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Title: All because of you.
First Line: All because of you, dear, that's why I'm so blue
Chorus:
Music by: Tillman, Floyd.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: All for the love of Sam.
First Line:
Chorus: It's all for the love of Sam, I'll be apart from you, sweetheart, for awhile
Music by: Worth, Bobby.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood : Melody Lane Publications Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Arizona.
First Line: Arizona night is fallin', lonely as the stars above
Chorus:
Music by: Reese, Claude, and Paul Scholz.
Words by: Reese, Claude, and Paul Scholz.
P/P/D: New York : Ideal Music Publishing Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The baker's wife.
First Line: The baker's wife, she was so bashful and shy; but what a way she had of rolling her eyes
Chorus:
Music by: Begley, Silvia.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Blue Indiana skies.
First Line: Blues skies above me keep calling, calling wherever I roam
Chorus: Blue Indiana skies, wherever I may be, blue in Indiana skies keep calling to me
Music by: Gould, Jay.
Words by: Gould, Jay.
P/P/D: Chicago : Bell Music Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Blue Lily Mountain belle.
First Line: It's time to say good-bye, so please don't cry, Blue Lily
Chorus: Ev'ry flower in the dell, seems to nod and say "fare-well"
Music by: Hanson, Eddy, and Ruth Frank.
Words by: Hanson, Eddy, and Ruth Frank.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: But I never do.
First Line: Gee I wish that I could say good-bye and slam the door
Chorus: I say that some day I will leave you but then I never do
Music by: Jones, Isham.
Words by: Willadsen, Gene.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Buttercup Lane.
First Line: Springtime has come but I am all alone with only memories of what has gone
Chorus: Remember it rained down Buttercup Lane, remeber the night I held you so tight
Music by: Nation, Louise, and Rex Kelly.
Words by: Nation, Lousie, and Rex Kelly.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Call out the Marines.
First Line: We're here to keep an eagle eye on the land of the liberty
Chorus: When you find your heart's in danger, call out the Marines
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Can't get out of this mood.
First Line: All day long, before my eyes come little visions of you
Chorus: Can't get out of this mood, can't get over this feeling, can't get out of this mood
Music by: Mc Hugh, Jimmy.
Words by: Loesser, Frank.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Crying myself to sleep.
First Line: Oh, why must the night be so long and so blue? And why must I always be thinking of you
Chorus: I'm cryin' myself to sleep; each lonely night I weep
Music by: Atcher, Bob.
Words by: Atcher, Bob.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Cynthia's in love.
First Line: Here's the story of Cynthia, a lady of seventeen
Chorus: Cynthia as flighty as a summer breeze her smile is sunlight thru the trees
Music by: Gish-White.
Words by: Owens, Jack.
P/P/D: New York : ABC Music Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Desert Rose.
First Line: On the trail that winds along the Rio, riding side by side with Rosalie
Chorus: Rosalie, my desert rose, how I miss you, Rosalie
Music by: Baxley, Jack, and Jimmie Adams.
Words by: Baxley, Jack, and Jimmie Adams.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't mention me.
First Line: Love is a game we play so they say, I've tried my hand and I lost
Chorus: Mention me and she'll frown just as tho' I let her down
Music by: Durham, Dave, Mel Foree, and Roy Kirkland.
Words by: Durham, Dave, Mel Foree, and Roy Kirkland.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Drifting down the river.
First Line: Drifting down the river in an old canoe, under the skies so blue
Chorus:
Music by: Arodin, Sidney.
Words by: Brizzard, Thelma.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Droopin' Campanulas.
First Line: When the drooping Campanulas bloom again, when the campanulas bloom again
Chorus:
Music by: Sharbutt, Tex, Sagebrush Stanton, Ezry Ross, and Cowboy Jack McCoy.
Words by: Sharbutt, Tex, Sagebrush Stanton, Ezry Ross, and Cowboy Jack McCoy.
P/P/D: New York : Nationwide Songs Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Ev'ryone but me.
First Line: Friends tried to tell me by a hint now and then, that I was due for a fall
Chorus: Ev'ryone but me knew that you would let me down
Music by: Cannon, Bette, Lou Shelly, and Bert Salter.
Words by: Cannon, Bette, Lou Shelly, and Bert Salter.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Melody Lane Publicatoins Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Fighting sons of the navy blue.
First Line: There's a sea faring man and he works for Uncle Sam I spoke him just the other day
Chorus: We've got the will to fight for what we know is right
Music by: Watters, Bill.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood : Vanguard Songs Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The flame of love.
First Line: When you feel a burn around your heart it's love, there's no mistake
Chorus:
Music by: Friml, Rudolf.
Words by: Atteridge, Harold.
P/P/D: New York : Fred Fisher Music Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Forty eight stars over forty eight states.
First Line: Each star in our flag has a meaning, all engraved in our history
Chorus: Forty eight stars in a blaze of glory lighting, guiding each and ev'ry state
Music by: Lifson, Harry.
Words by: Lifson, Harry.
P/P/D: Bronx, New York : The Symbolic Music Publishing Company, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Good-bye Liza Jane.
First Line: Hawk caught a chicken and flew upstaris, good-bye, good-bye
Chorus: Oh, how I love her, now ain't that a shame.
Music by: Duncan, Tommy.
Words by: Duncan, Tommy.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Half a love is better than none.
First Line: I never thought that I'd be saying this ancient saying this modern way
Chorus: We lived and we loved, we loved and we laughed but now it's all over and done
Music by: Tinturin, Peter.
Words by: Tinturin, Peter.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Hands across the border.
First Line: When friends meet on the street, how do they greet?
Chorus: Hands across the border. One happy family.
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Heaven sings.
First Line: Wherever you're within my arms all heaven lends a million charms
Chorus: Heaven sings every night, of our true romance
Music by: Davies, Rose.
Words by: Worth, Bobby.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Heavenly, isn't it?
First Line: Hold me a little closer. I want to know you're here.
Chorus: Wonderful, wasn't it? Heavenly, isn't it? Sitting here after our first kiss.
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Hello Private Doe.
First Line: There's a soldier in the army who means as much to us as gen'rals do
Chorus: Hello Private Doe, a boy we're proud to know
Music by: Shaw, Milton.
Words by: Voloshin, Julian.
P/P/D: S. l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Here comes that moon again.
First Line: January, February, March and April, I feel okay. I go along, I go along, in a normal way
Chorus:
Music by: Caesar, Irving, Al Koppell, and Gerald Marks.
Words by: Caesar, Irving, Al Koppell, and Gerald Marks.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: How do you fall in love? (It just happens to happen).
First Line: There's an age old question known to ev'ry romancer
Chorus: How do you fall in love? You meet a girl and then ya (ad lib.) and then she (ad lib.) you just fall!
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I met you in a day-dream.
First Line: You give me a stranger's greeting, but we're not so strange at all
Chorus: I met you in a day-dream, and then you faded away!
Music by: Pease, Inez.
Words by: Pease, Jim.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I see it in your eyes.
First Line: It may be my imagination but I've a feeling that our hearts are near a separation
Chorus: I see it in your eyes that look you can't disguise.
Music by: Kennedy, Jimmy, and Grady Howard.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood, California : World Melodies, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I think we'll just call it a day.
First Line: I never dreamed that out yonder, our love would end this way
Chorus:
Music by: Foree, Mel, and Cliff Carlisle.
Words by: Foree, Mel, and Cliff Carlisle.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'd do anything.
First Line: Do you recall the day we had such fun together
Chorus: I'd do anything, to be in your arms divine I'd do anything
Music by: Heinz, Phylis.
Words by: Heinz, Phylis.
P/P/D: Detroit : Weeks Publisher, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If I had it to do all over.
First Line: Our love was grand while it lasted, but now I'm afraid that it's thru.
Chorus: You took my heart and left only heartaches for me.
Music by: Hall, Teddy, Milton Leeds, and Fred Wise.
Words by: Hall, Teddy, Milton Leeds, and Fred Wise.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If I'm wrong, I'm sorry.
First Line: We were happy when we started life together, I loved you
Chorus: If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry, little darling
Music by: Jones, Buddy, and Jimmie Davis.
Words by: Jones, Buddy, and Jimmie Davis.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If you want 'a be kissed.
First Line: Sugar and spice you're everything nice and you ought 'a be kissed
Chorus: Cuddle up to me a wee bit closer why not rest your head upon my shoulder
Music by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
Words by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
P/P/D: Forest Park, Ill : Keep-In-Tune Publications, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll be around.
First Line: I'll be around no matter how you treat me now, I'll be around from now on
Chorus:
Music by: Wilder, Alec.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Regent Music Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll be true to the one I love.
First Line: Come and kiss me good-bye, ere you leave me come sit by my side
Chorus:
Music by: Cargill, Ike, and E. Settlemeyer.
Words by: Cargill, Ike, and E. Settlemeyer.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corp, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll reap my harvest in heaven.
First Line: The time has come to depart from this world and prove my heavenly worth.
Chorus: I'll reap my harvest in heaven, on that beautiful shore
Music by: Jenkins, Floyd.
Words by:
P/P/D: Nashville, Tenn. : Acuff-Rose Publications, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll remember April.
First Line: This lovely day will lengthen into ev'ning; we'll sigh goodbye to all we've ever had
Chorus:
Music by: Raye, Don, Gene de Paul, and Pat Johnston.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Leeds Music Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm knocking at your door again.
First Line: I can't forget the day I left you, I'm sorry that we had to part
Chorus: I am knocking at your door again
Music by: Davis, Jimmie.
Words by: Davis, Jimmie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm not knittin' nuttin' (For no one but my soldier boy).
First Line: I know a girl that's always knittin', knittin' till she's dizzy in the head
Chorus: Now I'm not knittin' nuttin' for no one but my soldier boy
Music by: Schaeffer, Mary, and Arthur Terker.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Songs, Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm rockin' to the Rockies.
First Line: I'm rockin' to the Rockies on my broncho "Rock-a-bye"
Chorus:
Music by: Davis, Jimmie, Tony Pedace, and Harry Wycoff.
Words by: Davis, Jimmie, Tony Pedace, and Harry Wycoff.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes.
First Line: Ever since he went away, I've been thinking night and day
Chorus: Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes, who is dreaming far over the sea
Music by: Carter, A. P., and Don Marcotte.
Words by: Carter, A. P., and Don Marcotte.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm tryin'.
First Line: Sweetheart, deep within this heart of mine, I am so blue
Chorus: I'm tryin' to forget you. I'm cryin' since I met you though I know that this'll never do
Music by: Kramer, Maria.
Words by: Kramer, Maria.
P/P/D: New York : Bomart Music Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: It's the talk of the town.
First Line: We were more than lovers, we were more than sweethearts, it's hard to understand
Chorus: I can't show my face, can't go anyplace
Music by: Livingston, Jerry.
Words by: Symes, Marty, and Al. J. Neiburg.
P/P/D: New York : Santly-Joy-Select Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I've caught love.
First Line: In the spring it bothers me love is blind but I can see
Chorus: I've caught love I caught it from a robin singing
Music by: Walton, Mort.
