YORK UNIVERSITY - DEPT. OF FINE ARTS FA/MUSI 1520 - SONG LISTING FALL/WINTER -2010/11 Pop R&B Year Label Artist Song Writer 1 10 Dec-26 Okeh Louis Armstrong Muskrat Ramble Ray Gilbert, Kid Ory 2 Mar-27 Paramount Blind Lemon Jefferson Match Box Blues Blind lemon Jefferson 3 Oct-27 Paramount Blind Lemon Jefferson One Dime Blues Blind lemon Jefferson 4 Oct-27 Paramount Ida Cox Give me a Break Blues Ida Cox 5 Jun-28 Paramount Ma Rainey Prove it on me Blues Ma Rainey 6 Jul-28 Okeh Louis Armstrong West End Blues King Olliver, Clarence Williams 7 Aug-28 Columbia Louis Armstrong Dinah Harry Akst/Sam M. Lewis/Joe Young 8 Dec-28 Okeh Mississippi John Hurt Ain’t No Tellin’ Mississippi John Hurt 9 Apr-29 Columbia Bessie Smith St Louis Blues W.C. Handy 10 May-29 Columbia Bessie Smith Nobody Know You When You’re Down & Out James Cox 11 Aug-29 Decca Louis Armstrong Black & Blue Brooks/Razaf/Fats Waller 12 Aug-29 Paramount Blind Blake Police Dog Blues Blind Blake 13 10 Sep-29 Okeh Louis Armstrong Ain’t Misbehavin' Brooks, Razaf, Fats Waller 14 Sep-29 Okeh Louis Armstrong I Ain't Got Nobody Roger Graham, Spencer Williams 15 Dec-29 Okeh Louis Armstrong St Louis Blues W.C. Handy 16 May-30 Okeh Louis Armstrong Tiger Rag DaCosta, Edwards, LaRocca, Ragas, Sbarbaro, 17 10 Oct-30 Okeh Louis Armstrong Body & Soul Eyton, Green, Heyman, Sour 18 Oct-30 Columbia Memphis Minnie What’s The Matter With The Mill Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie 19 Feb-31 Okeh Lonnie Johnson Low Down St Louis Blues Lonnie Johnson 20 Feb-31 Okeh Mamie Smith Jenny’s Ball Jimmy Reed 21 Apr-31 Paramount Skip James Crow Jane Skip James 22 May-31 Paramount Skip James All Night Long Skip James 23 Oct-31 Victor Blind Willie McTell Southern Can is Mine Blind Willie McTell 24 5 Feb-32 Columbia Louis Armstrong Chinatown my Chinatown William Jerome, Jean Schwarz 25 1 Mar-32 Columbia Louis Armstrong All of Me Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons 26 Aug-33 Columbia Billie Holiday Your Mother's Son-In-Law Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols 27 Nov-33 Columbia Billie Holiday What A Little Moonlight Can Do Harry Woods 28 Jan-34 Paramount Charley Patton Revenue Man Blues Charley Patton 29 Jul-35 Victor Sleepy Joe Estes Someday Baby Sleepy Joe Estes 30 Nov-35 Columbia Billie Holiday Swing, Brother, Swing Bishop, Raymond, Williams 31 Mar-36 Columbia Billie Holiday Easy To Love Cole Porter 32 Sep-36 Columbia Billie Holiday God Bless The Child Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday 33 Nov-36 Columbia Billie Holiday Billie’s Blues Billie Holiday 34 Nov-36 Vocalion Robert Johnson Terraplane Blues Robert Johnson 35 Jan-37 Columbia Billie Holiday Speak Low Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill 36 Jun-37 Vocalion Robert Johnson Stones in my Passway Robert Johnson 37 Jun-37 Vocalion Robert Johnson Stop Breakin Down Robert Johnson 38 Jun-37 Vocalion Robert Johnson Sweet Home Chicago Robert Johnson 39 Sep-37 Vocalion Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Stranger Blues Sonny Terry 40 Sep-37 Vocalion Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Burnt Child (Afraid of Fire) Sonny Terry 41 Sep-37 Vocalion Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Gonna Move Across the River Sonny Terry 42 Apr-38 Decca Louis Armstrong Jeepers Creepers Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren 43 Apr-38 Columbia Louis Armstrong I Can't Give You Anything But Love Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh 44 Nov-38 Columbia Billie Holiday Miss Brown To You Rainger, Robin, Whiting 45 Jan-39 Paramount Ida Cox When You Lose Your Money Blues Ida Cox 46 Feb-39 Okeh Big Bill Broonzy Spreadin’ Snakes Blues Big Bill Broonzy 47 Apr-39 Commodore Billie Holiday Fine & Mellow Herzog Holiday 48 Apr-39 Commodore Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Lewis Allan 49 10 Apr-39 Decca Louis Armstrong When the Saints Go Marching In Standard 50 May-40 RCA Sonny Boy Williamson I’ve Been Dealing With The Devil Sonny Boy Williamson 51 May-40 RCA Sonny Boy Williamson Train Fare Blues Sonny Boy Williamson 52 Jun-40 Okeh Memphis Minnie Nothing In Ramblin Memphis Minnie 53 Mar-41 Jazz Unlimited Billie Holiday Georgia On My Mind Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell 54 1 Nov-42 Decca Nat King Cole That Ain't Right Nat King Cole 55 3 Sep-43 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Five Guys Named Moe Larry Wynn, Jerome Bresler 56 Sep-43 Capitol Nat King Cole Sweet Lorraine Carter Burwell, Mitchell Parish 57 19 1 Nov-43 Capitol Nat King Cole All For You Nat King Cole 58 Mar-44 Decca Billie Holiday Don't Explain Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday 