Music for old folks

[cactuswatcher]

Meme from buffyannotater Go to his LJ for instructions

Since back that far they only have 25 per year, I took my first three years

1. I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Art Mooney
2. Bumble Boogie - Freddy Martin
3. Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
4. Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris*
5. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Les Brown
6. I Can't Go On Without You - Bull Moose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats* (don't you wish you'd thought of the band name!)
7. Twelfth Street Rag - Pee Wee Hunt
8. Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me) - Peggy Lee
9. Corn Bread - Hal Singer Sextette
10. All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones
11. Chicken-Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn*
12. You Can't Be True, Dear - Ken Griffin*
13. Messin' Around - Memphis Slim and His House Rockers*
14. Long Gone - Sonny Thompson with the Sharps and the Flats*
15. It's Magic - Doris Day
16. Run Joe - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five*
17. Nature Boy - Nat King Cole (One of the few things of his I hate)
18. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton and His Guitar*
19. Now Is The Hour - Bing Crosby
20. Love Somebody - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
21. Woody Woodpecker - Kay Kyser
22. My Heart Belongs To You - Arbee Stidham*
23. You Call Everybody Darlin' - Al Trace
24. Bewildered - Red Miller Trio
25. A Tree In The Meadow - Margaret Whiting*

1. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Vaughn Monroe (one of my very favorites as a cowboy admirin' kid)
2. I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - Freddy Martin
3. "A" You're Adorable (the Alphabet Song) - Perry Como
4. I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts - Freddy Martin (Don't ask me why it's listed twice!)
5. Trouble Blues - Charles Brown Trio*
6. Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como(better than Mario Lanza)
7. Ain't Nobody'd Business - Jimmy Witherspoon*
8. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Les Brown
9. The Huckle-Buck - Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers
10. That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine*
11. You're Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
12. Mule Train - Frankie Laine
13. Forever and Ever - Russ Morgan*
14. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - Eddie "Piano" Miller
15. Someday - Vaughn Monroe
16. All She Wants To Do Is Rock - Wynonie Harris*
17. Roomin' House Boogie - Amos Milburn*
18. Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five*
19. My Darling, My Darling - Jo Stafford; Gordon Mcrae
20. Roomin' House Boogie - Amos Milburn*
21. Careless Hands - Mel Torme* (Don't know it but it sounds exciting)
22. For You My Love - Larry Darnell*
23. Cruisin' Down the River - Russ Morgan or Blue Barron*
24. Beans and Corn Bread - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five*
25. Slippin' Around - Margaret Whiting; Jimmy Wakely*

1.Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers (The song is schmalzy, but the Mills Brothers made it worth listening to)
2. Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
3. Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer
4. Teardrops From My Eyes - Ruth Brown*
5. A Bushel and a Peck - Perry Como and Betty Hutton
6. Rag Mop - Ames Brothers
7. The Tennesse Waltz - Patti Page
8. Harbor Lights - Sammy Kaye
9. Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers
10. I Wanna Be Loved - the Andrews Sisters
11. Goodnight, Irene - Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers
12. The Thing - Phil Harris
13. All My Love - Patti Page
14. Blue Light Boogie - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five*
15. Cry of the Wild Goose - Frankie Laine(Oh Frankie, for shame!)
16. Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis, The Robins and Little Esther*
17. If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked A Cake - Eileen Barton
18. I Need You So - Ivory Joe Hunter*
19. Sentimental Me - Ames Brothers
20. Play A Simple Melody - Bing and Gary Crosby
21. Hard Luck Blues - Roy Brown and His Mighty-Mighty Men*
22. Hoop-Dee-Doo - Perry Como; The Fontaine Sisters
23. I Can Dream, Can't I?< - Andrews Sisters
24. Third Man Theme - Guy Lombardo or Anton Karas (Guy Lombardo on this? give me a break!)
25. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley

If you know many of these you're a survivor

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[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I know the words to at least 20 of them. But then I was a big band geek.