Your favorite music of 1938

This is one of a few threads I unfortunately let expire. I'll be more careful not to let these expire in the future.

Here was the previous thread: Your favorite music from 1938?

As always, you can list 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).

 

Amy Beach - Five Improvisations, Op. 148

This was actually composed in 1934, but I use the publication and/or premiere date as the date of the piece, and that was 1938. (I'm not sure why there was a more significant than normal lag for this one.) This is a quite varied set of five miniatures--particularly good for recitals, or as thesis/dissertation pieces and the like, which it has been used for many times, especially recently--by a very underrecognized historical female composer.

As you can see from the photo of the score below, most of Beach's work was issued under the name "H.H.A. Beach"--she was married to a Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach. Her maiden name was Amy Marcy Cheney. Interestingly she signed her name so that at least here, it appeared to be "Amy McBeach"--the "Mc" coming from "Marcy Cheney"--unless what appears to be a "c" is a period.

Beach's dad was one of Oren Burbank Cheney's nephews. Oren was a well-known 19th century politician and minister who was important in the abolitionist movement.

 

"Heart And Soul", written by Frank Loesser & Hoagy Carmichael, performed by Bea Wain w/ Larry Clinton & his Orchestra:

 

The Monroe Brothers (Charles and Bill)

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78 Record: Monroe Brothers (Charles and Bill) - On My Way Back Home (1938)

 

The Blue Sky Boys


'Old Fashioned Meeting'
78 Record: Blue Sky Boys - When The Stars Begin To Fall (1938)

 

Tampa Red and the Chicago Five


Tampa Red And The Chicago Five - Sweetest Gal In Town - ultratop.be
Illustrated Tampa Red discography

 

Sleepy John Estes


'Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)'
popsike.com - SLEEPY JOHN ESTES "Special Agent" DECCA 7491 E - auction details
Illustrated Sleepy John Estes discography

 

'Adieu False Heart' - Arthur Smith Trio


Arthur Smith - fiddle & vocal; w. the Delmore Brothers - guitars
78 Record: Arthur Smith Trio - Adieu False Heart (1938)
Cover versions of Adieu False Heart by Arthur Smith Trio | SecondHandSongs

 

Robert Johnson - Stop Breakin' Down Blues

 

Braggin' in Brass/ Carnival in Caroline
The gal From Joe's / I let a Song go out of my Heart
Misty Mornin' / Saratoga Swing
Lambeth Walk / Prelude to a Kiss
Exposition Swing / I Haven't Changed a Thing
Mighty Like the Blues / Buffet Flat
Misty Mornin' / Saratoga Swing
Pyramid / When my Sugar Walks Down the Street (all the Little Birdies go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)
Old King Dooji / Boy Meets Horn
Blue Light / Slap Happy⸻Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra


The Very Thought of You/ I Can't get Started
He's Funny That Way / Now They call it Swing⸻Billie Holiday & her Orchestra

 

That spooky organ from Fats Waller brings it all home.

 

One of the biggest hits of 1947 was "Heartaches" by Ted Weems and His Orchestra, featuring whistling by Elmo Tanner. But it had been recorded nine years earlier (1938), when it failed to catch on.

Actually, the Billboard best-seller charts listed two versions of the Weems song together: a 1933 version on Bluebird (reissued on RCA Victor) and the 1938 version on Decca.

Here's the 1938 version:

 

We were still four years away from "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, but secular Christmas songs had begun to sell, especially those about Santa Claus. Mostly forgotten today was this 1938 hit by the Hoosier Hot Shots, "The Man with the Whiskers":

 

Washboard Sam and his Washboard Band


78 Record: Washboard Sam And His Washboard Band - Bucket's Got A Hole In It (1938)
Cover versions of The Bucket's Got a Hole in It written by [Traditional] | SecondHandSongs

 

(John Lee) Sonny Boy Williamson


w. Yank Rachell - mandolin
Sonny Boy Williamson – Honey Bee Blues / Whiskey Head Blues (1938, Shellac)
Cover versions of Whiskey Headed Blues by Sonny Boy Williamson [US1] | SecondHandSongs
Illustrated John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson discography

 

Basie w/ Lester, Jumpin' @ the Woodside

 

any big band music from that year...

 

Basie radio broadcast, supposedly 1938

 

Wade Mainer and Sons of the Mountaineers


'Lonely Tomb'
Cover versions of Lonely Tombs written by Wade Mainer | SecondHandSongs
78 Record: Wade Mainer And Sons Of The Mountaineers - All My Friends (1938)

 

'Darling, think of what you have done' - the Morris Brothers (Wiley and Zeke)


78 Record: Morris Brothers (Wiley and Zeke) - Let Me Be Your Salty Dog (1938)
Morris Brothers – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

 

Bruno Walter's live January 1938 recording of his mentor, Gustav Mahler's, ninth symphony, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

Elijah Jones


Victor matrix BS-020124. Mean acting mama / Elijah Jones - Discography of American Historical Recordings
w. (John Lee) Sonny Boy Williamson - harmonica; Yank Rachell - mandolin

b/w 'Katy Fly'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJGtjQIYqtI&ab_channel=ElijahJones-TopicElijahJones-Topic
Victor matrix BS-020120. Katy fly / Elijah Jones - Discography of American Historical Recordings
Elijah Jones / Yank Rachell – Mean Actin’ Mama / Katy Fly (1938, Shellac)