In this section you will find all the 78rpm original records released by the labels Billie was under contract, organized by label name. It covers the period 1933 – 1954.

TABLE OF LABELS

Abbreviations

MT – Master Takes. First column represent the chronological sequence of recording dates.

LR – Live Recording (there are only 3 live trackings originally recorded in 78rpm)

Rec Date – Recording Date (when they have been taped)

RD – Disc release date (when they were distributed)

LABEL INDEX

ALADDIN

Aladdin Records was founded in 1945 by the Mesner brothers with headquarters in Hollywood, CA. Originally called Philo Records, changed to its better-known name in April 1946. Aladdin was known for its wealth of recordings of rhythm & blues and early rock & roll music; it also recorded some jazz sessions. It was virtually devoted to black music.

The label was sold to Imperial Records in 1961 and is today owned by Capitol Records. (Wikipedia)

MT	Song Title	T	Rec Date	Orig. Vinyl Label	RD
215	Be Fair With Me Baby	MT	04/29/51	Alladin 3094	1951
218	Detour Ahead	MT	04/29/51	Alladin 3094	1951
216	Rocky Mountain Blues	MT	04/29/51	Alladin 3102	1951
217	Blue Turning Grey Over You	MT	04/29/51	Alladin 3102	1951

    

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BLUEBIRD

Bluebird Records is a sub-label of RCA Victor Records originally created in 1932 to counter the American Record Company in the “3 records for a dollar” market. Still active.

MT

Song Title

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

91

Any Old Time

MT

07/24/38

Bluebird 7759

1938

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The B side was recorded only by Artie Shaw Orchestra. Notice that Bluebird used two different logos.

 

BRUNSWICK

Records under the “Brunswick” label were first produced by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company and first began producing phonographs in 1916, then marketing their own line of records. In April 1930, Brunswick Records was sold to Warner Bros then in 1931 to American Record Corporation. ARC kept Brunswick as their flagship until 1939, when ARC was sold to CBS-Columbia Broadcast System.

Columbia discontinued Brunswick label in favor of their own Columbia, as well as OKeh replacing Vocalion, the cheaper ARC label. These two brands were reverted to Warner and sold to Decca in 1941 that revived Brunswick label in 1943.

Brunswick, series 7000

MT	Song Title	T	Rec Date	Orig. Vinyl Label	RD
4	What A Little Moonlight Can Do	MT	07/02/35	Brunswick 7498	1935
6	A Sunbonnet Blue	MT	07/02/35	Brunswick 7498	1935
3	I Wished on the Moon	MT	07/02/35	Brunswick 7501	1935
5	Miss Brown To You	MT	07/02/35	Brunswick 7501	1935
7	What A Nigth, What a Moon, What a Girl	MT	07/31/35	Brunswick 7511	1935
9	It’s Too Hot for Words	MT	07/31/35	Brunswick 7511	1935
8	I’m Painting the Town Red	MT	07/31/35	Brunswick 7520	1935
10	Twenty-Four Hours a Day	MT	10/25/35	Brunswick 7550	1935
11	Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town	MT	10/25/35	Brunswick 7550	1935
12	Eeny Meeny Miney Mo	MT	10/25/35	Brunswick 7554	1935
13	If You Were Mine	MT	10/25/35	Brunswick 7554	1935
14	These ‘n’ That ‘n’ Those	MT	12/03/35	Brunswick 7577	1935
15	You Let Me Down	MT	12/03/35	Brunswick 7581	1935
16	Spreadin’ Rhythm Around	MT	12/03/35	Brunswick 7581	1935
17	Life Begins When You’re in Love	MT	01/30/36	Brunswick 7612	1936
19	These Foolish Things	MT	06/30/36	Brunswick 7699	1936
18	It’s Like Reaching for the Moon	MT	06/30/36	Brunswick 7702	1936
21	Guess Who	MT	06/30/36	Brunswick 7702	1936
20	I Cried for You	MT	06/30/36	Brunswick 7729	1936
30	Easy to Love	MT	10/21/36	Brunswick 7762	1936
32	The Way You Look Tonight	MT	10/21/36	Brunswick 7762	1936
31	With Thee I Swing	MT	10/21/36	Brunswick 7768	1936
33	Who Loves You?	MT	10/28/36	Brunswick 7768	1936
36	I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby	MT	11/19/36	Brunswick 7781	1936
34	Pennies from Heaven	MT	11/19/36	Brunswick 7789	1936
35	That’s Life I Guess	MT	11/19/36	Brunswick 7789	1936
41	He Ain’t Got Rhythm	MT	01/25/37	Brunswick 7824	1937
42	This Year’s Kisses	MT	01/25/37	Brunswick 7824	1937
46	You Showed Me the Way	MT	02/18/37	Brunswick 7840	1937
48	My Last Affair (This Is)	MT	02/18/37	Brunswick 7840	1937
45	The Mood That I’m In	MT	02/18/37	Brunswick 7844	1937
47	Sentimental and Melancholy	MT	02/18/37	Brunswick 7844	1937
43	Why Was I Born?	MT	01/25/37	Brunswick 7859	1937
44	I Must Have That Man	MT	01/25/37	Brunswick 7859	1937
49	Carelessly	MT	03/31/37	Brunswick 7867	1937
50	How Could You?	MT	03/31/37	Brunswick 7867	1937
51	Moanin’ Low	MT	03/31/37	Brunswick 7877	1937
58	I’ll Get By	MT	05/11/37	Brunswick 7903	1937
59	Mean to Me	MT	05/11/37	Brunswick 7903	1937
60	Foolin’ Myself	MT	06/01/37	Brunswick 7911	1937
61	Easy Living	MT	06/01/37	Brunswick 7911	1937
56	Sun Showers	MT	05/11/37	Brunswick 7917	1937
57	Yours and Mine	MT	05/11/37	Brunswick 7917	1937
62	I’ll Never Be the Same	MT	06/01/37	Brunswick 7926	1937

