The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles
- Author: Baldwin, Mark
- Author: Studwell, William E.
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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