In the pre-talkie days, Broadway is where the greatest composers and performers went to make their mark, and this 3-CD, 60-song set collects the best of their output-in fact, about 20 of the songs here were introduced by the artists singing them! Includes Yankee Doodle Boy Billy Murray; Rose-Marie John McCormack; Liza Al Jolson; Who George Olsen; I'm Always Chasing Rainbows Harry Fox; Lily Ted Lewis; Sometimes I'm Happy Vaughn DeLeath; Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Helen Morgan; Doin' the New Low-Down Bill Robinson; I Got Rhythm Kate Smith; Heat Wave Ethel Waters; Anything Goes Cole Porter; You're the Top Ethel Merman; I'm on the Crest of a Wave Harry Richman; Love for Sale Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians; I Must Have That Man Adelaide Hall; White Heat Leo Reisman Orchestra with Fred Astaire, and more. 12-page booklet, too!
1) Give My Regards to Broadway
2) Yankee Doodle Boy
3) You're a Grand Old Flag
4) Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
5) Beautiful Lady
6) Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers
7) Hello Frisco Hello
8) I'll Say She Does
9) I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
10) A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
11) Rose of Washington Square
12) A Kiss in the Dark
13) Old Fashioned Love
14) Rose-Marie
15) Tea for Two
16) Song of the Vagabonds
17) Who?
18) A Cup of Coffee a Sandwich and You
19) Birth of the Blues
20) Play Gypsies Dance Gypsies
21) Do Do Do
22) Lily
23) Sometimes I'm Happy
24) Did You Mean It?
25) Where Have You Been All My Life?
26) The Best Things in Life Are Free
27) My Heart Stood Still
28) Thou Swell
29) Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
30) You Took Advantage of Me
31) Doin' the New Low-Down
32) I Must Have That Man
33) I'm on the Crest of a Wave
34) Lover Come Back to Me
35) Stout Hearted Men
36) Let's Misbehave
37) Watching the Clouds Roll By
38) Until You Get Somebody Else
39) Button Up Your Overcoat
40) Liza
41) I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)
42) Don't Ever Leave Me
43) Great Day
44) You Do Something to Me
45) Exactly Like You
46) Thank Your Father
47) Fine and Dandy
48) I Got Rhythm
49) Embraceable You
50) Something to Remember You By
51) Love for Sale
52) You Said It
53) White Heat
54) Ooh! That Kiss
55) Of Thee I Sing
56) Soft Lights and Sweet Music
57) I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
58) Heat Wave
59) Anything Goes
60) You're the Top