Brunswick series 8000

MT	Song Title	T	Rec Date	Orig. Vinyl Label	RD
73	My Man (Mon Homme)	MT	11/01/37	Brunswick 8008	1937
74	Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man	MT	11/01/37	Brunswick 8008	1937
71	Nice Work If You Can Get It	MT	11/01/37	Brunswick 8015	1937
72	Things Are Looking Up	MT	11/01/37	Brunswick 8015	1937
75	My First Impression of You	MT	01/06/38	Brunswick 8053	1938
78	If Dreams Come True	MT	01/06/38	Brunswick 8053	1938
76	When You’re Smiling	MT	01/06/38	Brunswick 8070	1938
77	I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me	MT	01/06/38	Brunswick 8070	1938
96	Everybody’s Laughing	MT	10/31/38	Brunswick 8259	1938
97	Here It Is Tomorrow Again	MT	10/31/38	Brunswick 8259	1938
99	April in My Heart	MT	11/09/38	Brunswick 8265	1938
100	I’ll Never Fail You	MT	11/09/38	Brunswick 8265	1938
98	Say It with a Kiss	MT	11/09/38	Brunswick 8270	1938
101	They Say	MT	11/09/38	Brunswick 8270	1938
103	You’re Gonna See a Lot of Me	MT	11/28/38	Brunswick 8281	1938
104	Hello My Darling	MT	11/28/38	Brunswick 8281	1938
102	You’re So Desirable	MT	11/28/38	Brunswick 8283	1938
105	Let’s Dream in the Moonlight	MT	11/28/38	Brunswick 8283	1938
108	What Shall I Say?	MT	01/30/39	Brunswick 8314	1939
109	It’s Easy to Blame the Weather	MT	01/30/39	Brunswick 8314	1939
110	More Than You Know	MT	01/30/39	Brunswick 8319	1939
111	Sugar	MT	01/30/39	Brunswick 8319	1939

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CAPITOL

The Company was founded in Los Angeles by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942. On June 5, 1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four sides. On June 12, the orchestra recorded five more, including one with Billie Holiday. Still active.

MT	Song Title	T	Rec Date	Orig. Vinyl Label	RD
160	Trav’lin’ Light	MT	06/12/42	Capitol Records 116	1942

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This is the only side Billie recorded with Paul Whiteman. The other side is just instrumental.

 

CLEF

Clef Records was formed in 1948 in California by Norman Granz. Originally associated with Aladdin Records (see above) became independent in the early fifties. Clef recorded jazz and popular music and was discontinued in 1957 when newly founded Norman Granz’s Verve Records became the dominant label in the jazz scene.

 

Clef-Mercury

Mercury Record Corporation was formed in Chicago in 1945. Its jazz division had two distinct and important fathers. John Hammond brought his expertise and connections when Mercury bought Keynote Records in the late 1940s. And Mercury was the issuing company and distributor for Norman Granz’s pre-Norgran/Verve recordings, including Clef. Therefore, sometimes certain titles were released by both labels.

