I have collected titles of tunes most commonly played by traditional jazz bands. Here's the final batch - titles from V to Z.
Variety Stomp
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Joe Trent, Ray Henderson,
Bud Green
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1927
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Varsity Drag
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Ray Henderson & Buddy De
Sylva & Lew Brown
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1927
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Very Thought of You
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Noble
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1934
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Vieux Carré
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Tony Parenti (1900-72)
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?1950
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Vine Street Drag
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W. Howard Armstrong
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1930
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Viper Mad
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Sidney Bechet, Rousseau
Simmons
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1924
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Vo Do Do Deo Blues
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Jack Yellen (w) and Milton
Ager (m)
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1927
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Volare
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Domenico Modugno (m) &
Mitchell Parish (w)
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1958
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Wabash Blues
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Dave Ringle (w) and Fred
Meinken (m)
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1921
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Wait Till the Sun Shines
Nellie
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Andrew Sterling & Harry
Von Tilzer
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1905
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Waiting for the Robert E Lee
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Muir & L W Gilbert
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1912
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Wait Till You See Ma Chérie
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Richard A. Whiting and Leo
Robins
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1929
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Walking My Baby Back Home
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Ahlert & Turk
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1930
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Walking the Dog
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Shelton Brooks
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1916
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Walking With the King
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Trad
|
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Waltz You Saved for Me
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Wayne King & Emile
Flindt (m); and Gus Kahn (w)
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1930
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Wang Wang Blues
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Busse & Mueller &
Johnson & Wood
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1921
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Washington and Lee Swing
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T.W. Allen, M. W. Sheafe &
C. A. Robbins
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1910
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Watermelon Man
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(m) Hancock & (w)
Hendricks
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1962
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Wa Wa Wa
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Morton Schaefer
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1926
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Way Down Upon the Swanee
River
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Stephen Foster
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1851
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Way Down Yonder in New
Orleans
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Henry Creamer & Turner
Layton
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1922
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Way He Loves is Just Too
Bad, The
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Bill Curtis, Jackie
Rose,Andy Robbins
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1928
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We Just Couldn’t Say
Goodbye
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Harry Woods (w and m)
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1932
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We Shall Not Be Moved
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We Shall Walk Thro the
Streets of the City
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Dr. T.H. Peacock (mus) &
Mr. A. Flamman (w)
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1874
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We Sure Do Need Him Now
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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?1930
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We’ll gather lilacs
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Hassall & Novello
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1940
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Weary Blues
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Artie Mathews & Greene &
Gates
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1915
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Weeping Willow Blues
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P. Carter
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1924
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We'll Meet Again
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Ross Parker & Hughie
Charles
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1939
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West End Blues
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Joe Oliver & Clarence
Williams
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1928
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West Indies Blues
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Edgar Dowell & S
Williams & C Williams
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1923
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What a Difference a Day Made
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Maria Grever (Sp) (w &
m) Engl lyrics by Stanley Adams
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1934
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What a Friend We Have in
Jesus
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Joseph Scriven [1855 words]
& Charles Crozat Converse [1868 music]
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1868
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What a Little Moonlight Can
Do
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Harry Woods (w & m)
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1934
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What a Wonderful World
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George Veiss & Bob
Thiele
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1967
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What Am I Living For if not
for you?
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Art Harris and Fred Jay
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1958
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What-Cha Gonna Do When There
Ain't No Jazz
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Edgar Leslie (m) & Pete
Wendling (w)
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1920
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What Do You Want to Make
Those Eyes
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Joseph McCarthy, Howard
Johnson, James Monaco
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1916
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What If We Do?
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Clarence Williams &
Johnson
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1929
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What is This Thing Called
Love
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Cole Porter
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1929
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What’ll I Do
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Berlin
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1924
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What’s the Matter With the
Mill?
