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It was written for the 1938 movie Going Places. It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has been covered by many other musicians.

A popular song, composed in 1928 in Vienna, adapted by Irving Caesar into English in 1929 from the Austrian tango "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo".

A Victorian parlour song published in 1884. The first line of the chorus is "Just a song at twilight", and its title is sometimes misidentified as such.

Recorded by Nat King Cole for his 1965 studio album by the same name.

"The Dove" in English, is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was written by the Spanish Basque composer Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) around 1860 after a visit to Cuba.

The earliest recordings of this song were sung by Al Bowlly and Tino Folgar, recorded in 1931 (the year the song was written).

Written in 1869, it was originally a drinking song. It remained well known as a folk song into the early 20th century. Like many songs which make reference to alcohol, it enjoyed new popularity during the Prohibition era.

Within four years of its publication in 1921, it was used in a 1925 film short, considered an early sound film, titled Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck directed by Theodore Case.

Also known as "My Little Margie", the song has appeared in the movies Stella Dallas (1937), Margie (1946), The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) and The Drowning Pool (1975). The song was also used in a Phonofilm sound-on-film cartoon produced by Max Fleischer and released 30 October 1926.

It first appeared in the movie "The Awakening" (premiere November 17, 1928); the artist is unknown. There are no existing copies of the movie.

Performed by Fay Templeton in "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York.

Garner developed the melody on a long flight, inspired by the view of clouds and thoughts of his wife. As he did not write or read music, he committed it to memory until he could get home and record it for transcription

Written for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949). The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950.

Composed in 1921 and was first recorded by Henry Halstead and His Orchestra in 1925

The song was written for the Paramount Pictures release Road to Morocco (1942) and published in 1942 in connection with the film.

Published in 1954, it was first recorded in May of that year by Vaughn Monroe & his orchestra and later that year by The Chordettes and the Four Aces. The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr. Sandman" to "bring me a dream" – the traditional association of the folkloric figure (but in this context the meaning of dream is more akin to 'dreamboat').

The first recording of the song was by Etienne Paree with Eddie "Piano" Miller, released by Rainbow Records in 1949 in the United States, titled "Put Another Nickel In – Music, Music, Music (The Nickelodeon Song)".

The music was written one afternoon in 1924 at the Friars Club in New York while waiting for his turn at the billiard table.

The song was published in 1922 and early popular versions were by Henry Burr (1922), Ernest Hare (1923) and Ben Bernie (also 1923).

After Foster wrote the song in 1851, he sold it to E. P. Christy, a businessman who operated a series of minstrel shows.

First recorded as the French song "Comme d'habitude," by Frank Sinatra in 1967. Paul Anka's English-language version was released in 1969.

The song was included in the 1947 American musical film by the same name and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

The recording was released by Bullet Records as catalog number 1001. It first reached the Billboard Best Sellers chart on August 30, 1947 and lasted 21 weeks on the chart, peaking at number one. On the "Most Played By Jockeys" chart, the song spent 17 consecutive weeks at number one, setting a record for both the song and the artist with most consecutive weeks in the number-one position on a US pop music chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song overall for 1947.

Director Jules Dassin's 1960 film by the same name introduced American audiences to the Greek Composer. The song won an Academy Award and became a Top Forty hit stateside.

Another recording by Grandpa Schober of this favorite

Written in 1898, the title translates literally as "my sun" or "my sunshine".

Written for The Beatles 1968 double album "The Beatles", also know as "the White Album". Following the album's release, the song was issued as a single in many countries, although not in the United Kingdom or the United States, and topped singles charts in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and West Germany. When belatedly issued as a single in the United States in 1976, it peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The music was copyrighted 7 February 1917 and the copyright was renewed 29 December 1944. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act (1998), the sheet music is in the public domain. Its melody and structure form the basis of a self-calling circle dance, using square dance steps and popular in summer camps.

The popular song "Oh Little Playmate" (also known as "Playmates") was ostensibly written by Saxie Dowell, although its melody was plagiarized from the 1904 intermezzo "Iola" by Charles L. Johnson.

A ragtime love song published in 1911. The song was one of the first with a twelve-bar opening. The first was a decade earlier.

The song was first recorded and released by Ray Noble and His Orchestra in 1933.

Some authors say that Fats Waller was the composer, but he sold the rights to the song. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence.

This classic Academy Award-winning ballad has received numerous historic honors and accolades over the past 75 years, and continues to resonate as one of the most important songs in popular music history.

A World War I marching song, published in 1915 in London. It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell.

