Finding aid for the 78 rpm record collection 1013
Diann Benti
USC Libraries Music Library
2022 April
Doheny Memorial Library, G-24
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-1822
music@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Music Library
Title: 78 rpm record collection
Identifier/Call Number: 1013
Physical Description:
6.56 Linear Feet
15 boxes
Date (inclusive): approximately 1900s-1950s
Abstract: This collection contains more than 600 Shellac 78 rpm discs for a variety of American music representing the confluence of
popular and jazz-adjacent genres typical of the developing music industry from the first half of the 20th century.
Language of Material:
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], 78 rpm record collection, Collection no. 1013, Music Library, USC Libraries, University of
Southern California.
Processing Information
This collection was previously labeled as the "Jazz 78s collection."
Scope and Contents
This collection contains more than 600 Shellac 78 rpm discs for a variety of American music representing the confluence of
popular and jazz-adjacent genres typical of the developing music industry from the first half of the 20th century. Among the
styles represented include American Popular Song, Big Band Music, Blues, Classical Music, Dance Music, Dixieland, Easy Listening,
Foxtrot, Opera, Polka, Rhythm & Blues, Swing Music, Tin Pan Alley, Torch Songs, and Waltz. The origins of this collection
are unknown. There is an item level listing of the records in Boxes 1-6 only. The records do not appear to be in a discernible
order.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Music Library at music@usc.edu.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Music Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Popular music -- United States -- 20th century
Phonograph records
Sound recordings
78 rpm records
Box 1
Peerless Quartet: Mandalay / There's Yes! Yes! in Your Eyes
Scope and Contents
Victor 19418
Box 1
Mandalay ; There's Yes! Yes! in Your Eyes / Peerless Quartet
1924
Scope and Contents
Victor 19418
Box 1
Oh Promise Me / Alan Turner ; Dearie / Elsie Baker
1912
Scope and Contents
Victor Record 17189
Box 1
Lady love / Harry Macdonough and the Haydn Quartet ; Dixie Land, I Love You / Billy Murray
1909
Scope and Contents
Victor Record 16366
Box 1
Dardanella blues / Billy Murray ; Ed Smalle Swanee / Peerless Quartet
1920
Scope and Contents
Victor 18688
Box 1
Silent night, hallowed night / Elsie Baker ; Hark! The herald angels sing / Trinity Choir
1912
Scope and Contents
Victor 17164
Box 1
Oh gee! Say gee! You ought to see my Gee Gee from the Fiji isle / Billy Murray ; My home town is a one-horse town, but it's
big enough for me / Harmonizers Quartet ; Victor Roberts [i.e., Billy Jones]
1921
Scope and Contents
Victor 18712
Box 1
That Old Gang of Mine / Apollo Male Trio ; Say It With A Ukelele / Arthur Wilson - Frank Sterling
1923
Scope and Contents
Pathé 021040
Box 1
Angels (we call them mothers down here) / Henry Burr ; Over the hill / Charles Hart
1921
Scope and Contents
Victor 18736
Box 1
Ragging the scale / Fred Van Eps ; Eldorado march / William H. Reitz
1916
Scope and Contents
Victor 18085
Box 1
Mandy ; Novelty one-step / Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
1919
Scope and Contents
Victor 18614
Box 1
My mother's evening prayer / Henry Burr ; Now I lay me down to sleep / Elliott Shaw, Charles Hart
1921
Scope and Contents
Victor 18747
Box 1
Banjo song / J. A. Myers ; Roll Jordan roll / Fisk University Jubilee Singers
1910
Scope and Contents
Victor 16466
Box 1
In An Old Hawaiian Village ; Beautiful Kahana / Andy Iona
1940
Scope and Contents
Part of a four disk set C 39-2 ; Columbia 35843
Box 1
Angels (we call them mothers down here) / Henry Burr ; Over the hill / Charles Hart
1921
Scope and Contents
Victor 18736
Box 1
A moonlight song / Daniel Beddoe
1913
Scope and Contents
Single-faced ; Victor 64391
Box 1
The Golden Bird: Souvenir (Drdla) ; Spring Song & Glow Worm / N. Provol, Lorraine Evon, Nathaniel Shilkret
1923
Scope and Contents
Gennett Recording 11279/11281
Box 1
Moon River ; Three O'Clock In The Morning / Bar Harbor Society Orchestra
1921
Scope and Contents
Vocalion 14287
Box 1
Happy Days ; Herd Girl's Dream / Adler's Trio
1921
Scope and Contents
Vocalion 14212
Box 1
That old Irish mother of mine ; Just like a Gypsy / Sterling Trio
1920
Scope and Contents
Victor 18696
Box 1
Perhaps--Fox Trot ; Marcellonie--Fox Trot / Ambassadors
1921
Scope and Contents
Vocalion 14685
Box 1
The Winding Trail / Society Night Club Orchestra ; Highways Are Happy Ways (When They Lead the Way Home) / The Caroliners
1927
Scope and Contents
Lincoln 2698
Box 1
Carioca ; The Continental / Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops
1935
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 4287
Box 1
Cuba Libre ; Swing Conga / Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
