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154 jazz standards dated in the 1930s, written 1930–1939, 24 with a chord chart. Includes (I Would Do) Anything for You, (I've Got) Beginner's Luck, and A Fine Romance.
(I Would Do) Anything for You Alex Hill, Claude Hopkins · 1932 (I've Got) Beginner's Luck George Gershwin · 1937 (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) Sam Coslow · 1936 A Fine Romance Jerome Kern · 1936 A Foggy Day George Gershwin · 1937 A-Tisket, A-Tasket [traditional] · 1938 All God's Chillun Got Rhythm Bronisław Kaper · 1937 All of Me Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons · 1931 All the Things You Are Jerome Kern · 1939 Alone Together Arthur Schwartz · 1932 April in Paris Vernon Duke · 1932 Aquarela do Brasil Ary Barroso · 1939 Are You Havin' Any Fun? Sammy Fain · 1939 As Time Goes By Herman Hupfeld · 1931 Autumn in New York Vernon Duke · 1937 Azure Duke Ellington · 1937 Beautiful Love Wayne King · 1931 Begin the Beguine Cole Porter · 1935 Bei Mir Bistu Shein Sholom Secunda · 1932 Blame It on My Youth Oscar Levant · 1934 Blue Lou Irving Mills, Edgar Sampson · 1935 Blue Moon Richard Rodgers · 1934 Blues in My Heart Benny Carter, Irving Mills · 1931 Body and Soul Johnny Green · 1930 But Not for Me George Gershwin · 1930 By Myself Arthur Schwartz · 1937 By the Sleepy Lagoon Eric Coates · 1930 Caravan Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol · 1936 Cherokee Ray Noble · 1938 Close Your Eyes Bernice Petkere · 1933 Cocktails for Two Sam Coslow · 1934 Comes Love Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias · 1939 Concerto for Clarinet Artie Shaw · 1936 Dancing on the Ceiling Richard Rodgers · 1930 Day Dream Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn · 1939 Dinah Harry Akst · 1934 Don't Blame Me Jimmy McHugh · 1932 Dream a Little Dream of Me Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt · 1931 Drop Me Off in Harlem Duke Ellington · 1933 East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) Brooks Bowman · 1935 Easy Living Ralph Rainger · 1937 Easy to Love Cole Porter · 1936 Embraceable You George Gershwin · 1930 Exactly Like You Jimmy McHugh · 1930 Falling in Love with Love Richard Rodgers · 1938 Fine and Mellow Billie Holiday · 1939 Flying Home Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman · 1939 For All We Know J. Fred Coots · 1934 Forty-Second Street Harry Warren · 1933 Frenesí Alberto Domínguez · 1939 Georgia on My Mind Hoagy Carmichael · 1931 Goodbye Gordon Jenkins · 1935 Guilty Harry Akst, Richard A. Whiting · 1931 Have You Met Miss Jones? Richard Rodgers · 1937 Heart and Soul Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser · 1938 How Deep Is the Ocean? Irving Berlin · 1932 I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues Duke Ellington · 1937 I Can't Be Bothered Now George Gershwin · 1937 I Can't Get Started Vernon Duke · 1936 I Cover the Waterfront Johnny Green · 1933 I Didn't Know What Time It Was Richard Rodgers · 1939 I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You Victor Young · 1932 I Got Plenty o' Nuttin George Gershwin · 1935 I Got Rhythm George Gershwin · 1930 I Loves You, Porgy George Gershwin · 1935 I Only Have Eyes for You Harry Warren · 1934 I Thought About You Jimmy Van Heusen · 1939 I Wished on the Moon Ralph Rainger, Dorothy Parker · 1935 I'll Never Smile Again Ruth Lowe · 1939 I’m Confessin’ That I Love You Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds · 1930 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You George Bassman · 1932 I'm Thru With Love Matty Malneck · 1931 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Irving Berlin · 1937 I've Got the World on a String Harold Arlen · 1932 If I Should