Words by: Walton, Naomi.
P/P/D: Detroit : Carl Sobie Publisher, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I've learned my lesson now.
First Line:
Chorus: I'll keep on paying for my old mistake, but I've learned my lesson now
Music by: Tillman, Floyd.
Words by: Tillman, Floyd.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I've read it in the stars.
First Line: From the first time that I met you one thing appeared very real
Chorus: Oh, I've read it in the stars I've read it in the stars
Music by: Scura, Frank.
Words by: Ormont, David.
P/P/D: New York : Congress Music Company, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Junior's joy-ridin' in a jeep.
First Line: He scattered folks on the village street, his jalopy made them all retreat
Chorus: Junior's joy ridin' in a jeep, it's Japs turn now to dodge and leap
Music by: Carleton, Bob.
Words by: Barnhill, Robert G.
P/P/D: S.l. : Robert G. Barnhill, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Keep a lookout (For a salior friend of mine).
First Line: A sailor's life is spent upon the sea. He's a breezy guy, free and easy guy
Chorus: Keep a lookout for a sailor friend of mine. He wears a smile and a suit if navy blue
Music by: Mangan, James T.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Bell Music Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Knit, sister, knit!
First Line: Listen, gals! Listen, pals! Let's all get together, step in line, knitting's fine
Chorus: Knit, sister, knit! Just go and do your bit
Music by: Kavelin, Al, Mac Largo, and Harry Budd.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Apex Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Let's go, America!
First Line: We're all in arms for the nation; we're making history
Chorus: Let's go, America, let's go! What say? Let's go, America, you show the way!
Music by: Agay, Denes.
Words by: Leigh, Frank.
P/P/D: New York : Sheldon-Mitchell Publishing Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Light a candle in the chapel.
First Line: The bells are ringing in the steeple, ding, dong, ding
Chorus: Light a candle in the chapel at the closing of each day
Music by: Pease, Harry, Ed. G. Nelson, and Duke Leonard.
Words by: Pease, Harry, Ed. G. Nelson, and Duke Leonard.
P/P/D: New York : Mills Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The light of my life.
First Line: What was once a flame is now a smoldering spark
Chorus: The light of my life went out last nignt and left my life cloudy and gray
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Lighthouse in the dark.
First Line: A lighthouse near the sea is burning faithfully
Chorus: Little lighthouse in the dark, keep on shining over the sea
Music by: Bellin, Lewis, Ira Sloane, and Lucky Milinder.
Words by: Bellin, Lewis, Ira Sloane, and Lucky Milinder.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Melody Lane Publications, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A little bell rang.
First Line: Some folk swear by a four leaf clover. Some folks swear by a horse shoe over the door
Chorus: When I first met you a little bell rang. At a sigh from you the little bell rain again
Music by: Whitney, Joan, and Alex Kramer.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Make with the bullets, Benny.
First Line: Benny marched away to be a soldier he was Missus Goldberg's pride and joy
Chorus: Make with the bullets, Benny give 'em a hit in the head
Music by: Davis, Frank, Win Brookhouse, Sam Braverman, and Chas. Cody.
Words by: Davis, Frank, Win Brookhouse, Sam Braverman, and Chas. Cody.
P/P/D: New York : Cherio Music Pub., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Make 'em say uncle, Uncle Sam!
First Line: Carefree boys in uniform, loud their voices rang
Chorus: Make 'em say uncle, Uncle Sam! We're all behind you to a man
Music by: McEnery, A., and Dwight Bourn.
Words by: McEnery, A., and Dwight Bourn.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Mary.
First Line: Who has got the sweetest smile and roses on either cheek?
Chorus: Mary, I'm crazy 'bout Mary for Mary is plainly lovely
Music by: De Vol, Frank.
Words by: Robinson, Eddie.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Vanguard Songs Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Me and my buddy next door.
First Line: Have you ever met the guy next door to you and had a chat about this and that?
Chorus: Me and my buddy next door we're more than friends since our pals went to war
Music by: Miller, Sydney, and Stanley Cowan.
Words by: Miller, Sydney, and Stanley Cowan.
P/P/D: Hollywood : EMCEE Pub. Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The memory of this dance.
First Line: A girl with a boy in uniform were dancing the nignt away
Chorus: The mem'ry of this dance will always cling to me
Music by: Effros, Bob, and Ben Selvin.
Words by: Effros, Bob, and Ben Selvin.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Miss Americana.
First Line: I searched the world hoping to find my love my heart and I looked for you ev'rywhere
Chorus: Miss Americana your eyes and the gold in your hair match the sky and moonlight
Music by: Petrillo, Caesar, and Michael F. Mangus.
Words by: Petrillo, Caesar, and Michael F. Mangus.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Pub. Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The money you spent was mine.
First Line: You know darling I bought you diamonds, and I bought you clothes so fine
Chorus:
Music by: Dexter, Al, and Aubrey Gass.
Words by: Dexter, Al, and Aubrey Gass.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My best to you.
First Line: Here's to love and laughter yours forever after
Chorus: My best to you may your dreams come true
Music by: Jones, Isham.
Words by: Willadsen, Gene.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Pub. Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My Birmingham Rose.
First Line: The roses were in bloom in old Alabam
Chorus: I left my heart in old Birmingham, alone beside a garden wall
Music by: Boyd, Bill "Cowboy Rambler," and Dick Reynolds.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My gal Sal.
First Line: Ev'rything is over and I'm feeling bad; I lost the best pal that I ever had
Chorus: They called her frivolous Sal, the particular sort of a gal
Music by: Dresser, Paul.
Words by: Dresser, Paul.
P/P/D: S.l. : Paull-Pioneer Music Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My love.
First Line: My love, you've made the dark clouds roll away, with you I'm happy night and day
Chorus:
Music by: Alley, Shelly Lee.
Words by: Alley, Shelly Lee.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My resolution to you.
First Line: It's the custom ev'ry year to make a promise new
Chorus: My resolution to you I'll never break it my dear
Music by: Pallen, Jerry.
Words by: Pallen, Jerry.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Cine-Mart Music Publishing Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The night we said good-bye.
First Line: I can see the shadows creeping; I can hear the nightbirds cry
Chorus:
Music by: Scarborough, Elmer.
Words by: Ferguson, Buster.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Nightingale.
First Line: Skies are dark above, the one I love is far from here
Chorus: Nightingale, as I lie on my pillow, I can hear you in the willow
Music by: Cugat, Xavier, and George Rosner.
Words by: Wise, Fred.
P/P/D: New York : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: No more rendezvous.
First Line: Roses lilacs and carnations all are charming flowers
Chorus: Perfumed lilies of the valley lovely little flowers won't you my consolation in my trying hours
Music by: Newton, John.
Words by: Newton, John.
P/P/D: S.l. : John Newton, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Now that you know.
First Line: I never knew how much I cared for you, until you went away
Chorus: Now that you know, how I care about you, now that you know I can't live without you
Music by: Freeman, Jack.
Words by: Freeman, Jack.
P/P/D: S.l. : Jack Freeman, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Ogeechee river lullaby.
First Line: The stars are bright, tonight on 'Geechee river
Chorus:
Music by: Calloway, Cab, Guy Wood, and Jack Palmer.
Words by: Calloway, Cab, Guy Wood, and Jack Palmer.
P/P/D: New York : Cherio Music Publishers Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The old grey mare is coming back again.
First Line: Here's news! good news, the kind that drives the weary blues away
Chorus: The old grey mare, the old grey mare, the old grey mare is coming back again
Music by: Hill, Eddie.
Words by: Hill, Eddie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Our Emaline.
First Line: Youth will have a way oh so young and gay
Chorus:
Music by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
Words by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
P/P/D: Forest Park, Ill. : Keep-In-Tune Publications, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Out where the west winds blow.
First Line: Now I'm just a cowboy at heart, but I'm tired of these city ways
Chorus: I'm gonna saddle up my pony and ride away out where the west winds blow
Music by: Campbell, Guy C., and Everett R. Hinderer.
Words by: Campbell, Guy C., and Everett R. Hinderer.
P/P/D: Chicago : M. M. Cole Pub. Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Pins and needles (In my heart).
First Line: I know not where on earth to find you, I know not how or when to start
Chorus:
Music by: Jenkins, Floyd.
Words by:
P/P/D: Nashville : Acuff-Rose Publications, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Poor man's symphony.
First Line: Some people go to a show; some listen to the radio
Chorus: My rhapsody, is the poor man's symphony
Music by: Starr, Tony.
Words by: Mann, Fred C.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Promise to be true while I'm away.
First Line: I just got news, my little darling, Uncle Sam is taking me away
Chorus:
Music by: Whelan, Ekko.
Words by: Whelan, Ekko.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Remember to remember.
First Line: The two of us met at a masquerade my eyes found you by chance
Chorus: Remember to remember. When we meet tomorrow, all the things you've said to me tonight
Music by: James, Carlton.
Words by: Hillebrand, Fred.
P/P/D: New York : Alliance Music Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Rosalita.
First Line: Blue and broken hearted, since the day we parted
Chorus: fRosalita, my little rose of the rancho you won my heart down by the Rio
Music by: Dexter, Al.
Words by: Dexter, Al.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Sahara.
First Line: Deep in a dream I found you; and deep in a dream, I bound you to me
Chorus: It was night on Sahara, and the tropical moon shone above
Music by: Clinton, Larry.
Words by: Clinton, Larry.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Samba (Brasil moreno).
First Line: Oh! something new from down below has come up to steal the show
Chorus: Samba, samba, rhythm from a tropic plaza they play the big cabaca
Music by: Peixoto, Luiz, and Ary Barroso.
Words by: Levison, Jay, and Ray Evans.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The sentimental cabby.
First Line: I want to sing a little song about a friend I've found right in the busy city throng
Chorus: There's a sentimtal cabby in my street, you can find him ev'ry night when lovers meet
Music by: Spielman, Fred.
Words by: Berg, Jimmy, and Fred Jacobson.
P/P/D: S.l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Seven little letters (T-h-r-o-u-g-h).
First Line: I received a little note, from the girl next door she writes we're through
Chorus: Through seven little letters that spell the end heaven will pass me by
Music by: Corbo, Don.
Words by: Corbo, Don.
P/P/D: Asbury Park, N.J. : Dominick R. Corbo Jr. Music Pub., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: She stoops to conga (Si me paro pier do el compas).
First Line: There's a new sensation in the Latin vein. She's a revelation to the conga chain
Chorus: She's a riot when she stoops to conga, she can give "La Zonga" lessons any time
Music by: Orozco, E., and V. Bonifacio.
Words by: Leeds, Milton, and Fred Wise.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Silver wings (Keep flying).
First Line: On a hill, alone, a maiden lingers, watching silver wings depart
Chorus: Silver wings, keep flying thru the grey skies
Music by: Daniels, Margaret.
Words by: Bunn, Glen.
P/P/D: Detroit : Mackley Music Pub. Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Soldier boy, farewell.
First Line: Oh smile again, my darling, dry away your tear
Chorus:
Music by: Dexter, Al, and Aubrey Gass.
Words by: Dexter, Al, and Aubrey Gass.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Somebody's thinking of you tonight.
