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“…Rider (Lead Belly) -- Baby please don't go (Big Joe Williams) -- Dirty mother for you (Roosevelt Sykes) -- Billie's blues (Billie Holiday) -- Cross road blues (Robert Johnson) -- Good mornin' little school girl (Sonny Boy Williamson I) -- Shake 'em on down (Bukka White) -- Roll 'em Pete (Joe Turner & Pete Johnson) -- Catfish blues (Robert Petway) -- Going to Chicago blues (Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing) -- Key to the highway (Big Bill Broonzy) -- Me and my chauffeur blues (Memphis Minnie) -- Worried life blues (Big Maceo Merriweather) -- Cross cut saw blues (Tommy McClennon) -- Evil gal blues (Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington) -- Strange things happening everyday (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) -- Honeydripper pt. 1 (Joe Liggins) -- Drifting blues (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown) -- Let the good times roll (Louis Jordan) -- That's all right mama (Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup) -- Call it stormy Monday (T-bone Walker) -- Good rockin' tonight (Wyonie Harris) -- Ain't nobody's business, part one (Jimmy Witherspoon) -- Double crossing blues (The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & The Robins) --…”
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“…Louis Jimmy ; Robert Johnson ; Champion Jack Dupree ; Memphis Slim ; Joe Turner ; Pete Johnson ; Jimmy Rushing -- The boogie woogie craze, and 1938. Pine Top Smith ; Jimmy Yancey ; Meade Lux Lewis ; Albert Ammons ; Count Basie ; Billie Holiday ; Slim & Slam -- Blues bands, and Louis Jordan. …”
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“…. -- Doris Day -- Blossom Dearie -- Matt Dennis -- Johnny Desmond -- Marlene Dietrich -- Alfred Drake -- Jimmy Durante -- Bob Dylan -- Ray Eberle -- Bob Eberly -- Billy Eckstine -- Cliff Edwards -- Kurt Elling -- Ruth Etting -- Alice Faye -- Michael Feinstein -- Gracie Fields -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Helen Forrest -- Aretha Franklin -- Judy Garland -- Eydie Gorme -- Robert Goulet -- Buddy Greco -- Adelaide Hall -- Annette Hanshaw -- Mary Cleer Haran -- Allan Harris -- Marion Harris -- Johnny Hartman -- Dick Haymes -- Bill Henderson -- Woody Herman -- Al Hibbler -- Billie Holiday -- Shirley Horn -- Lena Horne -- Helen Humes -- Hutch (Leslie Hutchinson) -- Betty Hutton -- Marion Hutton -- Alberta Hunter -- Mahalia Jackson -- Eddie Jefferson -- Herb Jeffries -- Clarence Johnstone -- Al Jolson -- Etta Jones -- Jack Jones -- Louis Jordan -- Sheila Jordan -- Kitty Kallen -- Howard Keel -- Teddi King -- Eartha Kitt -- Irene Kral -- Roy Kral -- Diana Krall -- Cleo Laine -- Frankie Laine -- Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- Dorothy Lamour -- Turner Layton -- Steve Lawrence -- Barbara Lea -- Julia Lee -- Peggy Lee -- Abbey Lincoln -- Julie London -- Nick Lucas -- Nellie Lutcher -- Gloria Lynne -- Gordon MacRae -- Kevin Mahogany -- Andrea Marcovicci -- Dean Martin -- Mary Martin -- Johnny Mathis -- Susannah McCorkle -- Audra McDonald -- Ray McKinley -- Carmen McRae -- Johnny Mercer -- Mabel Mercer -- Ethel Merman -- Helen Merrill -- The Mills Brothers -- Guy Mitchell -- Mat Monro -- Joe Mooney -- Helen Morgan -- Lee Morse -- Mark Murphy -- Rose Murphy -- Anita O'Day -- Patti Page -- Jackie Paris -- King Pleasure -- Elvis Presley -- Louis Prima -- Arthur Prysock -- John Raitt -- Ramona -- Lou Rawls -- Johnnie Ray -- Martha Raye -- Della Reese -- Dianne Reeves -- Irene Reid -- Ann Richards -- Jimmy Rushing -- (Little) Jimmy Scott -- Daryl Sherman -- Dinah Shore -- Bobby Short -- Nina Simone -- Ginny Simms -- Frank Sinatra -- Carol Sloane -- Bessie Smith -- Kate Smith -- Jeri Southern -- Jo Stafford -- Kay Starr -- Dakota Staton -- Barbra Streisand -- Maxine Sullivan -- Sylvia Syms -- Jack Teagarden -- Shirley Temple -- Teri Thornton -- Martha Tilton -- Mel Torme -- Sophie Tucker -- George "Bon Bon" Tunnell -- Rudy Vallee -- Sarah Vaughan -- Bea Wain -- Fats Waller -- Helen Ward -- Dinah Washington -- Ethel Waters -- Elisabeth Welch -- Margaret Whiting -- Lee Wiley -- Andy Williams -- Hank Williams -- Joe Williams -- Cassandra Wilson -- Julie Wilson -- Nancy Wilson -- Edythe Wright -- The birth of the croon: Cliff Edwards, Nick Lucas, Rudy Vallee, and Russ Columbo -- Torch singers and flappers: Marion Harris, Ruth Etting, Helen Morgan, and Annette Hanshaw -- African Americans abroad: Adelaide Hall, Josephine Baker, Elisabeth Welch, and Alberta Hunter -- Thre'll always be an England: Hutch, Layton & Johnstone, and Gracie Fields -- Female band singers I-Benny's babes: Helen Ward, Martha Tilton, and Helen Forrest -- Sing a song of Ellington: Ivie Anderson, Herb Jeffries, and Al Hibbler -- Sing a song of Miller-Male (mostly) band singers I: Bob Eberly, Ray Eberle, (Marion Hutton), Johnny Desmond, Tex Beneke, and Ray McKinley -- Singing songwriters: Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Arlen, and Johnny Mercer -- Female band singers II-Big bands into pop: Edythe Wright, Bea Wain, Ginny Simms, and Kitty Kallen -- Male band singers II-Exceptional boychicks: Harry Babbit and George "Bon Bon" Tunnell -- Hollywood Divas: Alice Faye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Temple, and Betty Hutton -- Two inimitables: Noel Coward and Marlene Dietrich -- Fats' femme followers: Lee Morse, Ramona, Cleo Brown, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Una Mae Carlisle, Julia Lee, Nellie Lutcher, Rose Murphy, and Hadda Brooks -- Big pop (male): Frankie Laine, Johnnie Ray, Guy Mitchell, Johnnie Mathis, and Andy Williams -- Hipsters and bopsters: King Pleasure, Eddie Jefferson, Jackie Cain, Roy Kral, Irene Kral, Ann Richards, and Cleo Laine -- Lee Wiley's Boston connection: Teddi King and Barbara Lea -- Leading ladies: Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews -- Leading men-in defense of the Broadway baritone: Alfred Drake, John Raitt, Gordon MacRae, Howard Keel, and Robert Goulet -- Dinah's daughters-soulful ladies and local favorites: Etta Jones, Gloria Lynne, Teri Thornton, Irene Reid, and Lorez Alexandria -- Two soulful gentlemen: Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls -- Blossom's buds and Dearie's daughters: Barbara Carroll, Daryl Sherman, and Ann Hampton Callaway -- Rock goes standards!…”