VARIOUS Songs Of The Depression: Boom, Bust & The New Deal (1998 UK/German-pressed 88-track 4-CD box set, examining the effects of the crash through the medium of popular song. Starting with the insanity of the stock market boom in the late 1920s, it tracks the muddle-headed & often absurd false-optimism policies of the government in the early months of the crisis, through the grim realization of the people that government had failed them, to the exaggerated euphoria & youthful irreverence of the New Deal era. The crazy mood swings of the period are reflected in songs like Eddie Cantor's Tips On The Stock Market, Al Jolson's Hallelujah I'm A Bum, Ruth Etting's 10 Cents A Dance, Vincent Rose's There's No Depression In Love, Lee Morse's I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart, Gene Kardo's If I Ever Get A Job Again, Connee Boswell's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams & Louis Armstrong's duet with the Mills Brothers on WPA. And, of course, Bing Crosby performs the Depression's most poignant anthem, Brother Can You Spare A Dime. Comes complete with a 160-page hardcover book in a deluxe 12" picture box. Still factory sealed, the contents are mint)