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==Published popular music== * "Ain't It A Shame About Mame" words: [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]], music: [[James V. Monaco]] * "All Over The Place" w. [[Frank Eyton]] m. [[Noel Gay]]. Introduced by [[Tommy Trinder]] in the film ''[[Sailors Three]]'' * "All This And Heaven Too" w. Eddie De Lange m. [[Jimmy Van Heusen]], First recorded by Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/work/183852/all|title=Song: All This and Heaven Too written by Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange | SecondHandSongs|website=secondhandsongs.com|accessdate=August 20, 2024}}</ref> * "Along The Santa Fe Trail" w. Al Dubin & Edwina Coolidge m. [[Will Grosz]] * "April Played The Fiddle" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[James V. Monaco]] * "Arm In Arm" Church, Bradbury * "The Bad Humour Man" w. [[Johnny Mercer]] m. [[Jimmy McHugh]] * "[[Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar]]" w.m. [[Don Raye]], Hughie Prince & Eleanore Sheehy * "[[Because of You (1940 song)|Because Of You]]" w. Arthur Hammerstein m. Dudley Wilkinson * "Beneath The Lights Of Home" Grossman, Jurmann * "[[Bengawan Solo (song)|Bengawan Solo]]" β [[Gesang Martohartono]] * "[[Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]] * "[[Bless 'Em All]]" w.m. Jimmie Hughes, Frank Lake & [[Fred Godfrey (songwriter)|Fred Godfrey]] * "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" Arthur Young, [[William Shakespeare]], Evans * "[[Blueberry Hill (song)|Blueberry Hill]]" w.m. Al Lewis, Larry Stock & Vincent Rose * "Boog It" w.m. [[Jack Palmer (composer)|Jack Palmer]], [[Cab Calloway]] & [[Buck Ram|R. "Buck" Ram]] * "[[The Breeze And I]]" w. [[Al Stillman]] m. [[Ernesto Lecuona]] * "Buds Won't Bud" w. E. Y. Harburg m. [[Harold Arlen]] * "Cabin In The Sky" w. John Latouche m. Vernon Duke * "The Call Of The Canyon" w.m. [[Billy Hill (songwriter)|Billy Hill]] * "Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind" w. Robert De Leon m. [[Hoagy Carmichael]] * "Celery Stalks At Midnight" m. Will Bradley & George Harris * "Concerto For Cootie" m. [[Duke Ellington]] * "Contrasts" m. [[Jimmy Dorsey]] * "[[Cotton Tail]]" m. [[Duke Ellington]] * "Den Of Iniquity" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]] * "Devil May Care" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[Harry Warren]] * "Do I Worry?" w.m. Stanley Cowan & Bobby Worth * "Do It the Hard Way" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[June Havoc]], Claire Anderson and [[Jack Durant]] in the musical ''[[Pal Joey (musical)|Pal Joey]]'' * "Dolores" w. [[Frank Loesser]] m. Louis Alter * "[[Down the Road a Piece]]" w.m. Don Raye * "Falling Leaves" w. Mack David m. [[Frankie Carle]] * "Ferry Boat Serenade" w. (Eng) Harold Adamson (Ital) [[Mario Panzeri]] m. [[Eldo Di Lazzaro]] * "The Five O'Clock Whistle" w.m. Josef Myrow, Kim Gannon & Gene Irwin * "[[Flamingo (song)|Flamingo]]" w. Edmund Anderson m. Ted Grouya * "[[Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)]]" w. [[Johnny Mercer]] m. Rube Bloom * "Friendship" w.m. [[Cole Porter]] * "[[Give a Little Whistle]]" w.m. [[Ned Washington]] & [[Leigh Harline]], from the film ''[[Pinocchio (1940 movie)|Pinocchio]]'' * "Good For Nothin' Joe" Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom * "[[Harlem Nocturne]]" w. [[Dick Rogers]] m. [[Earle Hagen]] * "Hear My Song, Violetta" w. (Ger) Ermenegildo Carosio & Othmar Klose (Eng) [[Buddy Bernier]] & Bob Emmerich m. Rudolf Luckesch & Othmar Klose * "[[Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee]]" w.m. Ned Washington & Leigh Harline, from the film ''[[Pinocchio (1940 movie)|Pinocchio]]'' * "[[High On A Windy Hill]]" w.m. [[Joan