First Line: Oh, how I wish I could tell you how much I miss you, sweetheart
Chorus: Somebody's thinking of you tonight, somebody's thoughts are blue tonight
Music by: Powell, Teddy, and Ira Schuster.
Words by: Symes, Marty.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Start a little rainbow in my heart.
First Line: Start a little rainbow in my heart, help the heavy skies turn blue
Chorus:
Music by: Wayne, Lou, and Tiny Moore.
Words by: Wayne, Lou, and Tiny Moore.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Stop fiddlin' around with my beau.
First Line: What a pal you were in college just as sweet as you could be
Chorus: You may think you're cute with your turned up snoot, you may think you're all the show
Music by: Mills, Helen.
Words by: Mills, Helen.
P/P/D: Winnebago, Ill. : National Association for Blind Composers Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Sunlight and starlight.
First Line: You are my sunlight and you are my starlight, darlin' don't you know that I'm in love with you
Chorus:
Music by: Bush, Nolan C.
Words by: Bush, Nolan C.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The sunset trail to Texas.
First Line: I'd love to be in Texas by the silver Rio Grande
Chorus: Get along 'ol paint get going get along 'ol pal
Music by: Fisher, Aubrey.
Words by: Boyd, Bill.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Sure, all's fine in the army now.
First Line: Ev'rything is gonna be right for Pat has joined the army to cook and fight
Chorus: Sure, all's fine in the army now since Pat's cookin' the army chow
Music by: Reynolds, Ray, and Lillian Reynolds.
Words by:
P/P/D: Detroit : Mackley Music Publishing Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Tell me why my daddy don't come home.
First Line: A little tot was playing, one night upon the floor
Chorus: Tell me why my daddy don't come home, I know that I am much too big to cry
Music by: Boyd, Bill, Hal Burns, and Earl Nunn.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Thank you mother mine.
First Line: When shadows fall and day is done in reverie I see an old arm chair with someone there
Chorus: Thank you for those kisses that sent me on my way and for all the sunshine in my everyday
Music by: Brix, Aage E.
Words by: Wills, James J.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Cine-Mart Music Pub. Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Thanks for your letter (My darling).
First Line: I've written you about the ones you love the news of those who ask for you each day
Chorus: Thanks for your letter my darling, thanks for your love so true
Music by: Lane, Gladys.
Words by: Burnett, Jay.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: There'll never be another you.
First Line: I can't forget the day I saw you go away and left me with a broken heart alone
Chorus: There'll never be another you there'll never be a pal so true
Music by: Miller, Ray, Edward Meikel, and Arkie L. W. Ossenbrink.
Words by: Miller, Ray, Edward Meikel, and Arkie L. W. Ossenbrink.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: There's no use worrying.
First Line: There's no use worrying over you, there's no use worrying or being blue
Chorus:
Music by: Rice, Hoke, and Jimmie Davis.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: There's nothing so lovely as love.
First Line: You came along bringing a song, singing a song to me
Chorus: There's nothing so lovely as love, there's no thrill like falling in love
Music by: Cooper, Marion, Jr., Paul Learnard, and Carroll K. Cooper.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Mills Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: There's tears in my heart.
First Line: Ev'ry night as I sit dreaming, of days that used to be
Chorus: There's tears in my heart, dear, since you said "good-bye"
Music by: Rice, Hoke S., and Jimmie Davis.
Words by: Rice, Hoke S., and Jimmie Davis.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: They can't black out the stars and stripes.
First Line: The stars and stripes forever! Our flag will always fly
Chorus: They can't black out the stars and stripes from the flag that flies above
Music by: Jacoby, Elliot, and Jacob Goldstein, Pvt.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Things are different now.
First Line: You told me, darling, you'd always be true but you broke every vow
Chorus:
Music by: Alley, Shelly Lee.
Words by: Alley, Shelly Lee.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: This is more than love acerate mas.
First Line: What is this wonderful feeling? This something that comes to us out of the skies?
Chorus: This is more than love, these thrills we share
Music by: Farres, Osvaldo, and Bobby Worth.
Words by: Farres, Osvaldo, and Bobby Worth.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Till the longest day I live.
First Line: Listen while I whisper something straight from my heart to you
Chorus: Till the longest day I live, the mem'ry of you tonight; will shine like a beacon light
Music by: Walker, Cindy.
Words by: Walker, Cindy.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: To me.
First Line: To me you brought a lovely dream of love; to me you taught the thrilling theme of love
Chorus:
Music by: Sullivan, Gene.
Words by: Gallop, Sammy.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Tropical gardens.
First Line: Dreaming, in my fancy I go far off where the pale orchids grow
Chorus: At night in my reverie are bright tropical gardens
Music by: Stanley, Bob, and Agustin Borguno.
Words by: Harper, Marjorie, and Don Arres.
P/P/D: New York : Harvest Songs Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Uncle Sammy needs your dough.
First Line: Give your dollars and your dimes, let's break up the Axis crimes
Chorus:
Music by: Boyd, Bill (Cowboy Rambler), and Kahl Rafaun.
Words by: Boyd, Bill (Cowboy Rambler), and Kahl Rafaun.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Underneath the old Sierra moon.
First Line: Twilight is falling, birds are at rest, drifting along it seems, to old Nevada
Chorus: Let me live forever in Nevada underneath the old Sierra moon
Music by: Farland, Lester.
Words by: Gardner, Robert A.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: United nations.
First Line: When men who love their freedom fight for the right to live it is true they will see it through
Chorus: United and free, and ever shall be, we have but one flag
Music by: Bromberg, Jacob.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.l. : Jacob Bromberg, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Until I live again.
First Line: Here comes that empty feeling that we have come to know
Chorus: Goodnight, until I live again tomorrow night when we meet again
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Until today.
First Line: For years I walked along and did not see the sky
Chorus: Until today the wind was just to blow dust in my eyes
Music by: Carleton, Bob.
Words by: Barnhill, Robert G.
P/P/D: S.l. : Robert G. Barnhill, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Viva Roosevelt!
First Line: Twenty one panamerican countries follow the leader of great repute
Chorus: Viva Roosevelt! Viva Roosevelt! He's a real amigo
Music by: Cugat, Xavier.
Words by: Stillman, Al., and Emilio De Torre.
P/P/D: S.l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Wait for me.
First Line: Fate has a way of parting lovers who always say they can't live without each other
Chorus: Wait for me, wait for me I am longing to be with you
Music by: Hosfelt, Wilma.
Words by: Hosfelt, Wilma.
P/P/D: Detroit : Wilma Hosfelt, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Walking in the shadows.
First Line: I loved and lost you someone else won
Chorus: Walking in the shadows all alone beneath the moon tryin' to recall our favorite tune
Music by: Rauch, John D.
Words by: Rauch, John D.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Webster Music Co., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Wandr'ing down.
First Line: Watching the gleams of my fireside beams, mem'ries journey far
Chorus:
Music by: Boettiger, Rose Cole, and Ray Hibbeler.
Words by: Boettiger, Rose Cole, and Ray Hibbeler.
P/P/D: Tacoma, Wash. : Rose Cole Boettiger, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Watch the river roll by.
First Line: If you're sad and your heart is pining, I know a place where the skies are always blue
Chorus: Just put your head upon a pillow, 'neath a weeping willow
Music by: Baggett, Nita, Bob White, Al Sanders, and Jimmie Davis.
Words by: Baggett, Nita, Bob White, Al Sanders, and Jimmie Davis.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Weary, worried and blue.
First Line: So tired of living alone, alone with memories of you
Chorus:
Music by: Daffan, Ted.
Words by: Daffan, Ted.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: When I won you.
First Line: Ev'ry little bird that sings their songs seem to say "You're lucky in love"
Chorus: For I won, I won some girl when I won you
Music by: Caldwell, George W.
Words by: Caldwell, George W.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: When there's a breeze on Lake Louise.
First Line: Sunset on the shore opens nature's door to an ev'ning for romance
Chorus: When there's a breeze on Lake Louise, there on a cool Canadian June night
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: When you're with me.
First Line: My dear, I have so much to say to you
Chorus: When you're with me, the cares of day fade away
Music by: Lambert, Jimmy.
Words by: Glick, Harry.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Whose heart are you breakin' now.
First Line: Not long ago we loved each other. And we were happy as can be
Chorus: I am the one that you fooled yesterday.
Music by: Jenkins, Floyd.
Words by:
P/P/D: Nashville : Acuff-Rose Publications, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Who's been here (Since I been gone).
First Line: I loved you, baby, but you done me wrong, now who's been here since I been gone
Chorus:
Music by: Dexter, Al.
Words by: Dexter, Al.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Who's gonna kiss you when I'm gone?
First Line: I got a letter this morning it said I done you wrong
Chorus: Who's gonna kiss you when I'm gone?
Music by: Campbell, C. Guy, and Everett R. Hinderer.
Words by: Campbell, C. Guy, and Everett R. Hinderer.
P/P/D: Chicago : M. M. Cole Pub. Co, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Won't you forgive me?
First Line: Won't you forgive me, darlin?' For those mean words I said
Chorus:
Music by: Davis, Jimmie, and Paul Sapp.
Words by: Davis, Jimmie, and Paul Sapp.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Won't you wait another year.
First Line: Won't you wait another year? Tell me that you are sincere
Chorus:
Music by: Montogomery, Marvin.
Words by: Montogomery, Marvin.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Wrap your arms around me baby.
First Line: There comes a time when people part, 'tis said but true
Chorus: So wrap your arms around me baby, just cling to me real tight
Music by: Piedmonte, Victor, and Don Arres.
Words by: Piedmonte, Victor, and Don Arres.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You can't hold a memory in your arms.
First Line: Memories are wonderful things to have around
Chorus: You can't hold a memory in your arms, sweetheart
Music by: Altman, Arthur.
Words by: Zaret, Hy.
P/P/D: New York : Olman Music Corp., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You were with me in the waltz of my dreams.
First Line: Oh, out of the night you came stealing, in my dream of love.
Chorus: You were with me in waltz of my dreams, dear
Music by: Mc Bride, Eddie, and Wilf Carter.
Words by: Mc Bride, Eddie, and Wilf Carter.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You're from Texas.
First Line: Pardon me, stranger, I hope there's no danger
Chorus: I 'low as how you're from Texas you talk the lingo I understand
Music by: Walker, Cindy.
Words by: Walker, Cindy.
P/P/D: Hollywood, Calif : American Music Inc., c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You've got what I want (And I've got what you want).
First Line: You're acting bashful, I'm acting bashful, we're not getting anyplace at all
Chorus:
Music by: Greenberg, Abner.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Greenberg Music Publisher, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A Zoot suit (For my Sunday gal).
First Line: Sam and Sal had a date to meet on Lenox Avenue
Chorus: I want a Zoot suit with a reat pleat, with a drape shape and a stuff cuff
Music by: Gilbert, Ray, and Bob O'Brien.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Greene-Revel Incorporated, c1942.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
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Title: Amor.
First Line: Amor, Amor, Amor this word so sweet that I repeat means I adore you
Chorus:
Music by: Ruiz, Gabriel.
