All selections previously released except for "Oh! Lady be good" and "The flat foot boogie" previously unissued alternate takes. Some selections are mono recordings. Program and biographical notes by Chris Albertson laid in container. Columbia/Legacy: C2K 52454 (additional nos. on discs: CK 52455--CK 52456). Various performers. Recorded ca. 1919-1982.
Contents:
Disc 1. Moon shines on the moonshine (Bert Williams) -- I'm a little blackbird looking for a bluebird (Clarence Williams' Blue Five) -- Dinah (Ethel Waters) -- I ain't scared of you (Butterbeans & Susie) -- Camp meeting day (Noble Sissle & his orchestra) -- Memories of you (Louis Armstrong & his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra) -- Aux Iles Hawaii (Josephine Baker) -- Oh! Lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Go Harlem (Jimmy Johnson & his orchestra) -- How'm I doin'? (Connies's Inn Orchestra) --Shine on your shoes ; Louisiana hayride (Monette Moore) -- Man from Harlem (Cab Calloway & his orchestra) -- Old Yazoo (Washboard Rhythm Kings) -- You gave me everything but love (Adelaide Hall) -- Doin' the new low-down (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) -- Baby, are you satisfied (Dickey Wells' Shim Shammers) -- Rosetta (Earl Hines & his orchestra) -- Jungle fever (Mills Brothers) -- Miss Otis regrets (Four Blackbirds) -- Margie (Claude Hopkins & his orchestra) -- Catch on? (Blanche Calloway & her orchestra) -- A high hat, a piccolo and a cane (Putney Dandridge & his orchestra) -- It was a sad night in Harlem (Duke Ellington & his orchestra) -- Keep a twinkle in your eye (Nicholas Brothers) -- When the lights are low (Elisabeth Welch). Disc 2. I may be wrong (John Kirby & his orchestra) -- Flat foot floogie (Slim & Slam) -- T'ain't what you do (Jimmie Lunceford & his orchestra) -- Don't worry 'about me (Count Basie & his orchestra) -- Baby, look at you (Pete Johnson & his Boogie Woogie Boys) -- Body and soul (Billie Holiday & her orchestra) -- How long blues (Count Basie & his orchestra) -- If I had a ribbon bow (Maxine Sullivan) -- Waiting for Jane (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson) -- Prisoner of love (Lena Horne) -- Saturday night fish fry (Pearl Bailey, Moms Mabley) -- Nat meets June (Metronome All Stars) -- Ain't misbehavin (Sarah Vaughan) -- What kind of fool am I? (Sammy Davis, Jr.) -- A-tisket, a-tasket (Ella Fitzgerald, The Chick Webb Orchestra) -- Hey! bartender give that man a drink (Joe Williams & The Red Saunders Orchestra) -- Today I sing the blues (Aretha Franklin) -- Trying (Laverne Baker) -- Please come home for Christmas (Charles Brown) -- Tutti Frutti (Little Richard) -- Try me (James Brown) -- For the love of money (O'Jay's) -- Summer breeze (Isley Brothers) -- Sexual healing (Marvin Gaye) -- Dance to the music (Sly & The Family Stone).
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