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Les Brown   I've Got my Love to Keep Me Warm

Al Jolson   I'm Alabamy Bound

Sue Thompson   Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny

Rudy Vallee   I'm Just a Vagabond Lover

Eydie Gorme   I Don't Want to Walk Without You

Guy Mitchell   There's a Pawn Shop on the Corner

Goody Goody
Gail Storm    Linda Scott    The Modernaires with Paula Kelly

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Carly Simon    Frank Sinatra    Julie London

Begin the Beguine
Artie Shaw    Mantovani    Ernesto Cortazar    Fausto Papetti

Bob Hope © Thanks for the Memories

Anita Bryant
My Little Corner of the World      Paper Roses

Don Ho
My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii     Tiny Bubbles

Fascination
Jane Morgan    Edith Piaf    Nat King Cole
Julie London    Dinah Shore    Magic Violins
Fausto Papetti    Andre Rieu

My Coloring Book
Brenda Lee    Skeeter Davis    Julie London    Kitty Kallen

The Old Lamp-Lighter
Sammy Kaye    Jim Ed Brown & the Browns

Cruising Down the River
Ames Brothers   Russ Morgan

You Can't Be True, Dear
Ken Griffin   Vera Lynn

Forever and Ever
Russ Morgan    Perry Como    Lennon Sisters

Near You
Francis Craig    McGuire Sisters    Wayne King    Andrews Sisters
Roger Williams    Larry Green    George Jones & Tammy Wynette

Those Were the Days
Mary Hopkins    Engelbert Humperdinck    Paul Mauriat

It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
Fats Waller    Somethin' Smith & the Redheads
Bobby Vinton    The Ink Spots    Billie Holliday    Slim Whitman
Nice MIDI Arrangement     Short MIDI Arrangement

Deep Purple
John Gary    Helen Forrest
Larry Clinton & Bea Wain    Guy Lombardo

As Time Goes By
Jimmy Durante    Dinah Shore    Barbra Streisand    John Gary
Tony Bennett    Billie Holiday    Englebert Humperdink
Ferrante & Teicher    Julie London
Dooley Wilson    (From the Sound Track of Casablanca)

Goodnight, Sweetheart
Russ Columbo    Guy Lumbardo    Wayne King

If I Give My Heart to You
Doris Day    Nat King Cole

The Autumn Leaves
Roger Williams    Ray Charles Singers    Eva Cassidy
Edith Piaf    Patti Page    Nat King Cole

Danny Boy
Floyd Cramer    The Irish Tenors    John Gary    Johnny Cash
Ray Price    Unnamed Violinists

Unforgettable
Nat King Cole    Nat & Natalie Cole    Peggy Lee    Lou Rawls
Brief, but Very Nice, MIDI Arrangement

Embraceable You
Judy Garland    Lena Horne    Nat King Cole

Chiquitita
Nana Mouskouri   (in French)     Abba   (in English)

Canadian Sunset
Andy Williams    Floyd Cramer    Hugo Winterhalter

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!
Andrews Sister & Dan Dailey    Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly
Unidentified "Sing-Along" Group

When I Fall in Love
The Lettermen   Julie London   Perry Como   Dinah Washington
Nat King Cole

A Fool Such As I
Elvis Presley    Anne Murray    Hank Snow    Jim Reeves    Bob Dylan

When a Man Loves a Woman
Bette Midler    Floyd Cramer    Michael Bolton    Percy Sledge

My Funny Valentine
Julie London    Nat King Cole    Sarah Vaughn    Tony Bennett

In the Mood
Glenn Miller    Andrews Sisters    Ace Cannon    Bette Midler
Paula Kelly & the Modernaires

I Can't Get Started with You
Bunny Berrigan    Al Hirt    Billie Holliday    Dinah Washington

I'm in the Mood for Love
Doris Day    Billy Eckstine    Brenda Lee

I Can't Begin to Tell You
Willie Nelson    Freddie Hart

Always   (I'll Be Loving You, Always)
Patsy Cline    Crystal Gayle    Rosemary Clooney
Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan
Nice MIDI Arrangement    Another Nice MIDI Arrangement