Words by: Skylar, Sunny.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Beautiful Hawaii.
First Line: There beside a blue lagoon, lovers met, their hearts in tune
Chorus: There was a time when hearts were gay
Music by: Mc Intire, Lani, Harry Mann, and Mildred Cuomo.
Words by: Mc Intire, Lani, Harry Mann, and Mildred Cuomo.
P/P/D: New York : Paul-Pioneer Music Corp., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Behind my smiles.
First Line: It's easy to pretend that you're happy, when life rolls a long like a song
Chorus: Behind my smile you'll find that I'm lonesome
Music by: Cross, Hugh.
Words by: Cross, Hugh.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Besame Mucho (Kiss me much).
First Line: Besame besame mucho, each time I cling to your kiss I hear music devine
Chorus:
Music by: Velazquez, Consuelo.
Words by: Velazquez, Consuelo, and Sunny Skylar.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The Betty Grable polka.
First Line: Ev'ry station in the land has a quiz program without them they would all be incomplete
Chorus: Oh, so sweet, so petite she will take you by storm
Music by: Hayes, Billy.
Words by: Hayes, Billy, and Charles Gunther.
P/P/D: New York : Lewis Music Pub. Company Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Blue mist (Ua-noe) (Oo-wah no way).
First Line: We were stranded alone on an island
Chorus: Blue mist, do you remember? There was no moonlight only loves ember.
Music by: Herscher, Louis, and Iona Andy.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Blue pacific night.
First Line:
Chorus: There is nothing quite so lovely, as a blue pacific night
Music by: Dials, Sgt. Floyd R.
Words by: Dials, Sgt. Floyd R.
P/P/D: S.l. : Robert W. Dotzauer and Floyd R. Dials, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Born to lose.
First Line: Born to lose, I've lived my life in vain, every dream has only brought me pain
Chorus:
Music by: Brown, Frankie.
Words by: Brown, Frankie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A branded maverick.
First Line: A battle scarred old mustang I have always been; raced an' fought an' loved the life that's free
Chorus: A branded mav'rick, rope and tie me fast; a branded maverick, I'm corralled at last
Music by: Dickson, Art.
Words by: Dickson, Art.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: By a babbling brook.
First Line: Let us meet each other 'neath the weeping willow tree
Chorus: By a babbling brook is a shady nook, where no prying eyes can see
Music by: Stevens, Thos. A.
Words by: Stevens, Thos. A.
P/P/D: S.l. : Thos. A. Stevens, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: By the light of your eyes I read your heart (Tres palabras).
First Line: I see in your gaze the key to your ways
Chorus: By the light of your eyes I read your heart, dear
Music by: Farres, Osvaldo.
Words by: Farres, Osvaldo, and Ervin Drake.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Call me up darling.
First Line: A little ray of sunshine is due to ev'ryone some day
Chorus: Call me up and say you're lonely; call me up and say you're blue
Music by: Morris, E. E.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Radio Music Publishers, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Cheer up!
First Line: Cheer up! Oh, cheer up! The skies are bound to clear up, so get ready to put on a grin
Chorus:
Music by: Rice, H. Colin, and Richard May.
Words by: Rice, H. Colin, and Richard May.
P/P/D: New York : Top Music Publishers, Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Columbus stockade blues.
First Line: Way down in Columbus, Georgia; want to be back in Tennessee
Chorus:
Music by: Davis, Jimmie, and Eva Sargent.
Words by: Davis, Jimmie, and Eva Sargent.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Come on and whistle.
First Line: Fellows, if you're lonely, and need someone to love
Chorus: If there's anyone here who'd like a date with me, let him whistle come on and whistle!
Music by: Piantadosi, Al, and Irving Bibo.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A cornstalk fiddle and a shoestring bow.
First Line: Thump! go the hick'ry nuts, on the frosty ground
Chorus: A cornstalk fiddle and a shoestring bow, swing your partner and you do-si-do
Music by: Jesters, Kings, Jack Foy, and Rex Lampman.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Dear Dad.
First Line: Lonely the room, but still you are there; your slippers and your pipe
Chorus: Dear Dad, here's just a line to let you know we're feeling fine
Music by: Rice, H. Colin, and Don Justin.
Words by: Rice, H. Colin, and Don Justin.
P/P/D: New York : Top Music Publishers, Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Do I know what I'm doing.
First Line: I can't decide if I'm satisfied; I can't be sure that it's real
Chorus: Do I know what I'm doing am I right, am I wrong, am I giving my heart away for a song?
Music by: Costello, Joanne.
Words by: Costello, Joanne, and Freddie Stewart.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Melody Lane Publications Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't make me go to bed and I'll be good.
First Line: A laughing baby boy, one ev'ning in his play disturbed the household with his noisy glee
Chorus: Don't, papa, and I'll be good; don't, papa, and I'll be good
Music by: Cross, Hugh.
Words by: Cross, Hugh.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't monkey 'round my widder when I'm gone.
First Line: My fever's way high I'm suff'rin' with a cold
Chorus:
Music by: Karl & Harty.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Bob Smith, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't pity me.
First Line: Now when you see me strutting in my uniform; don't pity me
Chorus:
Music by: Deardorff, Chas. Dana.
Words by: Deardorff, Chas. Dana.
P/P/D: Fort Wayne, Indiana : Chas. Dana Deardorff, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't stop now.
First Line:
Chorus: I'm under your spell, how long I can't tell
Music by: Campbell, William.
Words by: Campbell, William.
P/P/D: New York : Beacon Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A dream ago.
First Line: So unreal, this being apart; my life's in the night-marish phase
Chorus: A dream ago my lips caressed you. Just a dream ago my two arms pressed you
Music by: Rosen, Milton.
Words by: Carter, Everett.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Ev'rywhere.
First Line:
Chorus: The boys are going ev'rywhere, they're making a show ev'erywhere
Music by: Prima, Louis.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A fellow on a furlough.
First Line: There's just a little time to play. I know
Chorus: He's just a fellow on a furlough, out looking for a dream, the one who's in his dreams ev'ry night
Music by: Worth, Bobby.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood : House of Melody, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Fiesta square.
First Line: Tom-toms are beating the maracas entreating as the rhumba begins
Chorus: They're dancing in fiesta square my senorita will be there
Music by: March, Jerry.
Words by: March, Jerry.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Fight for old glory.
First Line: Fight for old glory, for she tells the story of men who once made history
Chorus:
Music by: Dixon, W. J.
Words by: Dixon, W. J.
P/P/D: Cincinnati : Music Center Publishing Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Gals don't mean a thing (In my life).
First Line:
Chorus: The blues don't mean a thing in my young life; somewhere, somehow I lose 'em
Music by: Gibson, Arbie, and Curt Massey.
Words by: Gibson, Arbie, and Curt Massey.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Get along Dobbin.
First Line: Whoa there, whoa I say, you resurrected bale of hay
Chorus: Git along, Dobbin, (clk-clk-clk.) Pick 'em up and lay 'em down
Music by: Kalar, Phil.
Words by: Nulty, Eddie.
P/P/D: Chicago : Bell Music Company, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Get out and dig, dig, dig.
First Line: Get out and dig, dig, dig in the sunshine you can make a garden grow
Chorus:
Music by: Reynolds, Hunter.
Words by: Reynolds, Hunter.
P/P/D: Chicago : Skokie Music Company, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Gone.
First Line: Brazil cast it's tropical spell and now there's a story to tell
Chorus: Gone are the days of yesterday when we smiled and hearts were gay
Music by: Weller, S.
Words by: Weinstein, Sam.
P/P/D: New York : Pan-O-Ram Music Service, Publishers, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Heart break trail.
First Line: A cowboy returned to the scene of his childhood, to his sweetheart of long, long ago
Chorus: Cowboy ridin', sorrow hidin', head bowed, lonesome and blue
Music by: Darling, Denver, and Vaughn Horton.
Words by: Darling, Denver, and Vaughn Horton.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Help wanted (For romance).
First Line: My friends have asked me why I feel blue
Chorus: Help wanted someone to cheer a heart
Music by: Weller, S.
Words by: Wyner, Syd.
P/P/D: New York : Pan-O-Ram Music Service, Publishers, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: High in the saddle.
First Line:
Chorus: I'm high in the saddle, yip-ee-ky-yay, yip-ee-ky-yay
Music by: Coe, Tex, Jimmie Newill, and Dave O'Brien.
Words by: Coe, Tex, Jimmie Newill, and Dave O'Brien.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Hill-billy-hop (Zu-zu-zu-zu!).
First Line: Oh, the turkey in the straw ain't so corny anymore!
Chorus: Hill billy hop! Zu-zu-zu-zu! Spin like a top with my hip boots on
Music by: Kent, Carl, and Ervin Drake.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Hours I remember.
First Line: Hours I remember hours spent with you
Chorus:
Music by: Shaw, Wally.
Words by: McStay, Helen.
P/P/D: New York : Sunnyside Music Publications, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I accuse you (Of being lovable).
First Line: I'm certain that the one who's with me constantly makes plots and plans for pots and pans
Chorus: I accuse you of being lovable; I suspected you from the start
Music by: McGrane, Paul.
Words by: Drake, Ervin.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Melody Lane Publications, Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I couldn't sleep a wink last night.
First Line: After we parted last night, I stayed awake and thought of you
Chorus: I couldn't sleep a wink last night because we had that silly fight
Music by: Mc Hugh, Jimmy.
Words by: Adamson, Harold.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I dreamt about a dream last night.
First Line: When the moon has gone away and the sun has brought another day
Chorus: I dreamt about a dream last night an angel stole my heart last night
Music by: Lane, William.
Words by: Lane, William.
P/P/D: New York : Eastern Music Publications, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I guess I'll be gettin' along.
First Line: I'm leaving tonight little darling I may as well be on my way
Chorus:
Music by: Wilkins, Floyd.
Words by: Wilkins, Floyd.
P/P/D: Chicago : Country Music, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I know I'll never forget.
First Line: With you no longer there birds no longer fly
Chorus: I know I'll never forget the way you looked the day we met
Music by: Candell, Tommy.
Words by: Sims, Artie.
P/P/D: New York : Carol Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I know you'll come back some day.
First Line:
Chorus: There's a moon over my shoulder, like the night you sailed away
Music by: Merker, Betty.
Words by: Merker, Betty.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I love you.
First Line: If a love song I could only write, a song with words and music divine
Chorus: I love you hums the April breeze I love you echo the hills
Music by: Porter, Cole.
Words by: Porter, Cole.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I only have one life to live but I'd gladly give up for my country.
First Line: In that grand Alantic Charter, justice rings through ev'ry clause
Chorus: I only have one life to live, but I'd glady give it up for my country
Music by: Davis, Joe.
Words by: Davis, Joe.
P/P/D: New York : Beacon Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I saw a dream (Last night).
First Line: I've been called a dreamer 'cause I sit all day and dream
Chorus: I saw a dream last night, and knew so well, it simply wasn't right to break the spell
Music by: Rhodes, David Wellman.
Words by: Rhodes, David Wellman.