1940
Scope and Contents
Columbia 35902 (CCO 3490, 3493)
Box 1
How Cute Can You Be? ; Five Minutes More / Frank Sinatra
1946
Scope and Contents
Columbia 37048 (HCO 1677, 1853)
Box 1
Down by the winegar woiks / Billy Murray, Aileen Stanley ; Roll 'em, girls (roll your own) / Billy Murray
1926
Scope and Contents
Victor 19838
Box 1
Darn That Dream ; Peace Brother! / Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
1939
Scope and Contents
Columbia 35331 (WCO 26287, 26288)
Box 1
Minuet ; Souvenir / Charles Adams Prince, Frank Gittelson
1917
Scope and Contents
Columbia A2186 (46376, 46456)
Box 1
Silent Night (Christmas Hymn) ; Adeste Fideles (Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful) / Bing Crosby
1941
Scope and Contents
Decca 621 (part of a four disk set DLA 261) ; With Victor Young and His Orchestra
Box 1
Dardanella ; My Isle of Golden Dreams / Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
1920
Scope and Contents
Victor 18633
Box 1
Flash / Harry James and His Orchestra ; All or Nothing At All / Frank Sinatra
1943
Scope and Contents
Columbia 35587 (LA 2044, CO 25288)
Box 1
Serenade to a Maid ; I Love You Best of All / Teddy Powell and His Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Bluebird [Victor] 11373
Box 1
He's Just a False Alarm / Harry Crane ; It Ain't Gonna Rain No More / Dick Morse
1924
Scope and Contents
Oriole 248 (2086, 3056)
Box 1
Carioca ; Always in my Heart / The Philharmonica Trio
1947
Scope and Contents
Capitol 470 (2152, 2208)
Box 1
The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! Nyot Nyow!) ; Any State in the Forty-Eight is Great / Jimmy Durante and Betty Garrett
1948
Scope and Contents
MGM 30176
Box 1
The State of Arkansas ; Dollar A Year Man / Jimmy Durante
Scope and Contents
MGM 30169
Box 1
Managua - Nicaragua ; What More Can I Ask For? / Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
1947
Scope and Contents
Decca 23782 (73744, 73696)
Box 1
Say It With Your Heart ; You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly / Ernie Rudy And His Orchestra
1953
Scope and Contents
Coral Records 60920 (83765, 83766)
Box 1
When The Sun Comes Out ; Yours (Quiereme Mucho) / Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Decca 3657 (68651, 68653)
Box 1
Cuckoo Waltz ; Naughty Waltz / Ken Griffin at the Organ
1947-1948
Scope and Contents
Broadcast Recordings G-4010-A, G-40100-A ; Date noted on label ; "Not licensed for public performance for profit."
Box 1
The birds and the brook / Joseph Belmont and the Victor Orchestra ; In Venice (An Italian Serenade) / Margaret McKee
1920
Scope and Contents
Bird Warbling by Belmont [and McKee] ; Victor 16052
Box 1
My Love, My Life, My Happiness ; If You Want My Heart / Ames Brothers
1953
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-5404 (E3VB-1319; 1321)
Box 1
Sweet Violets ; If You Turn Me Down / Dinah Shore
1951
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-4174
Box 1
Be My Love ; I'll Never Love You / Mario Lanza
1950
Scope and Contents
As featured in M-G-M film "Toast of New Orleans" ; RCA Victor 10-1561 (49-1353)
Box 1
Zing Zing-Zoom Zoom ; If / Perry Como
1951
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-3997 (47-3997) ; Zing Zing composed and conducted by Sigmund Romberg
Box 2
No news, or What killed the dog? / Nat M. Wills
1908
Scope and Contents
Single-faced; Victor 5612
Box 2
Bombasto march ; Guard mount / Arthur Pryor's Band
1909
Scope and Contents
Victor 16316
Box 2
Actual moments in the reception to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at Washington, D. C. / Graham McNamee
1927
Scope and Contents
Victor 20747
Box 2
Blue bell humoresque / Sousa's Band
1905
Scope and Contents
Single faced, Victor 4376
Box 2
Grüsse an die Heimat / Harmonie Male Quartet
1906
Scope and Contents
Single-faced, Victor 4771
Box 2
At dawning / John McCormack
1912
Scope and Contents
Single-faced, Victor 64302
Box 2
Dreaming of home sweet home / Charles Harrison ; The rose of no man's land / Elliott Shaw ; Charles Hart
1919
Scope and Contents
Victor 18508
Box 2
One fleeting hour / Elsie Baker, Rosario Bourdon ; Memories / John Barnes Wells
1916
Scope and Contents
Victor 17968
Box 2
Roll 'Em ; Like The Moon Above You / Harry James and his Orchestra
1952
Scope and Contents
Columbia [39765], "Special Record, For Radio Stations, Not for Sale"
Box 2
Take me back to Canada / Edward Hamilton ; They sang 'God save the King' / Murray Johnson
1915
Scope and Contents
Victor 17742
Box 2
Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter) ; It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (Irving Berlin) / Gladys Swarthout with the Victor Concert Orchestra
1943
Scope and Contents
From four disk album "Gladys Swarthout Sings Musical Show Hits" (M 935) ; Victor Red Seal Records 10-1036
Box 2
Penny Serenade--Vocadance ; Little Lad--Vocadance / Dick Todd and His Orchestra
1939
