THE MOST POPULAR SONG HITS AND PERFORMERS OF 1930

Al Jolson  Let Me Sing and I'm Happy This song is another written by Irving Berlin, as the new decade starts Berlin would have his hand in shaping American music and especially American popular songs. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy is sort of an ode for anyone who loves to sing. People that sing in Community Theater, in choirs and in the shower and this song was made for them. The song was recently resurrected for the stage musical Irving Berlin's White Christmas.Benny Menoff and his OrchestraHappy Days Are Here Again The song was copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics). The song is best remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It has often been referred to as the unofficial anthem for the Democratic Party. The song would be resurrected in the early 1960s by Barbra Streisand first as a single and then on her first album. Her take on the song would make it a ballad instead of the upbeat happy, hopeful song it was originally written as. Streisand would sing the song as a duet with Judy Garland. The song would be a medley of Garland's Get Happy in counterpoint to Streisand's Happy Days. The performance would be recreated for an episode of GLEE and song by Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel Earl Burnett and his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Puttin on the Ritz This song was another hit for Berlin and is most associated with Fred Astaire. The title refers to the idea of getting dressed up to go out to some place really nice or "swanky," as the slang was used at the time. The Ritz was and is a very upscale hotel. The song would continue to be used. In films it would be song by Clark Gable in the film Idiot's Delight. It would again be filmed in Mel Brookes' Young Frankenstein. Puttin on the Ritz would hit the charts again in 1983 as recorded by Taco. It would be peak at # 4 Nat Shilkret Get Happy Get Happy was composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler, and was originally performed in the musical the Nine Fifteen Revue by Ruth Etting. The song is most associated with Judy Garland from the film Summer Stock co-starring Gene kelly. In 1939 Arlen would write the music for another Judy Garland standard, Somewhere over the Rainbow. Red Nichols Embraceable You Written by George abd Ira Gershwin for an operetta called East is West. It would be performed again by Ginger Rogers in the Broadway Musical Girl Crazy. The song would continue to be recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Liberace, and Liza Minnelli. Liza's mother, Judy Garland, performed the song in the film version of Girl Crazy. Ruth Ettings Ten Cents A Dance Written by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart, the song was published in 1930 and was first performed by Ruth Ettings in the musical Simple Simon. The song is a lament song by a woman who makes her living by dancing with strange men for money. Ted Lewis and his OrchestraOn The Sunny Side of the Street On The Sunny Side Of The Street was composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue, starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence. The song would be recorded many times by such artiste as Willie Nelson, The Manhattan Transfer and Rod Stewart. Duke Ellington Three Little Words With music by Harry Ruby and the lyrics by Bert Kalmar, the song would be used again and again and would eventually be the name of the a movie based on the lives of the song writing team that created the song. In the middle of the 1970s the Advertising Council used a fully orchestrated version of the song in a series of Public Service Announcements about seat belt safety; the slogan for these commercials was "Seat belts: a nice way to say 'I Love You'." Paul Whiteman After You've Gone Was actually written in 1918 with by Turner Layton, with lyrics written by Henry Creamer and was originally recorded by Marion Harris in 1922. It would be recorded by Benny Goodman, Fats Waller and Phil Collins. It would be used by Ethel Merman in the TV show That Girl, when Merman describes to Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) how she was fired from her first night club job for singing to loud.

Top Artists and Songs of 1930 Al Jolson Let Me Sing and I'm Happy To My Mammy Ben Selvin Happy Days Are Here Again When It's Springtime In The Rockies Benny Meroff and his Orchestra Happy Days Are Here Again Beverly Hill Billies When The Bloom Is On The Sage Big Bill Boonzy Somebody's Been Using That Thing Cab Colloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra St Louis Blues Carmen Miranda Pra Voce Gostar De Min (Tahi) Don Aziazu and His Havana Casino Orchestra The Peanut Vender Duke Ellington Ring Dem Bells Three Little Words Earl Burtnett & his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Puttin On The Ritz So Beats My Heart For You Fred Astaire Crazy Feet Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians Little White Lies Guy Lombardo Confessin' That I Love You You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?) Harry Richman Puttin' On The Ritz Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra When It's Springtime In The Rockies Isham Jones Trees What's The Use Jack Payne and his Orchestra My Baby Just cares For Me Jimmy Rogers Anniversary Blue Yodel Leo Reisman What Is This Thing Called Love? Leslie Sarony Bunky-Doodle-I-Doh Louis Armstrong If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Memories of You McKinney's Cotton Pickers If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Mississippi Sheiks Sitting on Top of the World Nat Shilkret Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Get Happy Paul Whiteman Body & Soul It happened In Monteray Old New England Moon Nobody's Sweetheart After You've Gone Red NicholsEmbraceable You Regent Club Orchestra Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Roy Ingraham Chant of the Jungle Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees Betty Co-ed Stein Song (University of Maine) Ruth Etting Ten Cents a Dance Son House Preachin Blues Ted Lewis and his Orchestra On the Sunny Side of the Street Three O'Clock in the Morning Ted Weems My Baby Just Cares For Me Van Phillips I'm In The Market For You