Must hear 40s songs

This is my list of must hear 40s songs. I listed 57 songs in total so far. More may be added. All of them are listed in alphabetical order by the music artist.

Al Dexter - Pistol Packin' Mama

Art Mooney - Baby Face

Art Mooney - I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover

Artie Shaw Orchestra - Frenesi

Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

Billie Holiday - Lover Man

Bing Crosby - It's Been a Long, Long Time

Bing Crosby - Sunday, Monday, or Always

Bing Crosby - Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell - Green Eyes

Charlie Barnet Orchestra - Skyliner

Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon a Star

Dean Martin - Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)

Dinah Shore - I'll Walk Alone

Dizzy Gillespie - I'm Beboppin' Too

Dizzy Gillespie - Jump Did-Le Ba

Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca

Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By

Duke Ellington Orchestra - Take the "A" Train

Evelyn Knight with the Stardusters - A Little Bird Told Me

Evelyn Knight - Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes

Evelyn Knight - Buttons and Bows

Fats Domino - The Fat Man

Gene Krupa Orchestra - Drum Boogie

Glenn Miller Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo

Glenn Miller Orchestra - (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo

Glenn Miller Orchestra - When You Wish Upon a Star

Guy Lombardo - Auld Lang Syne

Guy Lombardo - It's Love-Love-Love

Harry James Orchestra - I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Harry James Orchestra - I've Heard That Song Before

Harry James Orchestra - Tuxedo Junction

James Baskett - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

Jimmy Davis - You Are My Sunshine

Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - Maria Elena

Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - Tangerine

Jimmy Wakely & Margaret Whiting - Slipping Around

Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting - Baby It's Cold Outside

Johnny Mercer - On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

Johnny Mercer - Personality

Judy Garland - The Trolley Song

Julia Lee - Snatch and Grab It

Kay Kyser Orchestra - Jingle Jangle Jingle

Les Brown Orchestra - Sentimental Journey

Margaret Whiting - A Tree in the Meadow

Mills Brothers - Paper Doll

Paul Williams - The Hucklebuck

Peggy Lee - Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)

Peggy Lee - Golden Earrings

The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

The Andrews Sisters - Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)

The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola

The Pied Pipers - Dream

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra & Frank Sinatra - I'll Never Smile Again

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - There Are Such Things

Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land

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