Cry
Johnny Ray    Lynn Anderson    Ray Charles

Oh Lonesome Me
Connie Francis    Ray Charles

Hard-Hearted Hannah
Ella Fitzgerald    Ray Charles

You Always Hurt the One You Love
Mills Brothers    Brenda Lee    Connie Francis    Spike Jones
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

You'll Never Know
Jim Reeves   Dick Haymes   Englebert Humperdinck   Vera Lynn   Bobby Darin

You're My Everything
Keely Smith & Louis Prima    Gisele MacKenzie    Nat King Cole

We'll Meet Again
Mary Duff    Vera Lynn

Dolores
Bing Crosby    Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

Little Things Mean a Lot
Kitty Kallen   Margo Smith

Because
Deanna Durbin    Mario Lanza    Jerry Vale    Perry Como

Never on a Sunday
New Christy Minstrels    Connie Francis    Herb Alpert    Don Costa

Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion
Peggy Lee    Jo Stafford    Blossom Dearie

Remember Me - I'm the One Who Loves You
Pat Boone    Dean Martin    Johnny Cash

Blue Skirt Waltz   Frankie Yankovic

Beer Barrel Polka   Glahe Musette Orchestra

Eddy Howard
It's No Sin   To Each His Own

Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes
Rumors Are Flying    Oh, What It Seemed to Be

Peg O' My Heart
Harmonicats   The Three Suns

Mary Duff
We'll Meet Again    Now Is the Hour    If Anything Happened to You
It's Not Over If I'm Not Over You     White Cliffs of Dover Medley

Don't Cry, Joe    Gordon Jenkins & Chorus

I Should Care   Barry Manilow

The Very Thought of You   Ted Heath

Sophisticated Lady   Duke Ellington

Vaughn Monroe
There, I've Said It Again    Ghost Riders in the Sky    Ballerina
I Wish I Didnt Love You So    Red Roses for a Blue Lady

The Unicorn Song   The Irish Rovers

Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody    Aretha Franklin

I Love Paris   Ella Fitzgerald

Glenn Campbell
I Believe    He     Wichita Lineman

The Platters  Only You     Trío Los Panchos  Solo Tú

Huggin' and a-Chalkin'    Hoagy Carmichael

Little Old Lady from Pasadena    Jan and Dean

After the Lovin'
Englebert Humperdinck    Ferrante & Teicher

Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a 5 & 10 Cent Store

Claude Thornhill Orchestra
Where or When    Snowfall    Robbin's Nest    For Heaven's Sake
A Sunday Kind of Love    Fran Warren with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra
I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do    Claude Thornhill Orchestra with Chorus

Barbra Streisand
As Time Goes By    Memories    People    On a Clear Day
Second Hand Rose    If I Loved You

Louis Armstrong
Hello, Dolly    A Kiss to Build a Dream On
All of Me    When the Saints Go Marching In

Billie Holliday
I Can't Get Started with You    It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
I'll Be Loving You, Always    You Go to My Head
He's Funny that Way    It Had to Be You
Love for Sale    PS: I Love You
The Very Thought of You    Do Nothing till You Hear from Me

I Love How You Love Me   Paris Sisters

The Cascading Voices of the Ray Charles Singers
(Not to be confused with the legendary singer/pianist Ray Charles who passed away in 2004)
Autumn Leaves    Love Me with All Your Heart(Cuando Caliente el Sol)

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry
You Always Hurt the One You Love    I Don't Know Why I Love You

Drift Away   Dobie Grey

The Diamonds   Little Darlin' True Love    Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly

The McGuire Sisters
Near You    May You Always    Sugartime
Tears on My Pillow    Muskrat Ramble    Sincerely

Guy Lombardo Medley:
Once in a While, I Love You Truly, Coquette, Little Dutch Mill, Nola, Goodnight Sweetheart

Marilyn Monroe
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend     I Wanna Be Loved by You

Bobby Darin
Mack the Knife    Things    Splish Splash    You'll Never Know

Roses

Joni James
Why Don't You Believe Me? Have You Heard? Your Cheating Heart

Ronnie Deauville
Harbor Lights

Three Very Different Interpretations of this Timeless Melody

O Sole Mio
Luciano Pavarotti

There's No Tomorrow
Tony Martin

It's Now or Never
Elvis Presley

Interesting side-by-side comparison of "Strangers" by Frank and Julio...

