Members of the USO Camp Show and personnel of the 3d U.S. Infantry Division get together for a jam session. Nov. 23, 1952.

Photo Caption: Members of the USO Camp Show and personnel of the 3d U.S. Infantry Division get together for a jam session. Nov. 23, 1952.

As with troops away from home, the Korean War troops looked to music for entertainment to fill what free time they had.

Below is a list of songs popular during the early 1950s. Note that some of the songs were written before the Korean War.

Title

Composer

Allez-Vous-En, Go Away

Cole Porter

All My Love

W: Mitchell Parish
M: Paul Durand

All Night Long

Johnny Otis

Almost

Vic McAlpin, Jack Toombs

Am I in Love

Jack Brooks

American Beauty Rose

Hal David, Redd Evans, Arthur Altman

And So to Sleep Again

Joe Marsala, Sonny Skylar

And This Is My Beloved

Robert Wright, George Forrest

Angelina

Tommie Connor, Edward Lisbona

Answer Me, My Love

W: Carl Sigman
M: Gerhard Winkler, Fred Rauch

Anticipation Blues

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Any Time

Herbert Happy Lawson

Anywhere I Wander

Frank Loesser

April in Portugal

W: Jimmy Kennedy
M: Raul Ferrao

Auf Wiederseh’n, Sweetheart

W: John Sexton, John Turner
M: Eberhard Storch

Autumn Leaves

W: Johnny Mercer
M: Joseph Kosma

Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand

Ray Charles

Bad, Bad Whiskey

Thomas Maxwell Davis

Bamboo

W: Buddy Bernier
M: Nat Simon

Baubles, Bangles, and Beads

Robert Wright, George Forrest

Be My Life’s Companion

Bob Hilliard, Milton De Lugg

Be My Love

W: Sammy Cahn
M: Nicholas Brodszky

Because of You

Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson

Because You’re Mine

W: Sammy Cahn
M: Nicholas Brodszky

Bell Bottom Blues

W: Hal David,
M: Leon Carr

Beloved

W: Paul Francis Webster,
M: Nicholas Brodszky

Best Wishes

Roy B. Milton

The Blacksmith Blues

Jack Holmes

Bloodshot Eyes

Hank Penny, Ruth Hall

Blue Canary

Vincent Fiorino

Blue Gardenia

Bob Russell, Lester Lee

Blue Tango

Leroy Anderson

Blue Velvet

Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris

Botch-a-Me

Italian: R. Morbelli, L. Astore
English: W: Eddie Stanley

Boutonniere

W: Bob Hilliard
M: Dave Mann

A Bushel and a Peck

Frank Loesser

Candy and Cake

Bob Merrill

C’est Magnifique

Cole Porter

C’est Si Bon

French: W: Andre Hornez
English: W: Jerry Seelen, M: Henri Betti

Chains of Love

W: Ahmet Ertegun
M: Van Walls

Changing Partners

W: Joe Darion,
M: Larry Coleman

Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

Harry Stone, Jack Stapp

Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White

French: W: Jacques Larue,
English: W: Mack David, M: Louiguy

Christmas in Killarney

John Redmond, James Cavanaugh, Frank Weldon

Cold, Cold Heart

Hank Williams

Come on-a My House

Ross Bagdasarian, William Saroyan

Come What May

W: Allen Schiller
M: Al Sanchez

Count Every Star

W: Sammy Gallop
M: Bruno Coquatrix

Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep

Irving Berlin

Cry

Churchill Kohlman

Crying in the Chapel

Artie Glenn

Cry Me a River

Arthur Hamilton

The Cry of the Wild Goose

Terry Gilkyson

Cuban Mambo

W: Jack Wiseman
M: Xavier Cugat, Rafael Angulo

Daddy’s Little Boy

Billy Collins

Dearie

Bob Hilliard

Dave Mann

A Dear John Letter

Billy Barton, Lewis Talley, Fuzzy Owen

Delicado

W: Jack Laurence
M: Waldyr Azevedo

Domino

Don Raye, Louis Ferrari

Don’t Deceive Me

Chuck Willis

Don’t Ever Be Afraid To Go Home

W: Bob Hilliard
M: Carl Sigman

Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes

Slim Willet

Double Crossing Blues

Johnny Otis

Downhearted

W: Bob Hilliard
M: Dave Mann

Dragnet

Walter Schumann

Ebb Tide

W: Carl Sigman
M: Robert Maxwell

Eddy’s Song

Charles Grean, Cy Coben

Eh, Campari!

