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Ruby Murray - Smile

The music was written by Charlie Chaplin as soundtrack for the 1936 movie Modern Times. The sheet music credited Charlie Chaplin with the lyrics also, But this is disputed.

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Josephine Baker - Dinah

Written by Harry Akst, Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young. It was first performed by Eddie Cantor in Kid Boots in 1925.

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Eve Boswell - If You Love Me (Really Love Me)

The music is by Marguerite Monnot and words by Geoffrey Parsons. It is based on the French song Hymne A L'Amour, written by Edith Piaf.

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Billy Mayerl - Phil The Fluter's Ball

A traditional song given a very untraditional treatment by the Master of Syncopation. The words are by (William) Percy French.

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Leslie Hutchinson (Hutch) - Ain't Misbehavin'

Fats Waller and Harry Brooks wrote the music, and Andy Razaf the lyrics. Written in 1929, the song quickly became a standard and has been recorded by many top artists. I don't think I know of another recording which includes the verse as well as the chorus.

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The Jack Jackson Orchestra (v. Alberta Hunter) - Two Cigarettes In The Dark - 1935

A song by Lew Pollack & Paul Francis Webster.

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The Beverley Sisters - Undecided

Written in 1938 by Sid Robins and Charlie Shavers, and perhaps most famously recorded by Chick Webb & His Orchestra with vocals by Ella Fitzgerald in 1939. I don't have a date for this recording, but it's certainly from the early part of the Beverley Sisters' career.

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