P/P/D: S.l. : David Wellman Rhodes, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I saw a star.
First Line: Each time I see your service star I think about the day
Chorus: I saw a star as I passed your home tonight
Music by: Gallagher, Bill.
Words by: Gallagher, Bill.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I wish I were a Gypsy.
First Line: Last night I had a won'drous dream love a sweet dream I've never dreamed before
Chorus: I wish I were a Gypsy a gay romantic Gypsy
Music by: Zoeller, Lou, and Tom Dempsey.
Words by:
P/P/D: Beverly Hills : Zoeller Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Idle dreams.
First Line: What good is dreaming all alone, it never does me any good
Chorus:
Music by: Nuccio, Joe.
Words by: Nuccio, Joe.
P/P/D: New York : Crestwood Publications, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If I'm lucky.
First Line: I can't wait to see you, dear, tonight, I'm looking forward to be with you
Chorus: If I'm lucky, there'll be moonlight tonight, if I'm lucky, I'll be holding you tight
Music by: Pearl, Lee, Jimmy Dale, and Art Berman.
Words by: Pearl, Lee, Jimmy Dale, and Art Berman.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC, Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If that's the way you want it, baby.
First Line: Time's a wastin' wish that we could hasten to the man with the collar turned around
Chorus: If that's the way you want it, baby, baby that's the way it will be
Music by: Tobias, Charlie, Al Lewis, and Harry Tobias.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If you can't be my sweetheart, be my friend.
First Line:
Chorus: Today you said we two must part, those words have broken my heart
Music by: Cross, Hugh.
Words by: Cross, Hugh.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll be waiting for you.
First Line: I've been living on the river bank where the Rio winds its way
Chorus: I've been waiting for you oh my dream has come true
Music by: Docking, Lester.
Words by: Docking, Lester.
P/P/D: Detroit and New York : Echoes of Victory Music Pub. Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll get by (As long as I have you).
First Line: I've neither wealth nor power but now that you said you're mine
Chorus: For I'll get by as long as I have you
Music by: Alhert, Fred E.
Words by: Turk, Roy.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm sending my love for Christmas.
First Line: Here is the season to be jolly. How the time flew!
Chorus: I'm sending my love for Christmas, instead of something shiny and new
Music by: Prichard, Henry.
Words by: Prichard, Henry.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: In God we trust.
First Line: In God we trust with all our heart and soul
Chorus:
Music by: Sherman, Albert.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood : Harry Tobias, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: An island serenade.
First Line: Shadows tell me today is not for long
Chorus: Gone another day my tho'ts are left astray
Music by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
Words by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
P/P/D: Forest Park, Ill : Keep-In-Tune Publications, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: It happens ev'ry time!
First Line: You're on my mind so much, you're my ev'rything I touch
Chorus: When I get up in early morn I see your vision in the dawn, and thought of you go on and on
Music by: Worth, Bobby.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: It won't be long before it's over, over there.
First Line: This is a peace loving country where people are equal and free
Chorus: Now that the Yankees are over there bombing the Germans and Japs by air
Music by: Ross, Phil.
Words by: Howard, Bobby.
P/P/D: Los Angeles : Ross & Howard, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: It's great to live in freedom (A creed for Americans).
First Line: It's great to live in freedom in this land we call the U. S. A.
Chorus: Freedom from want, freedom from fear
Music by: McGinty, Harry.
Words by: McGinty, Harry.
P/P/D: New York : Ideal Music Publishing Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: It's love-love-love.
First Line: Imagine you imagining that you love me and starting on a family tree
Chorus:
Music by: David, Mack, Joan Whitney, and Alex Kramer.
Words by: David, Mack, Joan Whitney, and Alex Kramer.
P/P/D: New York : Santly-Joy Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: It's not the same old corner (Since the old gang marched away).
First Line: It's so strange in the old neighborhood, ev'rything is diff'rent somehow
Chorus: It's the same old street with the same old tracks
Music by: Pearl, Lee, and Johnny Graham.
Words by: Pearl, Lee, and Johnny Graham.
P/P/D: New York : Excelsior Music Publishing Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I've got a heart filled with love (For you dear).
First Line: Here is my confession, it's all about you, and you must believe it
Chorus: I've got a heart filled with love you, dear, for you, dear, filled my heart with love
Music by: Meyer, Joseph.
Words by: Jacobs, Al.
P/P/D: New York : Mutual Music Society, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Johnny Zero.
First Line: The kids all called him Johnny Zero; in school they always used to say, Johnny got a zero
Chorus:
Music by: Lawnhurst, Vee.
Words by: David, Mack.
P/P/D: New York : Santly-Joy Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Judgment days a-comin' for that "Schickelgruber man."
First Line: Judgment day's a-comin' for that "Schick-el-grub-er man"
Chorus:
Music by: Meadows, Fred.
Words by: Meadows, Fred.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Just a stowaway on a ship of dreams.
First Line: I see you in each wish I make, I miss you with each breath I take
Chorus: The moon is low tonight, so am I, it seems; I'm just a stowaway on a ship of dreams
Music by: Knight, Vick.
Words by: Knight, Vick.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Keep that smile.
First Line: I know how you feel; please don't say it, for I feel the same, dear, as you
Chorus: Keep that smile. Never lose it
Music by: Petrillo, Caesar, and Edward Ross.
Words by: Petrillo, Caesar, and Edward Ross.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Kentucky.
First Line:
Chorus: Soon I'll be goin' where the soft breeze is blowin' in Kentucky
Music by: Prichard, Henry.
Words by: Prichard, Henry.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Lili Marlene.
First Line: Would you like to hear the story of a girl that many soldiers know
Chorus: Underneath the lamppost by the barrack gate
Music by: David, Mack, and Phil Park.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.l. : Chappell & Co. Ltd., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Linda Lou.
First Line: I've waited a long time for you, darlin'; but never knew exactly what you'd be
Chorus: Linda Lou, honest true, I'm just wild about your lovely eyes of blue
Music by: Whelan, Ekko, and Roy Rogers.
Words by: Whelan, Ekko, and Roy Rogers.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The little red caboose broke loose.
First Line: The little red caboose broke loose; trav'lin' up the old mountain side
Chorus: Look out below, look out below; the little red caboose is on the loose
Music by: Hayes, Billy, and Lee Melton.
Words by: Hayes, Billy, and Lee Melton.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Love is the trick of the year.
First Line: Time was when I used to wonder why the stars and moon held sway
Chorus: I had a talk with the stars, with the dust from their light hov'ring near
Music by: Mirkel, Elsie.
Words by: Mirkel, Elsie.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Love me.
First Line: Put your hopes with mine don't hesitate show me that you care please don't make me wait
Chorus: When I look at you, how I want you to love me
Music by: Meyer, Joseph.
Words by: Jacobs, Al.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A lovely way to spend an evening.
First Line: Some like a night at the movies, some like a dance or a show
Chorus: This is a lovely way to spend an evening, couldn't think of anything else I'd rather do
Music by: Mc Hugh, Jimmy.
Words by: Adamson, Harold.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Lover's serenade.
First Line: Music ev'rywhere romance fills the air when you're dancing with the one you love
Chorus: Your heart goes pitter patter and the dark clouds scatter
Music by: Pellettieri, Vito, and Fred Rose.
Words by: Pellettieri, Vito, and Fred Rose.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Memphis shuffle.
First Line:
Chorus: Started down in Memphis town, took a while to get around
Music by: Chase, Evelyn, Sam Michelso, and Dan Franklin.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Dawson Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The mercury waltz.
First Line: I can't forget, here's where we met; here's where you went away
Chorus: The mercury waltz lives again in my heart tonight
Music by: Pablo, Don.
Words by: Pablo, Don.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The merry polka (Let's do the merry, merry polka).
First Line: Let's do the merry, merry polka, while the light are turned down low
Chorus:
Music by: Corbo, Don.
Words by: Corbo, Don.
P/P/D: Asbury Park, N. J. : Ocean-Spray Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: More than a dream.
First Line: I spend each night in pray'r, hoping that I will see somehow a world that's without care
Chorus: More than a dream when stars appear are all my pray'rs for things you hold so dear
Music by: Pelzman, Lee, Walter Van Dyke, and Gary Van Dyke.
Words by: Pelzman, Lee, Walter Van Dyke, and Gary Van Dyke.
P/P/D: New York : Cherio Music Publishers Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: More than ever.
First Line: When we met you took a place in my heart
Chorus: More than ever, I want you close to me more than ever to kiss tenderly
Music by: Greer, Jesse.
Words by: Adams, Chick.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My baby comes first with me.
First Line: My baby don't possess a lot but he means the world to me
Chorus: My baby comes first with me, my baby comes first with me
Music by: Baker, Ward.
Words by: Baker, Ward.
P/P/D: New York : Beacon Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My dream sweethert.
First Line: Ev'ry night when the moon beams play I lie dreaming the hours away
Chorus: My dream sweetheart you're here with me whenever the lights are low
Music by: Olsen, La Veda, and Wilford.
Words by: Olsen, La Veda, and Wilford.
P/P/D: New York : Progressive Music Publishers, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My good ship Rhapsody (A song of the sea).
First Line: On the sea of ecstasy, sailed my good ship "Rhapsody"
Chorus: Is the sea my enemy, that will take away from me all that life holds dear
Music by: Petrae, Raymond A.
Words by: Muzzy, Harold W., and Fred A. Whitfield.
P/P/D: Seattle, Washington : Fred A. Whitfield, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My kind of people.
First Line: My kind of people, love to go to church on Sunday, my kind of people love to pray
Chorus:
Music by: Greer, Jesse.
Words by: Neiburg, Al J.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My lips remember your kisses.
First Line: You have magical thrills in your lips my hear is at your fingertips
Chorus: My lips remember your kisses my heart remembers your love
Music by: Scherman, Robert, Henry May, and Ben Siegel.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood : Webster Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Nellie and Jim.
First Line: If you will gather around me, I have a story to tell; it's all about a cowboy
Chorus: The tale I tell you is oh so true, so true
Music by: Dickson, Art.
Words by: Dickson, Art.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: New shoes.
First Line: Don't sing the old songs I'm hankering for a novelty; I'm itching to find a new face
Chorus: Gonna get me some new shoes, gonna get me a lid
Music by: Irwin, Will.
Words by: Carrol, June.
P/P/D: S.l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Night in the jungle.
First Line: Listen to the voo-doo drums throb; listen to the singer choke a sob
Chorus: Soft were the ripples from our canoe sweet was the night wind sweeter were you
Music by: Whitney, Helen.
Words by: Whitney, Emerson C.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: No letter today.
First Line: No letter today I have waited since dawn, I've waited each day since you've been gone
Chorus:
Music by: Brown, Frankie.
Words by: Brown, Frankie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: No love kisses, no kisses.
First Line:
Chorus: No love, no kisses what an awful predicament this is
Music by: Wallance, Jack.
Words by: Tara, Dana.
P/P/D: New York : Sunnyside Music Publications, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Nothing's gonna stop us now.
First Line: We're leaving the old home town tonight we've bid all our friends goodbye
Chorus: Nothing's gonna stop us now we'll fight like never before
Music by: Hibbeler, Ray.
