Advice Songs From 1890s to the 1950sTable of Contents |
When I was just a little girl Advice may be given… advice may be taken. The problem with advice is that we often don’t take it, especially ADVICE Giving and accepting advice is one part of life that helps Many a tear has to fall but it’s all in the game -Tommy Edwards, It’s All In The Game |
1950s (and Older) Advice Songs Chart |
1. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be) – Doris Day |
2. Who’s Sorry Now – Connie Francis |
3. Too Young – Nat ‘King’ Cole |
4. Wear My Ring Around Your Neck – Elvis Presley |
5. Whistle While You Work – the Seven Dwarfs |
6. Makin Whoopie – Eddie Cantor |
7. Blues In The Night – Dinah Shore or Frank Sinatra |
8. Sixteen Tons – Ernie “Tennessee” Ford |
9. Ain’t That A Shame – Fats Domino |
10. Don’t Take Your Guns To Town – Johnny Cash |
11. Sit Down (You’re Rocking The Boast) – Billy Murray |
12. It’s Just A Matter Of Time – Brook Benton |
13. Soliloquy – Billy Bigelow, a character in the musical Carousel |
14. High Hopes – Frank Sinatra |
15. All I Have To Do Is Dream – The Everly Brothers |
16. It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) – Duke Ellington |
17. Save The Last Dance For Me – The Drifters |
18. Lady Sings The Blues – Billie Holiday |
19. Put Your Head On My Shoulder – Paul Anka |
20. It’s Not For Me To Say – Johnny Mathis |
21. Get A Job – The Silhouettes |
22. It’s All In The Game – Tommy Edwards |
23. I’ll Forgive You, But I Can’t Forget – Roy Acuff |
24. Don’t Fence Me In – Cole Porter |
25. Let’s Misbehave – Ben Bernie |
26. Chances Are – Johnny Mathis |
27. A Lover’s Question – Clyde Mcphatter |
28. Eenie Meenie Miney Mo – Benny Goodman |
29. My Heart Is A Broken Book – Carl Dobkins, Jr |
30. Time Waits For Noone – Helen Forrest |
31. If I Only Had A Brain – Scarecrow (Wizard of Oz) |
32. I Walk The Line – Johnny Cash |
33. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) – Glenn Miller |
34. A Worried Man – The Kingston Trio |
35. Cigarettes, Whiskey, And Wild, Wild Women – Red Engle |
36. Learnin’ The Blues – Frank Sinatra |
37. You Always Hurt The One You Love – Mills Brothers |
38. It Ain’t Necessarily So – Bing Crosby or Leo Reisman |
39. When You’re Smiling – Louis Armstrong or Seger Ellis |
40. Little Things Mean a Lot – Kitty Kallen |
41. Ramblin On My Mind – Robert Johnson |
42. How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I’ve Been A Liar My Whole Life? – Fred Astaire |
43. Show Me The Way To Go Home – Vincent Lopez |
44. If You Were In My Place (What Would You Do?) – Duke Ellington |
45. Undecided – Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb |
46. Wake The Town and Tell The People – Les Baxter |
47. Come On-A My House – Rosemary Clooney |
48. After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It Back – Van & Schenck |
49. I’m Wasting My Tears On You – Tex Ritter |
50. They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Fred Astaire or Ozzie Nelson |
51. Back in the Saddle Again – Gene Autry |
52. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder – George J. Gaskin |
53. I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid! – Arthur Collins or Bob Roberts or Edward M. Favor |
54. They’re Either Too Young Or Too Old – Jimmy Dorsey |
55. Am I Blue? – Ethel Waters |
56. What Do I Have to Do (To Make You Love Me) – Vaughn Monroe |
57. Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off – Fred Astaire |
58. Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) – Glenn Miller or The Andrews Sisters |
59. I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle – Bessie Smith |
60. Take The ‘A’ Train – Duke Ellington |
61. Don’t Telephone, Don’t Telegraph, Tell A Woman – Tex Williams |
62. Best Things In Life Are Free – George Olson |
63. Keep On The Sunny Side – Billy Murray or Byron G. Harlan |
64. ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do – Bessie Smith |
65. Alcoholic Blues – Billy Murray |
66. Faith Can Move Mountains – Nat ‘King’ Cole |
67. Smile and the World Smiles With You – Lewis James & The Peerless Quartet |
68. It’s The Little Things That Count – Bunny Berigan |
69. Laughing On The Outside (Crying on the Inside) – Dinah Shore or Sammy Kaye (or Teddy Walters or Andy Russell) |
70. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) – Tex Williams |
71. I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket – Fred Astaire |
72. Easy Come, Easy Go – Eddy Duchin |
73. Tell Me Why – Four Aces or Eddie Fisher |
74. It’s Easier Said Than Done – Guy Lombardo |
75. Just Another Day Wasted Away (Waiting For You) – Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians |
76. For Every Boy Who’s Lonely, There’s a Lonely Girl – Lyric Quartet |
77. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie) – Eddie Cantor or Cliff Edwards |
78. Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!) – Ames Brothers |
79. Ain’t Nobody’s Business But My Own – Kay Starr |
80. Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) – Bing Crosby or Rosemary Clooney (or Eddie Fisher) |
81. You’re Driving Mr. Crazy (What Did I Do?) – Guy Lombardo |
82. Good Man Is Hard To Find – Marion Harris |
83. Dreams Are A Dime a Dozen – Vaughn Monroe |
84. Oh Dear! What Can The Matter Be? – Ella Logan |
85. Everything’s Been Done Before – Freddy Martin or Guy Lombardo |
86. Nice Work If You Can Get It – Fred Astaire |
87. If We Can’t Be The Same Old Sweethearts, We’ll Just Be The Same Old Friends – Irving Kaufman |
88. Forever Is A Long, Long Time – Charles Hart |
89. There’s a Lot Of Things You Never Learn In School – Dan Quinn |
90. Life Begins When You’re In Love – Isham Jones |
91. Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) – Guy Lombardo or Doris Day |
92. I Don’t Know Where I’m Going, But I’m On My Way – Peerless Quartet |
93. Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag (And Smile, Smile, Smile) – Knickerbocker Quartet |
94. Blame It On My Youth – Jan Garber |
95. It’s Always June When You’re In Love – Reed Miller |
96. Regretful Blues – Nora Bayes |
97. Fancy You Fancying Me – Lewis James |
98. Ev’ry Little Bit Helps – Len Spencer & Ada Jones |
99. Feather Your Nest – Henry Burr & Albert Campbell |
100. Every Day’s A Holiday – Cab Calloway or Glenn Miller |