First Crooners 1 / Various First Crooners 1 / Various CD

In the 1920s the burgeoning of commercial radio led to a demand for inoffensive entertainment, especially smooth love songs to a gentle beat performed with suavity and class. The definition of the First Crooners.

1. Sentimental Baby - Gene Austin, Ben Pollack ; His Orchestra 2. What a Night, What a Girl - Les Backer 3. Spell of the Blues - Sam Coslow 4. Gay Love - Bing Crosby 5. Blue Shadows - Seger Ellis 6. My Sweeter Than Sweet - Sammy Fain 7. Reaching for Someone - Chester Gaylord 8. Hollywood - Art Gillham 9. Perhaps - Charles w. Hamp 10. You Were Meant for Me - Irving Kaufman 11. Broadway Melody [From the Film "Broadway Melody"] - Charles King E 12. Honey - Charles C. Locke 13. Song I Love - Nick Luca 14. I Gotta Have You - Red McKenzie 15. Suppose Nobody Cared - Dick Powell 16. Some Sweet Day - Dick Robertson 17. Peace of Mind - Willard Robison 18. Glad Rag Doll - Whispering Jack Smith 19. You're Just Another Memory - Eddie Thomas 20. If I Had You - Rudy Vall