Chattanooga Choo Choo
This Song is probably one of the most famous and iconic songs from the 1940s Made famous by Glenn Miller and sung by everybody who was singing at the time! Come with us on a train ride from New York to Tennessee on the Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Chordbuster's March (The)
Danny Boy
This melody is known as the "Londonderry Air", the words to "Danny Boy" were written by an English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1913.
Elsie Griffin made it one of the most popular songs in the new century; and, It was first recorded in 1915
Goodbye My Coney Island Baby
This is a very sad song.... about a guy who goes on a day trip to Coney Island (the big amusement park in New York) While he's there he meets a beautiful girl, he takes her on all the rides, buys her chocolates and hot dogs and they have a wonderful time, but... at the end of the day, he has to go home... to his wife!
Heart Of My Heart (The Story of the Rose)
Do you remember the old song that goes "Heart Of My Heart, I love that melody...?" well, this isn't that song. This is the song they were singing about. "... I know a tear would glisten, if only i could listen, to the gang that sang Heart Of My Heart."
I Still Call Australia Home
Here's a great Aussie classic, written by the late, great Peter Allen — a true showman with a gift for writing what we all feel. This one was even in the running to be our national anthem… which honestly wouldn't have been the worst idea. Here's I Still Call Australia Home.
I've Been Working On The Railroad
Our next song is a good old American folk tune — I've Been Working' on the Railroad. It's been sung in camps, classrooms, and just about anywhere people like to pretend manual labor is fun. Don't worry — we're only singing about working today.
It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas
My Country
The inspiring words of Dorothea MacKellar's poem of life in Australia, My Country set to music.
San Francisco Bay Blues
This next one's a barbershop take on San Francisco Bay Blues, written by Jesse Fuller back in the 1950s. It's the tale of a man who knows full well why she left — but still thinks he's got a shot at winning her back. Hope springs eternal... Here's the San Francisco Bay Blues.
Shenandoah
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Georgia Brown is one of the most popular songs ever written, it ranks among the top 25 most performed songs of the twentieth century, it's a classic Roaring 20s song about a "flapper" who turns heads wherever she goes,
Wait 'till The Sun Shines Nellie
What A Wonderful World
When I'm Sixty Four
This next one's a barbershop twist on a Beatles classic — Paul McCartney wrote it as a teenager, imagining life at sixty-four: losing your hair, digging in the garden, and getting visits from the grandkids… if they remember to visit! Here's When I'm Sixty-Four.