Julius La Rosa, Archie Bleyer

Enclosed, One Broken Heart

Sadie Nardin Sallis, Eddy Arnold

Enjoy Yourself It's Later than You Think

W: Herb Magdison
M: Carl Sigman

Eternally

W: Geoffrey Parsons
M: Charles Chaplin

Even Now

Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Dan Howell

Fandango

W: Johnny Bradford
M: Frank Parkins

The Fat Man

W: Antoine "Fats" Domino
M: Dave Bartholomew

A Fool Such As I

Bill Trader

Forever and Always

Lefty Frizzell, Lessie Lyle

Forgive Me

W: Jack Yellen
M: Milton Ager

From Here To Eternity

W: Bob Wells
M: Fred Karger

From This Moment On

Cole Porter

Frosty the Snow Man

Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins

Funny

Hugie Prince, Marcia Neil, Philip Broughton

Gambler's Guitar

Jim Lowe

The Gandy Dancer's Ball

Paul Weston, Paul Mason Howard

Getting To Know You

W: Oscar Hammerstein,
M: Richard Rodgers

Glow-Worm

W: Johnny Mercer
M: Paul Lincke

Gone Fishing

Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny

Goodnight

Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

Goodnight Irene

Huddie Ledbetter, John Lomax

Got You on My Mind

Joe Thomas, Howard Biggs

A Guy Is a Guy

Oscar Brand

Half a Photograph

W: Bob Russell
M: Hal Stanley

Half as Much

Curley Williams

Harbor Lights

W: Jimmy Kennedy
M: Hugh Williams

Heavenly Father

Edna McGieff

Hello, Young Lovers

W: Oscar Hammerstein,
M: Richard Rodgers

Here in My Heart

Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, Bill Borrelli

Hey Good Looking!

Hank Williams

High Noon - Do Not Forsake Me

W: Ned Washington
M: Dimitri Tiomkin

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

Harry Noble

Hoop-Dee-Doo

W: Frank Loesser
M: Milton De Lugg

How Do You Speak

W: Bob Hilliard
M: Jules Styne

I Almost Lost My Mind

Ivory Joe Hunter

I Am in Love

Cole Porter

I'm in Love Again

Cole Porter

I'm Walking Behind You

Billy Reid

I'm Yours

Robert Mellin

I Believe

Erwin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman

I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed I Fell

Eddie Pola, George Wyle

I Get Ideas

W: Dorcas Cochran
M: Sanders

I Love Paris

Cole Porter

I Need You Now

Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs

I Said My Pajamas

Eddie Pola, George Wyle

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Tommie Connor

I Talk to the Trees

W: Alan Jay Lerner
M: Frederick Loewe

I Won't Cry Anymore

W: Fred Wise
M: Al Frisch

I Went to Your Wedding

Jassie Mae Robinson

I Whistle a Happy Tune

W: Oscar Hammerstein,
M: Richard Rodgers

If

W: Robert Hargreaves, Stanley J. Damerell
M: Tolchard Evans

If I Knew You Were Coming I'd 'Ave Baked a Cake

Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, Clem Watts

In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening

W: Johnny Mercer
M: Hoagy Carmichael

Istanbul

W: Jimmy Kennedy
M: Nat Simon

It Is No Secret

Stuart Hamblen

It's a Lovely Day Today

Irving Berlin

It's All Right with Me

Cole Porter

It's No Sin

W: Chester R. Shull
M: George Hoven

It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House

W: Jack Elliott
M: Harold Spina

Jambalaya-on-the-Bayou

Hank Williams, Jezebel Wayne Shanklin

Just Another Polka

Frank Loesser, Milton De Lugg

Just Say I Love Her

W: Martin Kalmanoff, Sam Ward
M: Jack Val, Jimmy Dale

Keep It a Secret

Jessie Mae Robinson

Kiss of Fire

Lester Allen, Robert Hill

Kisses Sweeter than Wine

W: Paul Campbell
M: Joel Newman

La Vie en Rose

French: W: Edith Piaf
English: W: Mack David M: Louginy

Let Me Be the One

W: W.S. Stevenson, P. Blevius, M: J. Hobson

Let Me In

Bob Merrill

Let's Live a Little

Ruth E. Coletharp

The Little White Cloud That Cried

Johnnie Ray

The Loveliest Night of

W: Paul Francis Webster

the Year

M: Irving Aaronson

Luna Rossa

Italian: W: Vincenzo, DeCrescenzo
English: W: Kermit Goell, M: A. Vian

Make Love to Me

W: Bill Norvas, Allen Copeland
M: Leon Roppolo, Benny Pollack, George Brunes, Mel Stitzel, Walter Melrose

Make the Man Love Me

W: Dorothy Fields
M: Arthur Schwartz

Marshmallow Moon

Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

A Marshmallow World

W: Carl Sigman
M: Peter De Rose

Matilda, Matilda

Harry Thomas

Mister and Mississippi

Irving Gordon

Mixed Emotions

Stuart F. Loucheim

Mocking Bird Hill

Vaughn Horton

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Ross Parker

Music, Music, Music

Stephen Weiss, Bernie Baum

My Heart Cries for You

Carl Sigman, Percy Faith

My Love, My Love

W: Bob Haymes
M: Nick Acquaviva

My One and Only Heart

W: Al Stillman
M: Robert Allen

My Truly, Truly Fair

Bob Merrill

Never Let Her Go

Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman

Night Train

W: Oscar Washington, Lewis C. Simpkins
M: Jimmy Forrest

No Other Love

W: Oscar Hammerstein,
M: Richard Rodgers

Non Dimenticar

Italian: W: Michele Galdieri
English: W: Shelly Dobbins, M: P. G. Redi

"O"