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

225	I Only Have Eyes for You	MT	04/27/52	Clef-Mercury 89002	1952
224	These Foolish Things	MT	04/26/52	Clef-Mercury 89002	1952
223	Easy to Love	MT	04/25/52	Clef-Mercury 89003	1952
222	You Turned the Tables on Me	MT	04/24/52	Clef-Mercury 89003	1952
220	Blue Moon	MT	04/22/52	Clef-Mercury 89004	1952
221	You Go To My Head	MT	04/23/52	Clef-Mercury 89004	1952
219	East of the Sun	MT	04/21/52	Clef-Mercury 89005	1952
226	Solitude	MT	04/28/52	Clef-Mercury 89005	1952
235	Lover Come Back To Me	MT	07/27/52	Clef-Mercury 89037	1952
237	Yesterdays	MT	07/27/52	Clef-Mercury 89037	1952

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Clef

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

236	Stormy Weather	MT	07/27/52	Clef 89064	1952
230	Tenderly	MT	05/02/52	Clef 89064	1952
238	He’s Funny That Way	MT	07/27/52	Clef 89089	1952
234	My Man (Mon Homme)	MT	07/27/52	Clef 89089	1952
239	I Can’t Face the Music	MT	07/27/52	Clef 89096	1952
232	Remember	MT	05/04/52	Clef 89096	1952
233	Autumn in New York	MT	05/05/52	Clef 89108	1952
231	If the Moon Turns Green	MT	05/03/52	Clef 89108	1952
240	How Deep Is the Ocean?	MT	04/14/54	Clef 89132	1954
241	What A Little Moonlight Can Do	MT	04/14/54	Clef 89132	1954
249	Stormy Blues	MT	09/03/54	Clef 89141	1954
248	Willow Weep For Me	MT	09/03/54	Clef 89141	1954
247	I Thought About You	MT	09/03/54	Clef 89150	1954
243	Love Me or Leave Me	MT	09/03/54	Clef 89150	1954

         

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(Clef 89132 not available)

COLUMBIA

A premier recording label, the Columbia Phonograph Company was originally the local company run by Edward Easton, distributing and selling Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Delaware, and derives its name from the District of Columbia, which was its headquarters.

The 78rpm era – On February 25, 1925, Columbia began recording with the new electricrecording process licensed from Western Electric. The new “Viva-tonal” records set a benchmark in tone and clarity unequaled on commercial discs during the “78-rpm” era. In 1926, Columbia acquired OKeh Records and its growing stable of jazz and blues artists.

In 1923 the company was sold to its subsidiary in UK; that in 1931 merged in a new venture called EMI and was forced to sell its American operations to Majestic Radio. At that time, the company in great decline was still producing remarkable records, specially those producued by John Hammond. Those were the days when Billie, under Hammond lead, recorded her first 78rpm in Columbia (see that chapter). However, in 1934 the company was sold to ARC – American Record Corporation. ARC premium label was Brunswick, followed by Vocalion – and this relegated Columbia as a third-class label.

The LP era – In 1938 ARC was bought by CBS – Columbia Broadcast System (curiously co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records that soon left the society). CBS revived Columbia as its premium label over Brunswick and OKeh over Vocalion. In 1948 Columbia introduced the Long Playing “microgroove” LP record format which rotated at 33⅓ revolutions per minute, to be the standard for the gramophone record for half a century. First Billie album for Columbia was the 10-inch Favourites in 1950.

CBS sold its recording division to Sony in 1988, where Columbia Records remains a premier label.

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

1	Your Mother’s Son-In-Law	MT	11/27/33	Columbia 2856D	1933
2	Riffin’ the Scotch	MT	12/18/33	Columbia 2867D	1933
116	Long Gone Blues	MT	03/21/39	Columbia 37586	1941
150	Am I Blue?	MT	05/09/41	Columbia 37586	1941
153	I Cover The Waterfront	MT	08/07/41	Columbia 37493	1942
159	Until the Real Thing Comes Along	MT	02/10/42	Columbia 37493	1942

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Note: the B-sides of 2856D and 2867D are solo instrumental, by Benny Goodman.

 

COMMODORE

Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938 by Milt Gabler in NYC.

After World War II Gabler went to work for Decca Records, and his Commodore label was later used by Decca for reissuing earlier jazz recordings on LP. In the early 1960s a series of Commodore albums were compiled by Gabler and part of the Mainstream label.

