Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. You're Driving Me Crazy - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
2. Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
3. Dinah - Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers
4. All of Me - Louis Armstrong
5. Night and Day - Fred Astaire
6. Very Thought of You - Ray Noble & His Orchestra
7. Tiger Rag - The Mills Brothers
8. Music Goes 'Round and Around - Tommy Dorsey & the Clambake Seven
9. Goody Goody - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
10. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie - Fats Waller & His Rhythm
11. Fine Romance - Fred Astaire
12. Marie - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
13. Sweet Leilani - Bing Crosby
14. Carelessly - Billie Holiday
15. Bei Mir Bist du Sch�n - The Andrews Sisters
16. Don't Be That Way - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
17. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
18. A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald
19. My Reverie - Larry Clinton & His Orchestra
20. Stairway to the Stars - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra

Disc 2:

1. Please - Bing Crosby
2. Indian Love Call - Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald
3. Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
4. Boogie Woogie - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
5. I Can't Get Started - Bunny Berigan
6. Jalouise - Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
7. Thanks for the Memory - Bob Hope, Shirley Ross
8. Donkey Serenade - Allan Jones
9. Two Sleepy People - Fats Waller
10. And the Angels Sing - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
11. Ciribiribin (They're So in Love) - Harry James & His Orchestra
12. Falling in Love Again - Marlene Dietrich
13. If I Didn't Care - The Ink Spots
14. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now - Ted Weems & His Orchestra
15. Jumpin' Jive - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
16. Lili Marlene - Lale Anderson
17. Little Brown Jug - Glenn Miller
18. Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
19. Woodchopper's Ball - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
20. They Say - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra

Disc 3:

1. In the Mood - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
2. Frenesi - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
3. I'll Never Smile Again - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
4. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) - The Ink Spots
5. Amapola - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
6. Piano Concerto in B Flat - Freddy Martin & His Orchestra
7. String of Pearls - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
8. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
9. Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
10. I've Heard That Song Before - Harry James & His Orchestra
11. (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
12. All or Nothing at All - Frank Sinatra
13. Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers
14. You'll Never Know - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
15. Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & His Orchestra
16. Mairzy Doats - The Merry Macs
17. Candy - Johnny Mercer
18. Till the End of Time - Perry Como
19. There! I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra
20. Rum and Coca-Cola - The Andrews Sisters

Disc 4:

1. Stardust - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
2. Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
3. Green Eyes - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
4. You Made Me Love You - Harry James & His Orchestra
5. Cow Cow Boogie - Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
6. There Are Such Things - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
7. Why Don't You Do Right? - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
8. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald, The Ink Spots
9. Opus One - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
10. You Will Always Hurt the One You Love - The Mills Brothers
11. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
12. Sentimental Journey - Les Brown & His Orchestra
13. Tampico - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
14. Route 66 - King Cole Trio
15. MacNamara's Band - Bing Crosby
16. Ol' Buttermilk Sky - Hoagy Carmichael
17. Prisoner of Love - Perry Como
18. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody - Al Jolson
19. Gypsy - The Ink Spots
20. Heartaches - Ted Weems & His Orchestra

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144200 in Music
• Released on: 2001-06-26
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Details
The Era of Big Band Swing Represented the First Real Instance of Jazz Music, Or Very Close Derivatives of Jazz, Becoming Part of the Mainstream of Popular Music. The Tunes Became Standards of the Time that People Whistled on their Way to Work, the Musicians Became Superstars Mobbed by Fans, and Top Names Like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Harry James Sold Records by the Millions. Swing, was the Pop of Its Day!

Customer Reviews

The Very Best at a Reasonable Price
This 4-disc CD set gives you the very best of 30's and 40's music. Most of the songs included were number 1 hits. They include such classics as Night and Day; Begin the Beguine; Over the Rainbow; Minnie the Moocher; In the Mood; White Christmas; Paper Doll; Stardust; Opus One; Sentimental Journey and many others. All are by the original artists and almost all have high sound quality.

The cost is very reasonable considering that the CD has 80 songs.

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For your first collection of what used to be termed "standards" from this era, you can't do better than this. A wonderful sampler, well-packaged, with some sparse but useful notes, well remastered without losing the essence.
I've never heard most of these numbers before in my life (and I'm 53!) so this collection not only has the value of quality, but also novelty. There were a lot of good songs and singers back then!
Those of us - like me - who only encountered these people when they were doddering out their last years in an occasional television special will be amazed to find that there were very good reasons they were so popular. I was particularly astonished at the young Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. There's nothing like them today.
Well worth making their acquaintance.