I have spent hours collecting titles of tunes commonly played by traditional jazz bands. Here's the next batch - titles from N to R.
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Navigation Pull, The
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Ralph Hunt
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2012
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Nearer my God to Thee
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Lowell Mason (m) and Sarah
F. Adams (w - 1841)
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1856
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Need a Little Sugar in my
Bowl
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Dally Small, J. Tim Brymn, C
Williams
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1931
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New Orleans
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Carmichael
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1932
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New Orleans Bump
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Jelly Roll Morton
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1929
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New Orleans Function
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Trad
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New Orleans Shuffle
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Bill Whitmore
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1925
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New Orleans Stomp
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Lil Hardin & Louis
Armstrong
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1924
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New Orleans Wiggle
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Piron & Bocage
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1923
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New Year Blues
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Glenn Crytzer
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?2010
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New York New York
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John Kander (m) and Fred Ebb
(w)
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1977
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Nice Cup of Tea
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Henry Sullivan (m) and
A,.P.Herbert (w)
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?1947
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Nice Work if you can get it
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Gershwin & Gershwin
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1937
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Nigel's Dream
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Shaye Cohn
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2015
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Night and Day
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Cole Porter
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1932
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Nightingale Sang in Berkeley
Square
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Eric Maschwitz & Sherwin
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1940
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Nineteen Nineteen March
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?Karl L. King
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?1911
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No Moon At All
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Redd Evans (w) and Dave Mann
(m)
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1949
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No Particular Place to Go
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Chuck Berry
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1964
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Nobody Knows the Trouble
I’ve Seen
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Trad
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Nobody Knows the Way I Feel
This Morning
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Tom & Pearl Delaney
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1924
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Nobody Knows You When You’re
Down and Out
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Jimmy Cox
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1923
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Nobody's Sweetheart Now
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Kahn, Erdman, Meyers &
Schoebel
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1924
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Now is the Hour
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Clement Scott, Maewa Kaihau
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1913
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Nuages
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Reinhardt
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1940
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Object of My Affection
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Grier & Tomlin & Poe
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1934
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Octopus's Garden
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Richard Starkey
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1969
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Of All the Wrongs You’ve
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Smith & Dowell &
Payton
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1924
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Oh!
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Byron Gay & Arnold
Johnson
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1919
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Oh Baby (Donaldson)
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Donaldson & De Sylva
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1923
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Oh Baby (Murphy)
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Owen Murphy
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1928
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Oh Daddy
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Will Russell & Ed
Herbert
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1921
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Oh Didn’t He Ramble
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J R Johnson & Cole
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1902
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Oh How I Miss You Tonight
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Benny Davis, Joe Burke, Mark
Fisher
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1925
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Oh How We Danced on the
Night We Were Wed
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Al Jolson & Saul Chaplin
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1946
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Oh Johnny Oh
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Abe Olman (m) & Ed Rose
(w)
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1917
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Oh Monah
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Ted Weems (m) and 'Country'
Washburn (w)
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1931
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Oh Sister Ain’t That Hot
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Donaldson and White
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1923
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Oh You Beautiful Doll
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A. Seymour Brown & Nat
D. Ayer
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1911
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Old Age Blues
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Jess Williams (m) & Pete
Curtis (w)
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1921
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Old Man Mose
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Armstrong & Randolph
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1935
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Old Man River
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Oscar Hammerstein (w) &
Jerome Kern (m)
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1927
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Old Miss Rag
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Handy
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1915
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Old Red (aka New Old Red)
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Blind Boy Fuller
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Old Rocking Chair
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Hoagy Carmichael
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1929
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Old Rugged Cross
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Rev George Bennard
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1913
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Old Spinning Wheel
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Billy Hill (Geo Brown) (w &
m)
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1933
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Old Stack o' Lee Blues
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Trad from about 1897
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1897
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Old Time Religion
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Trad
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Pre-1937
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Old Fashioned Love
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J P Johnson & Mack
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1923
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Olga
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Dave Nelson and Joe Oliver
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1930
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Once in a While
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W H Butler
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1927
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On a Coconut Island
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Robert Alexander Anderson
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1936
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On a Slow Boat to China
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Frank Loesser
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1948
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On Green Dolphin Street
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Bronislau Kaper
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1947
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On Revival Day
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Razaf
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1930
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On the Road to Home Sweet
Home
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Van Alstyne & Kahn
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1914
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On the Sunny Side of the
Street
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Dorothy Fields & Jimmy
McHugh
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1930
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On Top of Old Smoky
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Trad
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(?) C19th
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On Treasure Island
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Burk & Leslie
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1935
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Once in a While
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Green & Edwards
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1937
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One I Love Belongs to Sm E
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Isham Jones (m) & Gus
Kahn (w)
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1924
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One Sweet Letter from You
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Harry Warren & Lew Brown
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1927
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Onions (Les Oignons)
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Bechet
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1947
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Only a Look
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Virginia Marshall & Anne
Shepherd
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1948
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Oriental Jazz (a.k.a.
