The Music of Homefront
Below is an alphabetical listing (by title) of all
the music played, sung, or made reference to on Homefront.
The
version listed (when possible) is either the actual recording featured in the
series or the most famous period recording of the song.
1.
“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive” (1991) Music by Harold
Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer; Performed by Jack
Sheldon
Featured in
“S.N.A.F.U.”
2.
“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive” (1945) Music by Harold
Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer; Performed by Johnny
Mercer
Featured on the Homefront Gag Reel
3.
“Also Sprach Zarathustra” (composed
1896) Composed by Richard
Strauss
4.
“Always” (composed
1925) Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin; Performer unknown
Featured in
“Life Is Short”
5.
“As Time Goes By” (1943) Music and Lyrics by Herman Hupfield;
Performed by Dooley
Wilson
Featured in
“Signed, Crazy In Love”; “Like Being There When You’re Not”
6.
“Begin The Beguine” (1938) Music and Lyrics by Cole
Porter; Performed by Artie
Shaw
Featured in
“S.N.A.F.U.”; “
7.
“Besame Mucho” (date unknown) Music by Sunny Skylar; Lyrics by
Consuelo Valazquez; Performed by
Benny
Carter
Featured
in “Man, This Joint Is Jumping”
NOTE:
We can find no record of Benny Carter recording this song, but his name can be
clearly seen on the label of the 78 in the episode.
8.
“Born To Lose” (1942) Music by Milton Brown; Lyrics by Ted
Daffan; Performed by Ted
Daffan & the Texans
Featured in
“Spanish Moss”
9.
“Caravan”
(1937) Music by Juan Tizol; Recorded by Duke
Ellington & his Orchestra
Featured in
“So All Alone”
10.
“Cocktails For Two” (1945) Music by Sam Coslow; Lyrics
by Arthur Johnston; Performed by Spike
Jones & his City Slickers
Featured in
“A Nickel Plate Romance”
11.
“Dancing In The Dark” (1941) Music by
Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Howard Dietz; Performed by
Artie
Shaw & his Orchestra
Featured in “Man, This Joint Is Jumping”
12.
“Don’t Be That Way” (1938) Music and Lyrics by Benny
Goodman, Edgar Sampson, and Mitchell Parish; Performed by Benny
Goodman & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Kids”; “When It Rains, It Pours”; “Obstinacy or Constancy?”
13.
“Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (1947) Music by
Duke Ellington; Lyrics by Bob Russell; Performed by Duke
Ellington & his Orchestra
Featured in “S.N.A.F.U.”
14.
“The First Noel” – Traditional hymn
Featured in “Sinners Reconciled”
15.
“Get Happy” (1930)
Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted
Koehler;
Featured in
“Shabbat Shalom”
16.
“Haunted Town”
(1941) Music by
? Altman; Lyrics by ? Fogarty; Performed by Charlie
Barnet & his Orchestra with vocals by Lena
Horne
Featured in
“A Nickel Plate Romance”
17.
“I Can’t Get Started With
You”
(1937) Music by Vernon Duke; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin; Performed by Bunny
Berigan & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Patriots”; “Spanish Moss”
18.
“I Don’t Want To Walk Without You” (1941) Music by Frank Loesser; Lyrics by Jule Styne; Performed by Harry
James & his Orchestra with vocals by Helen
Forrest
Featured in “So All Alone”
19.
“I’ll Be Seeing You” (1992) Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics
by Irving Kahal; Performed by Tammy Lauren
Featured in
“Appleknocker To Wed Tomatohawker”
20.
“I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940) Music and Lyrics by Ruth
Lowe; Performed by Tommy
Dorsey & his Orchestra with vocals by Frank
Sinatra
Featured in
“Kids”; “When It Rains, It Pours”; “All Good Things”
21.
“I’m Getting Sentimental Over You” (1935) Music by George Bassman; Lyrics by Ned Washington;
Performed by Tommy
Dorsey & his Orchestra
Featured in
“S.N.A.F.U.”; “That’s The Way The Cookie Crumbles”
22.
“I’m So All Alone” (date unknown) Composer unknown;
Performer unknown
Featured in
“So All Alone”
23.
“In The Mood” (1939) Music and Lyrics by Jo Garland and Andy
Razaf; Performed by Glenn
Miller & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Man, This Joint Is Jumping”; “That’s The Way The Cookie Crumbles”
24.
“Isn’t It Romantic?” (composed 1932) Music by Richard
Rodgers; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart; Performer unknown
Featured in
“When The Stars Begin To Fall”
25.
“It’s A Good Day” (1946)
Music and Lyrics by Dave Barbour and Peggy Lee; Performed by Peggy
Lee
Featured in
“S.N.A.F.U.”; “Szabo’s Travels”
26.
