2:45
1946 Henry “Red” Allen - Get The Mop (origin of “Rag Mop”)
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2:31
1946 Albert Ammons - Swanee River Boogie
2:50
1946 Andrews Sisters & Eddie Heywood - The House Of Blue Lights
3:10
1946 Annie Get Your Gun (Original Cast) - There’s No Business Like Show Business
2:38
1946 Ray Anthony - I’ll Close My Eyes (Bill Johnson, vocal)
3:09
1946 Desi Arnaz - Cuban Pete (Desi Arnaz & Amanda Lane, vocal)
2:46
1946 version: Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle Again
2:58
1946 Kenny Baker - The Old Lamplighter (Russ Morgan’s Orch.)
3:18
1946 Count Basie - Patience And Fortitude (Jimmy Rushing, vocal)
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - It Couldn’t Be True (Or Could It?) (Tex & Crew Chiefs, vocal)
3:13
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - Cynthia’s In Love (Artie Malvin, Lillian Lane, Crew Chiefs, vc)
3:05
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - I Know (Crew Chiefs, vocal)
3:04
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - Oh, But I Do (Artie Malvin, vocal)
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - The Whiffenpoof Song (Artie Malvin & Crew Chiefs, vocal)
3:32
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - Passé (Lillian Lane, vocal)
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - My Heart Is A Hobo (Tex & The Mello Larks, vocal)
3:19
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - As Long As I’m Dreaming (Garry Stevens, vocal)
1946 Tex Beneke/Glenn Miller Orch. - Stormy Weather (instrumental)
3:06
1946 Les Brown - Day By Day (Doris Day, vocal)
2:39
1946 Les Brown - The Best Man (Butch Stone, vocal)
3:11
1946 Les Brown - Sooner Or Later (Doris Day, vocal)
1946 Les Brown - I Guess I’ll Get The Papers (And Go Home) (Jack Haskell, vocal)
2:29
1946 Eddie Cantor & Rafael Mendez - Josephine Please No Lean On The Bell
2:47
1946 Frankie Carle - Without You (Tres Palabras) (Marjorie Hughes, vocal)
1946 Frankie Carle - Sunrise Serenade
1946 Frankie Carle - Roses In The Rain (Marjorie Hughes, vocal)
3:01
1946 Charioteers - On The Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)
1946 King Cole Trio - You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)
3:16
1946 single: Jerry Colonna - Casey (The Pride Of Them All)