W: Byron Gay
M: Byron Gay,

O Happy Day

Nancy Binns Reed,

 

Don Howard Koplow

Oh! My Pa-pa

W: John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons
M: Paul Burkhard

The Old Piano Roll Blues

Cy Coben

Once

W: Bob Russell
M: Harold Spina

One Lonely Night

W: Elthea Peale
M: John Benson Brooks

One Mint Julep

Rudolph Toombs

On Top of Old Smokey

W: Anonymous
M: Fred Barovick

Our Lady of Fatima

Gladys Gallahon

Pink Champagne

Joe Liggins

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bob Merrill

Play a Simple Melody

Irving Berlin

Please, Mr. Sun

W: Sid Frank
M: Ray Getzov

Pretend

Lew Douglas

Rag Mop

Johnnie Lee Wills, Deacon Anderson

Rags to Riches

Richard Adler, Jerry Ross

Rambling Man

Hank Williams

Rock Around the Clock

Max C. Freedman, Jimmy De Knight

Rock of Gibraltar

Terry Gilkynson

Rosanne

W: Dick Manning
M: Glenn Osser, Edna Osser

Rose, Rose, I Love You

W: Wilfred Thomas
M: Chris Langdon Ruby

Ruby

W: Mitchell Parish
M: Heinz Roemheld

Sam's Song

W: Jack Elliott
M: Lew Quadling

Say You're Mine Again

Charles Nathan, Dave Heisler

Secret Love

W: Paul Francis Webster,
M: Sammy Fain

Sentimental Me

Jim Morehead, Jmmy Cassin

Shrimp Boats

Paul Mason Howard, Paul Weston

Sixty Minute Man

William Ward, Rose Marks

Slowpoke

Pee Wee King, Red Stewart, Chilton Price

Solitaire

W: Renee Borek, Carl Nutter
M: Carl Nutter

Somewhere Along the Way

W: Sammmy Gallop
M: Kurt Adams

Sparrow in the Tree Top

Bob Merrill

Stranger in Paradise

Robert Wright, George Forrest

Sunshine Cake

W: Johnny Burke
M: James Van Heusen

Takes Two to Tango

Al Hoffman, Dick Manning

Tell Me You're Mine

D. Ravasino (Vasin)

Tell Me Why

W: Al Alberts

Tennessee

Redd Stewart, Pee Wee King

The Terry Theme

Charles Chaplin

That Doggie in the Window

Bob Merrill

That's Amore

W: Jack Brooks
M: Harry Warren

They Call the Wind Maria

W: Allen Jay Lerner
M: Frederick Loewe

The Thing

Charles R. Grean

The Third Man Theme

Anton Karas

Thumbelina

Frank Loesser

Till I Waltz Again with You

Sidney Prosen

To Know You Is To Love You

W: Allan Roberts
M: Robert Allen

Too Young

W: Sylvia Dee
M: Sid Lippman

Trying

Billy Vaughn

Tzena, Tzena, Tzena

W: Gordon Jenkins
M: Spencer Ross

Undecided

W: Sid Robin
M: Charles Shavers

Unforgettable

Irving Gordon

Vanity

W: Jack Manus, Bernard Bierman
M: Guy Wood

Vaya con Dios

Larry Russell, Inez James, Buddy Pepper

The Velvet Glove

Harold Spina

Wandering

Ed Jackson

Wedding Samba

Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small, Joseph Leibowitz

We Kiss in a Shadow

W: Oscar Hammerstein,
M: Richard Rodgers

Wheel of Fortune

Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss

When I Fall in Love

W: Edward Heyman
M: Victor Young

Where Is Your Heart

W: William Engvick
M: Georges Auric

Why Don't You Believe Me

Lew Douglas, King Laney, Roy Rodde

Wilhelmina

W: Mack Gordon
M: Josef Myrow

Wish You Were Here

Harold Rome

With These Hands

W: Benny Davis
M: Abner Silver

Wonderful Copenhagen

Frank Loesser

Wonder Why

W: Sammy Cahn
M: Nicholas Brodszky

Would I Love You

W: Bob Russell
M: Harold Spina

Yellow Roses

Kenny Devine, Sam Nichols

You Alone

W: Al Stillman
M: Robert Allen

You Belong to Me

Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Price

Your Cheating Heart

Hank Williams

You Wonderful You

W: Jack Brooks, Saul Chapin
M: Harry Warren

You, You, You

W: Robert Mellin
M: Lotar Olias, Robert Mellin

Zing a Little Zong

W: Leo Robin
M: Harry Warren

 

Military and Patriotic Music

Title

Composer

America the Beautiful

W: Katherine Lee Baker,
M: Samuel A. Ward

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

W: Julia Ward Howe,
M: Traditional

The Marine's Hymn

W: Anonymous,
M: Jacques Offenbach

My Country 'Tis of Thee

W: Samuel Francis Smith
M: Traditional

Old Soldiers Never Die

Tom Glazer

Sound Off

Willie Lee Duckworth

Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa

Washington Post March

John Philip Sousa

West Point Suite

Darius Milhand

You're a Grand Old Flag

George M. Cohan

* W - Words

** M - Music