Tin-pan Alley Songs Popularized in the Jazz and Swing Eras.
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- Ethel Waters: Harlem On My Mind by Irving Berlin ( )
- Ethel Waters: Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone by Sam Stept / Sidney Clare ( )
- Billie Holiday: (You’d Be So) Easy to Love by Cole Porter ( )
- Billie Holiday: Solitude by Duke Ellington ( )
- Fred Astaire (& Ginger Rogers): “Cheek to Cheek” by Irving Berlin (from Top Hat, MGM 1935)
- Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, with bassist Ray Brown, pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Herb Ellis and drummer Louis Bellson: Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin ( )
- The Andrews Sisters: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Means You’re Grand) by Sholom Secunda ( )
- The Andrews Sisters: Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar by Don Raye ( )
- Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive by Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer ( )
- Bing Crosby: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Yip Harburg / Jay Gorney ( )
- Ethel Merman with Johnny Green and his orchestra: “I Get a Kick Out of You” by Cole Porter (from Anything Goes (1936), Brunswick 1934)
- Lena Horne: It’s All Right with Me by Cole Porter ( )
- Lena Horne: Stormy Weather by Hank Arlen ( )
- Lena Horne: I Got Rhythm by George and Ira Gershwin ( )
- Frank Sinatra: I Get a Kick Out of You by Cole Porter ( )