1927 songs

"Misirlou" is a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean region. The song's original author is unknown, but Arabic, Greek, and Jewish musicians were playing it by the 1920s. The earliest known recording of the song is a 1927 Greek rebetiko/tsifteteli composition. There are also Arabic belly dancing, Albanian, Armenian, Serbian, Persian, Indian and Turkish versions of the song. This song was popular from the 1920s onwards in the Arab American, Armenian American and Greek American communities who settled in the United States.

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poem by Bertholt Brecht set to music by Kurt Weill; part of the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

1927 song by Hoagy Carmichael

1927 song by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen

original show tune composed by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; from the 1927 musical "Show Boat"

Viennese worker's song

song composed by Blind Willie Johnson performed by Blind Willie Johnson

traditional song

1927 song composed by Julio César Sanders with lyrics by César Vedani

original song composed by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by George A. Whiting

original instrumental composed by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley

1930 song composed by Moisés Simons performed by Don Azpiazú

local anthem

original show tune written and composed by Ernesto Lecuona; from the 1927 revue "La tierra de Venus"

thumb|upright|Rofū Miki (1948) (also transliterated as Akatombo, Aka Tombo, Aka Tonbo, or Aka Tomba) is a famous Japanese children's song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki. It is a nostalgic depiction of a Japanese red dragonfly seen at sunset by an infant being carried on an older sister's shoulder.

song recorded by blues musician Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas in 1927

song by Blind Lemon Jefferson

original show tune by George and Ira Gershwin; from the 1927 musical "Funny face"

wordless song composed by Duke Ellington, Rudy Jackson, Bubber Miley

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