It was published on March 15, 1913 and it featured in the 1913 musical Ziegfeld Follies.

A 1936 American popular song introduced by Bing Crosby with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra in the 1936 film of the same name.

A song from the 1914 musical, Watch Your Step.

The song was first recorded and released by Haydn Quartet in 1909.

First published in 1955. Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son.

Composed under his nom-de-musique Hugh Williams, the song was soon wowing fans in the Broadway production of Provincetown Follies.

Written in 1907, Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl's loss of her sweetheart who has died in battle.

Featured in a Broadway show of the same name, and inspired many subsequent school acts, including the Marx Brothers' "Fun in Hi Skule".

Made popular by Paul Whiteman and others in the 1920s and a hit for Kay Starr in 1953

The song was released by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians in 1923, becoming the band's first hit and their signature theme.

Recorded by Bing Crosby among others

Composed by Pee Wee King. Redd Stewart, and Chilton Price.

Another version of this tune recorded by Grandpa Schober

Made popular by Anne Murray

From Warner Bros. Picture "San Antonio". The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1945.

Another arrangement/recording by Grandpa Schober

It was originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as Carson and Gaile.

It was originally released in 1939, with many versions following, including one for the film of the same name sung by star Gene Autry.

Made popular by Al Martino and Engelbert Humperdinck

A seminal blues song that became a pop hit and a cornerstone of jazz, known for its 12-bar blues structure, evocative lyrics, and the "Spanish tinge" of its bridge

Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Page and others; First recorded in 1948 by Kay Starr.

Made popular by Frank Sinatra in 1966

Another recording by Grandpa Schober of this popular song

became popular in 1936 as the trumpeter Clyde McCoy's theme song

Eventually was adopted as the theme song for the Harlem Globetrotters

The song was recorded by Dinah Shore with Henri René's Orchestra & Chorus in Hollywood on May 20, 1951.

It is played or sung in ballparks throughout the baseball world, and is the de facto anthem of the game.

Sung by Maurice Chevalier in the movie "Gigi"

Recorded in 1923 by Billy Murray & Ed Small

Recorded by Gene Autry, Marty Robbins and Jim Reeves (among others)

A major hit and signature song for Dean Martin.

Popularized by: Tony Pastor, a variety artist and vaudeville inventor

Published by Shapiro Bernstein & Co.

Became America's Official Song on July 3, 2024

After Foster wrote the song, he sold it to E. P. Christy, a businessman who operated a series of minstrel shows. Foster is reported to have chosen the term "Swanee" because its two-syllable cadence fit nicely into the music he had composed.

Known as the Yale University song, it was Rudy Vallee's first major hit.

Made popular by Louis Armstrong on his album "Hello Louis"

Featured in the film, The Singing Fool

Made popular by Don Ho on Warner Records

Title song of the movie with the same name and was published in 1946 by Paramount Music. One of the best known versions of the song was was by The Ink Spots, which was released by Decca Records.

Written in 1922

First recorded by Erskine Hawkins in 1939

Made popular by The Platters

Wagner was an Austrian miliary music composer

"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late nineteenth century.

Very popular song with barbershop quartets

a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn, it is one of the most famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers leaving home

Recorded by Perry Como, Doris Day and Linda Ronstadt

First recorded by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians in 1936

This is Kate Smith's theme song.

Recorded by Al Jolson, Deam Martin, Louis Armstrong, and others

This song's lyrics were written as a poem by the Canadian school teacher George Washington Johnson from Hamilton, Ontario.

Published in 1877 in a hymnal entitled "The Fountain of Song"

Made famous by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, it sold two million copies during 20 weeks on the charts in 1920.

This song was recorded in many languages including Swedish, Russian, Czech/Slovak, and French.

Another arrangement by Grandpa Schober

originally performed by singer Ana María González and tenor José Mojica in the 1941 film Melodías de América

Recorded and made popular by Al Jolson (1913), Judy Garland (1951), and Patsy Cline (1962)

Made popular by Bing Crosby

The song is based on a poem written by a young Oklahoma war bride named Dorothy Fern Norris.

Written for Cohan's 1906 stage musical George Washington, Jr. and introduced to the public in the play's first act on opening night, February 6, 1906, in New York's Herald Square Theater.

Performed in the movie "Call Me Madam"

Original recording by Gene Autry and published in 1936

Another interpretation by Grandpa Schober

Song often associated with Disney and performed in Song of the South

Another interpretation of this favorite by Grandpa Schober