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Best of 1931.

Best of 1930.

1. Jeanette McDonald - Beyond The Blue Horizon

2. Nat Shilkret - Dark Night

3. Leo Reisman - What Is This Thing Called Love

4. John Boles - For You

5. Donald Novis - Alone In The Rain

6. Maurice Chevalier - You Brought A New Kind Of Love

7. Chester Gaylord - When I'm Looking At You

8. Son House - Clarksdale Moan

9. Big Bill Broonzy - Skoodle Do Do

10. Blind Willie McTell - Come On Around To My House Mama

11. Lawrence Gray - The Whole Darned Thing's For You

12. Bebe Daniels - Until Love Comes Along

13. Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 2

14. Paul Juon - Quintet For Winds

15. Rudy Vallee - I'm Confessin'

16. Fred Waring - Little White Lies

1. Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher

2. Ted Lewis - Just A Gigolo

3. Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo

4. Russ Columbo - Goodnight, Sweetheart

5. Isham Jones - Stardust

6. Ozzie Nelson - Dream A Little Dream Of Me

7. Ambrose And His Orchestra - Too Many Tears

8. Jack Hylton - You're The Cream In My Coffee

9. Havana Casino Orch - The Peanut Vendor

10. Nick Lucas - Lady, Play Your Mandolin

11. Gracie Fields - Sally

12. Paul Robeson - River Stay Way From My Door

13. Ruth Etting - Nevertheless

14. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

15. Benjamin Britten - Carducci String Quartet

Best of 1932.

Best of 1933.

1. Fred Astaire - Dances

2. Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean A Thing

3. Louis Armstrong - All Of Me

4. Rudy Vallee - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime

5. Ethel Merman - Something For The Boys

6. Bing Crosby - Please

7. George Olsen - Say It Isn't So

8. Billy Cotton - I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind

9. Big Bill Broonzy - Mistreatin' Woman

10. Lonnie Johnson - Winnie The Wailer

11. Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The

Blues

12. Arthur Bliss - A Colour Symphony

13. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 5

14. Laszlo Lajtha - String Quartet No. 6

15. Percy Grainger - Handel In The Strand

16. Gunnar de Frumerie - Variations And Fugue

1. Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather

2. Eddy Duchin - Did You Ever See A Dream Walking

3. Dick Powell - Gold Digger's Song

4. Duke Ellington - Sophsticated Lady

5. Ben Bernie - Sweet Georgia Brown

6. Bing Crosby - You're All I Want For Christmas

7. Bing Crosby - Silent Night

8. Luigi Dallapiccola - Partita

9. Gustav Holst - Lyric Movement

10. Paul Creston - Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra

11. Kurt Atterberg - A Varmland Rhapsody

12. Igor Stravinsky - Persephone

13. Sergei Prokofiev - Peter And The Wolf

14. Xavier Montsalvatge - Habanera

Best of 1934.

Best of 1935.

1. Benny Goodman - Moon Glow

2. Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - The Way You Look

3. Leo Reisman - I Won't Dance

4. Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose

5. Gertrude Lawrence - An Hour Ago This Minute

6. Grace Moore - One Night Of Love

7. Douglas Byng - Miss Otis Regrets

8. Bing Crosby - Love In Bloom

9. Stanley Holloway - With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm

10. Ozzie Nelson - It's Gonna Be You

11. Jacques Ibert - Flute Concerto

12. Bela Bartok - String Quartet 5

13. Edgard Varese - Ecuatorial

1. Shirley Temple - On The Good Ship Lollipop

2. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Cheek To Cheek

3. Jimmy Dorsey - Lover

4. Cole Porter - You're The Top

5. Louis Prima - The Lady In Red

6. Glen Gray - Blue Moon

7. Ray Noble - On The Isle Of Capri

8. Henry "Red" Allen - Rosetta

9. Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

10. Roger Sessions - Violin Concerto In B Minor

11. Hanns Eisler - Lenin Requiem

12. Vittorio Giannini - Piano Concerto

13. Guy Lombardo - Red Sails In The Sunset

14. Fats Waller - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie

15. Akira Ifukube - Japanese Rhapsody

Best of 1936.

Best of 1937.

1. Billie Holiday - Summertime

2. Fred Astaire - The Way You Look Tonight

3. Bing Crosby - Pennies From Heaven

4. Robert Johnson - Crossroad

5. Tommy Dorsey - Opus One

6. Shep Fields - Did I Remember

7. Ted Weems - You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes

8. Arnold Bax - String Quarted No. 3

9. David Diamond - Symphony No. 3

10. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3

11. Paul Hindemith - Trauermusik(Funeral Music)

12. Bela Bartok - Music For Strings, Percussion, And

Celesta

13. Anton Webern - Variations For Piano

14. Albert Roussel - Symphony No. 1

1. Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump

2. Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing

3. Bing Crosby - Sweet Leilani

4. Fred Astaire - They Can't Take That Away From Me

5. Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues

6. Guy Lombardo - Boo Hoo

7. Louis Armstrong - Basin Street Blues

8. Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning School Girl

9. Robert Johnson - Come On In My Kitchen

10. Arthur Bliss - Things TO Come

11. Frank Martin - Ballad For Trombone

12. Percy Whitlock - Wessex Suite

13. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Job: A Masque For Dancing

14. David Diamond - Psalm

15. Theodor W. Adorno - Studies for String Quartet

Best of 1938.

Best of 1939.

1. Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine

2. Snow White – I’m Waiting

3. The Andrew Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

4. Fred Astaire - Nice Work If You Can Get It

5. Bob Hope - Thanks For The Memory

6. Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket

7. Larry Clinton - My Reverie

8. Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete

9. Sonny Boy Williamson - My Younger Days

10. Hamilton Harty - The Children Of Lir

11. Aaron Copland - Billy The Kid

12. Jean Absil - Fantasie Caprice

13. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana

14. Walter Piston - Symphony No. 5

1. Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow

2. Kate Smith - God Bless America

3. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

4. Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade

5. Bing Crosby - An Apple For Teacher

6. Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In

7. The Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care

8. Woody Herman - At The Woodchopper's Ball

9. Art Tatum - Yesterdays

10. Leadbelly - The Bourgeois Blues

11. Blind Boy Fuller - Meat Shakin' Woman

12. Herbert Howells - Requiem aeternam 2 (from 'Requiem')

13. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6

14. William Walton - Violin Concerto

15. Heitor Villa-Lobos - New York Sky-Line Melody

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