Lose You Ralph Rainger · 1936 In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington · 1935 In the Mood Wingy Manone, Joe Garland · 1939 Isn't It Romantic? Richard Rodgers · 1932 It Don't Mean a Thing Duke Ellington · 1932 It Happened in Monterey Mabel Wayne · 1930 It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget) Richard Rodgers · 1935 It's Only a Paper Moon Harold Arlen · 1932 Jeepers Creepers Harry Warren · 1938 Just Friends John Klenner · 1931 Just One of Those Things Cole Porter · 1935 Lazy River Sidney Arodin, Hoagy Carmichael · 1930 Lester Leaps In Lester Young · 1939 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off George Gershwin · 1937 Let's Fall in Love Harold Arlen · 1933 Love for Sale Cole Porter · 1930 Love Is Here to Stay George Gershwin · 1938 Lulu's Back in Town Harry Warren · 1935 Mad About the Boy Noël Coward · 1932 Memories of You Eubie Blake · 1930 Minnie the Moocher Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Clarence Gaskill · 1931 Minor Swing Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli · 1937 Mood Indigo Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard · 1930 Moonglow Will Hudson, Irving Mills · 1933 Moonlight Serenade Glenn Miller · 1939 My Funny Valentine Richard Rodgers · 1937 My Romance Richard Rodgers · 1935 Nice Work If You Can Get It George Gershwin · 1937 Night and Day Cole Porter · 1932 On the Sunny Side of the Street Jimmy McHugh · 1930 One Morning in May Hoagy Carmichael · 1933 One O'Clock Jump Eddie Durham, Count Basie, Buster Smith · 1937 Out of Nowhere Johnny Green, Edward Heyman · 1931 Over the Rainbow Harold Arlen · 1939 Paper Doll Johnny S. Black · 1930 Pennies from Heaven Arthur Johnston · 1936 Pick Yourself Up Jerome Kern · 1936 Poinciana Nat Simon · 1936 Powerhouse Raymond Scott · 1937 Rockin' in Rhythm Duke Ellington, Harry Carney, Irving Mills · 1931 September in the Rain Harry Warren · 1937 September Song Kurt Weill · 1938 Sing for Your Supper Richard Rodgers · 1938 Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima · 1936 Slap That Bass George Gershwin · 1937 Solitude Duke Ellington · 1934 Someday My Prince Will Come Frank Churchill · 1937 Something to Live For Duke Ellington · 1939 Sophisticated Lady Duke Ellington · 1932 Spring Is Here Richard Rodgers · 1938 Stars Fell on Alabama Frank Perkins · 1934 Stompin' at the Savoy Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb · 1936 Summertime George Gershwin · 1935 Sunrise Serenade Frankie Carle · 1939 The Folks Who Live On the Hill Jerome Kern · 1937 The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Richard Rodgers · 1935 The Nearness of You Hoagy Carmichael · 1937 The Song Is You Jerome Kern · 1932 The Very Thought of You Ray Noble · 1934 The Way You Look Tonight Jerome Kern · 1936 There Is No Greater Love Isham Jones · 1936 There's a Lull in My Life Harry Revel · 1937 There's a Small Hotel Richard Rodgers · 1935 These Foolish Things Jack Strachey, Harry Link · 1936 They All Laughed George Gershwin · 1937 They Can't Take That Away from Me George Gershwin · 1937 This Year's Kisses Irving Berlin · 1936 Tuxedo Junction Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson · 1938 Two Sleepy People Hoagy Carmichael · 1938 What a Little Moonlight Can Do Harry M. Woods · 1934 What's New? Bob Haggart · 1939 When Your Heart's on Fire (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) Jerome Kern · 1933 When Your Lover Has Gone Einar Aaron Swan · 1930 Where Are You? Jimmy McHugh · 1937 Willow Weep for Me Ann Ronell · 1932 Yesterdays Jerome Kern · 1933 You and the Night and the Music Arthur Schwartz · 1934 You Go to My Head J. Fred Coots · 1938 You're Blasé Ord Hamilton · 1931 Your Feet's Too Big Fred Fisher · 1936