Originals

• 1928: THERE AIN'T NO SWEET MAN THAT'S WORTH THE SALT OF MY TEARS

Covers

• Cover of WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR in 1927
• Cover of AM I BLUE in 1929
• Cover of BODY AND SOUL in 1930 - in Broadway revue Three's A Crowd; recording for Brunswick; banned on radio, still n°3 US; when Libby finally introduced this Tin Pan Alley standard on Broadway (October '30), the song had been recorded 22 times; Gertrude Lawrence had it on her setlist by then but never recorded it
• Cover of LOVE FOR SALE in 1931 - nicknamed The Dark Purple Menace; musical vamp, married much older Zachary Reynolds, heir of the Reynolds tobacco imperium; he died soon after, reveiling her menacing reputation (Love For Re-sale)
• Cover of YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC in 1935 - top 20 US for Victor
• Cover of DINK'S SONG in 1942 - as Fare Thee Well with Josh White on guitar for Decca; crediting Alston, which cannot be right: that's the author of another Fare Thee Well Honey Fare Thee Well by Georgia White from 1937
• Cover of HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN, THE in 1942 - well placed to sing such a sad song: her first husband got killed, her lover died in a plane crash, her second husband committed suicide, her son died while climbing Mount Whitney and she committed suicide in her own Rolls-Royce
• Cover of LITTLE MOHEE in 1942 - with Josh White as Old Smoky
• Cover of STRANGE FRUIT in 1944