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

119	Fine And Mellow	MT	04/20/39	Commodore C-526	1939
117	Strange Fruit	MT	04/20/39	Commodore C-526	1939
120	I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues	MT	04/20/39	Commodore C-527-A	1939
118	Yesterdays	MT	04/20/39	Commodore C-527-B	1939
165	I’ll Be Seeing You	MT	04/01/44	Commodore C-553	1944
163	I’ll Get By	MT	03/25/44	Commodore C-553	1944
164	I Cover The Waterfront	MT	03/25/44	Commodore C-559	1944
170	Lover Come Back To Me	MT	04/08/44	Commodore C-559	1944
169	He’s Funny That Way	MT	04/08/44	Commodore C-569	1944
161	How Am I to Know	MT	03/25/44	Commodore C-569	1944
166	I’m Yours	MT	04/01/44	Commodore C-585	1944
162	My Old Flame	MT	03/25/44	Commodore C-585	1944
171	Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man)	MT	04/08/44	Commodore C-614	1944
172	On The Sunny Side of The Street	MT	04/08/44	Commodore C-614	1944
168	As Time Goes By	MT	04/01/44	Commodore S 7520	1944
167	Embraceable You	MT	04/01/44	Commodore S 7520	1944

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DECCA

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929. Its U.S. label was established in 1934. American Decca embraced the new post-war record formats adopting the LP in 1949. They merged with MCA in 1962.

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

175	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)	MT	10/04/44	Decca Records 23391	1944
177	That Old Devil Called Love	MT	11/08/44	Decca Records 23391	1944
182	You Better Go Now	MT	08/14/45	Decca Records 23483	1945
180	Don’t Explain	MT	08/14/45	Decca Records 23565	1945
183	What Is This Thing Called Love	MT	08/14/45	Decca Records 23565	1945
184	Good Morning Heartache	MT	01/22/46	Decca Records 23676	1946
185	No Good Man	MT	01/22/46	Decca Records 23676	1946
187	Big Stuff	MT	03/13/46	Decca Records 23463	1946
176	No More (You Ain’t Gonna Bother Me)	MT	10/04/44	Decca Records 23483	1946
188	Baby,  I Don’t Cry over You	MT	04/09/46	Decca Records 23957	1946
189	I’ll Look Around	MT	04/09/46	Decca Records 23957	1946
192	Deep Song	MT	02/13/47	Decca Records 24138	1947
194	Easy Living	MT	02/13/47	Decca Records 24138	1947
195	Solitude	MT	02/13/47	Decca Records 23853	1947
193	There Is No Greater Love	MT	02/13/47	Decca Records 23853	1947
197	Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys	MT	12/10/48	Decca Records 24551	1949
196	Weep No More	MT	12/10/48	Decca Records 24551	1949
199	My Man (Mon Homme)	MT	12/10/48	Decca Records 24638	1949
198	Porgy (I Love You)	MT	12/10/48	Decca Records 24638	1949
200	Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do	MT	08/17/49	Decca Records 24726	1949
201	Baby Get Lost	MT	08/17/49	Decca Records 24726	1949
207	My Sweet Hunk of Trash	MT	09/30/49	Decca Records 24785	1949
206	You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart	MT	09/30/49	Decca Records 24785	1949
210	Crazy He Calls Me	MT	10/19/49	Decca Records 24796	1949
209	You’re My Thrill	MT	10/19/49	Decca Records 24796	1949
211	Please Tell Me Now	MT	10/19/49	Decca Records 24857	1950
212	Somebody’s on My Mind	MT	10/19/49	Decca Records 24857	1950
205	Gimme a Pigfoot And a Bottle of Beer	MT	09/08/49	Decca Records 24947	1950
208	Now Or Never	MT	09/30/49	Decca Records 24947	1950
213	God Bless the Child	MT	03/08/50	Decca Records 24972	1950
214	This Is Heaven to Me	MT	03/08/50	Decca Records 24972	1950
202	Keeps On A Rainin’	MT	08/29/49	Decca Records 27145	1950
203	Them There Eyes	MT	08/29/49	Decca Records 27145	1950
204	Do Your Duty	MT	09/08/49	Decca Records 48259	1951
190	The Blues Are Brewin’	MT	12/27/46	Decca Records 48259	1951

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HARMONY

Harmony Records was a label owned by Columbia Records. It was originally used as a label for low-price 78 rpm records in the 1920s and 1930s; subsequently it was revived as a label for budget albums of reissued tracks during the 1950s with nine or ten songs per album. The label was most active during the 1960s and Columbia continued to issue new repackages on the label into the mid-1970s.

