RnB 1920-40s
JOURNEY THROUGH 500 RnB SOUL SONGS
RnB SOUL ∙ 1920-40s ∙ 50s ∙ 60s ∙ 70s ∙ 80s ∙ 90s ∙ Neo Soul 2000s-2010s ∙
RnB 1920-40s
African-American music began to be recorded and broadcast in the early 1920s, primarily in the blues and jazz genres. With the advent of rock 'n' roll in 1947, its scene became known as Ryhtm & Blues music (RnB).
RnB 40s : Billie Holiday ∙ Nat King Cole ∙ Ella Fitzgerald ∙
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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) ∙