Words by: Hagerty, Jim A.
P/P/D: Pittsburg, Pa. : James A. Hagerty, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Oh, brother!
First Line: He was on leave one night. He tried to hold her tight
Chorus: It looks as though you want romancing, oh, brother!
Music by: Manners, Maxine, and Jean Miller.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Oh, Theodora.
First Line: Johnny never had a real romance, he never seemed to get the proper chance
Chorus: We met one night, I held you tight, you thrilled me thru' and thru'
Music by: Cogane, Nelson, Jimmie Franklin, and Sunny Skylar.
Words by: Cogane, Nelson, Jimmie Franklin, and Sunny Skylar.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Oh, what a beautiful mornin'.
First Line: There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, there 's a bright golden haze on the meadow
Chorus: Oh, what a beautiful mornin', oh, what a beautiful day
Music by: Rodgers, Richard.
Words by: Hammerstein, Oscar, II.
P/P/D: New York : Marlo Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Oklahoma.
First Line: Brand new state! Brand new state, gonna treat you great!
Chorus: Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
Music by: Rodgers, Richard.
Words by: Hammerstein, Oscar, II.
P/P/D: New York : Marlo Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: People will say we're in love.
First Line: Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours?
Chorus: Don't throw bouquets at me don't please my folks too much
Music by: Rodgers, Richard.
Words by: Hammerstein, Oscar, II.
P/P/D: New York : Marlo Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Poinciana (Song of the tree) (La cancion del arbol).
First Line: Blow tropic wind, sing a song thru the tree. Tree, sigh to me, soon my love, I will see
Chorus: Poinciana, your branches speak to me of love
Music by: Simon, Nat.
Words by: Bernier, Buddy, and Manuel Lliso.
P/P/D: S.l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The prairie polka.
First Line: Bright eyes glancing, glad hearts dancing, prairie sweethearts together romancing
Chorus: Come on dance the prairie polka by the light of prairie stars so bright
Music by: Stolz, Robert.
Words by: Bratton, John W.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Put a zipper on your lip.
First Line: Better listen mister citizen, there's work we've got to do
Chorus: Put a zipper on your lip, listen brother take a tip
Music by: Davis, Rusty.
Words by: Davis, Paul McKenna.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Put your troubles down the hatch.
First Line:
Chorus: Ev'rybody come and step right up! Put your troubles in a great big cup
Music by: Montgomery, Marvin, and Bill Boyd.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Remember old calais.
First Line: Even tho' we're far apart it won't be for very long
Chorus: Remember old calais, where the fragrant scent of flowers fills the air
Music by: Rubens, Hugo.
Words by: Griffin, Gerald.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The rickety richshaw man.
First Line:
Chorus: There's coolie, name of Chulee, runs a rickety rickshaw south of Peking
Music by: Drake, Ervin.
Words by: Drake, Ervin.
P/P/D: New York : Melody Lane Publications, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Roundin' up the strays.
First Line: Sunrise on the trail, night is liftin' see the purple clouds slowly driftin'
Chorus:
Music by: Milam, Sam.
Words by: Milam, Jayne.
P/P/D: Chicago : Plamor Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Rumor man.
First Line: There is a certain man in town who tells you stories to make you frown
Chorus: Sh sh he's bad and bold yes but it must be told he'll get you in a jam
Music by: King, Drewey.
Words by: King, Drewey.
P/P/D: New York : Pan-O-Ram Music Service, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Secret-mus'n't tell!
First Line: You said, "Baby, don't be shy!" I looked up into your eye, what did you say oh, so sweet?
Chorus:
Music by: Collier, Marion.
Words by: Collier, Marion.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: She didn't lay that pistol down.
First Line: The story's going 'round about a two gun gal
Chorus: She didn't lay that pistol down, she didn't lay it down
Music by: Pearl, Lee, and Murray Rich.
Words by: Pearl, Lee, and Murray Rich.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Shoulder arms.
First Line: Shoulder arms. Shoulder arms. The calling is ringing out across the land
Chorus: The call is not to just the solider, sailor or marine
Music by: Lapere, Christine D.
Words by: Lapere, Christine D.
P/P/D: Detroit : Carl Sorbie Publisher, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Sho' nuff.
First Line: A boy and girl were dancing and just happened to dance my way
Chorus: Sno' nuff did you say you love me? Sho'nuff can your love be true?
Music by: Williams, Billy.
Words by: Williams, Billy.
P/P/D: New York : Republic Music Corp., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Silver sails in the blue.
First Line: Sailing thru the night is heaven with the rolling tide
Chorus: Silver sails in the blue 'neath Tahitian skies, a paradise for two
Music by: McIntire, Lani, Ferney De Persia, and Joe L. Dario.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Lewis Music Publishing Company, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: So nice to remember.
First Line: Going along with a smile, sometimes we meet again
Chorus: A breakfast at dawning, a kiss in the rain, a cigarette shared in a shawdowy lane
Music by: Stewart, Neta.
Words by: Stewart, Neta.
P/P/D: Toronto, Canada : Southern Music Pub. Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Soft hearted.
First Line: What stories I told myself! I should have controlled myself
Chorus: You don't really love me, your just soft hearted
Music by: Mc Hugh, Jimmy.
Words by: Loesser, Frank.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Soldier's reverie.
First Line: Out of the dark clouds afar I can hear your song from a star
Chorus:
Music by: Phayle, Buddy.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Buddy Phayle Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Someday I'll dream again.
First Line: Last night's kisses are still on my lip but yesterday's dreams are gone
Chorus: Someday, maybe, I'll dream again. Some day, maybe, heaven knows when!
Music by: Bibo, Irving, Al Piantadosi, Joseloff, and Stanley.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Somehow your absence is making me blue.
First Line: Fate had a hand in our meeting each other
Chorus: Somehow your absence is making me blue
Music by: Neff, Francis M.
Words by: Neff, Francis M.
P/P/D: New York : Art Music Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The song of the skis.
First Line: I saw a host of skis glide by last night in a lovely dream
Chorus: We slide along, we glide along, oh hark! to the song of the skis
Music by: Futran, Jacques Edward.
Words by: Brinig, Ray.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The southern cross swung low.
First Line: The southern cross swung low above the sea; like stars from heaven's crown your lovely eyes
Chorus: We parted when the southern cross swung low
Music by: Foy, Jack, and Phil Kalar.
Words by: Lampman, Rex.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Speak low.
First Line: Speak low when you speak, love, our summer day withers away too soon too soon
Chorus:
Music by: Weill, Kurt.
Words by: Nash, Ogden.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Start with a whistle in the morning.
First Line: Hi ya, pal, how'd ya feel? Full of pepper and paprika or down at the heel?
Chorus: Start with a whistle in the morning (whistle) just pucker and blow
Music by: Owen, Delos.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Delos Owen, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Stock full of blues.
First Line: Got a corn on my toe that is hurtin' me so and I can't cut a rug
Chorus:
Music by: Charles, Dick, Phil Perry, and Charles Reade.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Leeds Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Sugarfoot.
First Line: Yor're so sweet, you give a guy a toothache
Chorus: My sugarfoot, my tall turtle dove, my blonde buttercup, say you're mine
Music by: Duke, Vernon.
Words by: Dietz, Howard.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The surrey with the fringe on top.
First Line: When I take you out, tonight, with me, honey, here's the way it's goin' to be
Chorus: Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry when I take you out in the surrey
Music by: Rodgers, Richard.
Words by: Hammerstein, Oscar, II.
P/P/D: New York : Marlo Music Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Sweet mama put him in the low.
First Line: He used to be a slicker with a cane in his hand but now he wears the clothes of a working man
Chorus: He was a high geared daddy but sweet mama put him in the low
Music by: Karl, and Harty.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Bob Smith, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Take the "A" train.
First Line: You can give up pleasure driving and ditch your Acard too
Chorus: Get aboard the "A" train to take a little ride around the city
Music by: Strayhorn, Billy.
Words by: The Delta Rhythm Boys.
P/P/D: New York : Tempo Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Ten years.
First Line: Ten years or more I've been waiting for you to change your way
Chorus:
Music by: Bond, Johnny.
Words by: Bond, Johnny.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Thanks to you, my fair-weather friend.
First Line: A friend is a friend if it's cloudy or fair I've had friends by the score
Chorus: Thanks to you, my fair weather friend, I hate to lose you truly I do
Music by: Newton, Al.
Words by: Newton, Al.
P/P/D: Mobile, Ala : Al Newton, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: That's him.
First Line: You can shuffle him with millions, soldiers and civilians, I'd pick him out
Chorus: You know the way you feel when there is autumn in the air
Music by: Weill, Kurt.
Words by: Nash, Odgen.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The things that mean so much to me.
First Line: They're talking about the future.
Chorus: The drug store on the corner, the schoohouse further down
Music by: Wayne, Bernie.
Words by: Raleigh, Ben.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: This will make you laugh.
First Line: I don't mean to be cynical, but love is not for me
Chorus: This will make you laugh, I staked my dreams on you
Music by: Higginbotham, Irene.
Words by: Higginbotham, Irene.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Tired of ramblin'.
First Line: Tired of ramblin' on the lonesome prairie, tired of chasin' doggies all around
Chorus:
Music by: Newell, Jim, and Dave O'Brien.
Words by: Newell, Jim, and Dave O'Brien.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Tonight is our night (Extrana vida).
First Line: As the shadows grow, your eyes are all aglow.
Chorus: Tonight is our night, we own the starlight
Music by: Pafumy, Jose.
Words by: Salinas, Alberto, Castro Valencia, and Ervin Drake.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Tonight I'll live last night over.
First Line: Through all the day I sing this song, and wait for night to come
Chorus: Tonight I'll live last night over, over and over again
Music by: Rae, Ella, and George Geore.
Words by: Furlett, Frank.
P/P/D: S. l. : Puritan Publishin Company, Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Tschaikowsky's Ave Maria.
First Line: Ave Maria gratia plena dominuste cum benedicta tu
Chorus:
Music by: Tschaikowsky, Peter.
Words by: Tschaikowsky, Peter.
P/P/D: New York : Whitney Blake Music Publishers, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Vict'ry polka.
First Line: There's gonna be a hallelujah day when the boys have all come home to stay
Chorus:
Music by: Styne, Jule.
Words by: Cahn, Samuel.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co., Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Vincio a te! (Near to you) (Cerca de ti).
First Line: Always your magic soft voice brings me the fragrance and smiles of delight
Chorus: You are a poem just like a song of prayer
Music by: Bellassai, Nino.
Words by: Bellassai, Nino.
P/P/D: New York : Kelton-Romm Inc, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Walking my blues away.
First Line: The ration man is knockin' at my door; the grocer man he done an' closed his store
Chorus:
Music by: Davis, Jimmie.
Words by: Davis, Jimmie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Westwind.
First Line: I had a love and my love was fair, fair as a summer's dawn.
Chorus: Westwind can you waken my true love
Music by: Weil, Kurt.
Words by: Nash, Odgen.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co., Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: We're coming over (Over there).
