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Ruth Etting

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1897 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. She is known as "America's sweetheart of song". Her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".

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Song	Album	Duration
(Excerpt)	Water for Elephants 2011	0:32
(Excerpt)	Unknown Album	0:32
A Cottage for Sale	Let Me Call You Sweetheart 1987
A Message from the Man in the Moon	More Than You Know 1996	3:07
A Needle in a Haystack	Art Deco: Sophisticated Ladies 1993	2:57
After You've Gone	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	2:53
After You've Gone [#]	Glorifier of American Song 1998	2:48
Ain't Misbehavin'	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	3:16
Amazing Grace	Soulcall 2000	2:32
Back in Your Own Back Yard	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:02
Back in Your Own Back Yard	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:23
Back in Your Own Backyard	Legendary Entertainers [Pro Arte] 1991	3:02
Back in Your Own Backyard	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	3:06
Back in Your Own Backyard	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:08
Body and Soul	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	3:20
Body and Soul	Kiss Waltz 2013	3:23
Body and Soul	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:23
Body and Soul [From Three's A Crowd]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:23
But I Do You Know I Do	Kiss Waltz 2013	2:40
But I Do, You Know I Do!	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	2:37
But I Do, You Know I Do!	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:46
Button Up Your Overcoat	The Best Things in Life Are Free: The Songs of Ray Henderson 1997	2:48
Button Up Your Overcoat	Kiss Waltz 2013	2:49
Button Up Your Overcoat	The Great Gatsby: Hit Songs From the 1920s	2:52
Button Up Your Overcoat	Bring on the Girls 1926–1934 2010	2:51
Button Up Your Overcoat [From "Follow Thru"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:48
Button up Your Overcoat	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	2:47
Button up Your Overcoat	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:48
Button up Your Overcoat	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	2:53
Button up Your Overcoat	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	2:50
Button up Your Overcoat	Those Were the Days [Good Music] 1993	2:43
Cuban Love Song	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:55
Cuban Love Song	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	2:54
Cuban Love Song (Cancion Cubana) [From "The Cuban Love Song"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:55
Deep Night	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:27
Goodnight My Love	Nightcap Jazz [2006] 2006	3:09
Goodnight My Love	Nightcap Jazz [2001] 2001	3:09
Goodnight My Love	Goodnight My Love 1991	3:10
Goodnight, Sweetheart	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:59
Goodnight, Sweetheart	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	3:03
Goodnight, Sweetheart [From Earl Carroll's Vanities"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:59
Guilty	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:20
Guilty	Goodnight My Love 1991	3:18
Guilty	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	3:18
Hold Me	Glorifier of American Song 1998	2:37
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)	Pure Nostalgia...And All That Jazz 2002	2:38
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)	First Ladies of Song [ASV/Living Era] 2004	2:39
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	2:38
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	2:35
I'll Get by (As Long as I Have You)	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	2:38
I'll Never Be the Same	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:15
I'll Never Be the Same	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	3:15
I'm Nobody's Baby	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:55
I'm Nobody's Baby	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	2:58
I'm Nobody's Baby	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	2:55
It Happened in Monterey	Goodnight My Love 1991	3:13
It Happened in Monterey	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:17
I’M Nobodys Baby Now	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls 2015	2:54
Laughing at Life	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	2:51
Laughing at Life	Kiss Waltz 2013	2:52
Life Is a Song	Unknown Album	3:03
Love Letters In the Sand	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls 2015	3:14
Love Me or Leave Me	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	3:22
Love Me or Leave Me	Kiss Waltz 2013	3:22
Love Me or Leave Me	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls 2015	3:20
Love Me or Leave Me	The Roaring Twenties [ABC] 1994	3:10
Love Me or Leave Me	Respect: A Century of Women in Music 1999
Love Me or Leave Me	First Ladies of Song [ASV/Living Era] 2004	3:23
Love Me or Leave Me	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:20
Love Me or Leave Me	The Jazz Legends: Legendary Female Vocalists 2003
Love Me or Leave Me	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:23
Love Me or Leave Me	Yes Sir, That's My Baby: The Songs of Walter Donaldson 1997	3:22
Love Me or Leave Me	Stars of Hollywood: Singers and Actresses 2013	3:29
Love Me or Leave Me	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	2:53
Love Me or Leave Me [From "Whoopee"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:20
Mean to Me	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	3:25
Mean to Me	Kiss Waltz 2013	3:27
Mean to Me	Life Is a Song 1999	3:38
Mean to Me	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:29
Mean to Me	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:33
Mean to Me	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	3:31
More Than You Know	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:02
More Than You Know	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	3:03
More Than You Know	More Than You Know 1996	2:58
More Than You Know [From "Great Day"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:02
Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)	Hits of '31 1997	2:46
Nevertheless I'm in Love with You	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:42
Nevertheless I'm in Love with You	Unknown Album	2:49
Nevertheless, I'm in Love With You	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	2:45
Ramona	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:01
Riptide	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:52
Riptide	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	2:51
September In the Rain	The Jazz Divas Juke Box 2014	3:12
Shakin the Blues Away	Kiss Waltz 2013	3:10
Shakin' the Blues Away	Broadway: Golden Age of Musica 1919-1946 2000	3:09
Shakin' the Blues Away	Stars Sing Irving Berlin [Broken Audio] 2012	3:09
Shaking the Blues Away	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	3:09
Shaking the Blues Away	The Jazz Divas Juke Box 2014	3:11
Shaking the Blues Away	The Irving Berlin Songbook, Vol. 5 2015	3:10
Shaking the Blues Away	Ziegfeld Follies [Living Era] 2006	3:08
Shaking the Blues Away	Best of Broadway: The Revues 1998	3:08
Shaking the Blues Away	Always: The Songs of Irving Berlin 1994	3:11
Shaking the Blues Away	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:11
Shaking the Blues Away	Really the Blues? A Blues History, 1893-1959, Vol. 1	3:14
Shaking the Blues Away	The Best of Irving Berlin 2006	3:10
Shaking the Blues Away [From "Ziegfeld Follies of 1927"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:11
Stay as Sweet as You Are	Let Me Call You Sweetheart 1987
Stay as Sweet as You Are	Goodnight My Love 1991	2:48
Ten Cents a Dance	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	3:14
Ten Cents a Dance	Kiss Waltz 2013	3:16
Ten Cents a Dance	Hits of '30 1997	3:12
Ten Cents a Dance	Art Deco: Sophisticated Ladies 1993	3:17
Ten Cents a Dance	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls 2015	3:16
Ten Cents a Dance	Joe Franklin Presents: The Roaring '20s Roar Again 1995	3:16
Ten Cents a Dance	Long Ago and Far Away 2001	3:14
Ten Cents a Dance	Pop Music: The Early Years 1890-1950 1999	3:17
Ten Cents a Dance	Broadway: Golden Age of Musica 1919-1946 2000	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	Swing Decade, Vol. 2 2013	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	Greatest Hits of the 1930s 2013	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	I Write the Songs 2003	3:24
Ten Cents a Dance	Hits of 1930 2002	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	The Richard Rodgers Centenary Collection 2002	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	Oldies of 30s 2013	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	Brother Can You Spare A Dime? Great American Songs of the Depression 1993
Ten Cents a Dance	First Ladies of Song [ASV/Living Era] 2004	3:16
Ten Cents a Dance	Sing Me a Swing Song 1990	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance	Depression Years 1999
Ten Cents a Dance	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:18
Ten Cents a Dance	Rodgers & Hart: With a Song in Their Hearts 1996	3:17
Ten Cents a Dance	Hit Songs from Broadway 1997	3:27
Ten Cents a Dance	Great Songwriters [Soho] 2003
Ten Cents a Dance	Stars of Hollywood: Singers and Actresses 2013	3:18
Ten Cents a Dance	Pure Nostalgia (1928-1941) 1993	3:14
Ten Cents a Dance	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	3:16
Ten Cents a Dance	Greatest Songs of the 1930's 2013	3:18
Ten Cents a Dance	Songs of the Depression: Boom, Bust & New Deal 1999	3:17
Ten Cents a Dance	Songs of 1930 2008	3:22
Ten Cents a Dance	Those Were the Days [Good Music] 1993	3:10
Ten Cents a Dance	Body and Soul: Five Decades of Jazz Era Song 2000
Ten Cents a Dance [From Simple Simon]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:15
Ten Cents a Dance [From Simple Simon]	The Hits of Rodgers & Hart 1992	3:23
Ten Cents a Dance [From Simple Simon]	Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century 1999	3:17
Ten Cents a Dance [From Simple Simon]	Broadway: The American Musical 2004	3:18
Ten Cents a Dance [Simple Simon]	History of the Musical 2001	1:16
Ten Cents a Dance, song (from "Simple Simon")	The Ultimate Rodgers & Hart, Vol. 1 2001	3:19
Ten Cents a Dance, song (from "Simple Simon")	With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers & Hart 2001	3:15
The Song Is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:30
There's a Lull in My Life	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:41
There's a Lull in My Life	America's Sweetheart of Song 2001	2:40
There's a Lull in My Life	24 Recordings from 1926-1937 1997	2:41
There's a Lull in My Life	More Than You Know 1996	2:43
There's a Lull in My Life [From "Wake Up and Live"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:41
Try a Little Tenderness	Let Me Call You Sweetheart 1987
What Do We Do on a Dew-Dew-Dewy Day	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:47
When You're With Somebody Else	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	2:55
When You're with Somebody Else	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	2:49
Why Was I Born?	More Than You Know 1996	3:26
You're the Cream in My Coffee	The Best Things in Life Are Free: The Songs of Ray Henderson 1997	3:07
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Ten Cents a Dance 1981	3:05
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Kiss Waltz 2013	3:07
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:07
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Love Me or Leave Me [Pearl] 1996	3:07
You're the Cream in My Coffee [From "Hold Everything"]	Love Me or Leave Me [Living Era] 2006	3:07
You're the Cream in My Coffee [From Hold	Birth of the Blues: Songwriter Series 1998	3:07
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart	The Golden Age of Popular Song: The Wonderful 30's 2000	2:11
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart	The Wonderful 30's: Golden Age of Popular Song 2012	2:11

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