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!

1. Count Basie - Sent For You Yesterday
2. Jack Teagarden - Chicks Is Wonderful
3. Benny Carter - These Foolish Things
4. Chick Webb - When I Get Low I Get High
5. Benny Goodman - Christopher Columbus
6. Louis Armstrong - I Never Knew
7. Joe Venuti - Flop
8. Duke Ellington - Take The A Train
9. Harry James - Strictly Instrumental
10. Jimmy Dorsey - All Of Me
11. Bunny Berigan - The Prisoner's Song
12. Bob Crosby - Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street
13. Jimmie Lunceford - My Blue Heaven
14. Glenn Miller - A String Of Pearls
15. Cab Calloway - Run Little Rabbit
16. Woody Herman - Twin City Blues
17. Ted Weems - I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now?
18. Tommy Dorsey - Stop, Look And Listen
19. Frankie Trumbauer - I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
20. Casa Loma Orchestra - A Study In Brown
21. Artie Shaw - Deep Purple
22. Gene Krupa - Drummin Man
23. Lionel Hampton - Nola