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

158	It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie	MT	02/10/42	Harmony 1075	1942
156	Wherever You Are	MT	02/10/42	Harmony 1075	1942

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OKEH

Okeh Records (rendered by Sony Music as “OKeh”) began as the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corp., a supplier of phonographs based in the United States of America in 1916, branching out into phonograph records in 1918. From 1926 on, it became a subsidiary of Columbia Records.

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

135	Laughing at Life	MT	06/07/40	OKeh 5719	1940
134	Tell Me More	MT	06/07/40	OKeh 5719	1940
139	It’s The Same Old Story	MT	09/12/40	OKeh 5806	1940
140	Practice Makes Perfect	MT	09/12/40	OKeh 5806	1940
138	I Hear Music	MT	09/12/40	OKeh 5831	1940
137	I’m All for You	MT	09/12/40	OKeh 5831	1940
133	I’m Pulling Through	MT	06/07/40	OKeh 5991	1940
136	Time on My Hands	MT	06/07/40	OKeh 5991	1940
142	Loveless Love	MT	10/15/40	OKeh 6064	1940
141	St. Louis Blues	MT	10/15/40	OKeh 6064	1940
144	Georgia on My Mind	MT	03/21/41	OKeh 6134	1941
143	Let’s Do It	MT	03/21/41	OKeh 6134	1941
146	All of Me	MT	03/21/41	OKeh 6214	1941
145	Romance in the Dark	MT	03/21/41	OKeh 6214	1941
149	God Bless the Child	MT	05/09/41	OKeh 6270	1941
151	Solitude	MT	05/09/41	OKeh 6270	1941
152	Jim	MT	08/07/41	OKeh 6369	1941
154	Love Me or Leave Me	MT	08/07/41	OKeh 6369	1941
155	Gloomy Sunday	MT	08/07/41	OKeh 6451	1941
148	I’m in a Low-Down Groove	MT	05/09/41	OKeh 6451	1941

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V DISC

The V-Disc project actually began in June 1941, six months before the United States’ involvement in World War II, when Captain Howard Bronson was assigned to the Army’s Recreation and Welfare Section as a musical advisor. Bronson suggested the troops might appreciate a series of records featuring military band music, inspirational records that could motivate soldiers and improve morale. By 1942, the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) sent discs to the troops from eight sources: special recording sessions, concerts, recitals, radio broadcasts, film sound tracks and commercial records. “V” stands for Victory.

These 78rpm discs were manufactured with some special features.The diameter was increased to 12″ instead of the usual 10″ so as to allow reproduction of classical music and the press material used in most discs was vinyl instead of shellac, fragile material that could not withstand the distribution operation.

Eleven BH songs were issued in seven V-discs. However, I will just list five of them (in four discs) as this page is dedicated only to 78rpm original records (other were reissues). All of them were from live recordings.

LR

Song Title

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

14	Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man)	LR	01/18/44	V-Disc 248 A	1944
15	Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me	LR	01/18/44	V-Disc 672 A1	1944
16	I’ll Get By	LR	01/18/44	V-Disc 672 A2	1944
41	Do You What It Means To Miss New Orleans	LR	02/08/47	V-Disc 760 A	1947
42	Don’t Explain	LR	02/08/47	V-Disc 771 B	1947

      

 

 

 

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VOCALION

Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which introduced a retail line of phonographs at the same time. In 1925 the label was acquired by Brunswick Records who used it in its portfolio as a cheaper label. In April 1930, Brunswick Records was sold to Warner Bros then in 1931 to American Record Corporation. ARC kept Brunswick as their flagship until 1939, when ARC was sold to CBS-Columbia Broadcast System.

Columbia discontinued Brunswick label in favor of their own Columbia, as well as OKeh replacing Vocalion, the cheaper ARC label. These two brands were reverted to Warner and sold to Decca in 1941 that revived Brunswick label in 1943.