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor Bluebird 10144
Box 2
Don't Take Your Love From Me--Fox Trot ; Jealous--Fox Trot / Alvino Rey and his Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor Bluebird 11272
Box 2
A Chapter In My Life Called Mary ; Kiss Me Sweet / Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
1949
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor "Special Purpose Series" DJ-685 (20-3420) ; Dated by Billboard
Box 2
Echos ; Careless Kisses / Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
1950
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-3595 (47-3101)
Box 2
Outside of Heaven ; Lady of Spain / Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra
1952
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-4953 (E2VB-65274, E2VB-6527) ; dated by Billboard
Box 2
How Are Things In Glocca Morra ; If This Isn't Love / Buddy Clark
1947
Scope and Contents
Columbia 37223 (CO 37013, CO 37085)
Box 2
Tonda Wanda Hoy ; You And Your Beautiful Eyes / Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
1950
Scope and Contents
Columbia [39156 (CO 44728, CO 44731)], "Special Record, For Radio Stations, Not for Sale"
Box 2
The Cowboy Serenade (While I'm Rollin' My Last Cigarette) ; You and I / Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36244 (HCO 327, HCO 329)
Box 2
Pinch Me ; Would Ja Mind / Orrin Tucker and his Orchestra
1939
Scope and Contents
Columbia 35328 (LA 2011, LA 1971)
Box 2
Sunday ; Out Of Nowhere / Les Brown And His Orchestra
1944
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36724 (HCO 357, HCO 358)
Box 2
Playmates ; On The Isle Of May / Kay Kyser And His Orchestra
1940
Scope and Contents
Columbia 35375 (WCO 26466, WCO 26468)
Box 2
Shrine of Saint Cecilia ; I Don't Want to Walk Without You / Kate Smith
1942
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36468 (CO 31774, CO 31777)
Box 2
Oh! What It Seemed To Be ; As Long As I Live / Frankie Carle And His Orchestra
1945
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36892 (CO 35367, CO 35368)
Box 2
Time After Time ; I Believe / Frank Sinatra
1946
Scope and Contents
Columbia 37300 (HCO 2116, HCO 2122)
Box 2
The Music of Irving Berlin - Lady of the Evening ; Alexander's Ragtime Band / Al Goodman and his Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Columbia 76449 (CO 31031, CO 31034)
Box 2
Changes ; Green Eyes / Ben Light at the Steinway
1948
Scope and Contents
Tempo TR-680 (UR-133445, UR-133446)
Box 2
Blues In The Night--Part 1 (My Mama Done Tol' Me) / Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra
1942
Scope and Contents
First performed in the film "Blues in the night" ; Decca 4125 (70093, 70094)
Box 2
May I ; One Morning In May / Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
1952
Scope and Contents
Decca 27973 (76912, 76913)
Box 2
Suddenly It's Spring ; Sure Thing / Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra
1944
Scope and Contents
Decca 18596 (71813, 71814)
Box 2
The Broken Record ; Hypnotized / Ted Tio Rito and his Orchestra
1936
Scope and Contents
Decca 677
Box 2
Lights Out ; West Wind / Victor Young and his Orchestra
1936
Scope and Contents
Decca 703 (60442, 60443)
Box 2
Roses in the Rain ; Linda / Paul Weston and his Orchestra with Matt Dennis
1947
Scope and Contents
Capitol 362 (1581, 1582)
Box 2
Give Me Your Hand ; Pal Of My Cradle Days / Clark Dennis
1949
Scope and Contents
Capitol 57-745 (2980, 4920)
Box 2
The Way The Wind Blows ; California Sunbeam / Alvino Rey and his Orchestra
1946
Scope and Contents
Capitol 280 (958, 959); date from Billboard
Box 2
Peg O' My Heart ; Jalousie / Clark Dennis with Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
Capitol 57-715 (1528, 2585) ; date from Billboard
Box 2
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You ; I Realize Now / The King Cole Trio
1944
Scope and Contents
Capitol 169 (124-A, 214-4-A) ; date from Billboard
Box 2
Don't Blame Me ; Brain Wave / George Shearing Quintet
1951
Scope and Contents
MGM 11046 ; From MGM Film "The Strip"
Box 2
You Were Only Fooling ; It's Easy When You Know How / Blue Barron and his Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
MGM 10185 ; Date from Billboard
Box 2
Honey Babe ; Don't Be Angry / The Toppers ; Learnin' The Blues ; Rock Around The Clock / Fred Gibson
Scope and Contents
Tops R258
Box 2
Slaughter On Tenth Avenue / Lennie Hayton and the MGM Studio Orchestra,
1949
Scope and Contents
MGM 30174 ; "From the MGM Picture 'Words and Music' Richard Rodgers"
Box 2
Whatever Will Be Will Be / Eileen Scortt with the Four Jacks & Herbie Layne's Orchestra ; Born To Be With You / Four Queens
with Herbie Layne's Orchestra
Scope and Contents
Gateway Parade of Hits 1178 (8988, 8989)
Box 2
Rio Nights ; Lalawana Lullaby / Played by Ferrera & Francini
1922
Scope and Contents
Vocalion D14295 (8538, 8540)
Box 2
Love in Bloom ; Straight From the Shoulder / Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson and His Commanders
