.01. Dick Haymes - Little White Lies 3:14

13.02. Doris Day - Love Somebody 3:01

13.03. Frankie Laine - That's My Desire 2:46

13.04. Art Lund - Mam'selle 3:15

13.05. Margaret Whiting - A Tree in the Meadow 2:38

13.06. Wynonie Harris - Good Rocking Tonight 2:45

13.07. Bob Lamm - Near You 2:51

13.08. Doris Day & Buddy Clark - Confess 2:57

13.09. James Baskett - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 2:16

13.10. Betty Hutton - I Wish I Didn't Love You So 3:03

13.11. Evelyn Knight - A Little Bird Told Me 2:36

13.12. Doris Day - It's Magic 3:25

13.13. Al Jolson - Carolina in the Morning 2:33

13.14. Dinah Shore - Buttons and Bows 2:01

13.15. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Woody Woodpecker Song 3:02

13.16. Ray Kellogg - Far Away Island 2:52

13.17. Blue Lu Barker - Here's a Little Girl 3:14

13.18. June Christy - Day Dream 2:44

13.19. Dinah Shore - Lavender Blue 3:05

13.20. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - On a Slow Boat to China 3:17

14.01. Johnnie Lee Wills - Rag Mop 2:51

14.02. Fats Domino - The Fat Man 2:35

14.03. B.B. King - Take a Swing with Me 2:34

14.04. Stick McGhee - Venus 2:31

14.05. Dave Bartholomew - Ain't Gonna Do It 2:28

14.06. Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark - Baby It's Cold Outside 2:19

14.07. Ezio Pinza - Some Enchanted Evening 2:57

14.08. Doris Day - Again 2:45

14.09. Benny Strong - I Never See Maggie Alone 2:43

14.10. Marilyn Monroe - Every Baby Needs a Da-Da-Daddy 2:55

14.11. Moon Mullican - Ain't Get No Grindin' 2:35

14.12. Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry 4:38

14.13. Dan Pickett - Baby Don't You Want to Go 2:14

14.14. Dinah Shore - Dear Hearts and Gentle People 2:39

14.15. Marjorie Hughes - Cruisin' Down the River 2:50

14.16. Gene Autry - Mule Train 2:29

14.17. Perry Como - Far Away Places 3:01

14.18. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras in New Orleans 2:23

14.19. Wynonie Harris - All She Wants to Do Is Rock 2:31

14.20. Dinah Washington - It's too Soon to Know 2:39

15.01. The Ames Brothers - Music Music Music 2:36

15.02. The Nat King Cole Trio - Route 66 3:40

15.03. Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz 3:01

15.04. Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'll Never Be Free 2:34

15.05. Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries for You 2:46

15.06. Don Cherry - Band of Gold 2:34

15.07. Mel Tormé - Bewitched 3:17

15.08. Peggy Lee - Riders in the Sky 2:40

15.09. Teresa Brewer - Music Music Music 2:35

15.10. Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa 3:23

15.11. Tony Bennett - Because of You 2:59

15.12. Rosemary Clooney - Come-On-A My House 1:59

15.13. Johnnie Ray - Cry 3:03

15.14. Guy Mitchell - The Roving Kind 2:47

15.15. Patti Page - Mister and Mississippi 3:08

15.16. Tony Bennett - Cold Cold Heart 2:37

15.17. Dinah Shore - Anniversary Song 3:03

15.18. Frankie Laine - Jealousy 3:15

15.19. Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much 2:49

15.20. Tennessee Ernie Ford - The Shot Gun Boogie 2:33

2.01. Gene Austin - My Blue Heaven 3:33

2.02. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy 3:08

2.03. Al Jolson - I'm Sitting on the Top of the World 1:41

2.04. Fran Frey & George Olsen's Music - The Varsity Drag 3:04

2.05. Gene Austin - The Voice of the Southland 2:48

2.06. Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra - My Pretty Girl 2:37

2.07. Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Loved by You 2:46

2.08. Irving Aaronson and His Commanders - Let's Misbehave 2:51

2.09. Gene Austin - Carolina Moon 2:57

2.10. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie & Johnny 3:21

2.11. Dolores Del Rio - Ramona 3:30

2.12. Eddie Cantor - Makin' Whoopee 3:06

2.13. The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks - Little Orphan Annie 3:14

2.14. Grayson & Whitter - Tom Dooley 3:05

2.15. Al Jolson - Give My Regards to Broadway 2:34

2.16. Gene Austin - I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling 2:49

2.17. Maurice Chevalier - Louise 3:14

2.18. Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders - If I Had a Talking Picture of You 2:38

