Favorite 'Really Old' Songs--20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's

**Waving Girl** · 08-25-2004, 07:08 PM

I love the Moldy Oldies---Roaring 20's, Big Band and Jazz--from the bad old days--when Corruption was Corrupt and made no apologies.

Speakeasy--brought this tune to mind.

What are your favorites?

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The Green Door

-Artist: Jim Lowe
-peak Billboard position #1 for 3 weeks in 1956
-Words by Marvin Moore and Music by Bob Davie

{music includes constant "tick-tock" clock sound}

(Midnight, one more night without sleepin')
(Watchin' till the mornin' comes creepin')
(Green door, what's that secret you're keepin?)

There's an old piano
And they play it hot behind the green door
Don't know what they're doin'
But they laugh a lot behind the green door
Wish they'd let me in
So I could find out what's behind the green door

(Knocked once, tried to tell them I'd been there)
(Door slammed, hospitality's thin there)
(Wonder just what's goin' on in there)

Saw an eyeball peepin'
Through a smoky cloud behind the green door
When I said "Joe sent me"
Someone laughed out loud behind the green door
All I want to do is join the happy crowd behind the green door

(Midnight, one more night without sleepin')
(Watchin' till the mornin' comes creepin')
(Green door, what's that secret you're keepin?)

(Green door, what's that secret you're keepin?)

Green door!

**wphelan** · 08-25-2004, 09:07 PM

I'm a big fan of Delta blues from the 20s and 30s. One of my favorites is Robert Johnson's "Ramblin on My Mind." Great song.

Robert Johnson
I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind
I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind
Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind

I got mean things, I got mean things all on my mind
Little girl, little girl, I got mean things all on my mind
Hate to leave you here, babe, but you treats me so unkind

Runnin' down to the station, catch the first mail train I see
(spoken: I think I hear her comin' now)
Runnin' down to the station, catch the old first mail train I see
I got the blues about Miss So-and-So and the child got the blues about me

And I'm leavin' this mornin', with my arm' fold' up and cryin'
And I'm leavin' this mornin', with my arm' fold' up and cryin'
Hate to leave my baby, but she treats me so unkind

I got mean things, I've got mean things on my mind
I got mean things, I got mean things all on my mind
I got to leave my baby, well, she treats me so unkind

**Waving Girl** · 08-25-2004, 09:23 PM

Good one.

here's another>>>>>>>>>>
Originally sung by the Marcels and everybody from Dylan to ??

Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra and I don't know how many more.

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Frank Sinatra - Blue Moon Lyrics

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold
Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

**thinkandask** · 08-26-2004, 05:16 AM

i love the songs from the 20s-40s.

one of my favorites, i think originally written in 1928/29
became the nations No.1 song in 1940:

When The Swallows Come Back to Capistrano

When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That's the day you promised to come back to me
When you whispered, "Farewell", in Capistrano
T'was the day the swallow flew out to sea

All the mission bells will ring
The chapel choir will sing
The happiness you'll bring
Will live in my memory
When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That's the day I pray that you'll come back to me

All the mission bells will ring
The chapel choir will sing
The happiness you'll bring
Will live in my memory
When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That's the day I pray that you'll come back to me

**Waving Girl** · 08-26-2004, 07:35 AM

That's a nice one.

I could have 'Fit In' back then...

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I found this list: Recognize any of these?

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Song Title Index

12th Street Rag (Euday Bowman, 1914)
Ain't Misbehavin' (Razaf, Waller, Brooks, 1929)
After You've Gone (Creamer & Layton, 1918)

Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin, 1911)
Alligator Crawl (Fats Waller, 1924) mpeg2 sample (size: 442K)
Am I Blue (Grant Clark & Harry Akst, 1929, ASCAP )

Backwater Blues (Bessie Smith, 1927, ASCAP)
Bacon Grease (Christopher Seppe, 1987)
Bag of Rags (W.R. McKanlass, 1913)
Beale Street Mama (Turk & Robinson, 1923, ASCAP)
Bedlam (Christopher Seppe, 1974)
Belle of Louisville (Frank French, 1991)
Blame It On The Blues (Charles L. Cook, 1914)

Carolina Shout (James P. Johnson, 1914)
Cranberry Stomp (Sue Keller, 1983)
Crazy (Willie Nelson, 1961, BMI)
Crazy Bone Rag (Charles Johnson, 1913)
Cruel Back-Bitin' Blues (Lemuel Fowler, 1923)

Fare Thee Honey Blues Eubie Blake playing
Fives, The(George W. Thomas, 1922)
Furry Lisa (George Schneider, 1972)
Gladiolus Rag (Scott Joplin, 1907)
Goodnight Angeline Eubie Blake playing
Great Crush Collision March (Scott Joplin, 1897)

Hard-Hearted Hannah (Yellen, Ager, et al., 1924)
Hawaiian Blues (Stanley Murray, 1916)
Heliotrope Bouquet (Scott Joplin, 1907)
I Got What It Takes (Clarence Williams & Jenkins, 1929)
I Just Want a Daddy (Thomas A. Dorsey, 1923)

Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin, 1899)
Memphis Blues (W.C.Handy, 1912)
Mississippi Mud (Cavanaugh & Barris, 1927)
Modernistic (James P. Johnson, 1929)
My Baby's Hot For Me (Sue Keller, 1987, ASCAP)

Pork and Beans (Luckey Roberts, 1913)
Possum Rag (Geraldine Dobyns, 1906)
Powder Rag (Charles L. Johnson [R. Birch], 1908)
Pralines & Cream (Christopher Seppe, 1988)
Quality (James Scott, 1911)

Snakey Blues (Will Nash, 1915)
Snowy Morning Blues (James P. Johnson, 1927)
Solace (Scott Joplin, 1909)
Solitude (Christopher Seppe, 1987)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin, 1927)
Sonata in B Flat (J. Wanhal, c.1770); see also Wanhal Stomp
Spring Dreams (Jonathan Jensen, 1975)
St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy, 1914) mpeg2 sample (size: 501K)
St. Louis Blues (W.C.Handy, 1914)
St. Louis Rag (Tom Turpin, 1903)

That Old Gang of Mine (Rose, Dixon, et. al, 1923) transcription
That's A Plenty (Lew Pollack, 1914) mpeg2 sample (size: 529K)

Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee (Gilbert & Muir, 1912)
Wang Wang Blues Eubie Blake playing
Wanhal Stomp (Sue Keller, 1994)
Walkin' After Midnight (Hecht & Block, 1956, BMI)
Wild Cherries (Ted Snyder, 1908)
Wild Women (Don't Have The Blues) (Ida Cox, 1924, ASCAP)
Wolverine Blues (Spikes, Spikes & Morton, 1923, ASCAP)
Wyndham Rag (George Schneider, 1977)
Yellow Dog Blues (W.C. Handy, 1914)
Yo' Mama Blues (Sue Keller, 2001, ASCAP)

**Speakeasy** · 08-26-2004, 10:10 AM

Another way old song that I like is 'Let's Face the Music and Dance", originally written by Irving Berlin, but performed by Fred Astaire in 1936 for the first time, followed by versions done by Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and a ton of other people.

There may be trouble ahead
But while there's music and moonlight (moonlight and music) and love and
romance
Let's face the music and dance
Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill, and while we still have that chance
Let's face the music and dance
Soon, we'll be without the moon
Humming a different tune - and then...
There may be teardrops to shed
So (But) while there's music and moonlight (moonlight and music) and love and
romance
(Let's face the music and dance, dance)
(Let's face the music - let's here that music)
Let's face the music and dance