1934
Scope and Contents
Brunswick 6936 (182, 183) ; From the film "She Loves Me Not"
Box 2
Popular Favorites Volume 5 : As Guy Is A Guy / Doris Day ; Be Anything (But Be Mine) / Champ Butler ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
/ Guy Mitchell ; Delicado / Percy Faith ; The Gandy Dancers' Ball / Frankie Laine ; You / Sammy Kaye ; Tenderly / Rosemary
Clooney ; What's The Use? / Johnnie Ray
1952
Scope and Contents
Columbia CL 6211 (LP 9503, LP 9504), LP 10"
Box 2
Two Little Pink Ballet Slippers ; Toy Ballet / Jean Fraser
1952
Scope and Contents
Rainbow Records 183 (R-4014, R-4015)
Box 2
Pójdz ze mna Kasia do lasu ("Come to the Woods, Katie") ; Oberek From Krakow / Chester Budny and his Orchestra
Scope and Contents
Dart Record DR-106, DR-107
Box 3
Beside a babbling brook ; Swingin' down the lane / Great White Way Orchestra
1923
Scope and Contents
Victor 19058 (B-27801, B-27823)
Box 3
Silent night, hallowed night / Elsie Baker ; Hark! The herald angels sing / Trinity Choir
1912
Scope and Contents
Victor 17164 (B-11791, B-11120)
Box 3
Venetian moon ; Swanee / All Star Trio
1920
Scope and Contents
Victor 18651 (B-23632, B-23645)
Box 3
Rockin' the boat ; The girl behind the gun / Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
1919
Scope and Contents
Victor 18521 (B-22346, B-22345)
Box 3
Karavan--Fox Trot / Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra ; When You're Alone--Fox Trot / Paul Biese's Novelty Orchestra
1920
Scope and Contents
Victor 18662 (B-23696, B-23377)
Box 3
My Lord, what a morning ; I'm going through Jesus / Pace Jubilee Singers
1926
Scope and Contents
Victor 20225 (BVE-36221, BVE-36223)
Box 3
Cocoanut dance / Victor Orchestra ; Old wine in new bottles / Victor Military Band
1916
Scope and Contents
Victor 17938 (B-9172, B-11508)
Box 3
Ukulele lesson / Compiled and played by May Singhi Breen
1925
Scope and Contents
Victor 19740 (BVE-33092, BVE-33093)
Box 3
Rossini : La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) : Overture / Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Symphony Orchestra
1924
Scope and Contents
Victor 19331 (B-28497, B-28498)
Box 3
Venetian Moon--Fox Trot ; Swanee--One Step / All Star Trio
1920
Scope and Contents
Another copy in Box 2 ; Victor 18651 (B-23632, B-23645)
Box 3
Peer Gynt suite no. 1 / Victor Symphony Orchestra
1926
Scope and Contents
Victor 20245 (BVE-35886, BVE-35888)
Box 3
The Hut-Sut Song--Fox Trot / The Karlstad Ball--Fox Trot / Freddy Martin And His Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Bluebird (RCA Victor) B-11147 ; date from Billboard
Box 3
'Til Reveille--Fox Trot ; Flamingo--Fox Trot / Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Bluebird (RCA Victor) B-11167
Box 3
Hooray for Love ; It Was Written in the Stars / Tony Martin with Earle Hagen and his Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-2690 ; Dated by Billboard
Box 3
Chicago ; Opus No. 1 / Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
1946
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-2008 ; Dated by Billboard
Box 3
Why Don't We Do This More Often? - Fox Trot ; Piano Concerto in B Flat - Fox Trot (Tschaikowsky - Arr by Ray Austin) / Freddy
Martin and His Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Bluebird (RCA Victor) B11211A
Box 3
The Legend of Tiabi ; Cool Water / Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-2923 ; Dated by Billboard
Box 3
Roamin' in the Gloamin' / Harry Lauder
1913
Scope and Contents
His Master's Voice 60105 ; Single-faced
Box 3
Washington Post March ; Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March / Prince's Band
1916
Scope and Contents
Columbia A1914 (46247, 46948)
Box 3
On A Slow Boat To China ; In The Market Place Of Old Monterey / Kay Kyser And His Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
Columbia – 38301
Box 3
Little grey mother / James F. Harrison and James Reed ; Painting that mother of mine / Henry Burr
1915
Scope and Contents
Columbia A1804 (45853, 45869)
Box 3
Twilight song--Fox Trot ; Under the Willow Tree / Claude Thornhill and his orchestra, with vocal chorus by Buddy Hughes
1946
Scope and Contents
Columbia 37065 (CO 36409, CO 36525)
Box 3
Younger Than Springtime ; A Wonderful Guy / Dinah Shore With Harry Zimmerman
1949
Scope and Contents
Columbia 38460 (HCO 3645, HCO 3646)
Box 3
Why Did You Do It? ; Oh, Mother, I'm Wild / Jack Kaufman
1920
Scope and Contents
Columbia A 2865 (78841, 78873)
Box 3
Barney Google ; Old King Tut / Georgians
1923
Scope and Contents
Columbia A3902 (80992, 80993)
Box 3
Down Among the Sleepy Hills of Tennessee ; You Said Something When You Said "Dixie" / Blossom Seeley
1923
Scope and Contents
Columbia A3868 (80914, 80922)
Box 3
Doan ye cry, ma honey / Carroll Clark ; Mandy Lane / Columbia Quartette
1909
Scope and Contents
Columbia A627 (3972, 3974)
Box 3
Jesus, lover of my soul / Henry Burr ; Knocking, knocking, who is there? / Metropolitan Trio