2.19. Al Jolson - Why Do They All Take the Night Boat to Albany 1:25

2.20. Gene Austin - Ramona 2:54

3.01. Fanny Brice - Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love 2:31

3.02. Lou Levin - Happy Days Are Here Again 2:38

3.03. Rudy Vallee Trio - Stein-Song 3:16

3.04. Bing Crosby - Three Little Words 3:03

3.05. The Waring Girls - Tea for Two 3:21

3.06. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Happy Feet 2:57

3.07. Jeannie Lang - Raggamuffin' Romeo 2:54

3.08. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds 2:57

3.09. Bing Crosby - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 3:22

3.10. Comedian Harmonists - Les Gars De La Marine 3:15

3.11. Marlene Dietrich - Falling in Love Again 3:09

3.12. Gene Autry - The Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine 2:39

3.13. Comedian Harmonists - J'aime Une Tyrolienne 2:20

3.14. Maurice Chevalier - Mimi 2:25

3.15. Bing Crosby - Sweet Georgia Brown 3:03

3.16. Fred Astaire - We're in the Money 2:15

3.17. Mildred Bailey - Rockin' Chair 2:59

3.18. Russ Columbo - Paradise 3:12

3.19. Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers - Dinah 2:50

3.20. Fred Astaire - Night and Day 3:25

4.01. Bing Crosby - Did You Ever See a Dream Walking 3:20

4.02. Comedian Harmonists - Veronique Le Printemps Est La 2:28

4.03. Gene Autry - The Yellow Rose of Texas 1:42

4.04. Ginger Rogers - Music Makes Me 2:03

4.05. Fred Astaire - Flying Down to Rio 4:29

4.06. Joan Crawford & Fred Astaire - Heigh-Ho the Gang's All Here 2:54

4.07. Cab Calloway - Jitterbug 3:07

4.08. Mae West - My Old Flame 3:35

4.09. Cole Porter - You're the Top 3:23

4.10. Helen Morgan - Frankie and Johnny 2:46

4.11. Lew Sherwood - I Only Have Eyes for You 3:17

4.12. Shirley Temple - On the Ship Lollipop 3:51

4.13. Edythe Wright - The Music Goes Round and Around 3:21

4.14. Dick Powell - Lullaby of Broadway 3:13

4.15. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Cheek to Cheek 4:59

4.16. Ginger Rogers - I'll Be Hard to Handle 1:41

4.17. Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy - Ah! Sweet Mistery of Life 3:29

4.18. Bing Crosby - Pennies from Heaven 3:09

4.19. Gene Krupa - Swing Is Here 2:56

4.20. Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started 4:46

5.01. Guy Lombardo - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön 2:12

5.02. Lionel Hampton - On the Sunny Side of the Street 3:14

5.03. Skinnay Ennis - Got a Date with an Angel 2:16

5.04. Edythe Wright - The Big Apple 2:41

5.05. Louis Prima - Sing Sing Sing 4:06

5.06. Guy Lombardo - Boo Hoo 3:03

5.07. Harry Roy - Goodnight Children Everywhere 2:56

5.08. Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose 3:06

5.09. Shirley Temple - In Our Little Wooden Shoes 1:27

5.10. Allan Jones - Donkey Serenade 3:20

5.11. Bea Wain - Martha 3:11

5.12. Artie Shaw - Begin the Beguine 3:15

5.13. Bing Crosby - My Melancholy Baby 2:59

5.14. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie 3:09

5.15. Comedian Harmonists - Whistle While You Work 3:06

5.16. The Andrews Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön 3:07

5.17. Ella Fitzgerald - F.D.R. Jones 2:53

5.18. Bob Hope & Shirley Ross - Thanks for the Memory 3:05

5.19. Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire - The Yam 5:44

5.20. Fred Astaire - Change Partners 3:27

6.01. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Moonlight Serenade 3:23

