The 1940s
Free music recorded or released in the 1940s.
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House Of The Rising Sun
Josh White and his Guitar · 1942
Cuban Rhythms
Hotel Nacional Orchestra, Beltran, Pozo · 1942
Four Leaf Clover
Sonny Walikis and his Squeeze Box · 1940
16 Old Ladies Locked In The Lavatory
Herbi Hardt and his Jesters · 1949
Art Tatum
Art Tatum, James, Swift · 1944
Smiles Are Made Out of The Sunshing
Davis, Hammet, Ezra and his Beverly Hillbillies · 1946
永度春宵 (Yǒng dù chūnxiāo)
雲雲 (Yun Yun) · 1940
Jeepers Creepers
Cliff Jackson's Village Cats, Sidney De Paris, Wilbur De Paris · 1944
The Threshold People - Night of the Threshold People [plague003]
The Threshold People · 1945
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans
Noel Coward, Robb Stewart · 1943
Songs by Lead Belly
LEAD BELLY, Sanders Terry · 1943
Duke Ellington and his famous Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Ray Nance, T. Jordan, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra · 1947
CONCERTO BOOGIE
Tommy Edwards Trio, Tommy Edwards, Griegs · 1947
Music of Latin America
Enric Madriguera and Orchestra, Marcelino Guerra, Nita Rosa · 1944
Spellbound
David O. Selznick, Miklos Rozsa · 1945
Artie Shaw plays Cole Porter
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra, Mel Torme, Cole Porter · 1946
Steel Guitar Melody
Leodie Jackson, Douglas Venable and his Bar X Ranch Hands · 1946
What Did I Do
Barbara Brown, Myrow, Gordon · 1946
Basic Yiddish - Lesson I
Sam Levenson, Levenson · 1948
Vor Der Kaserne… (Lied eines jungen Wachtpostens)
Phyllis Heymans, Original Teddies, Lili Marleen · 1941
Marlene Dietich Sings
Marlene Dietrich, Peter Kreuder and his Orchestra, Nelson · 1948
Rosie, the Riveter
Allen Miller and his Orchestra, Evans, Loeb · 1943
16 Old Ladies Locked In The Lavatory
Herbi Hardt and his Jesters · 1949
Clair De Lune (Moonlight)
Sula LEvitch, Claude Debussy · 1945
Turntable
M. Lane, Morris Lane and his Combo · 1948
Summertime Pt. 1
Herb Kern, Lloyd Slopp, Joe Venuti · 1946
Aloha Hawaii
Lani McIntire and his Aloha Islanders, Chas. E. King, C. K. Malani · 1944
Lecuona Cuban Boys Band
Lecuona Cuban Boys, Manyo Lopez and Boys, Manuel Lopez · 1946
Songs For Victory Music For Political Action
The Union Boys, Baldwin Hawes, Tom Glazer · 1944
Stella Brooks
Sidney Bechet, Malneck, George Brunies · 1946
Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
The Riddlers, Connie Desmond, Morey · 1949
Dizzy Gillespie and his all-stars
Dizzy Gillespie, Alice Roberts, Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra · 1946
Calypso
Hubert Charles, Mac Beth, the Great, Gerald Clark and his Original Calypsos · 1946
...this is jazz...
The All Star Stompers, Wild Bill Davison, Jimmy Archey · 1947
Wolf, Wolf Polka
Frank Wojnarowski and His Orchestra · 1946
little songs on big subjects
Hy Zaret, THE BACHELORS, Lou Singer · 1947
Waltzes of Victor Herbert
Paul Lavalle and his Orchestra, Victor Herbert · 1947
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Album
Ray Bloch, His Orchestra and Chorus, Ward, Palmer · 1945
Folk Songs Sung By Josh White
Josh White · 1944
Doctor Jazz
Oliver, Al Jenkins, Johnny McDonald · 1949
CENTRAL AVENUE BOOGIE
SLIM GAILLARD and his Boogiereeners, Slim Gaillard · 1945
Drink Songs
Ben Yost Singers · 1945
CHIQUITA BANANA
Elsa Miranda, Alfredo Antonini and his Viva America Orchestra, McKenzie · 1946
Hawaiian melodies
Michael Werbow, White, Leilani Iaea · 1945
Shaving Cream
Paul Wynn · 1946
Congratulations
Chris Cross and his Orchestra, The Crosstones, Marchant · 1948
hillbilly tunes
Fred Kirby of W B T's Briarhoppers · 1946
WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS (Olvidate de las Preocupaciones)
FRANKIE TRUMBAUER and his ORCHESTRA, Kohler, Moll · 1940
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