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.
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Title |
Composer |
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Allez-Vous-En, Go Away |
Cole Porter |
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All My Love |
W: Mitchell Parish
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All Night Long |
Johnny Otis |
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Almost |
Vic McAlpin, Jack Toombs |
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Am I in Love |
Jack Brooks |
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American Beauty Rose |
Hal David, Redd Evans, Arthur Altman |
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And So to Sleep Again |
Joe Marsala, Sonny Skylar |
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And This Is My Beloved |
Robert Wright, George Forrest |
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Angelina |
Tommie Connor, Edward Lisbona |
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Answer Me, My Love |
W: Carl Sigman
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Anticipation Blues |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
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Any Time |
Herbert Happy Lawson |
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Anywhere I Wander |
Frank Loesser |
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April in Portugal |
W: Jimmy Kennedy
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Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart |
W: John Sexton, John Turner
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Autumn Leaves |
W: Johnny Mercer
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Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand |
Ray Charles |
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Bad, Bad Whiskey |
Thomas Maxwell Davis |
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Bamboo |
W: Buddy Bernier
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Baubles, Bangles, and Beads |
Robert Wright, George Forrest |
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Be My Lifes Companion |
Bob Hilliard, Milton De Lugg |
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Be My Love |
W: Sammy Cahn
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Because of You |
Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson |
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Because Youre Mine |
W: Sammy Cahn
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Bell Bottom Blues |
W: Hal David,
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Beloved |
W: Paul Francis Webster,
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Best Wishes |
Roy B. Milton |
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The Blacksmith Blues |
Jack Holmes |
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Bloodshot Eyes |
Hank Penny, Ruth Hall |
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Blue Canary |
Vincent Fiorino |
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Blue Gardenia |
Bob Russell, Lester Lee |
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Blue Tango |
Leroy Anderson |
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Blue Velvet |
Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris |
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Botch-a-Me |
Italian: R. Morbelli, L. Astore
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Boutonniere |
W: Bob Hilliard
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A Bushel and a Peck |
Frank Loesser |
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Candy and Cake |
Bob Merrill |
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Cest Magnifique |
Cole Porter |
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Cest Si Bon |
French: W: Andre Hornez |
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Chains of Love |
W: Ahmet Ertegun
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Changing Partners |
W: Joe Darion,
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Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy |
Harry Stone, Jack Stapp |
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Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White |
French: W: Jacques Larue,
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Christmas in Killarney |
John Redmond, James Cavanaugh, Frank Weldon |
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Cold, Cold Heart |
Hank Williams |
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Come on-a My House |
Ross Bagdasarian, William Saroyan |
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Come What May |
W: Allen Schiller
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Count Every Star |
W: Sammy Gallop
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Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep |
Irving Berlin |
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Cry |
Churchill Kohlman |
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Crying in the Chapel |
Artie Glenn |
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Cry Me a River |
Arthur Hamilton |
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The Cry of the Wild Goose |
Terry Gilkyson |
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Cuban Mambo |
W: Jack Wiseman
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Daddys Little Boy |
Billy Collins |
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Dearie |
Bob Hilliard Dave Mann |
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A Dear John Letter |
Billy Barton, Lewis Talley, Fuzzy Owen |
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Delicado |
W: Jack Laurence
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Domino |
Don Raye, Louis Ferrari |
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Dont Deceive Me |
Chuck Willis |
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Dont Ever Be Afraid To Go Home |
W: Bob Hilliard
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Dont Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes |
Slim Willet |
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Double Crossing Blues |
Johnny Otis |
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Downhearted |
W: Bob Hilliard
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Dragnet |
Walter Schumann |
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Ebb Tide |
W: Carl Sigman
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Eddys Song |
Charles Grean, Cy Coben |
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Eh, Campari! |
Julius La Rosa, Archie Bleyer |
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Enclosed, One Broken Heart |
Sadie Nardin Sallis, Eddy Arnold |
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Enjoy Yourself It's Later than You Think |
W: Herb Magdison
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Eternally |
W: Geoffrey Parsons
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Even Now |
Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Dan Howell |
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Fandango |
W: Johnny Bradford
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The Fat Man |
W: Antoine "Fats" Domino
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A Fool Such As I |
Bill Trader |
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Forever and Always |
Lefty Frizzell, Lessie Lyle |
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Forgive Me |
W: Jack Yellen
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From Here To Eternity |
W: Bob Wells
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From This Moment On |
Cole Porter |
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Frosty the Snow Man |
Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins |
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Funny |