Strangers in the Night Frank Sinatra    Extraños Nada Más Julio Iglesias

Here's a nice instrumental arrangement of the song by Nelson Corbin.

Here's yet another vocal version by Connie Francis.

Always
Crystal Gayle    Billie Holliday    Deanna Durbin    Ink Spots    Frank Sinatra
Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan

Am I Blue?
Ella Fitzgerald    Connie Francis

Blue Bayou
Linda Ronstadt       Roy Orbison       Suzanne Lanoue
Engelbert Humperdinck       Lynn Anderson       Nana Mouskouri
                              (Sung in German by Nana)

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition   Kay Kyser

Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer      Song Spinners

Sound Off!   Vaughn Monroe

Bye Bye Blues
Les Paul & Mary Ford    Cab Calloway

What a Difference a Day Made
Dinah Washington    Tony Bennett

The same song with its original Spanish lyrics: Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado
(Words & Music by María Grever)
Sung by Luís Miguel    Sung by Eydie Gorme & the Trío Los Panchos

Shirley Bassey
Speak Low    For All We Know    What Kind of Fool Am I?

The Hucklebuck   Lionel Hamptom

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye   The Casinos

Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song   B J Thomas

Seems to Me I've Heard that Song Before    Helen Forrest with the Harry James Orchestra

Take Five!    Paul Desmond on Sax with the Dave Brubeck Quartet

Two Sleepy People    Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt & the Kay Kyser Band

Petite Fleur   Sidney Bechet

I Say a Little Prayer for You   Dionne Warwick

Go Away, Little Girl   Steve Lawrence

Don't Worry - Be Happy    Bobby McFerrin

Windy   The Association

Imagine   Joan Baez

I Wanna Hold Your Hand   The Beatles

Our Day Will Come    Ruby & the Romantics

I Get Ideas   Tony Martin

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun   Cyndi Lauper

Good Golly, Miss Molly   Little Richard

Norman   Sue Thompson

Yakity Yak   The Coasters

Goodnight, Sweetheart   Russ Columbo

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Doris Day   Burl Ives    Teresa Brewer

Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
Big Girls Don't Cry    Sherry    Rag Doll    My Eyes Adored You
You're Just Too Good to Be True

Harlem Nocturne   Ray Noble

Be Anything, But Be Mine   Betty Everett

The Four Freshmen
Satin Doll    Charmaine    It Could Happen to You    Graduation Day
Speak Low    Angel Eyes    Polkadots and Moonbeams

The Four Lads
Moments to Remember    The Things We Did Last Summer
Standing on the Corner (Watching All the Girls Go By)

The Chordettes
No Other Arms    Born to Be with You

Hernando's Hideaway  Archie Bleyer
Mr. Sandman   The Chordettes & Archie Blyer

It's No Sin   Eddy Howard

Ethel Merman
I Got Rhythm    If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake

Bridge Over the River Kwai
Movie version of the Colonel Bogey March, complete with the whistling.

Silver Threads & Golden Needles   Linda Ronstadt

Killing Me Softly with Your Song      Roberta Flack

Alley Cat   Bent Fabric

Honky Tonk   Bill Doggett

Mario Lanza
The Loveliest Night of the Year  (Sobre las Olas)
Because    Be My Love    Lady of Spain

A Man Without Love
Nana Mouskouri (Italian Version)    Englebert Humperdinck (English Version)

Skeeter Davis
He Called Me Baby, Baby, All Night Long
Blue Kentucky Girl    The End of the World    Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad

He'll Have to Go   Jim Reeves
He'll Have to Stay    Skeeter Davis

Roger Whittaker
By the Time I Get to Phoenix    Stranger on the Shore    The Last Farewell

Love Me Tender
Elvis Presley    Nana Mouskouri

Johnny Ray
Cry       The Little White Cloud that Cried

Ricky Nelson
For You    Hello, Mary Lou    Lonesome Town

Etta James
A Sunday Kind of Love    At Last

Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
Anita O'Day with Stan Kenton    Dinah Shore