Soudan, a.k.a. Oriental Rag)
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Gabriel Sebek
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1902
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Oriental Man
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Blythe
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1927
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Oriental Strut
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Johnny St. Cyr
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1926
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Original Dixieland One-Step
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La Rocca & J R Robinson
& Crandall
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1912
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Ory’s Creole Trombone
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Edward ‘Kid’ Ory
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1921
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Ostrich Walk
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La Rocca & Shields
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1917
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Our Day Will Come
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Mort Garson and Bob Hilliard
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1963
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Our Love is Here to Stay
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George and Ira Gershwin
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1938
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Out of Nowhere
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Edward Heyman & John
Green
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1930
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Over in the Gloryland
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James Acuff & Emmett
Dean
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1920
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Over the Waves
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Rosas
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1885
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Owl Call Blues
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Shaye Cohn (m) and Erika
Lewis (w)
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2014
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Pacific Rim Stomp
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Dick Winfrey & Phil
Boutelje
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1922
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Pack Up Your Troubles
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Asaf & Powell
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1940
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Paddlin’ Madeline Home
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Harry Woods
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1925
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Pagan Love Song
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Nacio Herb Brown &
Arthur Freed
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1929
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Painting the Clouds with
Sunshine
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Al Dubin (w) Joe Burke (m)
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1929
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Panama Rag
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William H Tyers
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1911
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Panic is On, The
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Fats Waller, Bert Clarke,
Winston Tharp, George Scrimmage
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1935
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Papa De Da Da
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Williams and Williams
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1925
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Papa Dip
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Hardin & Armstrong
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1926
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Papa's Got Your Bathwater On
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Hattie Hart
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1930
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Paper Doll
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Johnny S Black
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1915
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Paper Roses
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Janice Torre (w) & Fred
Spielman
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1930
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Party’s Over
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Styne & Comden &
Green
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1956
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Pasadena
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Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie &
Harry Warren
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1923
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Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour
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William H. Doane (m) &
Francis J. Crosby (w)
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1870
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Peace in the Valley
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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1939
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Peanut Vendor
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Moises Simons (m) &
Marion Sunshine & W. Wolfe Gilbert (w)
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1931
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Pearls, The
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Jelly Roll Morton
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1919
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Peg o’ My Heart
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Fred Fisher (mus) &
Alfred Bryan (w)
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1913
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Pennies from Heaven
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Burke and Johnston
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1936
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People Get Ready
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Curtis Mayfield
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1965
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Percolatin' Blues
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Lemuel Fowler
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1925
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Perdido
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Juan Tizol (m), Harry Lenk,
Ervin Drake
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1942
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Perdido Street Blues
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Lil Hardin Armstrong
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1926
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Petite Fleur
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Sidney Bechet & Bonifay
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1952
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Please
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Ralph Rainger (m) and Leo
Robin (w)
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1932
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Please Don't Talk About Me
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Sidney Clare & Sam Stept
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1930
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Polka Dots and Moonbeams
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Johnny Burke amd James Van
Heusen
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1940
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Poor Butterfly
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Hubble and Golden
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1916
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Poor Old Joe (Old Black Joe)
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Stephen Foster
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1853
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Porter’s Love Song to a
Chambermaid
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J.P.Johnson & Andy Razaf
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1932
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Postage Stomp
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Sam Goble and Vic Johnston
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1930
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Postman Pat
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Bryan Daly (w & m)
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1982
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Postman’s Lament
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? Johnny Wiggs
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1950
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Potato Head Blues
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Armstrong