Hugie Prince, Marcia Neil, Philip Broughton |
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Gambler's Guitar |
Jim Lowe |
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The Gandy Dancer's Ball |
Paul Weston, Paul Mason Howard |
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Getting To Know You |
W: Oscar Hammerstein,
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Glow-Worm |
W: Johnny Mercer
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Gone Fishing |
Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny |
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Goodnight |
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans |
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Goodnight Irene |
Huddie Ledbetter, John Lomax |
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Got You on My Mind |
Joe Thomas, Howard Biggs |
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A Guy Is a Guy |
Oscar Brand |
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Half a Photograph |
W: Bob Russell
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Half as Much |
Curley Williams |
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Harbor Lights |
W: Jimmy Kennedy
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Heavenly Father |
Edna McGieff |
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Hello, Young Lovers |
W: Oscar Hammerstein,
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Here in My Heart |
Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, Bill Borrelli |
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Hey Good Looking! |
Hank Williams |
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High Noon - Do Not Forsake Me |
W: Ned Washington
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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me |
Harry Noble |
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Hoop-Dee-Doo |
W: Frank Loesser
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How Do You Speak |
W: Bob Hilliard
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I Almost Lost My Mind |
Ivory Joe Hunter |
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I Am in Love |
Cole Porter |
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I'm in Love Again |
Cole Porter |
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I'm Walking Behind You |
Billy Reid |
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I'm Yours |
Robert Mellin |
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I Believe |
Erwin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman |
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I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed I Fell |
Eddie Pola, George Wyle |
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I Get Ideas |
W: Dorcas Cochran
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I Love Paris |
Cole Porter |
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I Need You Now |
Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs |
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I Said My Pajamas |
Eddie Pola, George Wyle |
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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus |
Tommie Connor |
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I Talk to the Trees |
W: Alan Jay Lerner
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I Won't Cry Anymore |
W: Fred Wise
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I Went to Your Wedding |
Jassie Mae Robinson |
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I Whistle a Happy Tune |
W: Oscar Hammerstein,
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If |
W: Robert Hargreaves, Stanley J. Damerell
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If I Knew You Were Coming I'd 'Ave Baked a Cake |
Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, Clem Watts |
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In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening |
W: Johnny Mercer
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Istanbul |
W: Jimmy Kennedy
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It Is No Secret |
Stuart Hamblen |
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It's a Lovely Day Today |
Irving Berlin |
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It's All Right with Me |
Cole Porter |
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It's No Sin |
W: Chester R. Shull
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It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House |
W: Jack Elliott
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Jambalaya-on-the-Bayou |
Hank Williams, Jezebel Wayne Shanklin |
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Just Another Polka |
Frank Loesser, Milton De Lugg |
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Just Say I Love Her |
W: Martin Kalmanoff, Sam Ward
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Keep It a Secret |
Jessie Mae Robinson |
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Kiss of Fire |
Lester Allen, Robert Hill |
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Kisses Sweeter than Wine |
W: Paul Campbell
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La Vie en Rose |
French: W: Edith Piaf
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Let Me Be the One |
W: W.S. Stevenson, P. Blevius, M: J. Hobson |
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Let Me In |
Bob Merrill |
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Let's Live a Little |
Ruth E. Coletharp |
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The Little White Cloud That Cried |
Johnnie Ray |
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The Loveliest Night of |
W: Paul Francis Webster |
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the Year |
M: Irving Aaronson |
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Luna Rossa |
Italian: W: Vincenzo, DeCrescenzo
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Make Love to Me |
W: Bill Norvas, Allen Copeland
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Make the Man Love Me |
W: Dorothy Fields
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Marshmallow Moon |
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans |
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A Marshmallow World |
W: Carl Sigman
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Matilda, Matilda |
Harry Thomas |
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Mister and Mississippi |
Irving Gordon |
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Mixed Emotions |
Stuart F. Loucheim |
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Mocking Bird Hill |
Vaughn Horton |
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday |
Ross Parker |
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Music, Music, Music |
Stephen Weiss, Bernie Baum |
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My Heart Cries for You |
Carl Sigman, Percy Faith |
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My Love, My Love |
W: Bob Haymes
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My One and Only Heart |
W: Al Stillman
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My Truly, Truly Fair |
Bob Merrill |
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Never Let Her Go |
Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman |
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Night Train |
W: Oscar Washington, Lewis C. Simpkins
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No Other Love |
W: Oscar Hammerstein,
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Non Dimenticar |
Italian: W: Michele Galdieri
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"O" |
W: Byron Gay
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O Happy Day |
Nancy Binns Reed, |