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Memphis Minnie & Joe
McCoy
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1930
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When Erastus Plays His Old
Kazoo
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Sam Coslow, Sammy Fain,
Larry Spier
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1927
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When I Get Low I Get High
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Marion Sunshine
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1935
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When I Grow Too Old To Dream
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Oscar Hammerstein &
Sigmund Romberg
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1934
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When I Leave This World
Behind
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Berlin
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1915
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When I Move to the Sky
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Trad
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When I Take My Sugar to Tea
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Fain & Norman &
Cahall
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1931
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When Irish Eyes are Smiling
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Geoff Graff. Ernest Ball,
Chauncey Ollcott
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1914
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When It’s Sleepy Time Down
South
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Leon & Otis Rene &
Clarence Muse
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1931
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When It’s Springtime in
the Rockies
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Robert Sauer (m) & Mary
Hale Wolsey (w)
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1929
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When My Dreamboat Comes Home
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Cliff Friend & Dave
Franklin
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1936
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When My Sugar Walks Down the
Street
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McHugh & Austin &
Mills
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1924
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When Shadows Fall
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Clarkson, Clarkson & Van
Steeden
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1931
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When Somebody Thinks You’re
Wonderful
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Harry Woods
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?1930
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When the Midnight Choochoo
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Berlin
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1912
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When The Moon Comes Over the
Mountain
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Katy Smith, Harry Woods,
Howard Johnson
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1931
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When the Red Red Robin
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Harry Woods
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1926
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When the Saints
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Virgil Stamps and Luther G.
Presley
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? 1920
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When the Swallows Come Back
to Capistrano
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Leon Rene
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1940
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When You and I Were Young
Maggie
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J A Butterfield & G W
Johnson
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1866
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When You Wore a Tulip
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Percy Wenrich & Jack
Mahoney
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1914
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When Your Hair Has Turned to
Silver
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Peter de Rose (m) Charlie
Tobias (w)
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1930
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When You're Smiling
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Mark Goodwin, Joe Fisher,
Larry Shay
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1929
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Whenever You're Lonesome,
Just Telephone Me
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Pete Wendling & Max
Kortlander
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1922
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Where Is My Wandering Boy
Tonight
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Robert Lowry (w and m)
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1877
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Whiffenspoof Song
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Todd Galloway (m – attrib)
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1895
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Whispering
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John and Malvin Schonberger,
Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose
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1920
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Whistling Rufus
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Kerry Mills
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1899
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White Cliffs of Dover
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Burton & Walter Kent (m)
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1941
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White Sport Coat
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Marty Robbins (w & m)
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1957
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Whoopin' Blues
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trad
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?
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Who's Sorry Now
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Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and
Ted Snyder
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1923
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Who Stole My Heart Away?
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Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach &
Oscar Hammerstein II
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1925
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Who Threw The Whiskey in the
Well
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Lucky Millinder, Eddie
deLange, Johnny Brooks
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1942
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Who Walks in When I Walk Out
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Al Hoffman & Al Goodhart
(m) & Ralph Freed (w)
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1933
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Who Wouldn't Love You
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Bill Carey (w) & Carl
Fischer (m)
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1942
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Why Don’t You Do Right
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‘Kansas Joe’ McCoy
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1936
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Why Don’t You Go Down to
New Orleans
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(?) Paul Barbarin (m) &
(?) Margaret Baird (w)
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1950
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Wild Cat Blues
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Clarence Williams and Fats
Waller
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1923
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Wild Man Blues
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Morton & Armstrong
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1927
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Willie the Weeper
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Melrose & Marty Bloom &
Grant Rymal
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1920
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Willow Weep for Me
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Ann Ronell (w & m)
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1932
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Will You Love Me in December
as you do in May
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Ernest R. Ball (m) &
James J. Walker (w)
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1905
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Wining Boy Blues
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Morton
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1939
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Winter Wonderland
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Smith and Bernard
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1934
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Wish Me Luck as you Wave Me
Goodbye
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Phil Park & Harry Parr
Davies
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1939
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Wolverine Blues
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Morton
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1923
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Won't You Be Kind To Me?
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Hattie Hart
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1928
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Wooden Joe's March
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Wooden Joe Nicholas ?