Whitney Kramer|Joan Whitney]] & [[Alex Kramer (songwriter)|Alex Kramer]] * "Honey in the Honeycomb" w. [[John La Touche (musician)|John Latouche]] m. [[Vernon Duke]]. Introduced by [[Katherine Dunham]] in the musical ''[[Cabin in the Sky (play)|Cabin in the Sky]]''. Performed in the 1943 film version by [[Ethel Waters]] and [[Lena Horne]]. * "[[How High the Moon]]" w. Nancy Hamilton m. Morgan Lewis. Introduced by [[Alfred Drake]] and [[Frances Comstock]] in the [[revue]] [[Two for the Show (musical)|Two for the Show]]. * "[[I Concentrate on You]]" w.m. [[Cole Porter]]. Introduced by [[Douglas McPhail]] (and danced to by [[Eleanor Powell]] and [[Fred Astaire]]) in the film ''[[Broadway Melody of 1940]]'' * "I Could Make You Care" w. [[Sammy Cahn]] m. [[Saul Chaplin]]. Introduced by [[Rosemary Lane (actress)|Rosemary Lane]] in the film ''[[Ladies Must Live (1940 film)|Ladies Must Live]]''. * "I Haven't Time To Be A Millionaire" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[James V. Monaco]] * "I Hear A Rhapsody" w.m. George Fragos, Jack Baker & Dick Gasparre * "[[I Hear Music]]" w. [[Frank Loesser]] m. [[Burton Lane]] * "[[I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town]]" w.m. [[Casey Bill Weldon|William Weldon]] & [[Andy Razaf]] * "I'm Looking For A Guy Who Plays Alto And Baritone And Doubles On A Clarinet And Wears A Size 37 Suit" w.m. [[Ozzie Nelson]] * "I'm Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight" w. [[Herb Magidson]] m. Allie Wrubel * "[[Imagination (1940 song)|Imagination]]" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] * "Intermezzo" w. Robert Henning m. Heinz Provost * "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?" w.m. Billy Austin & [[Louis Jordan]] * "[[It Never Entered My Mind]]" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]] * "It Shows You What Love Can Do" w. [[Sammy Cahn]] m. [[Saul Chaplin]]. Introduced by [[Rosemary Lane (actress)|Rosemary Lane]] in the film ''[[Ladies Must Live (1940 film)|Ladies Must Live]]''. * "It Was A Lover And His Lass" w. [[William Shakespeare]] m. Arthur Young * "[[It's a Great Day for the Irish]]" w.m. [[Roger Edens]] * "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]] * "It's Always You" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] * "It's The Same Old Shillelagh" w.m. Pat White * "[[I've Got No Strings]]" w.m. Ned Washington & Leigh Harline, from the film ''[[Pinocchio (1940 movie)|Pinocchio]]'' * "[[Java Jive]]" w. Milton Drake m. Ben Oakland * "Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina" w.m. [[Sunny Skylar]], Bette Cannon & Arthur Shaftel * "[[The Last Time I Saw Paris]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Jerome Kern]] * "Let The People Sing" w.m. [[Noel Gay]], Ian Grant & [[Frank Eyton]] * "[[Let There Be Love (1940 song)|Let There Be Love]]" w. Ian Grant m. Lionel Rand * "Let's Be Buddies" w.m. [[Cole Porter]] * "Louisiana Purchase" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]] * "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" w.m. [[Cole Porter]]. Introduced by [[Ethel Merman]] in the musical ''[[Panama Hattie]]'' * "Make-Believe Island" w. [[Charles Kenny]] & Nick Kenny m. Will Grosz & [[Sam Coslow]] * "Mamma" w. B. Cherubini m. C. A. Bixio * "Mister Meadowlark" w. [[Johnny Mercer]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]] * "Never No Lament" m. [[Duke Ellington]] * "[[A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (song)|A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square]]" w. [[Eric Maschwitz]] m. [[Manning Sherwin]]. Introduced in the [[revue]] ''[[New Faces (London revue)|New Faces]]'' by [[Judy Campbell]]. * "On Behalf Of The Visiting Firemen" w. [[Johnny