1946 Jerry Colonna - Josephine Please No Lean On The Bell
1946 Spade Cooley - Detour (Tex Williams, Oakie, & Arkie, vocal)
2:57
1946 Bing Crosby - Sweet Lorraine (Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra)
3:26
1946 Bing Crosby - Blue Skies
1946 Bing Crosby - That’s How Much I Love You
3:14
1946 Bing Crosby-Andrews Sisters - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66!
2:54
1st RECORDING OF: That’s All Right - Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup (1946)
1946 Xavier Cugat - Chiquita Banana (Buddy Clark & chorus, vocal)
1946 Dardanelle Trio - September Song
2:41
1946 Five De Marco Sisters - Chiquita Banana (The Banana Song)
3:00
1946 Johnny Desmond - Shoo-Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
2:42
1942/1946 Al Dexter - Guitar Polka (#1 C&W hit for 16 weeks)
2:40
1946 Sam Donahue - My Melancholy Baby (instrumental)
1946 version: Jimmy Dorsey - I’m Glad There Is You (Dee Parker, vocal)
3:17
1st RECORDING OF: Come Rain Or Come Shine - Tommy Dorsey (1946--Sy Oliver, vocal)
1946 Tommy Dorsey - Like A Leaf In The Wind (78 version--Stuart Foster & Sentimentalists, vocal)
“‘Night Train” origin #2: Duke Ellington - Happy Go Lucky Local (Part II) (1946)
2:53
1946 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
1st RECORDING OF: Peace In The Valley - Flying Clouds Of Detroit (1946)
1946 Slim Gaillard Trio - Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti)
3:03
1946 Benny Goodman - Blue Skies (Art Lund, vocal)
3:15
1946 Benny Goodman - It’s The Talk Of The Town (Art Lund, vocal)
1946 RCA version: Phil Harris - That’s What I Like About The South
2:55
1946 Erskine Hawkins - Hawk’s Boogie
1946 Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest - Come Rain Or Come Shine
2:52
1946 Dick Haymes - On The Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)
3:08
1st RECORDING OF: Gloria - Bob Hayward (1946)
2:35
1946 Hildegarde & Guy Lombardo - Sidewalks Of New York
1946 Hildegarde & Buddy Clark - I’ve Told Every Little Star
2:36
1946 Eddy Howard - Careless
1946 Eddy Howard - The Girl That I Marry
1946 Harry James - Do You Love Me (Ginnie Powell, vocal)
1946 version: Harry James - Jalousie (Jealousy)
3:07
1946 Harry James - Oh, But I Do (Buddy Di Vito, vocal)
1946 Johnnie Johnston - As Long As I Live
1946 Johnnie Johnston - One More Dream (And She’s Mine)
1946 Spike Jones - Laura (Jimmy Cassidy & Red Ingle, vocal)
1946 Spike Jones - Liebestraum (Red Ingle & Dick Morgan, vocal)
1946 Spike Jones - The Glow-Worm (Red Ingle & Aileen Carlisle, vocal)
1946 Louis Jordan - Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’ (#3 R&B hit)
2:51
1946 Louis Jordan - Ain’t That Just Like A Woman (#1 R&B hit)
2:08
1946 Louis Jordan - Don’t Worry ‘Bout That Mule (#1 R&B hit)
3:21
1946 Dick Jurgens - (Oh Why Oh Why Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming (Jimmy Castle & Al Galante, vocal)
1946 Sammy Kaye - I Used To Work In Chicago (with vocal chorus)
1946 Stan Kenton - Willow Weep For Me (June Christy, vocal)
2:49
1946 Stan Kenton - Opus In Pastels
1946 Frankie Laine - On The Sunny Side of The Street
1946 Frankie Laine - Black And Blue
1946 Elliot Lawrence - You Broke The Only Heart That Ever Loved You (J Hunter & R Patton, vocal)
1946 Elliot Lawrence - Apple Blossom Time (Jack Hunter vocal, Mitch Miller on oboe)
1946 Elliot Lawrence - Who Do You Love I Hope (Rosalind Patton, vocal)
2:28
1946 version: Guy Lombardo - Love On A Greyhound Bus (RM Lombardo, D Rodney & trio, vocal)
1946 Guy Lombardo - I’d Be Lost Without You (Don Rodney & quartet, vocal)
2:10
1946 Guy Lombardo - Tales From The Vienna Woods
1946 version: Johnny Long - Blue Skies (Bob Houston & the band, vocal)
1946 Jeanette MacDonald - Sweetheart Waltz
1946 Matty Malneck & Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La (Side 1-the unfamiliar melodies)
1946 Matty Malneck & Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La (Side 2-the familiar melody)
6:13
1946 Matty Malneck & Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La (Sides 1 & 2 complete)
1946 Freddy Martin - Now And Forever (Artie Wayne, vocal)
1946 Freddy Martin - Cornish Rhapsody Theme (Jack Fina, piano)
3:02
1946 Tony Martin - A Gal In Calico
2:43
1946 Johnny Mercer & Martha Tilton - A Fine Romance
2:12
1946 Billy Mills Orch. Hi-Fi Transcription: Siboney (instrumental)
1:57
1946 Billy Mills Orch. Hi-Fi Transcription: Love (instrumental)
1:58
1946 Billy Mills Orch. Hi-Fi Transcription: Evelina (instrumental)
1:50
1946 Billy Mills Orch. Hi-Fi Transcription: Dream (instrumental)
1:48
1946 Billy Mills Orch. Hi-Fi Transcription: I Won’t Dance (instrumental)
1946 Modernaires - Juke Box Saturday Night
1946 version: Modernaires - Salute To Glenn Miller (medley)
1st RECORDING OF: Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe (1946 version--Bill Monroe, vocal)
