Jazz vocals with instrumental acc. Mildred Bailey, vocals, with various instrumental ensembles. Recorded from Nov. 24, 1931 to Mar. 16, 1939. Previously released material. Compilation produced by Tony Watts and Colin Brown. Program notes inserted in container.
Contents:
disc 1. Rockin' chair -- What kind of man is you? -- Blues in my heart -- When it's sleepy time down south -- Georgia on my mind -- Home -- Harlem lullaby -- Lazy bones -- Heat wave -- Junk man -- Ol' pappy -- Someday sweetheart -- Willow tree -- Honeysuckle rose -- Squeeze me -- Downhearted blues -- A porter's love song to a chambermaid -- More than you know -- Smoke dreams -- I've got my love to keep me warm -- Trust in me -- Where are you? -- Never in a million years -- There's a lull in my life -- The moon got in my eyes. disc 2. It's the natural thing to do -- Bob White -- Thanks for the memory -- Lover come back to me -- Weekend of a private secretary -- Please be kind -- Don't be that way -- Says my heart -- I let a song go out of my heart -- My melancholy baby -- The lonesome road -- So help me if I don't love you -- Small fry -- My reverie -- Old folks -- Have you forgotten so soon? -- St. Louis blues -- Begin the beguine -- 'Taint what you do -- Gulf coast blues -- Prisoner of love -- Darn that dream -- Peace, brother -- Don't take your love from me -- Me and the blues -- At sundown -- All of me.
Summary:
Here is the finest double CD available of one the greatest of all jazz singers. Washingtonian Mildred Rinker (1907-1951) took her first married name to become, as 'Mildred Bailey', the first truly great jazz singer. In every way she was a big star; she was built on a huge scale, and she outsold all other jazz ladies of the 30s apart from Billie Holiday. Mildred Bailey was known as 'The Rockin' Chair Lady' after her great success with Hoagy Carmichael's classic, and that provides the title for Retrospective's tribute. Here are the 52 finest recordings she made, spanning from her first-ever disc in 1929 (What Kind O' Man Is You?), through her golden years of the 30s to her full 1947 version of one of her key songs All Of Me.
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