The 1930s – Interesting Facts

Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standing on the Corner)

Forty Second Street

Happy Days Are Here Again

I Got Rhythm

Sitting on Top of the World

The Peanut Vendor

Goodnight, Sweetheart

Just a Gigolo

Prisoner of Love

Sugar Blues

Summertime

Tiger Rag

In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town

Take My Hand, Precious Lord

Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?

The Last Round-Up

Honeysuckle Rose

Inka Dinka Doo

Let's Fall In Love

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

The Object of My Affection

The Very Thought of You

Blue Moon

King Porter Stomp

Lullaby of Broadway

Red Sails in The Sunset

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

Caravan

Goody Goody

Indian Love Call

It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

Moonglow

Organ Grinder's Swing

The Glory Of Love

These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Carelessly

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

Sweet Leilani

Alexander's Ragtime Band

I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams

Jumpin' at the Woodside

My Reverie

Thanks for the Memory

The Flat Foot Floogee

You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

Beer Barrel Polka

(HEP! HEP!) Jumpin' Jive

Little Brown Jug

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  Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standing on the Corner)

  (1930) Jimmie Rodgers recorded the song on July 16, 1930 in Los Angeles with an unbilled Louis Armstrong on trumpet and his wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on piano.
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  Forty Second Street

  (1930) by Hal Kemp
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  Happy Days Are Here Again

  (1930) by Ben Selvin and His Orchestra
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  I Got Rhythm

  (1930) by Red Nichols (Dick Robertson, vocal)
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  Sitting on Top of the World

  (1930) by The Mississippi Sheiks
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  The Peanut Vendor

  (1930) by Don Azpiazu and his Havana Casino Orchestra
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  Goodnight, Sweetheart

  (1931) by Bing Crosby
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  Just a Gigolo

  (1931) by Bing Crosby
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  Prisoner of Love

  (1931) by Russ Columbo
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  Sugar Blues

  (1936) by Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra
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  Summertime

  (1931) by Billie Holiday
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  Tiger Rag

  (1931) by The Mills Brothers
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  In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town

  (1932) by Ted Lewis
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  Take My Hand, Precious Lord

  Written by the Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey in 1932
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  Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?

  (1933) by Eddy Duchin Orchestra with Lew Sherwood on vocal
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  The Last Round-Up

  (1933) by Gene Autry
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  Honeysuckle Rose

  (1934) by Fats Waller
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  Inka Dinka Doo

  (1934) by Jimmy Durante
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  Let's Fall In Love

  (1934) by Eddy Duchin (Lew Sherwood, vocal)
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  Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

  (1934) by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, with a vocal performance from Bob Lawrence
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  The Object of My Affection

  (1934) by The Boswell Sisters with the Jimmie Grier orchestra
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  The Very Thought of You

  (1934) by The Ray Noble Orchestra
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  Blue Moon

  (1935) by Benny Goodman (Helen Ward, vocal)
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  King Porter Stomp

  (1935) by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
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  Lullaby of Broadway

  (1935) by The Dorsey Brothers and Bob Crosby (vocal)
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  Red Sails in The Sunset

  (1935) by Bing Crosby
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  What a Little Moonlight Can Do

  (1935) by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
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  Caravan

  (1936) by Duke Ellington
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  Goody Goody

  (1936) by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (with vocalist Helen Ward)
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  Indian Love Call

  (1936) by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
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  It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

  (1936) by Fats Waller
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  Moonglow

  (1936) by Benny Goodman
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  Organ Grinder's Swing

  (1936) by Jimmie Lunceford
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  The Glory Of Love

  (1936) by Benny Goodman (Helen Ward, vocal)
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  These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

  (1936) by Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocal)
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  Until The Real Thing Comes Along

  (1936) by Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy (Pha Terrell, vocal)
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  Carelessly

  (1937) by Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (Billie Holiday, vocal)
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  I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

  (1937) by Ray Noble, Howard Philips
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  Sweet Leilani

  (1937) by Bing Crosby
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  Alexander's Ragtime Band

  (1938) by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell and Victor Young and His Orchestra
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  I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams

  (1938) by Bing Crosby
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  Jumpin' at the Woodside

  (1938) by Count Basie and his Orchestra
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  My Reverie

  (1938) by Larry Clinton and his band with Bea Wain as the vocalist
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  Thanks for the Memory

  From the 1938 film, The Big Broadcast of 1938, and recorded by Shep Fields and His Orchestra with vocals by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross
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  The Flat Foot Floogee

  (1938) by Louis Armstrong and The Mills Brothers
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  You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

  (1938) by Bing Crosby
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  Beer Barrel Polka

  (1939) by The Andrews Sisters
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  (HEP! HEP!) Jumpin' Jive

  Originally recorded on 17 July 1939, on Vocalion Records. Here, Cab Calloway performs it with his orchestra and the Nicholas Brothers in the 1943 film musical Stormy Weather.
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  Little Brown Jug

  (1939) by Glenn Miller