3:22
1946 Vaughn Monroe - Gee! I Wish (The ‘G.I. Wish’ Song) (Vaughn Monroe & the Norton Sisters, vocal)
1946 Vaughn Monroe - Who Told You That Lie?
1946 Vaughn Monroe - Just The Other Day (Vaughn, Betty Norton & The Moon Maids, vocal)
1946 Alfred Newman - Street Scene
1946 Tony Pastor - Cynthia’s In Love (instrumental)
4:09
1946 Edith Piaf - Les Trois Cloches (The Three Bells)
2:56
1946 Lou Preager - I Don’t Know (What I’d Do Without You) (Paul Rich, vocal)
1946 Lou Preager - Who Could Love You Like Me? (Rita Williams, vocal)
1946 Louis Prima - Just A Gigolo (Majestic version--alternate take)
Hitchcock music: Spellbound Theme - Leo Reisman (1946)
2:37
1946 Andy Russell - They Say It’s Wonderful
1946 single: Andy Russell - Without You (Tres Palabras)
1946 Andy Russell - If I Had A Wishing Ring
1946 version (with strings): Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine
2:59
1946 Artie Shaw - What Is This Thing Called Love (Mel Torme & his Mel-Tones, vocal)
1946 Artie Shaw - My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Kitty Kallen, vocal)
1946 Artie Shaw - I Got The Sun In The Morning (Mel Torme & his Mel-Tones, vocal)
1946 Dorothy Shay - Say That We’re Sweethearts Again
3:12
1946 Bobby Sherwood - Sherwood’s Forest
1946 Dinah Shore - Personality
1946 Dinah Shore - All That Glitters Is Not Gold
1946 Dinah Shore - You’ll Always Be The One I Love
1946 Frank Sinatra - All Through The Day
1946 Frank Sinatra - That’s How Much I Love You
1946 Frank Sinatra - It’s The Same Old Dream
1946 Freddie Slack - Pig Foot Pete (Ella Mae Morse, vocal)
1946 version: Sons Of The Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
2:32
1946 Charlie Spivak - Old Devil Moon (Margaret Manning, vocal)
1946 Jo Stafford - You Keep Coming Back Like A Song
1946 Jo Stafford - The Things We Did Last Summer
1946 Jo Stafford - I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time
1946 Jo Stafford - This Is Always
1946 Jo Stafford - Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
1st RECORDING OF: You Make Me Feel So Young - Martha Tilton (1946)
1946 Mel Torme - You’re Driving Me Crazy
1946 Merle Travis - Divorce Me C.O.D. (#1 C&W hit for 14 weeks)
3:20
1946 Charles Trenet - La Mer (aka “Beyond The Sea”)
1946 Tommy Tucker - Happy Birthday To You (Don Brown & group, vocal)
2:07
1946 Fred Waring - Hora Staccato
1946 Margaret Whiting - All Through The Day
1946 original 78 transfer: Paul Wynn (aka Benny Bell) - Shaving Cream
1946 Andrews Sisters & Guy Lombardo - Winter Wonderland
1946 Les Brown - The Christmas Song (Doris Day, vocal)
1946 Les Brown - When You Trim Your Christmas Tree (Jack Haskell, vocal)
1st RECORDING OF: The Christmas Song - King Cole Trio (1946-- trio-only version, then-unissued)
1946 Perry Como - That Christmas Feeling
2:19
1946 Perry Como - Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
1946 Perry Como - I’ll Be Home For Christmas
1946 Perry Como - O Little Town Of Bethlehem
1946 Bob Crosby – Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (Bob Crosby, vocal)
1946 Harry James - White Christmas (Marion Morgan, vocal)
1946 Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - Winter Wonderland
1946 version: Jo Stafford - Silent Night
1946 version: Jo Stafford - White Christmas
1946 Tommy Tucker – Auld Lang Syne (Don Brown, Kerwin Somerville & group, vocal)