First Line: To the beat of the drum our brave boys come to fight for liberty
Chorus: The Yanks are parade again marching down Broadway again to the beat
Music by: La Rosa, Mickey.
Words by: La Rosa, Mickey.
P/P/D: S. l. : Mickey La Rosa, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: What good would it do.
First Line: I am tempted to go overboard and fall in love with you
Chorus: I could say I care, but what good would it do?
Music by: Howard, Duane, and Tommy Duncan.
Words by: Howard, Duane, and Tommy Duncan.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: What more can I say?
First Line: Just a year has passed and gone since the day you left our home
Chorus: Now, what more can I say, since you've gone so far away
Music by: Davis, Jimmie.
Words by: Davis, Jimmie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: When Grandma got her teeth in upside down.
First Line: You've seen a lot of trouble on the farm, you've seen a lot of trouble up in town
Chorus:
Music by: Foy, Jack, Rex Lampman, and Phil Kalar.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: When they ask about you.
First Line: I'm so afraid of going out and I'm so tired of staying in
Chorus: When I go for a walk and meet old friends we knew we sit around and talk
Music by: Stept, Sam H.
Words by: Stept, Sam H.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Where the Sqornskroskreet meets the Gorfsloslat.
First Line: There is a place that I dream about, where life is nothing but play
Chorus: Where the Sqornskroskreet meet the Gorfsloslat that is where I want to be
Music by: Temple, T. Norman, Herb Ostrow, and Dave Ringle.
Words by: Temple, T. Norman, Herb Ostrow, and Dave Ringle.
P/P/D: New York : Dave Ringle, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Whistlin' down the lane for you.
First Line: People wonder why I'm happy, happy tho' the world be wrong
Chorus: When the dew is fallin', (whistle....) and the night is risin' in the blue
Music by: Whelan, Ekko, and Garet Romero.
Words by: Whelan, Ekko, and Garet' Romero.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Woogie hula.
First Line: Folks all go to Lenox Avenue, to cut new rugs each day.
Chorus: Woogie hula, woogie hula, a Hawaiian refrain, with a Harlem strain all in one
Music by: Herscher, Louis, and Marvin Hatley.
Words by: Herscher, Louis, and Marvin Hatley.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Pub. Co. Inc., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Wrap yourself in cellophane.
First Line: I'm growing more lonely you knew that I would
Chorus: Wrap youself in cellophane and mail yourself to me
Music by: Mack, George.
Words by: Winslow, Ester S.
P/P/D: New York : Modern Melodies Publishing Co., c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You belong to my heart (Solamente una vez).
First Line: You belong to my heart now and forever and our love had it's start not long ago
Chorus:
Music by: Lara, Agustin.
Words by: Gilbert, Ray.
P/P/D: Mexico : Promotora Hispano Americana de Musica, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You haven't the time.
First Line: I'd meet you each evening we'd plan things to do
Chorus:
Music by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
Words by: Geiersbach, Robertson O.
P/P/D: Forest Park, Ill : Keep-In-Tune Pub, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You rhyme with everything that's beautiful.
First Line: You rhyme with ev'rything that's beautiful, with angels and moonlight, with heaven and stars
Chorus:
Music by: Reisfeld, Bert.
Words by: Stoner, Mickey.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You'll find romance.
First Line: Life was not meant to be spent alone
Chorus: You'll find romance, if only you will seek it
Music by: Merron, Frederic.
Words by: Alwyn, Ted.
P/P/D: Tonronto, Canada : Southern Music Publishing Co, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: You're still that pal of mine.
First Line: I'm writing this letter, I just don't know how to start
Chorus: I love you, I love you, that's all my heart can say, dear
Music by: Goldspink, Hector.
Words by: Goldspink, Hector.
P/P/D: New York : Joseph Carlton, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
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Title: American polka.
First Line: Come along, come along, hear a new happy song that American polka
Chorus:
Music by: Nelson, Ed. G., Al. Trace, and "Smiling" Eddie Dorr.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Stasny Music Corp, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Any day now.
First Line: I made my reservasion my dream boat is due to start
Chorus: Any day now I'll be on my way
Music by: Cunningham, Paul, Ira Schuster, and Jack Rosenberg.
Words by: Cunningham, Paul, Ira Schuster, and Jack Rosenbert.
P/P/D: New York : Paull-Pioneer Music Corp., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Apple blossoms in the rain.
First Line: Two silhouettes 'neath a starry sky, lost in a dream together
Chorus: Time to reminisce, a raindrop and a kiss
Music by: Pollack, Lew.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: As long as there's music.
First Line: The mood begins with violins and suddenly you're close to me.
Chorus: A long as there's music and words of romance
Music by: Styne, Jule.
Words by: Cahn, Sammy.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: The barnyard band.
First Line: I love a real jam session, it can send me like a "four alarm."
Chorus: There's a crow in the garden, pickin' up corn, the bulls in the meadow, blowing his horn
Music by: Littlefield, Jimmy, Harry Filler, and Johnny Fortis.
Words by: Littlefield, Jimmy, Harry Filler, and Johnny Fortis.
P/P/D: S. l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Bell bottom trousers.
First Line: Once there was a little girl who lived next ot me
Chorus: Bell bottom trousers, coat of navy blue
Music by: Jaffe, Moe.
Words by: Jaffe, Moe.
P/P/D: New York : Santly-Joy Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Better do it now (Or there ain't gonna be no after while).
First Line: Better do it now, better do it now, or there ain't gonna be no after while.
Chorus:
Music by: Fox, "Red."
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood, Calif : Maestro Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Carlotta.
First Line: When Carlotta and Maxmilian were old Mexico's royal pair, a misguided young civilian fell in love with the empress fair
Chorus: Oh, Carlotta, Carlotta, so fair to see.
Music by: Porter, Cole.
Words by: Porter, Cole.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Christmas Lullaby.
First Line: Lights aglow o'er the snow, from each fireside
Chorus: Can't you hear the angels sing a Christmas lullaby?
Music by: Edwards, Jack, Rrod Eddie, and Ben Edwards.
Words by: Edwards, Jack, and Rrod Eddie, Edwards.
P/P/D: New York : Edwards Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Cisco kid rhumba.
First Line: He may be a rogue, the Cisco kid, but still he has a way about him
Chorus:
Music by: Skylar, Sunny, Robert Stanley, and Agustin Borguno.
Words by: Skylar, Sunny, Robert Stanley, and Agustin Borguno.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Clickity clack, Jack.
First Line: Now the old kind of dancing might have been good 'bout a thousand years ago
Chorus: Clickity click, Jack, and heat it on the cymbal, clickity click, Jack
Music by: Greene, Mort.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Coal black mammy's (Little white rose).
First Line: A red cross nurse in Italy dreams of her home in Tennessee
Chorus: For she was coal black mammy's little white rose
Music by: Kenney, Jack.
Words by: Riesner, Charles S.
P/P/D: Hollywood, Calif : Urban Music Publications, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Come with me my honey.
First Line: The bach'lor population of Trinidad say the situation is very bad
Chorus:
Music by: David, Mack, Joan Whitney, and Alex Kramer.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Santly-Joy Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: A cowboy in khaki.
First Line: A cowboy in khaki far away from the range
Chorus:
Music by: Fortis, Johnny.
Words by: Spickol, Max.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Delta rhythm.
First Line: Evenin' shadows fallin', I go on recallin' my home
Chorus: Delta rhythm, solid rhythm just keeps runnin' through my mind
Music by: Panico, Louie, The Four Keys, and J. V. Cimber.
Words by:
P/P/D: Milwaukee : De Cimber Music Publishers, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Disillusion.
First Line: Disillusion that's all it was I know because you went away
Chorus:
Music by: Austin, Billy, and Lou E. Zoeller.
Words by:
P/P/D: Beverly Hill, Calif : Zoeller Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Do you believe in dreams?
First Line: Lately I find you are on my mind, I'm thinking of no one but you
Chorus: Do you believe in dreams, do you believe that dreams come true?
Music by: Bibo, Irving, Don Piantadosi, George Piantadosi, and Al Piantodosi.
Words by: Bibo, Irving, Don Piantadosi, George Piantadosi, and Al Piantodosi.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't worry, darlin'.
First Line: Missing you so, at the close of the day
Chorus: Don't worry, darlin', while I'm far away
Music by: Waverly, Jack.
Words by: Waverly, Jack.
P/P/D: Bellmore, New York : Jack Waverly, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Don't you notice anything new?
First Line: Since you're my inspiration I'm happy as can be
Chorus: Don't you notice anything new? It's not the clothes I'm wearing
Music by: Lange, Johnny, Jimmy Kennedy, and Jimmy Nolan.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood, Calif : Pyramid Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Driftwood.
First Line: You played the game, set hearts a flame, never gave real love a chance.
Chorus: You don't know where you're going; you don't know where you are
Music by: Mitchell, Nita.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Easter Sunday with you.
First Line: When the spring is on the way, comes my favorite holiday
Chorus: Gee! I'd like to be with you on Easter Sunday
Music by: Reid, Don, and Henrry Tobias.
Words by: Reid, Don, and Henry Tobias.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Glamour girl.
First Line: She's the sweetheart of the campus and so very, very neat
Chorus:
Music by: Welk, Lawrence, Ozzie Clark, and Eddie Koncel.
Words by: Welk, Lawrence, Ozzie Clark, and Eddie Koncel.
P/P/D: Chicago : Vavrin & King, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Got any gum, chum? [English version].
First Line: In our towns and cities, you can see today
Chorus: Got any gum, chum, got any gum?
Music by: Evans, Tolchard.
Words by: Butler, Archie, and Archie De Bear.
P/P/D: S.l. : Keith Prowse & Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry.
First Line: The torch I carry is handsome; it's worth it's heartache in ransom
Chorus: When I want rain, I get sunny weather; I'm just as blue as the sky
Music by: Styne, Jule.
Words by: Cahn, Sammy.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Hail and farewell (The merchant marine song).
First Line: Sailin', sailin', over the seven seas, sailin', sailin', fightin' a salty breeze
Chorus: Hail and farewell, we're the mighty men of thde Merchant Marine
Music by: Pollack, Lew.
Words by: Greene, Mort.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: His daddy's name.
First Line: Baby boy is sleeping with a trust he's keeping
Chorus: His daddy's name and mother is proud of it
Music by: Herscher, Louis, and Roy Newell.
Words by: Herscher, Louis, and Roy Newell.
P/P/D: New York : Superior Music Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Hoja seca.
First Line: Tan lejos de ti me voya morir, tan lejos de ti novoya vivir
Chorus:
Music by: Carbajo, Roque.
Words by:
P/P/D: Mexico : Editorial Mexicana de Musica International, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: How's about it?
First Line: They say that love is great. Each man should have a mate
Chorus: Say, how's about it? Say how about it us making a pair?
Music by: Rosen, Milton.
Words by: Carter, Everett.
P/P/D: New York : Broadcast Music Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I can't promise.
First Line: I should like to get the stars to crown your hair
Chorus: I can't promise I can get the moon for you. Though it seems to be the thing most lovers do
Music by: Brin, Bernard B.