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?1920
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Working Man Blues
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Oliver & Williams
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1923
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World is Waiting for th
Sunrise
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Eugene Lockhart & Ernest
Seitz
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1919
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Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
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Harry Barris, Ted Koehler,
Bill Moll
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1931
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Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
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Pete Wendling (Lyrics), Ray
Goetz, Joe Young.
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1916
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Yama Yama Man
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Karl Hoschna & Colin
Davis
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1908
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Yanky Doodle Dandy (I’m a)
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George M. Cohan
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1904
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Yearning
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Joe Burke & Benny Davis
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1925
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Yellow Bird
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Norman Luboff [m], Bergman
and Keith
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1957
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Yellow Dog Blues
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Handy
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1914
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Yes Sir That's My Baby
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Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson
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1925
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Yes, Lord, I’m Crippled
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Trad Spiritual
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c 1920
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Yes We Have No Bananas
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Frank Silver & Irving
Cohn
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1923
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You Always Hurt the One You
Love
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Doris Fisher & Allan
Roberts
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1944
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You Are My Lucky Star
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Nacio Herb Brown (m) &
Arthur Freed (wds)
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1935
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You Are My Sunshine
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Jimmie Davis & Charles
Mitchell
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1911
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You Belong To Me
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Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart,
Chilton Price
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1952
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You Broke Your Promise
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Wyle, Taylor and Pole
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1949
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You Brought a New Kind of
Love to Me
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Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal,
Pierre Norman
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1930
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You Can Have My Husband But
Please Don't Mess with my Man
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Dorothy Labostrie
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1960
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You Can't Escape From Me
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You Do Something to Me
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Cole Porter
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1929
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You Got Me Crying Again
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Isham Jones (m) &
Charles Newman (w)
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1933
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You Let Me Down
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Harry Warren (m) and Al
Dubin
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1935
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You Made Me Love You
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Monaco & McCarthy
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1913
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You Must Have Been a
Beautiful Baby
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Harry Warren & Johnny
Mercer
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1938
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You Rascal, You
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Sam Theard
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1931
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You Stepped out of a Dream
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Gus Kahn (wds) & Nacio
Herb Brown (m)
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1940
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You Tell Me Your Dream
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C.N.Daniells, Rice &
Brown
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You Took Advantage of Me
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Rodgers and Hart
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1928
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You’d Be So Nice to Come
Home to
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Cole Porter
|
1942
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You’ll Never Know
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Mack Gordon (wds) &
Harry Warren (m)
|
1941
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You’re Driving Me Crazy
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Walter Donaldson
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1930
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You're in Kentucky Sure as
You're Born
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George Little, Haven
Gillespie & Larry Shay
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1923
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You’re Nobody Till
Somebody Loves You
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Russ Morgan & Larry
Stock & James Cavanaugh
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1944
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Your Feet's Too Big
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Ada Benson & Fred Fisher
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1935
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Yours
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Gonzalo Roig (m) and Jack
Sherr (Engl. Wds)
|
1941
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You’ve Been A Good Ol’
Wagon
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Bessie Smith and Stuart
Balcom
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?1925
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You’ve Got to Give Me Some
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Clarence Williams
|
1929
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You’ve Got to See Mama
Every Night
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Conrad & Rose
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1923
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You're the Cream in my
Coffee
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Henderson, De Sylva, Brown
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1928
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You've Got the Right Key but
the Wrong Keyhole
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Eddie Green & Clarence
Williams
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1923
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You Were Meant for Me
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Arthur Freed (w) & Nacio
Herb Brown (m)
|
1929
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You Were Only Passing Time
With Me
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Alex Hill
|
1930
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Y Viva Espana
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Leo Caerts (m) & Eddie
Seago (Ebngl. Wds)
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1973
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Zing Went the Strings of my
Heart
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James E. Hanley (w & m)
|
1935
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Zulu’s Ball
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Joe 'King' Oliver & C.
Alvin Robinson
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1923
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