Post your top five favorite songs from 1920 to 1945
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Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
'Lush Life', 'Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered', 'Tango Ballad', 'High Water Everywhere', 'Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground', 'Stormy Weather', 'I Didn't Know What Time It Was', 'Goodnight Irene', 'Come On In My Kitchen', 'Strange Fruit'.
Yeah, I can't count. STFU.
Wish I could've picked some Cole Porter and Fats Waller, but it was too hard.
Yeah, I can't count. STFU.
Wish I could've picked some Cole Porter and Fats Waller, but it was too hard.
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smurfco
Meatus McPrepuce
Of course
Flamencology
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Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Rhapsody in Blue, Oklahoma (the whole musical with Oh What a Beautiful Mornin and Surrey being particular standouts...I sing parts of them around the house, out in public, pretty much anywhere, much to my wife's chagrin), A Kiss to Build a Dream On, This Land is Your Land.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Crap, I'm not a hipster.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
We kinda got that when you expressed affection for Oklahoma!.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Ain't Misbehaving, Crossroads Blues, Over The Rainbow, ...all I can think of right now.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Unless I liked it ironically.
Seriously, excellent songcraft despite the topic...because we must all remember that the farmer and the cowman should be friends!
Over the Rainbow is one as well, excellent call DD.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Unless I liked it ironically.
Seriously, excellent songcraft despite the topic...because we must all remember that the farmer and the cowman should be friends!
Over the Rainbow is one as well, excellent call DD.
On a purely musical, instrumental level... I mean, you can't deny that 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' and 'Surrey With A Fringe On Top' aren't great; I mean, they've become jazz standards for a reason. Lyrically, and as theatre... That's another story.
The Wizard of Oz is so deeply ingrained in popular culture that many fail to appreciate the genius of the songcraft in that movie, start to finish. Yeah, 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' is a perfect song, yeah, undeniable. But Arlen and Harburg wrote it out of the park. We have "great lyricist" thread every couple of years... But c'mon - not many could match lines like "if ever a wonderful wiz there was, the wizard of Oz is one because...".
People who genuinely/seriously want to work on their songcraft skills should study pre-60s Broadway. Plus Sondheim.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Hello Dolly, Wonderful World, Mack the Knife, Over the Rainbow, White Christmas (Holiday Inn version. Had to throw one Bing song in there). Could go on with more Louis Armstrong hits, and find more Bing ones as well.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
You've still got a couple of free slots, since 'Hello Dolly' and 'What a Wonderful World' were both written and released in the 60s. Room for more Bing. 'Brother Can You Spare A Dime?' would be an essential choice.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
oops. My Grandma introduced me to those two when I was a kid and I just presumed they were from that earlier era.
So ok, then I will take Brother Can you Spare a Dime, and for another, (Bing covered this, but not nearly the most famous version) I will go with As Time Goes By. And turns out I have to replace Mack the Knife too, so I will go with Stardust, as done by Satchmo. Bing did it also in 1931, but he had not developed the style I preferred by that time. He has a re-do in '39 that I like a lot better, but I think Satch's version is still better.
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Being a history buff, probably some of the WWII songs. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree, etc. Stardust, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Makin' Whoopie, Over The Rainbow, In The Mood, Wabash Cannonball, White Christmas…..it's hard to pick just 5 
Here's a great website to browse the popular songs:
http://tsort.info/music/yr1941.htm
Here's a great website to browse the popular songs:
http://tsort.info/music/yr1941.htm
