The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles

Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• The Better-Known Swing Bands
• Artie Shaw
• Begin the Beguine
• Frenesi
• Summit Ridge Drive
• Benny Goodman
• And the Angels Sing
• Let's Dance
• Moonglow
• Sing, Sing, Sing
• Billy Eckstine
• Prisoner of Love
• Without a Song
• Bob Crosby
• Day In--Day Out
• In a Little Gypsy Tea Room
• Bunny Berigan
• I Can't Get Started
• When Yuba Plays the Rumba on His Tuba
• Cab Calloway
• Jumpin' Jive
• Minnie the Moocher
• Charlie Barnet
• Cherokee
• Skyliner
• Charlie Spivak
• Linda
• My Devotion
• Chick Webb
• A-Tisket A-Tasket
• Stompin' at the Savoy
• Claude Thornhill
• Loch Lomond
• Snowfall
• Clyde McCoy
• Sugar Blues
• Count Basie
• Blue and Sentimental
• One O'Clock Jump
• Open the Door, Richard
• Sugar
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Chasing Shadows
• Lost in a Fog
• When I Take My Sugar to Tea
• Duke Ellington
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
• Satin Doll
• Take the "A" Train
• Erskine Hawkins
• Tuxedo Junction
• Frankie Carle
• Oh What It Seemed to Be
• Rumors Are Flying
• Gene Krupa
• Boogie Blues
• Let Me Off Uptown
• Glen Gray
• Blue Moon
• Smoke Rings
• Glenn Miller
• Chattanooga Choo Choo
• In the Mood
• Little Brown Jug
• Moonlight Serenade
• Harry James
• Ciribiribin
• I've Heard That Song Before
• Sleepy Lagoon
• You Made Me Love You
• Henry Busse
• Hot Lips
• Jan Savitt
• Make Believe Island
• 720 in the Books
• Jimmie Lunceford
• The Organ Grinder's Swing
• Rhythm Is Our Business
• Jimmy Dorsey
• Besame Mucho
• Contrasts
• So Rare
• John Kirby
• Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy
• Undecided
• Larry Clinton
• Deep Purple
• My Reverie
• Les Brown
• Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
• Sentimental Journey
• Lionel Hampton
• After You've Gone
• Flying Home
• Ray Anthony
• At Last
• The Bunny Hop
• Russ Morgan
• Pocketful of Dreams
• You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
• Si Zentner
• Lazy River
• Stan Kenton
• Artistry in Rhythm
• City of Glass
• Tampico
• Ted Heath
• Listen to My Music
• That Lovely Weekend
• Ted Weems
• Heartaches
• Somebody Stole My Gal
• Teddy Wilson
• You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming
• Tommy Dorsey
• I'll Never Smile Again
• I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
• Marie
• Opus One
• Will Bradley
• Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
• High on a Windy Hill
• Woody Herman
• Caledonia
• Early Autumn
• Woodchopper's Ball
• The Sweet Bands
• Ben Bernie
• Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Dick Jurgens
• Careless
• Eddy Duchin
• I Won't Dance
• My Twilight Dream
• Freddy Martin
• I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts
• Tonight We Love
• Guy Lombardo
• Boo-Hoo
• Coquette
• Hal Kemp
• Got a Date with an Angel
• Horace Heidt
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• I'll Love You in My Dreams
• Isham Jones
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• Wabash Blues
• Jan Garber
• A Melody from the Sky
• You're Breaking My Heart
• Kay Kyser
• Three Little Fishes
• Lawrence Welk
• Don't Sweetheart Me
• Leo Reisman
• The Continental
• Paradise
• Paul Whiteman
• Whispering
• Wonderful One
• Sammy Kaye
• Daddy
• Harbor Lights
• Shep Fields
• Did I Remember?
• Wayne King
• Beautiful Love
• The Waltz You Saved for Me
• Xavier Cugat
• Brazil
• The Breeze and I
• Some Unheralded Bands
• Bennie Moten
• Moten Swing
• Benny Carter
• Kansas City Suite
• When the Lights Are Low
• Billy Strayhorn
• Lush Life
• Don Redman
• Chant of the Weed
• Cherry
• Fletcher Henderson
• Christopher Columbus
• Henderson Stomp
• Gus A