Vocalion 3000 series

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

22	Did I Remember?	MT	07/10/36	Vocalion 3276	1936
23	No Regrets	MT	07/10/36	Vocalion 3276	1936
24	Summertime	MT	07/10/36	Vocalion 3288	1936
25	Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man)	MT	07/10/36	Vocalion 3288	1936
26	A Fine Romance	MT	09/29/36	Vocalion 3333	1936
27	I Can’t Pretend	MT	09/29/36	Vocalion 3333	1936
28	One, Two, Button Your Shoe	MT	09/29/36	Vocalion 3334	1936
29	Let’s Call a Heart a Heart	MT	09/29/36	Vocalion 3334	1936
37	One Never Knows, Does One?	MT	01/12/37	Vocalion 3431	1937
38	I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm	MT	01/12/37	Vocalion 3431	1937
39	If My Heart Could Only Talk	MT	01/12/37	Vocalion 3440	1937
40	Please Keep Me in Your Dreams	MT	01/12/37	Vocalion 3440	1937
53	Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off	MT	04/01/37	Vocalion 3520	1937
54	They Can’t Take That Away from Me	MT	04/01/37	Vocalion 3520	1937
52	Where Is the Sun?	MT	04/01/37	Vocalion 3543	1937
55	I Don’t Know If I’m Coming or Going	MT	04/01/37	Vocalion 3543	1937
63	Me,  Myself and I	MT	06/15/37	Vocalion 3593	1937
66	Without Your Love	MT	06/15/37	Vocalion 3593	1937
64	A Sailboat in the Moonlight	MT	06/15/37	Vocalion 3605	1937
65	Born to Love	MT	06/15/37	Vocalion 3605	1937
67	Getting Some Fun out of Life	MT	09/13/37	Vocalion 3701	1937
68	Who Wants Love?	MT	09/13/37	Vocalion 3701	1937
70	He’s Funny That Way	MT	09/13/37	Vocalion 3748	1937
69	Trav’lin’ All Alone	MT	09/13/37	Vocalion 3748	1937
79	Now They Call It Swing	MT	01/12/38	Vocalion 3947	1938
80	On the Sentimental Side	MT	01/12/38	Vocalion 3947	1938

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Vocalion 4000 series

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

81	Back in Your Own Backyard	MT	01/12/38	Vocalion 4029	1938
82	When a Woman Loves a Man	MT	01/12/38	Vocalion 4029	1938
83	You Go To My Head	MT	05/11/38	Vocalion 4126	1938
84	The Moon Looks Down and Laughs	MT	05/11/38	Vocalion 4126	1938
85	If I Were You	MT	05/11/38	Vocalion 4151	1938
86	Forget If You Can	MT	05/11/38	Vocalion 4151	1938
87	Havin’ Myself a Time	MT	06/23/38	Vocalion 4208	1938
88	Says My Heart	MT	06/23/38	Vocalion 4208	1938
89	I Wish I Had You	MT	06/23/38	Vocalion 4238	1938
90	I’m Gonna Lock My Heart	MT	06/23/38	Vocalion 4238	1938
94	I’ve Got a Date with a Dream	MT	09/15/38	Vocalion 4396	1938
95	You Can’t Be Mine	MT	09/15/38	Vocalion 4396	1938
92	The Very Thought of You	MT	09/15/38	Vocalion 4457	1938
93	I Can’t Get Started	MT	09/15/38	Vocalion 4457	1938
107	Dream of Life	MT	01/20/39	Vocalion 4631	1939
106	That’s All I Ask of You	MT	01/20/39	Vocalion 4631	1939
114	Everything Happens for the Best	MT	03/21/39	Vocalion 4786	1939
113	Under a Blue Jungle Moon	MT	03/21/39	Vocalion 4786	1939
115	Why Did I Always Depend on You?	MT	03/21/39	Vocalion 4834	1939
112	You’re Too Lovely to Last	MT	03/21/39	Vocalion 4834	1939

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Vocalion 5000 series

MT

Song Title

T

Rec Date

Orig. Vinyl Label

RD

121	Some Other Spring	MT	07/05/39	Vocalion 5021	1939
123	Them There Eyes	MT	07/05/39	Vocalion 5021	1939
122	Our Love Is Different	MT	07/05/39	Vocalion 5129	1939
124	Swing,  Brother,  Swing	MT	07/05/39	Vocalion 5129	1939
128	You’re A Lucky Guy	MT	12/13/39	Vocalion 5302	1939
127	You’re Just a No Account	MT	12/13/39	Vocalion 5302	1939
125	Night and Day	MT	12/13/39	Vocalion 5377	1939
126	The Man I Love	MT	12/13/39	Vocalion 5377	1939
130	Body and Soul	MT	02/29/40	Vocalion 5481	1940
131	What Is This Going to Get Us?	MT	02/29/40	Vocalion 5481	1940
129	Ghost of Yesterday	MT	02/29/40	Vocalion 5609	1940
132	Falling in Love Again	MT	02/29/40	Vocalion 5609	1940

         

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