Year
1945 in music
19 albums released in 1945 are catalogued on Riffiter, ranked by popularity and community ratings.

The Charlie Parker Story
Charlie Parker
The Last Rose of Summer / Don Carlos: Ella giammai m’ amo
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Blueprints for a Velvet Galaxy (After Hours Sessions)
Mary Lou Williams

That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch/Baby Look at You
Wynonie Harris
Right as the Rain / Evelina
Mildred Bailey
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Lamplighter’s Serenade / The Sunshine of Your Smile
Mildred Bailey
Downhearted Blues / Beyond the Blue Horizon
Mildred Bailey
Down the Old Ox Road / Soon / Summertime / From the Land of the Sky Blue Water
Mildred Bailey
None but the Lonely Heart / There’ll Be a Jubilee
Mildred Bailey

Strange Things Happening Every Day / Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Caldonia / Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Gotta Be This or That / Bahama Joe / Nobody but Me
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Deacon Jones / I Like ’em Fat Like That / Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Good Enough to Keep
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Don’t Fence Me In / The Continental / How High Am I? / Hey Now, Let’s Live
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five

Wynonie's Blues / Somebody Changed the Lock on My Door
Wynonie Harris

Straighten Him Out / Young Man's Blues
Wynonie Harris

Around the Clock Blues
Wynonie Harris

One Night Stand
Duke Ellington

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo / Yonder Goes My Baby
Wynonie Harris
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