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Music History Events: Recordings

July 24, 1938 Artie Shaw records "Begin The Beguine."

February 11, 1938 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra record "Martha."

January 13, 1938 Allan Jones records "The Donkey Serenade."

October 2, 1937 Benny Goodman records "Flying Home."

August 7, 1937 Bunny Berigan records "I Can't Get Started."

July 22, 1937 Hal Kemp records "Got A Date With An Angel."

May 26, 1937 Lionel Hampton records "Flying Home."

February 4, 1937 Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra records "A Study in Brown."

February 2, 1937 Guy Lombardo and His Orchestra record "Boo Hoo."

November 6, 1936 Woody Herman records "Wintertime Dreams."

January 14, 1936 Harriet Hilliard records "Get Thee Behind Me Satan."

November 27, 1935 Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer record "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo."

October 18, 1935 Tommy Dorsey records "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You."

June 12, 1935 Ella Fitzgerald records "Love And Kisses" and "I'll Chase The Blues Away."

December 4, 1934 Ethel Merman records "I Get A Kick Out Of You."

October 26, 1934 Cole Porter records "You're The Top."

September 25, 1934 Henry Busse records "Hot Lips."

May 17, 1933 Weak from fighting tuberculosis, Jimmie Rodgers arrives in New York and starts recording his last songs. He dies nine days later.

January 16, 1932 Duke Ellington records "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got that Swing)."

October 9, 1931 Russ Columbo records "Prisoner Of Love."

April 20, 1931 Louis Armstrong records "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" from the play Under A Virginia Moon. He adds the song to his live repertoire, and it becomes a jazz standard, later recorded by Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Harry Connick, Jr. and many others.

January 22, 1931 Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra record "Sugar Blues."

December 10, 1930 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra record "Mood Indigo."

November 7, 1930 Wayne King records "The Waltz You Save For Me."

October 31, 1930 Count Basie records "Somebody Stole My Gal."

August 13, 1930 Guy Lombardo records "Go Home And Tell Your Mother."

November 20, 1929 Leo Reisman records "Happy Days Are Here Again."

November 11, 1929 Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy record "Froggy Bottom."

November 5, 1929 McKinney's Cotton Pickers, an African American jazz band from Detroit, record the instrumental "Plain Dirt" in New York City.

February 6, 1929 Rudy Vallee and His Orchestra record "Deep Night."