Your favorite music from 1931

Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums (as in literal albums of 78s bound together), a classical piece, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).

 

Al Bowlly - "I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind"

 

Paul Robeson - "That's Why Darkies Were Born" / "Sleepy Time Down South" [His Master's Voice/The Gramophone Co. Ltd. 4058]

 

"We’ll Impeach Him,” from the Pulitzer Prize winning Gershwin musical, “Of Thee I Sing.”


The title song ain't bad either.
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Skip James


https://www.discogs.com/Skip-James-Devil-Got-My-Woman-Cypress-Grove-Blues/release/4014615

 

'Dupree Blues' - Willie Walker


Cover versions of Dupree written by [Traditional] | SecondHandSongs

b/w 'South Carolina Rag'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWgsaknXilo&ab_channel=TravelerIntoTheBlue
78 Record: Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (1931)

 

McGee and Ardoin


78 Record: McGee And Ardoin - La Valse A Austin Ardoin (Austin Ardoin Waltz) (1931)
Denus McGee - fiddle; Amédé Ardoin - accordion & vocal

 

Blind Willie McTell - Stomp Down Rider

 

Blind Blake - Rope Strechin' (sic) Blues

Man contemplating his crime and impending death accompanies himself with some inappropriately jaunty guitar work.

 

For all you Cream fans, Skip James - I'm So Glad

 

Pigmeat, mmmm

Bo Carter - Pigmeat Is What I Crave, 5 June 1931

 

'John Henry Blues' - the Two Poor Boys


Joe Evans and Arthur McClain
https://www.discogs.com/The-Two-Poo...ry-Blues-New-Huntsville-Jail/release/14033556
Cover versions of John Henry written by [Unknown] | SecondHandSongs
The Two Poor Boys - Wikipedia

 

Fiddling Doc Roberts Trio


'Sally Ann'
78 Record: Fiddling Doc Roberts Trio - Farewell Waltz (1931)

 

The Carter Family.

 

Willie Brown


'Future Blues'

78 Record: Willie Brown - M And O Blues (1931)
Illustrated Willie Brown discography

 

Cannon's Jug Stompers


78 Record: Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come (1931)
Cover versions of Bring It with You When You Come written by Gus Cannon | SecondHandSongs
Illustrated Gus Cannon (Cannon's Jug Stompers) discography

 

'The Panic is On' - Hazekiah Jenkins (aka Hezekiah Jenkins)


78 Record: Hazekiah Jenkins - The Panic Is On (1931)
Cover versions of The Panic Is On written by Hezekiah Jenkins | SecondHandSongs

b/w 'Shout You Cats'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFN6WGXx0t4&ab_channel=WallakAt

 

Limehouse Blues /Echoes of the Jungle⸻Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra
❨Victor–22743❩

 

Star Dust /After You've Gone⸻Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
❨Crown–3093❩

 

Tommie Bradley


with James Cole - violin
https://www.discogs.com/Tommie-Bradley-Please-Dont-Act-That-Way-Four-Day-Blues/release/15620569

 

Roy Smeck's Trio



78 Record: Roy Smeck's Trio - When It's Springtime In The Rockies (1931)
"Vocal refrain by the Boy Friends"
song first released in 1929 by Bud and Joe Billings (aka Carson Robison and Frank Luther)
Cover versions of When It's Springtime in the Rockies written by Robert Sauer, Mary Hale Woolsey | SecondHandSongs

 

'I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms' - Buster Carter and Preston Young


with Posey Rorer - fiddle
https://www.discogs.com/Buster-Cart...l-Roll-In-My-Sweet-Babys-Arms/release/7723961
Cover versions of I'll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms by Buster Carter and Preston Young | SecondHandSongs

 

'As time goes by' - Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees


reissued in 1943 ("featured in Warner Bros. film Casablanca")
78 Record: Rudy Vallée - As Time Goes By (1943)
Cover versions of As Time Goes By written by Herman Hupfeld | SecondHandSongs

 

'Dream a little dream of me' - Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra


https://www.discogs.com/Ozzie-Nelso...u-Dream-A-Little-Dream-Of-Me/release/12109739
Cover versions of Dream a Little Dream of Me written by Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt, Gus Kahn | SecondHandSongs

 

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Job: A Masque for Dancing