1908
Scope and Contents
Columbia A259 (3726, 46449)
Box 3
I'm Beginning to See The Light ; The Love I Long For / Harry James And His Orchestra
1944
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36758 (HCO 1125, HCO 1126)
Box 3
When Your Lover Has Gone ; My Ideal / Maxine Sullivan
1943
Scope and Contents
DECCA 18555 (70246, 70247)
Box 3
Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street ; Wrap your troubles in dreams (and dream your troubles away) / Bing Crosby with
John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
1939
Scope and Contents
Decca 2948 (DLA 1767, DLA 1910)
Box 3
Love's A Precious Thing ; If I Ever Love Again /
1949
Scope and Contents
Decca 24771 (L 5134, L 5135)
Box 3
Yours Is My Heart Alone ; Lover's Lullaby / Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
1940
Scope and Contents
Decca 3053 (67235, 67239)
Box 3
Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys ; My Darling, My Darling / Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae
1948
Scope and Contents
Capitol 15270 (3452, 3461) ; Side A - From the Warner Bros. Picture "One Sunday Afternoon". Side B - From The Nem York Musical
"Where's Charley?" ; Dated by Billboard
Box 3
Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Good-Bye) ; One Night in June / Arthur Lange and his Orchestra
1922
Scope and Contents
Cameo 274 (281, 282)
Box 3
Pitchin' Up a Boogie ; I'm Lost / King Cole Trio
1943
Scope and Contents
Excelsior BC 104, 105 (AMO 2963, 2966)
Box 3
That's My Weakness Now ; Dime a Dozen / Leighton Noble and his Orchestra
1949
Scope and Contents
Vocalion 55031 (L-5111, L-5112) ; Dated by Billboard
Box 3
Some Sunny Day ; Stumbling / Nathan Glantz and his Orchestra
1922
Scope and Contents
Actuelle 020746 (part of Pathé recording group)
Box 3
We Speak of You Often ; The Moon Is a Silver Dollar / Segar Ellis and his "Choir of Brass"
1939
Scope and Contents
Brunswick 8321 (B 24079, B 24082)
Box 3
Hungarian Gypsy Music / Played by the The Budapest Gypsy Orchestra
1950
Scope and Contents
LP 10" ; Remington Records RLP-1011 (r-33-024, R-33-025)
Box 3
Auld Lang Syne (Old Scotch Air) / Shannon Four ; All Through the Night (Old Welsh Air) / Charles Harrison and Male Trio
1920
Scope and Contents
Brunswick 5034
Box 3
Chant of the Jungle / Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra ; Will You Think of Me as I Think of You? / Dubin's Dandies
1929
Scope and Contents
Oriole 1768 (19129, 19116)
Box 3
Marie / Roy Smeck and his Orchestra ; Dreams of Hawaii / Hawaiian Serenaders
1929
Scope and Contents
Oriole 1500 (2082, 2083)
Box 3
The Clock of Love ; Humming / Erody's Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra
1921
Scope and Contents
Okeh 4350
Box 4
Marius a Paris ; L'Ange Bleu / Berthe Sylva
approximately 1930
Scope and Contents
Odeon 238.355 (KL 4193, KL 4194)
Box 4
Kiss a miss ; Romance / Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
1921
Scope and Contents
Victor 18739 (B-24838, B-24887)
Box 4
If I Cared a Little Bit Less--Fox Trot ; Taboo--Fox Trot / Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
1941
Scope and Contents
Victor 27972
Box 4
La Marseillaise / Sousa's Band ; Belgium National Air / Victor Military Band
1915
Scope and Contents
Victor 17668 (B-8525; B-15199)
Box 4
Lady Of the Evening ; Will She Come From the East? / John Steel
1923
Scope and Contents
Victor 18990 (B-27079, B-27094)
Box 4
La Marseillaise / Sousa's Band ; Belgium National Air / Victor Military Band
1915
Scope and Contents
Victor 17668 (B-8525; B-15199)
Box 4
Oh Gee! Oh Gosh! (My Feet Won't Behave) ; I Love You Sunday / Benson Orchestra of Chicago
1921
Scope and Contents
Victor 18701 (B-24486, B-24489)
Box 4
Estrellita (Little Star) ; A Little Love, a Little Kiss / Victor Salon Orchestra
1927
Scope and Contents
Victor 20279 (BVE-35339, BVE-36315)
Box 4
The Foot Traveler ; On the Sea, Gaelic Cradle Song / Elizabeth Wheeler-Marguerite Dunlap
1912
Scope and Contents
Victor 16986 (B-10967, B-10973)
Box 4
Birds of a Feather--Fox Trot ; Leave Me With a Smile / All Star Trio and Their Orchestra
1922
Scope and Contents
Victor 18834 (B-25617, B-25662)
Box 4
I Didn't Know About You ; One for My Baby / Lena Horne
1944
Scope and Contents
Victor 20-1616
Box 4
Four Leaf Clover / Evan Williams
1910
Scope and Contents
Victor 64139 (B-9028) ; Single-faced
Box 4
Always ; Russian Lullaby / Dinah Shore and Russ Case with his Orchestra
1946
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 45-0010 ; Dated by Billboard
Box 4
Why Don't We Do This More Often? - Fox Trot ; Piano Concerto in B Flat - Fox Trot (Tschaikowsky - Arr by Ray Austin) / Freddy
Martin and His Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
Another copy in box 3; Bluebird (RCA Victor) B11211A
Box 4
Speak A Word Of Love (I Wish, I Wish) ; Dear Hearts And Gentle People / Dinah Shore
1949
Scope and Contents