Words by: Innes, David, and B. Blue.
P/P/D: New York : Roy Music Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I learned a lesson I'll never forget.
First Line: I was a fool who would follow no rule, playing the game my own way
Chorus: I learned a lesson I'll never forget, heaven help me if I do
Music by: Davis, Joe.
Words by: Davis, Joe.
P/P/D: New York : Robbins Music Corporation, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I like to make music for you.
First Line: You're to blame for bringin' this on, but honestly I adore it
Chorus: Do-re-mi-fa-so-la, so far, so good, if there's one thing I like to do, I like to make music for you
Music by: Pollack, Lew.
Words by: Newman, Charles.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I want to go to Tokio.
First Line: Ev'ry soldier, sailor and marine who's far away across the sea
Chorus: We singa high singa lee singa low that means we wanna go to Tokio
Music by: Fischer, Fred.
Words by: Mc Carthy, Joe.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: If anyone else turns up (Turn 'em down).
First Line: When I come back I want to find that you're the you I left behind
Chorus: If anyone else turns up, turn 'em down
Music by: Sour, Bob, Floria Vestoff, and Gordon Andrews.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll have to live and learn.
First Line:
Chorus: Today the storm clouds gather all about me because you said our path of life must turn
Music by: Clements, Zeke.
Words by: Clements, Zeke.
P/P/D: Chicago : Adams, Vee & Abbott Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'll remember Suzanne.
First Line: Dreams return like birds in flight to light a flame that burns thru ev'ry night
Chorus: I'll remember that summer, indigo sky
Music by: Segal, Jack, and Dick Miles.
Words by: Segal, Jack, and Dick Miles.
P/P/D: S.l. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm afraid I'm in love.
First Line: Why, when for a thousand long nights I've been happy should things be reversed?
Chorus: I went along, day to day, looking for new things to do
Music by: Warnick, Clay.
Words by: Eager, Edward.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm afraid of you.
First Line:
Chorus: I'm afraid of you, so afraid of your magical charms
Music by: Hollander, Frederick.
Words by: Freed, Ralph.
P/P/D: New York : Fred Fisher Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm leavin' 'cause there's nothin' left to do.
First Line: When you promised that you'd always love me, I vowed that I would always love you too
Chorus: I'm leavin' 'cause there's nothin' left to do
Music by: Mc Enery, "Red River Dave," and Sam Martin.
Words by: Mc Enery, "Red River Dave," and Sam Martin.
P/P/D: New York : RYTVOC Inc, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I'm the guy.
First Line: Living is so much pleasure when there's a dream to share
Chorus: Cause I'm the guy who fell in love with you, I'm the guy who promised to be true
Music by: Hunt, Floyd.
Words by: Silvers, Al.
P/P/D: New York : Melo Song Publishers, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: In a round-a-bout way.
First Line: In a round-a-bout way, I tried to tell you, in a round-a-bout way, how much I care
Chorus:
Music by: Claire, Evelyn, Braheen Urban, and Lew Porter.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood : Urban Music Publications, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Irresistible you.
First Line: Which ever way I turn, no matter what I do, whatever road I take, it leads to you
Chorus: Irresistible you, my heart has gone to you
Music by: Raye, Don, and Gene De Paul.
Words by: Raye, Don, and Gene De Paul.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: I've got a magic lantern.
First Line: As a kid I got quite sentimental 'bout stories from the magic Hindu land
Chorus: I've got a magic lantern and now ev'ry rainy day
Music by: Guinan, Joseph.
Words by: Bickley, Harmon.
P/P/D: Detroit : Shelby Music Pub. Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Japan we're coming.
First Line: Boom-boom! what's that? Oh, boy, that's a dead jap
Chorus: Japan, we're coming, Japan we're coming, but not on a mission of joy
Music by: Hall, Sell.
Words by: Hall, Sell.
P/P/D: Chicago : Sell Hall, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Just make believe.
First Line: Let us play a little game you and I alone
Chorus: Just make believe that you love me, for I'm in love with you
Music by: Stevens, Thomas A.
Words by: Stevens, Thomas A.
P/P/D: New London, Conn. : Thomas A. Stevens, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Just we two.
First Line: You stole my heart away, the very first day I met you
Chorus: We'll whisper to each other, just we two
Music by: Burnett, Eugene.
Words by: Burnett, Eugene.
P/P/D: Miami, Fl. : Mc Ginty Music Publishing Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Laughter polka.
First Line: Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha, let the fun begin! Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha, just keep up your chin!
Chorus:
Music by: Lenk, Harry.
Words by: Lenk, Harry.
P/P/D: New York : Clef Music Company, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Look for the silver lining.
First Line: Please don't be offended if I preach to you awhile
Chorus:
Music by: Kern, Jerome.
Words by: De Sylva, B. G.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Love at second sight.
First Line: Tho' I may have met you before, we just met and passed and no more
Chorus: I didn't look twice when I first saw you but maybe if I'd had a second sight
Music by: Warnick, Clay.
Words by: Eager, Edward.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell & Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Ma-Ma-Marie.
First Line: He would always sigh each time she passed him by
Chorus: Ma-ma-ma-Marie, I love you so!
Music by: Fields, Irving.
Words by: Skylar, Sunny.
P/P/D: New York : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Marry for love.
First Line: Gently lay your sweet face here upon my shoulder
Chorus: Oh, sweetheart marry me for love and we will be so happy
Music by: Lee, Rosemary.
Words by: Lee, Rosemary.
P/P/D: Los Angeles : Rosemary Lee, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Montana Moon.
First Line: When the birds have gone to rest, and the shadows fall, that's the time I love the best
Chorus: Montana Moon, light the night for me soon
Music by: Siegel, Irving, and Alfred K. Brix.
Words by: Siegel, Irving, and Alfred K. Brix.
P/P/D: New York : Joe McDaniel Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Moods.
First Line:
Chorus:
Music by: Maupin, Rex.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Skokie Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Moonlight whispers.
First Line: Moonlight whispers and sweet music to dance to have found us ah! what a sweet delight
Chorus:
Music by: Carle, Frankie.
Words by: Neiburg, Al J.
P/P/D: New York : Jewel Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My girl in my home town.
First Line: Johnny Jones is somehere far away, out beyond the ocean's foam
Chorus: There's some one always thinking of me, it's my girl in my old home town
Music by: Woolsey, Maryhale, Milt Taggart, Glenn Brown, and Lockwood George.
Words by: Woolsey, Maryhale, Milt Taggart, Glenn Brown, and Lockwood George.
P/P/D: New York : Chas. K. Harris Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My little brown book.
First Line: I used to have your picture, a ring that once was yours
Chorus: My little brown book with the silver binding
Music by: Strayhorn, Billy.
Words by: Strayhorn, Billy.
P/P/D: New York : Tempo Music Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My mama says, "no no."
First Line: Tho' my heart goes pitter-patter like the patter when it rains
Chorus: My mama say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Music by: Fiorito, Ted.
Words by: Gallop, Sammy.
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: My star and sun.
First Line: Oh! if I could got to sleep a year, then when I'd awake I'd find you are here!
Chorus: I count the hours thru-out the live long day, I count the minutes since you went away
Music by: Innes, David, and B. Blue.
Words by: Innes, David, and B. Blue.
P/P/D: New York : Roy Music Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Na-Ni (Nah-Nee).
First Line: Love you must have lingered on the way. Love I now forgive you your delay
Chorus: Na-Ni. to be so beautiful is almost taboo, i'm enchanted as I'm gazing at you
Music by: Cornell, C. S.
Words by: Gilbert, L. Wolfe, and Adeline Busik.
P/P/D: New York : La Salle Music Publishers Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Norway (The land of the midnight sun).
First Line: Norway, faraway in Norway, someone held his loved one to his heart
Chorus: When he sailed away from Norway, she could hardly say good-bye
Music by: Fisher, Fred.
Words by: Mc Carthy, Joe.
P/P/D: New York : Fred Fisher Music Co. Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Nothin' doin' baby.
First Line: You're sorry now, that you've broken ev'ry vow
Chorus: Nothin' doin' baby now I'm on the loose
Music by: Whitfield, Evelyn.
Words by: Whitfield, Evelyn.
P/P/D: Seattle, Wash. : Rex Music Publishers, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Nutsy doodling.
First Line: There is a new pescramy that's having a fling-a-ling. It's easy yet befoodleing
Chorus:
Music by: Ford, Rex.
Words by: Ford, Rex.
P/P/D: New York : Ruby Music Co., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Oh! please tell me darling.
First Line: There's a brand new tune that's goin' 'round; I wonder if yhou've heard
Chorus: Oh please tell me, darling, do you really love me?
Music by: Hoffman, Al, Al Trace, and Jerry Livingston.
Words by: Hoffman, Al, Al Trace, and Jerry Livingston.
P/P/D: New York : Santly-Joy Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: One little WAC.
First Line:
Chorus: Our little WAC, a khaki covered cutie, one little WAC released a man for duty
Music by: Dunstedter, Eddie.
Words by: Loesser, Frank.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Saunders Publications, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Paris will be Paris once again.
First Line: Ev'ry day they're getting nearer to Paree, on and on they come from ev'rywhere
Chorus: When the boys take over, and we know they will, Paris will be Paris once again
Music by: Rosenburg, Jack, Paul Cunningham, and Ira Schuster.
Words by: Rosenburg, Jack, Paul Cunningham, and Ira Schuster.
P/P/D: New York : Paull-Pioneer Music Corp., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Please don't say "No."
First Line: I can see that you are above any love of mine you're the shining star that's so far from my reach
Chorus: Please don't say "no" say "maybe" or say "come back in spring"
Music by: Fain, Sammy.
Words by: Freed, Ralph.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Powder Blue.
First Line: When lonely breezes sigh pale shadows paint the sky, and shades of night begin to fall
Chorus: I think of powder blue and corn flowers in the dew a lane where I walked with you long ago
Music by: Shelley, Gladys, Paul McGrane, and Harry Moss.
Words by: Shelley, Gladys, Paul McGrane, and Harry Moss.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Prayer of an airman.
First Line: God of the evening, God of the dawn, help us to fly till our bombs are gone
Chorus:
Music by: Hughes, Rupert.
Words by: Morton, Michael S., Pvt.
P/P/D: New York : Chas. K. Harris Music Publishing Co. Inc, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Prelude.
First Line:
Chorus:
Music by: Maupin, Rex.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : Skokie Music Co, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Rip Van Winkle Junior (Never slept a wink in twenty years).
First Line: Rip Van Winkle slept for twenty years they say
Chorus: Rip Van Winkle Junior never slept a wink in twenty years
Music by: Koppell, Al.
Words by: Bryan, Al.
P/P/D: East Orange, N. J. : Albryan Publications, c1944.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944
Title: Schottische with me.
First Line: What is that tune that ev'ry band is playin' turnin' the style of dancin' upside down?
Chorus: How about that music that's gettin' the mob!
Music by: Lerner, Sammy, Sidney Clare, and Archie Gottler.
Words by: Lerner, Sammy, Sidney Clare, and Archie Gottler.
P/P/D: