Natalie, like most people in the pre and post WWII era, grew up listening to radio broadcasts as a primary source of entertainment. The following is a song list for the two-volume novel, Natalie, A New England girl with Cowboy Dreams and Natalie's Cowboy Dreams with a Tropical Twist from 1943 - 1964
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
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“You're the Rainbow” - Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
“You're the Rainbow” - Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
“As Time Goes By” - Dooley Wilson
“Stardust” - Frank Sinatra
“Why Don't You Do Right” - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
“When the Lights Go on Again All over the World” - Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra
“Don't Get Around Much Anymore” - Ink Spots
“The Sunny Side of the Street” - Dorothy Fields
“Moonlight Bay”
“It Had to Be You” - Gus Kahn and Islam Jones
“I Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle” - Kay Kyser
"There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder" - Tex Ritter
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”- Andrews Sisters
Harry James
Tommy Dorsey
Mills Brothers
Lena Horne
Glen Miller
“Accent-Tchu-ate the Positive” - Bing Crosby
“My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time” - Doris Day/Les Brown and his orchestra
“Accent-Tchu-ate the Positive” - Johnny Mercer
“Dream” - Frank Sinatra
“Rum and Coca Cola” - Andrews Sisters
“Till The End Of Time” - Perry Como
“On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” - Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers
“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
“Sentimental Journey” - Les Brown
“Laura” - Woody Herman and his orchestra
“I'm Beginning to See the Light” - Ella Fitzgerald/Ink Spots
“Straighten Up and Fly Right” - Nat King Cole
“‘Ol Man River” - Frank Sinatra
“The House I Live In” - Frank Sinatra
“Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t Ma’ Baby” - Louis Jordan
“G. I. Jive” - Louis Jordan
“Smoke on the Water” - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“New San Antonio Rose” - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight” - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” - Frank Sinatra
“White Christmas” - Bing Crosby
“Jump Sauce” - Harry James
“It Might As Well Be Spring”
“Eleven Sixty P.M.”
“It's The Talk Of The Town”
“June Is Busting Out All Over”
“There Must Be A Way”
“Friar Rock”
“Nine Twenty Special”
“Where Or When”
“I'm In Love With Two Sweethearts”
“Besame Mucho”
“Love Walked In”
“Honeysuckle Rose” - Harry James
“Woodchopper’s Ball” - Woody Herman
“Fan It” - Woody Herman
“I’m a Big Girl Now” - Nancy Norman with the Sammy Kaye Orchestra
“Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette” - Tex Williams
“Across The Alley From The Alamo” - Mills Brothers
“Cool Water” - Sons of the Pioneers
“I’ll Hold You in My Heart” - Eddy Arnold
“Honky Tonkin’” - Hank Williams
“Love Somebody” - Doris Day and Buddy Clark
“I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover” - Art Mooney delivered
“Toolie Oolie Doolie” - Andrews Sisters.
“Woody Woodpecker” - Sportsmen and Mel Blanc
"All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)" - Spike Jones and His Orchestra
“Christmas Carols by the Old Corral" - Tex Ritter
“The Christmas Song” - King Cole Trio
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” - Judy Garland
“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” - Bing Crosby
“Here Comes Santa Claus, Down Santa Claus Lane” - Gene Autry
"Buttons and Bows" - Dinah Shore
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“Ghost Riders in the Sky” - Vaughn Monroe
“Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” - Gene Autry
"Mona Lisa" - Nat King Cole
"Your Cheatin' Heart" - Hank Williams
“Back Street Affair” - Webb Pierce
"Paying For That Back Street Affair” - Kitty Wells
“The Cattle Call” - Eddie Arnold
“Sixteen Tons” - Tennessee Ernie Ford
“The Ballad of Davy Crocket” - Tennessee Ernie Ford
“A Blossom Fell” - Nat King Cole
“Learnin' The Blues” - Frank Sinatra
”Here Today Gone Tomorrow” - The Browns
”Hound Dog” - Elvis Presley
”Heartbreak Hotel” - Elvis Presley
“Que, Sera, Sera” - Doris Day
”You Don’t Know Me” - Eddy Arnold
”Wasted Words” - Ray Price
”I Walk the Line” - Johnny Cash
”Blueberry Hill” - Fats Domino
”The Great Pretender” - The Platters