Columbia – 38605 (HCO 3868, HCO 3894)
Box 4
A Night In May (Waltz) ; Just Because (Polka) / Frankie Yankovic and His Yanks
1948
Scope and Contents
Columbia 12359-F (CO 38322, CO 38326)
Box 4
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone ; Come Back to Angoulême / Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
1951
Scope and Contents
Columbia 39376 (CO 45650, CO 45188)
Box 4
My Truly, Truly Fair ; Who Knows Love / Guy Mitchell And Chorus with Mitch Miller & His Orchestra
1951
Scope and Contents
Columbia 39415 (CO 45678, CO 45679)
Box 4
I'll Love You In My Dreams / Horace Heidt And His Musical Knights ; Drifting And Dreaming / Orrin Tucker And His Orchestra
1939
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36227 (B 21791, LA 2073)
Box 4
I'm a Little Teapot ; My Heart Runs After You / Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights
1941
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36306 (CCO 3911, CCO 3912)
Box 4
Get Up Off Your Knees ; Do What You Did Last Night / Ethel Waters
1928
Scope and Contents
Columbia: 14380-D (146874, 146883)
Box 4
Wild flower waltz / Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra ; Dardanella / Prince's Dance Orchestra
1920
Scope and Contents
Columbia A2851 (78617, 78839)
Box 4
The Man Who Paints the Rainbow in the Sky ; Unless It Can Happen with You / Frankie Carle and his Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
Columbia 37311 (CO 37126, CO 37391)
Box 4
Stardust ; Cuddle Up a Little Closer Lovey Mine / Ginny Simms
1945
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36796 (HCO 1198, HCO 1199)
Box 4
I Want to Be Happy ; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes / Fred Feibel, Novachord Solo
1941
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36438 (CO 30872, CO 30873)
Box 4
Two Black Crows / Moran and Mack
1927
Scope and Contents
Parts 1 & 2 ; "Comedy Sketch" ; Columbia 935-D (143602, 143603)
Box 4
Oh, Mother, I'm Wild ; Why Did You Do It? / Jack Kaufman
1919
Scope and Contents
Columbia A 2865 (78873, 78841)
Box 4
All That Glitters Is Not Gold ; Doin' What Comes Natur'lly / Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra
1946
Scope and Contents
Decca 18872 (73505, 73504)
Box 4
So Tired ; I Hear Music / Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
Decca 24521 (73078, 68008)
Box 4
What is a Girl?"; "What is a Boy?" / Jackie Gleason
1951
Scope and Contents
Spoken by Jackie Gleason ; Decca 27684 (81239, 81240)
Box 4
Meunier tu dors! ; C'est pour ta fête - M. Alibert
Scope and Contents
Pathé X 3645 (N 201354, N 201352)
Box 4
Are You Lonesome Tonight ; Penny Wise And Love Foolish / Blue Barron and his Orchestra
1950
Scope and Contents
MGM 10628
Box 4
Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) / The Oriole Trumpeters ; Christmas Chimes / Oriole Concert Orchestra
1929
Scope and Contents
Oriole 1383 (1845, 1194)
Box 4
What's Today Got to Do With Tomorrow? ; Any Old Time At All / Broadway Quartette
1921
Scope and Contents
Copyright notice on label as 1921 ; Regal 9662 (5508, 5507)
Box 4
Milwaukee Polka ; My World Is You / Patti Page
1953
Scope and Contents
Mercury 70230 (YB 9832, YB 9974)
Box 4
Autumn Leaves ; Take Care / Roger Williams
1955
Scope and Contents
Kapp Records K-116 (F9-OB-3441, F9-OB-0370)
Box 5
Wiegenlied (Cradle Song) / Julia Culp
1914
Scope and Contents
Single-faced Victor 64402 (B-14380)
Box 5
Mother Machree / John McCormack
1911
Scope and Contents
Single-faced Victor 64181 (B-10069)
Box 5
Serenade (Schubert) / Evan Williams
1908
Scope and Contents
Single-faced Victor 64093 (B-6315)
Box 5
Cradle Song (Napravinik) / Marie Michailova
1905
Scope and Contents
Single-faced Victor 61132 (2825L)
Box 5
Medley from "The Candy Shop" / Victor Orchestra
1909
Scope and Contents
Single-faced, Victor 5721 (B-8051)
Box 5
O patria mia (My Native Land) (Act III) (Verdi) / Lucy Isabelle Marsh
1913
Scope and Contents
Single-faced, Victor 60098 (B-12822)
Box 5
Forget-me-not (means remember me) / Benson Orchestra of Chicago ; You can take me away from Dixie (but you can't take Dixie
from me) / Jack Chapman Orchestra
1924
Scope and Contents
Victor 19312 (B-29816, B-29820)
Box 5
The old soldier's vision ; Old country fiddler in a New York restaurant / Charles Ross Taggart
1915
Scope and Contents
Victor 17737 (B-15599, B-15601)
Box 5
Tonight we love ; Carmen Carmela / Freddy Martin and His Orchestra
1941
Scope and Contents
RCA Bluebeard B-11320 ; Based on Tschaikovsky's Piano concerto No. 1, op. 23, B♭ minor
Box 5
I Hate To Lose You ( I'm So Used To You Now) ; They're Mine, They're Mine, They're Mine / Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye
1948
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-2583
Box 5
Mexicali Rose--Waltz ; Maria Lelena--Waltz / Wayne King and his Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-2097
Box 5
