Your favorite music from 1937

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).

 

The Ink Spots - "Swing High, Swing Low"

 

Dang, was gonna say Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert but that was in January 1938 :/

 

Robert Johnson's Dallas session... one song from said session

 

Recorded in ‘36, I think, but released in ‘37. “Get Along Home Cindy,” Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

 

Robert Johnson - “Hellhound on My Trail”

Duke Ellington - “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue”

Two of the greats by the greats!

 

Careless Love - Blind Boy Fuller

 

Bill Monroe, in the process of inventing bluegrass... here as the Monroe Brothers

 

Sleepy John Estes and one of his signature songs, Floating Bridge

 

For me, 1937 ranks up there with '57, '67 and '77! And '47!

 

The Mills Brothers - The Song Is Ended

 

Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing

 

Duke Ellington - Caravan

 

Lonnie Johnson
'Swing out Rhythm'

 

Fred Astaire - Nice Work If You Can Get It

 

Fred Astaire - They Can't Take That Away From Me

 

^ x2 on Nice Work If You Can Get It - this one sung by Billie Holiday

 

The Modern Mountainers featuring the “Houston Hipster” himself, Smokey Wood. “Everybody’s Truckin’.” Truth be told, I could choose any Smokey Wood & His Wood Chips or Modern Mountaineers track, since they’re all great, and were all recorded in 1937.

 

Smokey Wood’s story, in all it’s glory:

Everybody’s Truckin’ – The Hopped Up History of Smokey Wood, The Hillbilly Hipster of Houston

 

Indian Love Call - Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy

 

Hottest Gal In Town - Lil Johnson