Frank Sinatra: beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." Anita O'Day: O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Billy Eckstine: An American singer of ballads and bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s in popular music. Helen Humes: An American jazz and blues singer. Humes was successively a teenaged blues singer, band vocalist with Count Basie, saucy R&B diva and a mature interpreter of the classy popular song. Mildred Bailey: was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "Mrs. Swing". Her number one hits were " I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm", " A Ghost Of A Chance", and " It Had To Be You".


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CD One - Frank Sinatra:
1. Put Your Dreams Away 
2. Day By Day 
3. Oh! What It Seemed To Be 
4. Five Minutes More 
5. The Things We Did Last Summer 
6. The Coffee Song 
7. Time After Time 
8. Mam'selle 
9. Fools Rush In 
10. Somebody Loves Me 
11. Exactly Like You 
12. Personality 
13. Tea For Two 
14. Make Believe 
15. The Night We Called It A Day 
16. Where Is My Bess 
17. You'll Never Know 
18. Dream When Your Feeling Blue 

CD Two - Anita O'Day:
1. And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine 
2. Are You Livin' Old Man? 
3. Travelin' Man 
4. I Want A Grown-Up Man 
5. Boogie Blues 
6. Chickery Chick 
7. Opus 
8. Let Me Off Uptown 
9. Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina 
10. Slow Down 
11. Deep In The Blues 
12. Georgia On My Mind 
13. Bolero At The Savoy 
14. The Walls Keep Talking 
15. Gotta Be Gettin' 
16. "Murder" He Says

CD Three - Billy Eckstine: 
1. Here Comes The Blues 
2. Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries 
3. Wonder Why 
4. I'm A Fool To Want You 
5. Taking A Chance Of Love 
6. You're Driving Me Crazy 
7. Early Autumn 
8. Tenderly 
9. April In Paris 
10. Coquette 
11. Send My Baby Back To Me 
12. Everything I Have Is Yours 
13. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) 
14. Mr. B's Blues 
15. Somehow 
16. Caravan 
17. Body And Soul 
18. I've Never Been In Love Before 
19. As Long As I Live 
20. I Left My Hat In Haiti

CD Four - Helen Humes: 
1. Central Avenue Boogie 
2. Married Man Blues 
3. Be Ba Ba Le Ba Boogie 
4. Jet Propelled Papa 
5. They Raided The Joint 
6. Blue And Sentimental 
7. I Just Refuse To Sing The Blues 
8. Jumpin' On Sugar Hill 
9. Mad About You 
10. Flippity Flop Flop 
11. Today I Sing The Blues 
12. He May Be Your Man 
13. Every Now And Then 
14. Unlucky Woman 
15. Blue Prelude 
16. It's Better To Give Than To Receive 
17. Please Let Me Forget 
18. He Don't Love Me Anymore 
19. See, See, Rider 
20. Pleasing Man Blues

CD Five - Mildred Bailey:
1. When Day Is Done 
2. Rockin' Chair 
3. Evaline 
4. I Never Knew 
5. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 
6. I Didn't Know About You 
7. I'll Get By 
8. St. Louis Blues 
9. Lover Come Back To Me 
10. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 
11. Rock It For Me 
12. Barrelhouse Music 
13. Arkansas Blues 
14. A Ghost Of A Chance 
15. Faithful Forever 
16. That Lucky Fellow 
17. Bluebirds In The Moonlight 
18. It Had To Be You