What is it about the American Big Bands which explains their enduring appeal? American writer Gene Lees described their characteristic sound as "one that will not go away"... be assured, we don't let it!
- Count Basie: Sent For You Yesterday
- Jack Teagarden: Chicks Is Wonderful
- Benny Carter: These Foolish Things
- Chick Webb: When I Get Low I Get High
- Benny Goodman: Christopher Columbus
- Louis Armstrong: I Never Knew
- Joe Venuti: Flop
- Duke Ellington: Take The A Train
- Harry James: Strictly Instrumental
- Jimmy Dorsey: All Of Me
- Bunny Berigan: The Prisoner's Song
- Bob Crosby: Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street
- Jimmie Lunceford: My Blue Heaven
- Glenn Miller: A String Of Pearls
- Cab Calloway: Run Little Rabbit
- Woody Herman: Twin City Blues
- Ted Weems: I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now?
- Tommy Dorsey: Stop, Look And Listen
- Frankie Trumbauer: I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
- Casa Loma Orchestra: A Study In Brown
- Artie Shaw: Deep Purple
- Gene Krupa: Drummin Man
- Lionel Hampton: Nola