Mercer]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]] * "[[Only Forever (song)|Only Forever]]" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[James V. Monaco]] * "Our Love Affair" w. [[Arthur Freed]] m. [[Roger Edens]] * "Outside Of That, I Love You" [[Irving Berlin]] * "The Pessimistic Character" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[James V. Monaco]] * "[[Playmates (song)|Playmates]]" w.m. Saxie Dowell * "[[Polka Dots and Moonbeams]]" w. [[Johnny Burke (lyric writer)|Johnny Burke]] m. [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] * "Pompton Turnpike" w.m. Will Osborne & Dick Rogers * "Practice Makes Perfect" w.m. Don Roberts & Ernest Gold * "[[Remind Me (Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern song)|Remind Me]]" w. [[Dorothy Fields]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]. Introduced by [[Allan Jones (actor)|Allan Jones]] in the film ''[[One Night in the Tropics]]'' * "Rhumboogie" w.m. Don Raye & Hughie Prince * "Room 504" w.m. Erich Maschwitz & [[George Posford]] * "[[San Antonio Rose]]" w.m. [[Bob Wills]] * "Say It (Over And Over Again)" w. [[Frank Loesser]] m. [[Jimmy McHugh]] * "[[Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat]]" w.m. Don Raye * "The Singing Hills" w.m. Mack David, Sammy Mysels & Dick Sanford * "Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga" w. Charles Newman m. [[James V. Monaco]] * "[[Sometime (Glenn Miller song)|Sometime]]" m. [[Glenn Miller]] & [[Chummy MacGregor]] w. [[Mitchell Parish]] * "The Stars Remain" w. Henry Myers m. Jay Gorney. From the musical ''[[Meet the People]]''. * "Summit Ridge Drive" m. [[Artie Shaw]] * "[[Taking A Chance On Love]]" w. John Latouche & Ted Fetter m. [[Vernon Duke]] * "There I Go" w. Hy Zaret m. Irving Weiser * "[[There'll Always Be an England]]" w.m. [[Ross Parker (songwriter)|Ross Parker]] & [[Hughie Charles]] * "There's A Boy Coming Home On Leave" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy * "Tonight Be Tender To Me" w. Gloria Parker * "Trade Winds" w. Charles Tobias m. [[Cliff Friend]] * "Two Dreams Met" w. Mack Gordon m. [[Harry Warren]] * "Wabash Cannon Ball" w.m. A. P. Carter * "Walkin' Through Mockin' Bird Lane" Lowell Peters, Clarence Jones, John Turner * "Waltzing In The Clouds" w. Gus Kahn m. Robert Stolz * "We Could Make Such Beautiful Music" w. [[Robert Sour]] m. [[Henry Katzman|Henry Manners]] * "We Three" w.m. Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels & Dick Robertson * "Well, Did You Evah?" w.m. [[Cole Porter]] * "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano" w.m. Leon RenΓ© * "[[When You Wish Upon a Star]]" w.m. [[Ned Washington]] & [[Leigh Harline]]. Introduced by [[Cliff Edwards]] in the animated film ''[[Pinocchio (1940 movie)|Pinocchio]]'' * "Whispering Grass" w. Fred Fisher m. Doris Fisher * "[[The Woodpecker Song]]" w. (Eng) Harold Adamson (Ital) C. Bruno m. Eldo di Lazzaro * "Worried Mind" w.m. [[Jimmie Davis]] & Ted Daffan * "Yes, Indeed!" w.m. [[Sy Oliver]] * "[[Yes, My Darling Daughter]]" w.m. Jack Lawrence * "You and Your Kiss" w. [[Dorothy Fields]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]. Introduced by [[Allan Jones (actor)|Allan Jones]] in the film ''[[One Night in the Tropics]]''. * "[[You Are My Sunshine]]" w.m. [[Jimmie Davis]] & Charles Mitchell * "[[You Stepped Out Of A Dream]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Nacio Herb Brown]] * "Zip" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. In the role of reporter ''Melba Snyder'' in the Broadway production of ''[[Pal Joey (musical)|Pal Joey]]'', [[Jean Casto]] explained that the musings of a striptease artiste may be on a somewhat higher intellectual plane than those of her devotees.
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