History Of Pop Radio 1920-1951

Vol.1 1920-1927
1-1. Edith Day - Alice Blue Gown (2:52)
1-2. Gene Austin & Aileen Stanley - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (2:41)
1-3. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - Charleston (2:41)
1-4. Gene Austin - Sweet Child I'm Wild About You (3:04)
1-5. Fanny Brice - My Man (3:31)
1-6. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - Whispering (3:19)
1-7. Vernon Dalhart - The Prisoner's Song (3:16)
1-8. Gene Austin - My Bundle Of Love (2:18)
1-9. 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 And 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)
Vol.2 1927-1929
2-1. Gene Austin - My Blue Heaven (3:33)
2-2. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Black And Tan Fantasy (3:08)
2-3. Al Jolson - I'm Sitting On The Top Of The World (1:41)
2-4. Fran Frey & George Olsen's Music - The Varsity Drag (3:04)
2-5. Gene Austin - The Voice Of The Southland (2:48)
2-6. Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra - My Pretty Girl (2:37)
2-7. Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Loved By You (2:46)
2-8. Irving Aaronson And His Commanders - Let's Misbehave (2:51)
2-9. 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)
Vol.3 1930-1932
3-1. Fanny Brice - Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love (2:31)
3-2. Lou Levin - Happy Days Are Here Again (2:38)
3-3. Rudy Vallee Trio - Stein-Song (3:16)
3-4. Bing Crosby - Three Little Words (3:03)
3-5. The Waring Girls - Tea For Two (3:21)
3-6. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - Happy Feet (2:57)
3-7. Jeannie Lang - Raggamuffin' Romeo (2:54)
3-8. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds (2:57)
3-9. 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)
Vol.4 1933-1936
4-1. Bing Crosby - Did You Ever See A Dream Walking (3:20)
4-2. Comedian Harmonists - Veronique Le Printemps Est La (2:28)
4-3. Gene Autry - The Yellow Rose Of Texas (1:42)
4-4. Ginger Rogers - Music Makes Me (2:03)
4-5. Fred Astaire - Flying Down To Rio (4:29)
4-6. Joan Crawford & Fred Astaire - Heigh-Ho The Gang's All Here (2:54)
4-7. Cab Calloway - Jitterbug (3:07)
4-8. Mae West - My Old Flame (3:35)
4-9. 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 (2) - 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)
Vol.5 1937-1938
5-1. Guy Lombardo - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (2:12)
5-2. Lionel Hampton - On The Sunny Side Of The Street (3:14)
5-3. Skinnay Ennis - Got A Date With An Angel (2:16)
5-4. Edythe Wright - The Big Apple (2:41)
5-5. Louis Prima - Sing Sing Sing (4:06)
5-6. Guy Lombardo - Boo Hoo (3:03)
5-7. Harry Roy - Goodnight Children Everywhere (2:56)
5-8. Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose (3:06)
5-9. Shirley Temple - In Our Little Wooden Shoes (1:27)
5-10. Allan Jones (5) - 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 And 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)
Vol.6 1939
6-1. Glenn Miller And His Orchestra - Moonlight Serenade (3:23)
6-2. Kate Smith (2) - God Bless America (2:47)
6-3. Bea Wain - Deep Purple (4:49)
6-4. Flanagan And Allen - The Umbrella Man (2:42)
6-5. Pat Taylor (5) - And The Angels Sing (3:11)
6-6. Carroll Gibbons - Ten Little Miles From Town (2:36)
6-7. Al Bowlly - A Man And His Dream (3:21)
6-8. Delia Murphy - The Spinning Wheel (2:58)
6-9. Glenn Miller And 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 (2) - 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)
Vol.7 1939
7-1. Vera Lynn - Wishing (3:15)
7-2. The Ink Spots - My Prayer (3:10)
7-3. Woody Herman - At The Woodchopper's Ball (3:13)
7-4. Wendy Clare - Oh You Crazy Moon (2:57)
7-5. Al Bowlly - What Do You Know About Love (2:58)
7-6. George Melachrino - They Say (3:12)
7-7. Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again (3:20)
7-8. Bill Currie - On The Outside Looking In (3:07)
7-9. Tex Morton (2) - Big Rock Candy Mountain (2:44)
7-10. Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow (2:44)
7-11. Charlie Barnet And 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)
Vol.8 1940
8-1. The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass (2:42)
