1930s>music     Title Date Recorded Length Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground) by Blind Willie Johnson December 3, 1927 *1:45 Mean Low Blues (instrumental) , by Blues Birdhead October 13, 1929 *2:04 Happy Days Are Here Again (instrumental), by Casa Loma Orchestra October 29, 1929 *1:22 We Sure Got Hard Times Now, by Barbecue Bob April 18, 1930 *2:34 Headin' For Better Times, by Ted Lewis and His Band January 12, 1931 2:57 All of Me, by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra January 27, 1932 *1:24 It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra February 2, 1932 *1:22 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, by Rudy Vallee October 27, 1932 *2:02 There's A New Day Comin', by Ted Lewis and His Band January 31, 1933 *1:47 NRA Blues, by Bill Cox August 30, 1933 2:50 Are You Makin' Any Money?, by Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers September 16, 1933 *1:37 He's In The Ring (Doin' The Same Old Thing), by Memphis Minnie August 23, 1935 3:07 Detroit Moan, by Victoria Spivey and the Chicago Four October 15, 1936 *2:17 Whistle While You Work, by Artie Shaw and His New Music December 30, 1937 2:40 Strange Fruit, by Billie Holiday 1938 3:14 Dawn of a New Day (Official Song of the 1939 New York World's Fair), by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights 1939 2:30 Gloomy Sunday, by Billie Holiday August 7, 1941 *1:52     *excerpt