Stranger on the Shore   Acker Bilk

Are You Lonesome Tonight?    Boots Randolph

Wayne Newton
Danke Schoen    Red Roses fo a Blue Lady

I'll Be Seeing You (in All the Old Familiar Places)
Bing Crosby    Brenda Lee    Dinah Shore    Dean Martin
Tony Bennett   Vera Lynn    Rosemary Clooney
Kate Smith    Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra

Sarah Vaughan
Make Yourself Comfortable    September Song
Whatever Lola Wants    Tenderly    Someone To Watch Over Me

M-O-T-H-E-R   Burl Ives

It's Good to Be Back Home Again   John Denver

The Happy Whistler   Don Robertson

Marianne   Terry Gilkyson & the Easy Riders

Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White    Perez Prado

I Said No   Yvonne King & Alvino Rey

Chantilly Lace   Big Bopper

Lady    Try to Remember    Chiquitita   Nana Mouskouri

Petula Clark
I Know a Place    Downtown

Please Release Me
Englebert Humperdinck    Floyd Cramer

Stardust
Nat King Cole    Dinah Shore    Artie Shaw    Jerry Vale    Glenn Miller

Two interesting versions of Stardust by Frank Sinatra
Frank sings only the verse in this version.
Frank sings only the chorus in this version.

American Pie   Don McLean

Chapel in the Moonlight   Kitty Kallen

I Call Your Name   The Mamas and the Papas

I Had the Craziest Dream Last Night
Della Reese   Harry James & Helen Forrest

New Seekers
I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma     Georgie Girl

Della Reese
You Came a Long Way from Saint Louis
Tea for Two (Cha Cha Cha)    My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Cha Cha Cha)
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Cha Cha Cha)

On the Good Ship Lollipop   Shirley Temple

It Only Hurts For a Little While
Ames Brothers    Margo Smith

Someday You'll Want Me to Want You
Brenda Lee   Brook Benton   Patsy Cline

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Bill Snyder    Frank Sinatra    Doris Day    Mel Torme

Freddy Martin
The Hut Sut Song I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
Freddy Martin & Merv Griffin

Tonight We Love   (Freddy Martin's Theme Song)  with Jack Fina at the Piano
Based on the Opening Theme from Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor

Detour
Patti Page    Duane Eddy

Together Again
Buck Owens    Emmy Lou Harris

I Love You So Much It Hurts Me
Patsy Cline    Mills Brothers    Ray Price

Indian Love Call
Artie Shaw    Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
Margo Smith   Slim Whitman

Something Stupid
Frank & Nancy Sinatra    Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman

I Really Don't Want to Know
Les Paul & Mary Ford    Eddy Arnold    Elvis Presley

Darktown Strutter's Ball
Bob Wills    Dixieland Band    Julie London    Pete Fountain    Ted Lewis

Have I Told You Lately that I Love You?
Bobby Vinton   Eddy Arnold    Elvis Presley    Floyd Cramer    Marty Robbins

Have You Ever Been Lonely?
Slim Whitman    Ted Lewis    Teresa Brewer    Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves

Whispering
Lena Horne   Les Paul   Paul Whiteman

Melody of Love
Billy Vaughn    The Four Aces

My Melody of Love   Bobby Vinton

The Ventures
Caravan    Ghost Riders in the Sky    Walk, Don't Run    Wipeout

This Could Be the Start of Something Big
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme