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1927
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Preacher, The
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Horace Silver
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1959
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Pretend
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Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman,
Frank Levere
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1952
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Pretty Audrey
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Louis Dumaine and Morris
Rouse
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1927
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Pretty Baby
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Egbert van Alstyne, Gus
Kahn, Tony Jackson
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1916
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Prisoner of Love
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Colombo, Robin, Gaskill
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1931
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Promenade aux Champs Elysees
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Sidney Bechet
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1951
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PS I Love You
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Gordon Jenkins (m) &
Johnny Mercer (w)
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1934
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Puffin
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Florence Page Jaques (w,
1942) & Kevin Stannard (m, 2002)
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2002
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Put 'Em Down Blues
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Eloise J. Bennett
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1927
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Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
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Stanley Murphy & Percy
Wenrich
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1909
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Puttin’ on the Ritz
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Irving Berlin
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1928
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Put Your Arms Around Me
Honey
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Junie McCree (w) &
Albert Von Tilzer (m)
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1910
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Put Your Hand in the Hand
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G. MacLellan
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c. 1950
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Ragged But Right
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Riley Puckett
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1933
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(It's) Raining In My Heart
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Felice Bryant &
Boudleaux Bryant
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1959
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Red Hot Mama
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Gilbert Wells & Bob
Cooper & Fred Rose
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1924
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Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away
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Alfred Bryan, James V.
Monaco & Pete Wendling
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1927
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Red Onion Drag
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Louis Dumaine and Eddie
Jackson
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1927
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Red River Valley
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Trad
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Red Roses for a Blue Lady
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Sid Tepper & Roy Brodsky
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1948
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Red Sails in the Sunset
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Williams & Kennedy
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1935
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Redwing
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Thurland Chattaway &
Kerry Mlls
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1907
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Rent Party Blues
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Ellington & Hodges
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1929
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Rip 'Em Up Joe
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Louis Dumaine and Eddie
Jackson
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1927
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River Stay Away From My Door
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Harry Woods & Mort Dixon
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1931
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Riverboat Shuffle
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Carmichael & Voynow &
Mills & Parish
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1924
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River Man
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Joseph 'Wingy' Manone
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1936
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Riverside Blues
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Thomas Dorsey & Richard
M. Jones
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1923
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Rock-a-Bye My Baby with a
Dixie Melody
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Jean Schwartz (m) & Sam
Lewis & Joe Young (w)
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1918
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Rock Around The Clock
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Friedman & De Knight
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1953
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Rock Me
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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1938
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Roll Along, Prairie Moon
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Von Tilzer & Fiorito &
MacPherson
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1935
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Roll Jordan Roll
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Anon
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1865
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Rolling Round the World
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Scott Sanders
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1927
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Rose Room
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Harry Williams, Art Hickman
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1917
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Roses of Picardy
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Frederic Weatherly &
Hayden Wood
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1916
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Rose of Washington Square
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Ballard MacDonald (w) &
James Hanley (m)
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1939
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Rosetta
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Henri Woode & Earl Hines
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1933
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Round and Round, Me and My
Baby Go...
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Charlie Nickerson
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1930
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Royal Garden Blues
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Spencer & Clarence
Williams
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1919
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Royal Telephone
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Frederick M Lehman
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1919
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Rum & Coca Cola
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Amsterdam & Sullivan &
Baron
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1944
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Running Down My Man
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Merline Johnson
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?1936
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Running Wild
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A. Harrington Gibbs, Leo
Wood, Joseph Grey
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1922
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Russian Rag
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George L. Cobb
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1918
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