8-2. Glenn Miller And His Orchestra - Tuxedo Junction (3:28)
8-3. Vera Lynn - It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (3:09)
8-4. Bing Crosby - Only Forever (3:05)
8-5. Deanna Durbin - Amapola (2:26)
8-6. Frank Sinatra - I'll Never Smile Again (3:09)
8-7. Celia Lipton - It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day (2:54)
8-8. Bing Crosby - If I Had My Way (2:47)
8-9. 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)
Vol.9 1941
9-1. Flanagan And Allen - Down Forget-Me-Not Lane (2:43)
9-2. Leslie Hutchinson (2) - Yesterday's Dreams (2:57)
9-3. Tony Martin (3) - The Last Time I Saw Paris (3:23)
9-4. Dorothy Carless - Daddy (3:13)
9-5. Deanna Durbin - It's Foolish But It's Fun (2:45)
9-6. Marion Hutton - Yes My Darling Daughter (2:30)
9-7. Al Bowlly & Jimmy Mesene - When That Man Is Dead And Gone (3:00)
9-8. Bing Crosby - San Antonio Rose (3:20)
9-9. 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)
Vol.10 1942
10-1. Billie Holiday - Travlin' Light (3:13)
10-2. R.A.O.C. Blue Rockets - The Girl Who Broke The Sgt. Majors Heart (2:59)
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)
10-10. Webster Booth - Smilin' Through (2:03)
10-11. Lena Horne - Honey In The Honeycomb (1:54)
10-12. Leslie Hutchinson (2) - 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 (3) - Yankee Doodle Boy (3:13)
10-15. Margaret Whiting - That Old Black Magic (2:39)
10-16. Tony Martin (3) - Where In The World (3:09)
10-17. George Evans (3) - Lamplighter's Serenade (2:58)
10-18. Glenn Miller And His Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo (3:13)
10-19. Dinah Shore - Three Little Sisters (2:09)
10-20. Kay Harding - Green Eyes (3:01)
Vol.11 1943-1944
11-1. Frank Sinatra - Night And Day (3:06)
11-2. Xavier Cugat - Brazil (2:46)
11-3. Jo Stafford - It Could Happen To You (3:04)
11-4. Nat King Cole - Sweet Lorraine (3:07)
11-5. Ella Mae Morse - No Love, No Nothin (2:35)
11-6. Fred Astaire - One For My Baby (4:58)
11-7. Georgina (4) - Always In My Heart (3:04)
11-8. Billy Eckstine - Skylark (3:06)
11-9. 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)
Vol.12 1945-1946
12-1. Dottie Reid - It's Only A Paper Moon (2:49)
12-2. Jo Stafford - There's No You (3:15)
12-3. Nat King Cole - Don't Blame Me (3:22)
12-4. Louis Jordan - Caldonia (2:41)
12-5. June Christy - Tampico (2:41)
12-6. Bob Wills - Roly Poly (2:35)
12-7. Doris Day - You Won't Be Satisfied (3:03)
12-8. Champion Jack Dupree - Let's Have A Ball (2:23)
12-9. June Christy - Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' (2:34)
12-10. Danny Kaye (2) - 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 (3) & 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)
Vol.13 1947-1948
13-1. Dick Haymes - Little White Lies (3:14)
13-2. Doris Day - Love Somebody (3:01)
13-3. Frankie Laine - That's My Desire (2:46)
13-4. Art Lund - Mam'selle (3:15)
13-5. Margaret Whiting - A Tree In The Meadow (2:38)
13-6. Wynonie Harris - Good Rocking Tonight (2:45)
13-7. Bob Lamm - Near You (2:51)
13-8. Doris Day & Buddy Clark (3) - Confess (2:57)
13-9. 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 And 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 And His Orchestra - On A Slow Boat To China (3:17)
Vol.14 1949
14-1. Johnnie Lee Wills - Rag Mop (2:51)
14-2. Fats Domino - The Fat Man (2:35)
14-3. B.B. King - Take A Swing With Me (2:34)
14-4. Stick McGhee - Venus (2:31)
14-5. Dave Bartholomew - Ain't Gonna Do It (2:28)
14-6. Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark (3) - Baby It's Cold Outside (2:19)
14-7. Ezio Pinza - Some Enchanted Evening (2:57)
14-8. Doris Day - Again (2:45)
14-9. 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)
Vol.15 1950-1951
15-1. The Ames Brothers - Music Music Music (2:36)
15-2. The Nat King Cole Trio - Route 66 (3:40)
15-3. Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz (3:01)
15-4. Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'll Never Be Free (2:34)
15-5. Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries For You (2:46)
15-6. Don Cherry (2) - Band Of Gold (2:34)
15-7. Mel Tormé - Bewitched (3:17)
15-8. Peggy Lee - Riders In The Sky (2:40)
15-9. 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)