The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

The Swing Years: Origianal Performances By 24 Top Bands Playing 72 Top Tunes (1936-1946)


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Begin The Beguine
Composer(s) : Porter
2 - At Last
Composer(s) : Warren; Gordon
3 - Marie
Composer(s) : Berlin
4 - When My Dream Boat Comes Home
Composer(s) : Friend; Franklin
5 - Bumble Boggie
Composer(s) : Fina
6 - Stompin' At The Savoy
Composer(s) : Goodman; Webb; Sampson; Razaf
7 - Racing With The Moon
Composer(s) : Watson; Monroe; Pope
8 - The Prisoner's Song
Composer(s) : Massey
9 - Sometimes I'm Happy
Composer(s) : Youmans; Caesar
10 - Tea For Two
Composer(s) : Youmans; Caesar
11 - Indian Love Call
Composer(s) : Friml; Harbach; Hammerstein
12 - Three O'clock In The Morning
Composer(s) : Robledo; Terriss
13 - In The Mood
Composer(s) : Garland; Razaf
14 - The Old Lamplighter
Composer(s) : Simon; Tobias
15 - Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Composer(s) : N/A
16 - I'll Never Smile Again
Composer(s) : Lowe
17 - Perdido
Composer(s) : Tizol
18 - One - Two - Three - Kick,
Composer(s) : Cugat; Stillman
19 - Don't Be That Way
Composer(s) : Goodman; Sampson; Parish
20 - After Hous
Composer(s) : Parrish; Bruce; Feyne
21 - Temptation
Composer(s) : Brown; Freed
22 - Pennsylvania 6-5000
Composer(s) : Sigman; Gray
23 - Melody Of Love
Composer(s) : Engelmann; Davies
24 - Tiger Rag
Composer(s) : Original Dixieland Jazz Band
25 - The Waltz You Saved For Me
Composer(s) : King; Flindt; Kahn
26 - Loch Lomond
Composer(s) : Scott
27 - I Can't Get Started
Composer(s) : Gershwin; Duke
28 - Tuxedo Junction
Composer(s) : Hawkins; Johnson; Dash; Feyne
29 - Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
Composer(s) : Handy
30 - Washington And Lee Swing
Composer(s) : Allen; Robbins; Sheafe
31 - This Love Of Mine
Composer(s) : Sinatra; Sanicola; Parker
32 - Tippin' In
Composer(s) : Symes; Smith
33 - Ti Pi Tin
Composer(s) : Grever; Leveen
34 - Song Of India
Composer(s) : Rimsky; Korsakoff
35 - Got A Date With An Angel
Composer(s) : Waller; Tunbridge; Grey; Miller
36 - Night Must Fall
Composer(s) : Cugat
37 - Boogie Woogie
Composer(s) : Smith
38 - Laughing On The Outside
Composer(s) : Raleigh; Wayne
39 - Lamplight
Composer(s) : Shelton
40 - I Surrender, Dear
Composer(s) : Barris; Clifford
41 - Green Eyes
Composer(s) : Menendez; Utrera; Rivera; Woods
42 - Memories Of You
Composer(s) : Razaf; Blake
43 - Stardust
Composer(s) : Carmichael; Parish
44 - Goody, Goody
Composer(s) : Mercer; Malneck
45 - Pompton Turnpike
Composer(s) : Osborne; Rogers
46 - Friendly Tavern Polka
Composer(s) : Bowne; De Vol
47 - Sophisticated Lady
Composer(s) : Ellington; Mills; Parish
48 - Sing, Sing, Sing
Composer(s) : Prima
49 - Boo-hoo
Composer(s) : Lombardo; Heyman; Loeb
50 - Summit Ridge Drive
Composer(s) : Shaw
51 - Little Brown Jug
Composer(s) : N/A
52 - Mood Indigo
Composer(s) : Ellington; Mills; Bigard
53 - Grieg Piano Concerto
Composer(s) : N/A
54 - Octave Jump
Composer(s) : Chester; Ahlberg
55 - And The Angels Sing
Composer(s) : Elman; Mercer
56 - Cherokee
Composer(s) : Noble
57 - Flamingo
Composer(s) : Grouya; Andrson
58 - Josephine
Composer(s) : Kahn; Bivens; King
59 - Moon Love
Composer(s) : Kostelanetz; David; Davis
60 - On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Composer(s) : McHugh; Fields
61 - Opus One
Composer(s) : Oliver
62 - Alice Blue Gown
Composer(s) : Jimmy Dorsey, Manny Klein, and Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
63 - Martha
Composer(s) : Waits
64 - The Gypsy
Composer(s) : Billy Reid
65 - The Donkey Serenade
Composer(s) : George Forrest, Rudolf Friml, Robert Wright, Herbert Stothart
66 - Your Feet's Too Big
Composer(s) : George Forrest, Rudolf Friml, Robert Wright, Herbert Stothart
67 - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Composer(s) : Duke Ellington
68 - Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
Composer(s) : Stept; Tobias
69 - September In The Rain
Composer(s) : Warren; Al Dublin
70 - Heartaches
Composer(s) : Al Hoffman; John Klenner
71 - I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest
Composer(s) : Block; Green; Stoner
72 - Back Bay Shuffle
Composer(s) : Shaw; McRae