More Beer / Lawrence Duchow and his Red Raven Orchestra ; The Spider Hop / Joe Biviano with RCA Victor Accordion Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-3227 ; Dated by Billboard
Box 5
Roses of Picardy--Waltz ; 'Til the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold--Waltz / Wayne King and his Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-2099
Box 5
Mediterranean Concerto ; The Gang That Sang "Heart Of My Heart" / Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
1951
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-4223 (47-223)
Box 5
Serenade in Blue ; Blue Evening / Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
Label notes "Re-issued by Request" ; RCA Victor – 20-2889
Box 5
Till the End of Time ; (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling in the Moonlight / Perry Como with the Satisfyers
1945
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor – 20-1709
Box 5
I Need You So ; It Couldn't Happen to a Sweeter Girl / Don Cornell with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus
1950
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-3884 ; Dated by Billboard
Box 5
Humming / Happy Six ; Now and Then / Happy Six
1921
Scope and Contents
Columbia A3358 (79569, 79576)
Box 5
I'm in the Mood for Love ; I Only Have Eyes for You / Freddy Gardner with Peter Yorke and his Orchestra
1948
Scope and Contents
Columbia 38346 (CA 20729, CA20730)
Box 5
Day By Day ; Oh! What It Seemed To Be / Frank Sinatra
1946
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36905 (HCO 1520, CO 35442)
Box 5
President Roosevelt's War Message to Congress and the Nation / Franklin D. Roosevelt
1941
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36516 (CO 31934, CO 31935)
Box 5
Tell Me ; Faithfully yours / Richad Tucker with Percy Faith and his Orchestra
1951
Scope and Contents
Columbia: 2-G (CO 45662, CO 45663)
Box 5
Rusty Dusty Blues ; All Of Me / Count Basie and his Orchestra
1942
Scope and Contents
Columbia C705 (HCO 888, 31644)
Box 5
Marionette ; Let Me Go Lover ; Joan Weber
1955
Scope and Contents
Columbia 40366 (C0 52581, C052582)
Box 5
Laroo Laroo Lilli Bolero ; Someone Cares / Frankie Carle And His Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
Columbia 38130 (CO 38418, CO38531)
Box 5
Rockaway Baby ; By the Pyramids / Happy Six
1921
Scope and Contents
Columbia A3314 (79431, 79432)
Box 5
Wonderful words of life / Henry Burr ; Beautiful Isle of Somewhere / Columbia Mixed Quartette
1911
Scope and Contents
Columbia A935 (4910, 4927)
Box 5
Rolla-Coaster Polka ; Our Waltz / Chester Budny and his Boys
Scope and Contents
Columbia 12460-F (CO 42840, CO 42941)
Box 5
You'll Never Know ; Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer / Willie Kelly and his Orchestra
1943
Scope and Contents
Hit Record 7046 (w280, w284)
Box 5
Body and Soul ; A Fellow Needs a Girl / Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston and his Orchestra
1947
Scope and Contents
Capitol B-463 (1737, 1738)
Box 5
Here's to Happiness ; So Long (It's Been Good to Know You) / Ralph Marterie and his Orchestra
1951
Scope and Contents
Mercury 5570 (3936, 3937)
Box 5
Intermezzo ; Meet Mr. Callaghan / HarryGrove Trio
1952
Scope and Contents
London 1248 (17083, 17117) ; Dated by Billboard
Box 5
Ka-lu-a : fox trot ; Blue Danube blues : fox trot : introducing "Toddle" from "Good morning dearie" / Carl Fenton's Orchestra
1921
Scope and Contents
Brunswick 2170 (6720, 6726)
Box 5
In My Arms ; It Can't Be Wrong / Dick Haymes and The Song Spinners
1943
Scope and Contents
Decca 18557 (71379, 71380)
Box 5
Lili Marlene ; Symphonie / Marlene Dietrich
1945
Scope and Contents
Decca 23456 (73031, 73032)
Box 5
Little Old Lady ; Too Marvelous For Words / Dick Robertson and his Orchestra
1937
Scope and Contents
Decca 1209 (62074, 62075)
Box 5
The Donkey Sernade ; Indian Summer / Borrah Minevitch And His Harmonica Rascals
1947
Scope and Contents
DeLuxe 1100 (412, 415)
Box 5
The Girl That I Marry ; Brother Bill / Eddy Howard and his Orchestra
1950
Scope and Contents
Mercury 5394 (3202, 2959)
Box 5
I'm a Pilgrim ; How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds / Old Fashioned Revival Hour Quartet
Scope and Contents
Sacred Records 325
Box 5
Moonlight Cocktail ; I Said No / Tommy Tucker Time
1941
Scope and Contents
Okeh 6526 (31842, 31844)
Box 5
Don't Fence Me In ; The Three Caballeros / Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra
1944
Scope and Contents
Decca Personality Series 23364 (3475, 3476)
Box 6
Funny / Jack Shilkret Orchestra ; Croon a little lullaby / International Novelty Orchestra
1925
Scope and Contents
Victor 19752 (BVE-32988, BVE-33308)
Box 6
Three o'clock in the morning ; Lola-lo / Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
1922
Scope and Contents
Victor 18866 (B-25050, B-26059)
Box 6
Anchors aweigh ; All hands / Charles Benter, United States Navy Band
1928
Scope and Contents
Victor 21296 (BVE-41968, BVE-41971)
Box 6