Moonglow + Theme from Picnic   Mirros Stoloff

Abba Dabba Honeymoon   Debbie Reynolds

Honey Babe   Art Mooney

Eh, Cumpari   Julius LaRosa

The Hukilau   Annette Funicello

Groovin'   The Little Rascals

Earth Angel   The Penguins

Hearts Made of Stone   Fontaine Sisters

The Morning Side of the Mountain   Tommy Edwards

You Can't Say No to a Soldier   Joan Merrill

Let Me Entertain You   Gypsy Rose Lee

The Happy Wanderer   Frank Weir

Down Yonder   Dell Wood

Lollipops and Roses   Jack Joness

Right or Wrong   Joey Heatherton

Joy to the World   Three Dog Night

It's Always You   Nick Hilscher

Send In The Clowns   Judy Collins

That's All I Want from You   Jaye P Morgan

The Little Shoemaker   The Gaylords

Ballin' the Jack   Danny Kaye

Jimmie Rogers Blues   Elton Britt

26 Miles - Santa Catalina   Four Preps

Midnight in Moscow   Kenny Ball

I Get So Lonely   Four Knights

Since I Met You, Baby   Mindy Carson

The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down   Russ Morgan

The Thing   Phil Harris

Lyin' Eyes   Eagles

Body and Soul   Martha Raye

When my Baby Smiles at Me   Ted Lewis

Personality   Lloyd Price

Crazy Otto Medley   Johnny Maddox

Tequila   The Champs

I Got the Horse   Mel Tillis

Time Waits for No One   Helen Forrest

We'll Sing in the Sunshine   Gale Garnett

Band of Gold   Don Cherry

Dream   Pied Pipers

That's for Me   Ralph Flannagan

Bridge over Troubled Water    Simon & Garfunkle

Cuddle Up a Little Closer    Sammy Kaye - Don Cornell

Don Cornell
I'm Yours    Hold My Hand

Bell Bottom Trousers       Slow Boat to China
Woody Woodpecker       Playmate
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
I've Got Spurs that Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Kay Kyser

Quiet Village   Martin Denny

Heartaches   Ted Weems

C'est Si Bon   Eartha Kitt

PS: I LoveYou   The Hilltoppers

Ebb Tide    Limelight
Frank Chacksfield

My Heart Cries for You   Guy Mitchell

Day-O (Banana Boat Song)   Harry Belafonte

Johnny Be Good   Chuck Berry

Anna    Silvana Mangano

That'll Be the Day   Buddy Holly

Mat Munro
I Get Along Without You Very Well    My Kind of Girl

He Wore Black Denim Trousers (The Terror of Highway 101)
The Cheers

Tonight You Belong to Me    Patience & Prudence

Dominique   Singing Nun

Loving Her Was Easier   Kris Kristofferson

Those Were the Days   Mary Hopkins

It's My Party   Leslie Gore

Rock Around the Clock    Bill Haley & The Comets

Old Time Rock n' Roll   Bob Segar

Y M C A   Village People

Autumn Leaves   Roger Williams

Ann Murray
Could I Have This Dance for the Rest of My Life?
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight    A Fool Such As I

K-K-K-Katy   Mitch Miller

You Light Up My Life   Debbie Boone
Love Letters in the Sand   Pat Boone

I Just Called to Say I Love You   Stevie Wonder

Auld Lang Syne
Guy Lombardo    Glenn Miller    Unidentified Orchestra

Jill Daniels
Lili Marlene Kiss Me Good Night, Sergeant Major
Another Story (One of Jill's Own Compositions)

Jill is a British singer of songs popular during WWII.
She has a wonderful voice and a delightful personality
that make these memorable favorites come to life all over again.

Visit Jill's Site at: www.jilldaniels.com

The music above is for evaluation purposes only and you are
encouraged to buy the CDs and downloads of the artists you like.

D O W N L O A D I N G I N S T R U C T I O N S

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Left clicking a song should play it without downloading it - but this seems
to vary between WAVs and MIDIs, as well as from one browser to another -
and even from one computer to another. I have no idea why.
It pays to experiment.

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I am sometimes asked if it's legal to download songs found on
various non-commercial sites, such as this one.

Well, I'm neither a lawyer nor a technician,
and I've begun to wonder if it was legal for
us to tape music off the radio back when
tape recorders first came into being.

And were we committing a crime when we recorded
a movie shown on TV with our VCRs? And was it
really legal to buy a dual-deck recorder for the
express purpose of duplicating cassettes?

My answer to all of the above is, "I don't know."

Nonetheless, here is a formal statement in
some kind of legalese that appears to apply
to this kind of file availability:

The songs on this site are copyrighted by their respective
artists and are placed here for evaluation purposes only.
No profits are made on this site from their use.

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