6.02. Kate Smith - God Bless America 2:47

6.03. Bea Wain - Deep Purple 4:49

6.04. Flanagan and Allen - The Umbrella Man 2:42

6.05. Pat Taylor - And the Angels Sing 3:11

6.06. Carroll Gibbons - Ten Little Miles from Town 2:36

6.07. Al Bowlly - A Man and His Dream 3:21

6.08. Delia Murphy - The Spinning Wheel 2:58

6.09. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - In the Mood 3:33

6.10. Wendy Clare - Romany 2:51

6.11. Reg Williams & His Futurists - We Speak of You Often 3:17

6.12. Elsie Carlisle - Two Sleepy People 3:12

6.13. Paul Robeson - Swing Low Sweet Chariot 2:43

6.14. George Formby - It's Turned Out Nice Again 2:50

6.15. Gracie Fields - Wish Me Luck 2:55

6.16. Leslie Hutchinson - Bon Voyage Cherie 3:10

6.17. Al Bowlly - Small Town 3:03

6.18. Dorothy Carless - You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 2:41

6.19. Denny Dennis - The Masquerade Is Over 2:50

6.20. Ginny Simms - Indian Summer 2:51

7.01. Vera Lynn - Wishing 3:15

7.02. The Ink Spots - My Prayer 3:10

7.03. Woody Herman - At the Woodchopper's Ball 3:13

7.04. Wendy Clare - Oh You Crazy Moon 2:57

7.05. Al Bowlly - What Do You Know About Love 2:58

7.06. George Melachrino - They Say 3:12

7.07. Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again 3:20

7.08. Bill Currie - On the Outside Looking In 3:07

7.09. Tex Morton - Big Rock Candy Mountain 2:44

7.10. Judy Garland - Over the Rainbow 2:44

7.11. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Cherokee 3:24

7.12. Adelaide Hall - Transatlantic Lullaby 3:07

7.13. The Andrews Sisters - Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar 2:51

7.14. Gene Autry - Back in the Saddle Again 2:40

7.15. Helen O'Connell - Comes Love 2:53

7.16. Joe Loss and His Band - Until We Meet Again 3:02

7.17. Anne Ziegler & Webster Booth - A Paradise for Two 3:19

7.18. Nat Gonella - T'aint What You Do 3:14

7.19. Anne Lenner - And the Angels Sing 3:01

7.20. Bing Crosby & Frances Langford - I'm Falling in Love with Someone 3:06

8.01. The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass 2:42

8.02. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Tuxedo Junction 3:28

8.03. Vera Lynn - It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow 3:09

8.04. Bing Crosby - Only Forever 3:05

8.05. Deanna Durbin - Amapola 2:26

8.06. Frank Sinatra - I'll Never Smile Again 3:09

8.07. Celia Lipton - It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day 2:54

8.08. Bing Crosby - If I Had My Way 2:47

8.09. Adelaide Hall - Shake Down the Stars 3:05

8.10. Ray Eberle - The Nearness of You 3:11

8.11. Anne Shelton - I'm Stepping Out 3:15

8.12. Carmen Lombardo & Guy Lombardo - Faithful Forever 2:57

8.13. Bebe Daniels - I Can't Love You Anymore 3:09

8.14. The Ink Spots - Maybe 3:04

8.15. Deanna Durbin - Love Is All 3:02

8.16. Frank Sinatra - Fools Rush In 3:13

8.17. The Andrews Sisters - The Woodpecker Song 2:53

8.18. Bing Crosby - I Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire 3:08

8.19. Vera Lynn - I'm in Love for the Last Time 2:56

8.20. Cavan O'Connor - The Vagabond Song 3:02

9.01. Flanagan and Allen - Down Forget-Me-Not Lane 2:43

9.02. Leslie Hutchinson - Yesterday's Dreams 2:57

9.03. Tony Martin - The Last Time I Saw Paris 3:23

9.04. Dorothy Carless - Daddy 3:13

9.05. Deanna Durbin - It's Foolish but It's Fun 2:45

9.06. Marion Hutton - Yes My Darling Daughter 2:30

9.07. Al Bowlly & Jimmy Mesene - When That Man Is Dead and Gone 3:00

9.08. Bing Crosby - San Antonio Rose 3:20

9.09. Helen O'Connell - Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga 3:03

9.10. Anne Shelton - There Goes That Song Again 3:07

9.11. Nat Gonella - Hey Little Hen 3:14

9.12. The Ink Spots - Ring Telephone Ring 3:10

9.13. Vera Lynn - Yours 3:24

9.14. Bing Crosby - You Are My Sunshine 2:38

9.15. Victor Silvester - You're Dancing on My Heart 2:49

9.16. Lena Horne - Just One of Those Things 1:24

9.17. Webster Booth - Song of Songs 3:30

9.18. Marjorie Kingsley - Sand in My Shoes 3:19

9.19. Anne Ziegler & Webster Booth - Will You Remember 3:08

9.20. Peggy Lee - My Heart Stood Still 2:41

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