Top R&B Songs of 1944 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

written by Doris Fisher & Allan Roberts

as Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
[Decca 8659]
written by Johnny Mercer

B side to Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
written by James V. Monaco & Mack Gordon

B side to Till Then
written by Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher

as Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
[Decca 8659]
written by Louis Jordan & Billy Austin

[Decca 23364]
written by Cole Porter & Robert Fletcher

[Victor 1586]
written by Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn

vocals by Kitty Kallen
[Decca 18582]
written by Sam H. Stept

instrumental B side to Jump Town
written by Don Redman

instrumental
[Victor 20-1547]
written by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell

R Christmas
[Decca 18429]
written by Irving Berlin

US B side to Straighten Up and Fly Right
[Capitol 154]
written by Nat King Cole & Irving Mills

as Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
[Decca 8654]
written by Antonio Cosey, Collenane Clark & Louis Jordan

written by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell

written by Fred E. Ahlert & Roy Turk

written by Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus & Guy Wood

written by Don Raye, Gene De Paul & Benny Carter

vocals by Trevor Bacon
[Decca 18569]
written by Al J. Neiburg, Lucky Millinder & William Henri Woode

[Beacon 7120]
written by Joe Davis

vocals by Ella Johnson
[Decca 8655]
written by Buddy Johnson & J. Mayo Williams

[Capitol 141]
written by Johnny Mercer

vocals by Red Dorris
written by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell

vocals by Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson ; aka Cherry Red Blues
[Hit 7084]
written by Bob Haggart

instrumental
written by Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman & Jimmy Mundy

instrumental B side to Hurry, Hurry!
[Capitol 144]
written by Nat Simon & Buddy Bernier

vocals by Savannah Churchill
[Capitol 144]
written by Richard Larkin & Benny Carter

[Capitol 154]
written by Nadine Robinson & Dok Stanford

instrumental
written by Milt Buckner & Lionel Hampton

written by Jimmy McHugh & Harold Adamson

instrumental
[Victor 20-1556]
written by Duke Ellington

[Capitol 169]
written by Andy Razaf & Don Redman

vocals by Jimmy Mitchelle
written by Don Redman

instrumental
written by Harry James & Jack Matthias

[Hit 7083]
written by Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn

[Capitol 165]
written by Otis René

[Gilt-Edge 500]
written by Pvt. Cecil Gant & Raymond Leveen

as Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
[Victor 201546]
written by Chummy MacGregor, George "The Fox" Williams & Sunny Skylar

[Deluxe 2000]
written by Billy Eckstine

[Victor 20-1584]
written by Billy Strayhorn

[Excelsior 2986]
written by Otis René

[Bluebird 30-0825]
written by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton & Johnny Green

instrumental
written by Vincent Youmans & Irving Caesar

[Capitol 20012]
written by Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg & Billy Rose

instrumental B side to My Little Brown Book
[Victor 20-1584]
written by Duke Ellington

written by Walter Kent & Nat Burton

instrumental
written by Jesse Greer

[Hit 7108]
written by Louis Jordan & Billy Austin

US B side to Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You
[Capitol 169]
written by Stanley Cowen & Taps Miller

[Victor 20-1598]
written by Duke Ellington

as Sextet with Dinah Washington
written by Leonard Feather

as Sextet with Dinah Washington
written by Leonard Feather

written by Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields

[Beacon 7130]
written by Joe Davis

as Lester Young and His Kansas City Five
instrumental
written by Buck Clayton

[Beacon 7119]
written by Joe Davis

as Cozy Cole's All Star Band
instrumental
[Keynote 1300]
written by Arthur Johnson & Sam Coslow

featuring Duke Ellington on piano
instrumental
written by Johnny Hodges

[Beacon 7121]
written by Joe Davis