Hear, de lam's a-cryin' ; Ezekiel saw de wheel / Lawrence Brown, Paul Robeson
1927
Scope and Contents
Victor 20604 (BVE-38419, BVE-38420)
Box 6
Great White Way Medley ; Broadway Medley / Pietro Deiro
1914
Scope and Contents
Victor 17486 (B-14023, B-14025)
Box 6
The Sidewalk Serenade (La serenata de la acera) ; Until Tomorrow (Goodnight My Love) (Hasta mañana buenos noches mi amor)
/ Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
1941
Scope and Contents
Victor 27262
Box 6
Here I'll Stay ; Green-Up Time / Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye
1948
Scope and Contents
RCA Victor 20-3063
Box 6
Three o'clock in the morning ; Lola-lo / Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
1922
Scope and Contents
Victor 18866 (B-25050, B-260259)
Box 6
I'm so-so-so-so-so in love ; You'd be so nice to come home to / Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra
1942
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36669 (CO 32941, CO 33053)
Box 6
Easter parade from "As thousands cheer" ; Crazy rhythm / Harry James and his Orchestra
1942
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36545 (CO 32474, CO 32475)
Box 6
The Love I Long For : fox trot : from "Sadie Thompson" ; I'm Beginning to See the Light / harry James and his Orchestra
1944
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36758 (HCO 1125, HCO 1126)
Box 6
Oh! What It Seemed To Be ; Day By Day / Frank Sinatra
1946
Scope and Contents
Columbia 36905 (CO 35442-2, HCO-1520)
Box 6
My Heaven and Earth ; There Once Was A Man / Guy Mitchell with Mitch Miller's Orchestra and Chorus
1954
Scope and Contents
Columbia 40240 (CO 51226, CO 51269)
Box 6
Since My Love Has Gone ; Silly Dreamer / Tony Bennett with Percy Faith and his Orchestra
1952
Scope and Contents
Columbia 39635 (CO 45834, CO 47093)
Box 6
A Chapter in My ive Called Mary ; Whispering Waters / Buddy Clark
1949
Scope and Contents
"Special Record for Radio Stations" Columbia 38443 (HCO 3602, HCO 3604) ; Dated by Billboard
Box 6
I'm afraid to love you ('fraid I might like it) ; You broke the only heart that ever loved you / Mills Brother
1946
Scope and Contents
Decca 23713 (73630, L-4311)
Box 6
Chopin's Polonaise ; Enlloro (Voodoo Moon) / Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra
1945
Scope and Contents
Decca 18677 (L 3766, 3767)
Box 6
Siboney ; Hasta manana / Bing Crosby and Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
1946
Scope and Contents
Decca 23547 (L-3735, L-3737)
Box 6
Please Take a Letter Miss Brown ; Ring Telephone Ring / Ink Spots
1941
Scope and Contents
Decca 3626 (TNY-911S, 68533)
Box 6
Dance With A Dolly ( With A Hole In Her Stocking) ; Without A Sweetheart / Evelyn Knight
1944
Scope and Contents
Decca 18614 (72264, 72265)
Box 6
An apple for the teacher (from the Paramount picture "Star maker") ; Still the bluebird sings (from the Paramount picture
"Star maker") / Bing Crosby and Connie Boswell
1939
Scope and Contents
Decca 2640 (DLA-1782, DLA-1770)
Box 6
Jealous Heart ; Turnabout / Al Morgan
1949
Scope and Contents
London Records 500 (UR 8822, UR 8821)
Box 6
Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart ; From The Time You Say Goodbye (The Parting Song) / Vera Lynn
1952
Scope and Contents
London Records 1227 (DR 16967, DR 16968)
Box 6
Girl behind the venetian blind ; Does your heart beat for me? / Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
1939
Scope and Contents
2 Copies; Decca 2479 (91692, 64848)
Box 6
Somebody Loves Me ; Nice Work If You Can Get It / Billy Butterfield and his Orchestra
1945
Scope and Contents
Capitol 20026 (374, 209) ; Part of Album BD 10
Box 6
Someone to Watch Over Me ; Oh Lady Be Good / Billy Butterfield and his Orchestra
1950
Scope and Contents
Capitol 20025 (292, 376); part of 4 disk album BD 10
Box 6
Was That the Human Thing to Do? ; Then I'll be Tired of You / Kay Starr with Dave Cavanaugh's Music
1951
Scope and Contents
Capitol Americana 40066 (2350, 2351) ; dated by Billboard
Box 6
Wedding Bells ; Slipping Around / Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
1949
Scope and Contents
Capitol 57-40224 (4671, 4672)
Box 6
Countin' The Blues ; Jelly Bean Blues / Ma Rainey And Her Georgia Jazz Band
1941
Scope and Contents
UHCA 83, 84 (United Hot Clubs of America) Originally recorded in 1925 on Paramount label 12238
Box 6
Hear My Song, Violetta ; The Breeze and I / Frankie Masters and his Orchestra
1940
Scope and Contents
Conqueror 9491 (27189, 27191) ; dated by Billboard
Box 6
You Don't Know How Much You Can Suffer ; Stairway to the Stars / Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
1950s
Scope and Contents
Brunswick 8381 (WB24455, WB 24615)
Box 6
Papa Loves Mambo, Oop-Shoop ; I Need You Now, Hold My Hand
Scope and Contents
Tops Records R425
Box 6
I Took Him From You ; The Juke-Box Polka / De John Sisters
Scope and Contents
Epic 9031 (CO 50786, CO 50789)
Box 7, Box 8, Box 9, Box 10, Box 11, Box 12, Box 13, Box 14, Box 15
