Louis Armstrong - Stardust (1931) (By Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish)

Louis Armstrong

Sometimes, I wonder why I spend
Such lonely nights
Oh baby, lonely nights

Dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you

When our love was new, oh baby
And each kiss, an inspiration
Now that baby, you know was long ago

Oh, beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms

The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise, where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain

In my heart, it will remain, baby
My stardust melody
Oh memory, oh memory, oh memory

Óscar Alemán - Bésame mucho (By Consuelo Velázquez)

Óscar Alemán

Óscar Alemán y su quinteto

Bésame, bésame mucho
como si fuera esta tarde la última vez
Bésame, bésame mucho
que tengo miedo a perderte, perderte otra vez

The Harlem Hamfats - Weed Smoker's Dream (1936) (By Joseph "Kansas Joe" McCoy)

“Kansas Joe” and “Papa Charlie” McCoy

The Harlem Hamfats

Sitting on a million, sitting on it everyday
Can't make no money giving your stuff away
Why don't you do now like the millionaires do
Put your stuff on the market and make a million too

Face of a betting women, she bets on every hand
She's a tricking modafuckyou everywhere she lands
Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do
Put your stuff on the market and make a million too

May's a good looking frail, she lives down by the jail
On the back though she got hot stuff for cell
Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do
Put your stuff on the market and make a million too

Check Lil Green's "Why Don't You Do Right?"

The Cats and The Fiddle - I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (1940) (By Bumble Bee Slim)

The Cats and The Fiddle

Babe, we got to have little talk
I ought to pack up my things and walk
I know a dollar goes hand to hand
Before I met you, go from man to man
I'd rather drink muddy water or
Sleep in a hollow log

What's the use, just like a Georgia mule
My friends laughed and they called me a fool
Your kisses are as sweet as can be
Before I'll let you make a sap out of me
I'd rather drink muddy water or
Sleep in a hollow log

Love you baby but you won't be fair
You don't know how to be on the square
Have your fun baby if you must
Before I'll have a woman I can't trust
I'd rather drink muddy water or
Sleep in a hollow log

Lillian Roth - Ain't She Sweet? (1933) (By Milton Ager y Jack Yellen)

Lilllian Roth

Lillian Roth (right)

Short film directed by Dave Fleischer.

Don't miss the lovely sing-along part.

The Hoosier Hot Shots - Alexander's Ragtime Band (1936) (By Irving Berlin)

The Hoosier Hot Shots

Come on and hear, come on and hear,
Alexander's Ragtime Band.
Come on and hear, come on and hear,
It's the best band in the land!
They can play a bugle call like you never heard before.
So natural that you want to go to war.
That's just the bestest band what am, honey lamb.
Come on along, come on along,
Let me take you by the hand.
Up to the man, up to the man,
Who's the leader of the band!
And if you care to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime,
Come on and hear, come on and hear,
Alexander's Ragtime Band!

The Boswell Sisters - Mood indigo (1933) (By Duke Ellington, Irving Mills & Albany Bigard)

The Boswell Sisters

You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".

Blues on my mind,
Blues all around my head,
Blues on my mind,
Blues all around my head,
I woke up this morning,
Blues all around my bed.