| 1 | You Go to My Head [1938‐05‐11] | Billie Holiday | 2:53 |
| 2 | Goodbye Red [1938] | Sonny Boy Williamson | 3:13 |
| 3 | Shadrack [1938‐06‐14] | Louis Armstrong | 2:34 |
| 4 | Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen [1938‐06‐14] | Louis Armstrong | 3:10 |
| 5 | Mailman Blues [1938‐07‐20] | Tiny Mayberry | 3:07 |
| 6 | Laugh and Call It Love [1938‐07‐29] | Nan Wynn with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra | 2:58 |
| 7 | When You Feel Down [1938] | Yank Rachell | 3:18 |
| 8 | At Long Last Love [1938‐08‐01] | Bea Wain with Larry Clinton & His Orchestra | 2:55 |
| 9 | Two Sleepy People [1938‐10‐13] | Fats Waller | 3:07 |
| 10 | The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ but… [1938‐10‐21] | Georgia White | 2:42 |
| 11 | Deep River [1938‐11] | Marian Anderson | 3:14 |
| 12 | Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [1938‐11] | Marian Anderson | 3:21 |
| 13 | Roll ’em Pete [1938‐12‐30] | Big Joe Turner | 2:52 |
| 14 | Bourgeois Blues [1939] | Lead Belly | 5:36 |
| 15 | I Want Jesus to Walk Around My Bedside [1939] | Selah Jubilee Singers | 3:22 |
| 16 | ’Tain’t What You Do [1939‐01‐03] | Trummy Young & Jimmie Lunceford | 3:06 |
| 17 | My Heart Belongs to Daddy [1939‐01‐05] | Helen Humes with Count Basie & His Orchestra | 2:58 |
| 18 | Jeepers Creepers [1939‐01‐18] | Louis Armstrong | 2:38 |
| 19 | More Than You Know [1939‐01‐30] | Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra | 3:10 |
| 20 | Goin’ To Chicago Blues [1939‐02‐13] | Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie & His Orchestra | 3:22 |
| 21 | Undecided [1939‐02‐17] | Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb | 3:19 |
| 22 | Mississippi Dream Boat [1939‐02‐27] | Jean Eldridge & Johnny Hodges | 2:40 |
| 23 | She’s Gone [1939‐02‐28] | Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters | 3:04 |
| 24 | Mutiny in the Parlor [1939‒02‒29] | Helen Ward & Gene Krupa | 3:01 |