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Don Howard Koplow |
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Oh! My Pa-pa |
W: John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons
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The Old Piano Roll Blues |
Cy Coben |
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Once |
W: Bob Russell
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One Lonely Night |
W: Elthea Peale
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One Mint Julep |
Rudolph Toombs |
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On Top of Old Smokey |
W: Anonymous
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Our Lady of Fatima |
Gladys Gallahon |
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Pink Champagne |
Joe Liggins |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Bob Merrill |
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Play a Simple Melody |
Irving Berlin |
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Please, Mr. Sun |
W: Sid Frank
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Pretend |
Lew Douglas |
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Rag Mop |
Johnnie Lee Wills, Deacon Anderson |
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Rags to Riches |
Richard Adler, Jerry Ross |
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Rambling Man |
Hank Williams |
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Rock Around the Clock |
Max C. Freedman, Jimmy De Knight |
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Rock of Gibraltar |
Terry Gilkynson |
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Rosanne |
W: Dick Manning
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Rose, Rose, I Love You |
W: Wilfred Thomas
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Ruby |
W: Mitchell Parish
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Sam's Song |
W: Jack Elliott
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Say You're Mine Again |
Charles Nathan, Dave Heisler |
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Secret Love |
W: Paul Francis Webster,
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Sentimental Me |
Jim Morehead, Jmmy Cassin |
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Shrimp Boats |
Paul Mason Howard, Paul Weston |
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Sixty Minute Man |
William Ward, Rose Marks |
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Slowpoke |
Pee Wee King, Red Stewart, Chilton Price |
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Solitaire |
W: Renee Borek, Carl Nutter
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Somewhere Along the Way |
W: Sammmy Gallop
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Sparrow in the Tree Top |
Bob Merrill |
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Stranger in Paradise |
Robert Wright, George Forrest |
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Sunshine Cake |
W: Johnny Burke
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Takes Two to Tango |
Al Hoffman, Dick Manning |
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Tell Me You're Mine |
D. Ravasino (Vasin) |
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Tell Me Why |
W: Al Alberts
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Tennessee |
Redd Stewart, Pee Wee King |
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The Terry Theme |
Charles Chaplin |
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That Doggie in the Window |
Bob Merrill |
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That's Amore |
W: Jack Brooks
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They Call the Wind Maria |
W: Allen Jay Lerner
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The Thing |
Charles R. Grean |
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The Third Man Theme |
Anton Karas |
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Thumbelina |
Frank Loesser |
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Till I Waltz Again with You |
Sidney Prosen |
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To Know You Is To Love You |
W: Allan Roberts
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Too Young |
W: Sylvia Dee
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Trying |
Billy Vaughn |
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Tzena, Tzena, Tzena |
W: Gordon Jenkins
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Undecided |
W: Sid Robin
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Unforgettable |
Irving Gordon |
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Vanity |
W: Jack Manus, Bernard Bierman
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Vaya con Dios |
Larry Russell, Inez James, Buddy Pepper |
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The Velvet Glove |
Harold Spina |
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Wandering |
Ed Jackson |
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Wedding Samba |
Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small, Joseph Leibowitz |
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We Kiss in a Shadow |
W: Oscar Hammerstein,
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Wheel of Fortune |
Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss |
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When I Fall in Love |
W: Edward Heyman
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Where Is Your Heart |
W: William Engvick
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Why Don't You Believe Me |
Lew Douglas, King Laney, Roy Rodde |
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Wilhelmina |
W: Mack Gordon
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Wish You Were Here |
Harold Rome |
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With These Hands |
W: Benny Davis
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Wonderful Copenhagen |
Frank Loesser |
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Wonder Why |
W: Sammy Cahn
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Would I Love You |
W: Bob Russell
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Yellow Roses |
Kenny Devine, Sam Nichols |
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You Alone |
W: Al Stillman
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You Belong to Me |
Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Price |
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Your Cheating Heart |
Hank Williams |
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You Wonderful You |
W: Jack Brooks, Saul Chapin
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You, You, You |
W: Robert Mellin
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Zing a Little Zong |
W: Leo Robin
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Military and Patriotic Music
|
Title |
Composer |
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America the Beautiful |
W: Katherine Lee Baker,
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic |
W: Julia Ward Howe,
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The Marine's Hymn |
W: Anonymous,
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My Country 'Tis of Thee |
W: Samuel Francis Smith
|
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Old Soldiers Never Die |
Tom Glazer |
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Sound Off |
Willie Lee Duckworth |
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Stars and Stripes Forever |
John Philip Sousa |
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Washington Post March |
John Philip Sousa |
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West Point Suite |
Darius Milhand |
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You're a Grand Old Flag |
George M. Cohan |
* W - Words
** M - Music