59 Apr-44 Verve Billie Holiday My Man Charles, Pollack, Willemetz, Yvain 60 9 1 Apr-44 Capitol Nat King Cole Straighten Up & Fly Right Nat King Cole 61 1 1 Apr-44 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five G.I. Jive Johnny Mercer 62 May-44 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Tillie Wilmore Jones, Fleecie Moore 63 2 3 Jun-44 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby Bill Austin, Louis Jordan 64 Jul-44 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Honey Chile Fleecie Moore, Eugene Phillips 65 Sep-44 Decca Billie Holiday There is no Greater Love Isham Jones, Marty Symes 66 20 1 Sep-44 Capitol Nat King Cole Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You Andy Razaf, Don Redman 67 Mar-45 Verve Billie Holiday April In Paris Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg 68 Mar-45 Verve Billie Holiday Stars Fell On Alabama Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins 69 Apr-45 Bluebird Roosevelt Sykes Gulfport Boogie Leiber-Stoller 70 11 1 May-45 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Caldonia Fleecie Moore 71 9 1 Jan-46 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Buzz Me Baby Fleecie Moore, Danny Baxter 72 1 Jan-46 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Don't Worry About The Mule Davis, Groaner, Moore, Stewart 73 2 May-46 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Beware Adams, Lasco, Moore 74 11 Aug-46 Capitol Nat King Cole Route 66 Bobby Troup 75 Sep-46 Columbia Muddy Waters Hard Day Blues McKinley Morganfield, Muddy Waters 76 1 3 Nov-46 Capitol Nat King Cole For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You) William Best, Dee Watson 77 3 3 Nov-46 Capitol Nat King Cole The Christmas Song Mel Tormé, Robert Wells 78 6 1 Dec-46 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer 79 Apr-47 Aristocrat Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working Preston Foster, Muddy Waters 80 Jul-47 Omega Louis Armstrong Mack The Knife Blitzstein, Brecht, Kurt Weill 81 Jul-47 Decca Billie Holiday Blues Are Brewin' Louis Alter/Eddie DeLange 82 1 Aug-47 Decca Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five Boogie Woogie Piggie Bushkin, de Vries 83 Sep-47 Decca Billie Holiday My Sweet Hunk O'Trash James P. 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OF FINE ARTS FA/MUSI 1520 - SONG LISTING FALL/WINTER -2010/11 Pop R&B Year Label Artist Song Writer 84 Oct-47 MCA Louis Armstrong Cabaret Henri Betti, Jerry Seelen 85 Apr-48 Verve Billie Holiday I Cover The Waterfront Johnny Green, Edward Heyman 86 1 Sep-48 Mercury Dinah Washington Am I Asking Too Much Glenn Miller, Whitman 87 1 Jul-49 Mercury Dinah Washington Baby Get Lost Leonard Feather 88 Jul-49 Swingtime Ray Charles Sentimental Blues William York 89 Feb-50 Atlantic Ruth Brown Teardrops From My Eyes Rudy Toombs 90 1 2 Jul-50 Capitol Nat King Cole Nature Boy Eden Ahbez 91 8 Apr-51 Chess Muddy Waters Long Distance Call McKinley Morganfield, Muddy Waters 92 1 3 May-51 Capitol Nat King Cole Too Young Sylvia Dee, Sidney Lippman 93 May-51 Swingtime Ray Charles I'll Do Anything But Work Betty Hall Jones 94 Jul-51 Swingtime Ray Charles Rockin' Chair Blues Ray Charles 95 Jul-51 Swingtime Ray Charles She's On the Ball Ray Charles 96 Aug-51 Atlantic Big Joe Turner Flip, Flop and Fly Chuck Calhoun, Joe Turner 97 40 Oct-51 Decca Louis Armstrong A Kiss to Build a Dream On Hammerstein II, Kalmar, Ruby 98 12 Nov-51 Capitol Nat King Cole Unforgettable Irving Gordon 99 1 Dec-51 RPM B.B. King 3 O'Clock Blues Riley King, Jules Taub 100 8 Mar-52 Swingtime Ray Charles Kissa Me Baby Ray Charles 101 1 Apr-52 Imperial Fats Domino Goin' Home Domino, Young 102 8 Jul-52 Capitol Nat King Cole Walking My Baby Back Home Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk 103 1 Sep-52 RPM B.B. King You Know I Love You Riley King, Jules Taub 104 9 Dec-52 RPM B.B. King Story From My Heart And Soul Riley King, Jules Taub 105 2 10 Feb-53 Capitol Nat King Cole Pretend Belloc, Douglas, LaVere, Parman 106 1 Feb-53 Atlantic Ruth Brown Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean Lance/Charlie Singleton/John Wallace 107 3 Mar-53 RPM B.B. King Woke Up This Morning (My baby She Was GoneRiley King, Jules Taub 108 1 Apr-53 Peacock Big Mama Thornton Hound Dog Leiber-Stoller 109 Jun-53 Mercury Dinah Washington My Lean Baby Billy/Ray 110 1 Jun-53 RPM B.B. King Please Love Me Riley King, Jules Taub 111 4 Oct-53 RPM B.B. King Please Hurry Home Riley King, Jules Taub 112 6 Feb-54 Capitol Nat King Cole Answer Me Raunch, Sigman, Winkler 113 1 Aug-54 Atlantic Ruth Brown Oh What a Dream Chuck Willis 114 8 Sep-54 RPM B.B.