RnB 1920-40s

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VOCAL

JAZZ-VOCALS  ∙  1931  ∙  Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway)  ∙  1932  ∙  Shine (Louis Armstrong)  ∙  1935  ∙  Mama I don't want no peas an' rice an' coconut oil (Cleo Brown)  ∙  1936  ∙  Summertime (Billie Holiday)  ∙  Why don't you do now ? / Gimme some of that yum-yum-yum (Harlem Hamfats)  ∙  1938  ∙  A-tisket a-tasket (Ella Fitzgerald)  ∙  1941  ∙  I want a big fat mama (Lucky Millinder) ∙  1942  ∙  A zoo suit (Dorothy Dandridge ft Paul White)  ∙  Cow cow boogie (Ella Mae Morse)  ∙  1943  ∙  Jumping Jive (Cab Calloway)  ∙  1945  ∙  Just a gigolo/I ain't got nobody (Louis Prima)  ∙  Tenderly (ver. 1958) (Sarah Vaughan)  ∙  1946  ∙  Hello Bill (Lucky Millinder)  ∙  The blues are brewin' (Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong)  ∙  1949  ∙  Now baby or never (Billie Holiday)  ∙

VOCALS, THE MILLS BROTHERS:   I ain't got nobody (1932)  ∙  The old man of the fountain (1933)  ∙  1934 Swing it, sister (1934)  ∙  Paper doll (1943)  ∙  You always hurt the one you love (1944)  ∙

GOSPELS SPIRITUALS, THE JUBALAIRES:  Preacher and the bear (1941)  ∙  Brother Bill (1945)  ∙  Noah (1946)  ∙ 

JAZZ-VOCALS, NAT KING COLE:  That ain't right (1942)  ∙  All for you (1943)  ∙  Gee, Baby, ain't I good to you? (1944)  ∙  Nature boy (1945)  ∙  (I love you) For sentimental reasons (1946)  ∙  Mona Lisa (1950)  ∙  Too young (1951, ver. 1961)  ∙

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JAZZ

∙  1902  ∙  The entertainer (Scott Joplin)  ∙  1923  ∙  Tin roof blues (Memphis Five)  ∙  1924  ∙  Chicago stomp (Jimmy Blythe)  ∙  1927  ∙  Creole love call (ft Duke Ellington) (Adelaide Hall & Duke Ellington)  ∙  1927  ∙  Varsity drag (Abe Lyman)  ∙  1931  ∙  Little white lies/Happy feet (Noble Sissle & Band)  ∙  1932  ∙  It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / (ver, 1943) (Duke Ellington ft Ivie Anderson)  ∙  1933  ∙  Dinah (Louis Armstrong)  ∙  Tea for two (Art Tatum)  ∙  1935  ∙  In a sentimental mood (Duke Ellington & His Orchestra)  ∙  Summertime (orig. version from Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opera)  ∙  1938  ∙  Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw)  ∙  1939  ∙  Summertime (Sidney Bechet)  ∙

∙  1940  ∙  Let Me Off Uptown (Gene Krupa & Anita O'Day)  ∙  1941  ∙  In the mood (Glenn Miller Orchestra)  ∙  Sunday (Benny Carter)  ∙  1942  ∙  Flying home (Lionel Hampton v.1957)  ∙  1945  ∙  Flying home (Ella Fitzgerald)  ∙  Now's the time (Charlie Parker)  ∙  1946  ∙  Drink hearty (Henry Red Allen)  ∙  1947  ∙  Oh! Lady be good (Ella Fitzgerald)  ∙  Sing, sing, sing (Benny Goodman)  ∙

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BLUES

TRADITIONAL BLUES, DELTA BLUES, CHICAGO BLUES, ATLANTA BLUES
∙  1920  ∙  Crazy blues (Mamie Smith)  ∙  1922  ∙  T'ain't nobody's bus'ness if I do (Sara Martin)  ∙  1923  ∙  Pawn shop blues (Lucille Bogan)  ∙  1924  ∙  See see rider blues (Ma Rainey)  ∙  1925  ∙  Kitchen mechanic blues (Clara Smith)  ∙  Underworld blues (Sippie Wallace)  ∙  1926  ∙  Black snake blues (Victoria Spivey, 1963 ver.)  ∙  1927  ∙  Gypsy glass blues (Ida Cox)  ∙  House rent stomp (Big Bill Broonzy)  ∙  Rising high water blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson)  ∙

∙  1928  ∙  Bull doze blues (going up the country) (Henry Thomas)  ∙  How long, how long blues / Prison bound blues (Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell)  ∙  In My Time Of Dying / Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed (Blind Willie Johnson)  ∙  Canned heat blues (Tommy Johnson)  ∙  You're gonna quit me blues (Blind Blake)  ∙  Penitentiary Moan Blues (Texas Alexander)  ∙  Crow Jane blues (Julius Daniels)  ∙  1929  ∙  St Louis blues (Bessie Smith)  ∙  Wichita Falls blues (T-Bone Walker)  ∙  Spoonful blues (Charley Patton)  ∙  Corrine Corrina (Bo Carter)  ∙  When the levee breaks (Memphis Minnie)  ∙  That's no way to get along (Robert Wilkins)  ∙

∙  1930  ∙  Sitting on top of the world (Mississippi Sheiks)  ∙  1931  ∙  Hard Times Killing Floor Blues (Skip James, ver. 1967)  ∙  1935  ∙  Baby please don't go (Big Joe Williams)  ∙  My old pal blues (Scrapper Blackwell)  ∙  1937  ∙  Me and the Devil Blues / Cross road blues / Come on in my kitchen (Robert Johnson)  ∙  1938  ∙  Get your yas yas out (Blind Boy Fuller)  ∙

∙  1941  ∙  Catfish blues (Robert Petway)  ∙  Key to the highway (Big Bill Broonzy)  ∙  1942  ∙  He's a jelly roll baker (Lonnie Johnson)  ∙  1945  ∙  Rock island line (Lead Belly)  ∙  1946  ∙  Baby please don't go (v1969) (Lightnin' Hopkins)  ∙  1947  ∙  Lonesome World To Me (Arthur Crudup)  ∙  1948  ∙  Boogie Chillen (John Lee Hooker)  ∙  I feel like going home (Muddy Waters)  ∙  1949  ∙  Crawling king snake (John Lee Hooker)  ∙

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RnB ROCK

Before the age of rock∙  1945  ∙  Strange things happening every day (Sister Rosetta Tharpe, boogie-gospel)  ∙  1946  ∙  Baby please don't go  (Lightnin' Hopkins, blues)  ∙  That's all right  (Arthur Crudup, blues)  ∙  Wynonie's blues / Hey ba-ba-re-bop (Wynonie Harris, boogie-jazz)  ∙

Into the age of rock  ∙  1947  ∙  Good rockin' tonight (Roy Brown, swing rock)  ∙  1948  ∙  Boogie Chillen  (John Lee Hooker, blues rock)  ∙  Lollipop Mama (Wynonie Harris, boogie rock)  ∙  1949  ∙  Rock awhile (Goree Carter, swing rock)  ∙  Rock the joint  (Jimmy Preston, swing rock)  ∙  Drinkin' wine Spo-dee-o-dee (Stick McGhee, blues rock)  ∙  The fat man (Fats Domino, boogie rock)  ∙  All she wants to do is rock (Wynonie Harris, boogie rock)  ∙

(see also Rock USA 40s)