“It’s Been A Long, Long Time” (1945) Music by Sammy Cahn; Lyrics
by Jule Styne; Performed by Harry
James & his Orchestra with vocals by Kitty
Kallen
Featured in
“So All Alone”; “When It Rains, It Pours”; “Songs Unsung Are The Sweetest”; “By
Popular Demand”
27.
“Joy To The World” – Music by Georg Friedrich Händel;
Lyrics by Isaac Watts
Featured in
“Sinners Reconciled”
28.
“The Lemo Tomato Juice Jingle” (1992) Composer unknown; Performed
by Tammy Lauren
Featured in
“By Popular Demand”; “The Lemo Tomato Juice Hour”; “Can’t Say No”; “First Comes
Love, Then Comes Marriage”; “On The Rebound”
29.
“Little White Lies” (1948)
Music and Lyrics by Walter Donaldson; Performed by Dick
Haymes
Featured in “
30.
“Marie”
(1937) Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin; Performed by Tommy
Dorsey & his Orchestra with vocals by Jack
Leonard
Featured in
“Man, This Joint Is Jumping”
31.
“Moonglow”
(1941) Music and Lyrics by Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange, and Irving Mills; Performed
by Artie
Shaw & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Man, This Joint Is Jumping”; “No Man Loyal And Neutral”; “If You Want It Done
Right…”
32.
“Moonlight Serenade” (1939) Music by Glenn Miller;
Lyrics by Mitchell Parish; Performed by Glenn
Miller & his Orchestra
Featured
in “Holier Than Thou, Too”; “All These Things Will I Give Thee”; “Songs Unsung
Are The Sweetest”; “The Lemo Tomato Juice Hour”; “Life Is Short”’; “On The
Rebound”; “Who What Where When Why And How”
33.
“Old MacDonald” – Traditional children’s song
Featured in
“No Man Loyal And Neutral”; “By Popular Demand”
34.
“One-zy Two-zy (I Love You-zy)” (1946) Music by Dave
Franklin; Lyrics by Irving Taylor; Performed by Phil
Harris & his daughter
Featured in
“If You Want It Done Right…”
35.
“Opus No. 1” (1944) Music and Lyrics by Sy Oliver; Performed
by Tommy
Dorsey & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Holier Than Thou, Too”; “
36.
“Perdido”
(1942) Music by Juan Tizol; Lyrics by Ervin Drake and Hans Lengsfelder;
Performed by Duke
Ellington & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Man, This Joint Is Jumping”
37.
“Precious Lord, Take My Hand” (1991) Music and Lyrics by Thomas
A. Dorsey; Performed by Hattie
Winston
Featured in
“Take My Hand”
38.
“Rum And Coca-Cola” (1944) Music and Lyrics by Morey
Featured in
“Songs Unsung Are The Sweetest”
39.
“Says My Heart” (1938) Music by
Featured in
“Bad Connection”
40.
“Sentimental Journey” (1944) Music and Lyrics by Les
Brown, Benjamin Homer, and Bud Green; Performed by Les
Brown & his Band of Renown with vocals by Doris
Day
Featured in “
41.
“Silent Night” – Music and Lyrics by Franz Gruber
Featured in
“Sinners Reconciled”
42.
“Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)” (1938) Music and Lyrics by
Louis Prima; Performed by Benny
Goodman & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Man, This Joint Is Jumping”; “That’s The Way The Cookie Crumbles”; “Garfield
Slept Here”
43.
“Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (1961
remake of Tex Williams’s own 1947 original hit) Music and Lyrics by Merle
Travis; Performed by Tex
Williams
Featured in
“Szabo’s Travels”
44.
“A String Of Pearls” (1941) Music by Eddie Delange;
Lyrics by Jerry Gray; Performed by Glenn
Miller & his Orchestra
Featured in “S.N.A.F.U.”;
“Bedsprings”
45.
“Take Me Out To The Ballgame” Music by Albert Von Tilzer; Lyrics
by Jack Norworth
Featured in
“Can’t Say No”
46.
“There Goes That Song
Again”
(1945) Music by Sammy Cahn; Lyrics by Jule Styne; Performed by Russ
Morgan
Featured in
“Getting To First Base”; “No Man Loyal And Neutral”
47.
“(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover” (1942)
Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Nat Burton; Performed by Glenn
Miller & his Orchestra
Featured in
“Kids”
48.
“Till The End Of Time” (1945) Music by Buddy Kaye; Lyrics
by Ted Mossman; Performed by Perry
Como
Featured in
“Bad Connection”
49.
“When The Stars Begin To Fall” (1992) African-American Spiritual;
Performed by Hattie
Winston
Featured in
“When The Stars Begin To Fall”
50.
“White Christmas” (1942) – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin;
Performed by Bing
Crosby
Featured in
“Sinners Reconciled”
51.
“You Made Me Love You” (1941) Music by Joseph McCarthy;
Lyrics by James V. Monaco; Performed by Harry
James & his Orchestra
Featured in
“If You Want It Done Right…”