L’Histoire du jazz vocal – The Story of Vocal Jazz: 1911–1940

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Annotation

Tracklist errors:
Track 10.24 is listed as "Delta Blues" by Son House in the booklet and on the cover. The actual song on the medium is "Love in Vain" by Robert Johnson however.

Tracklist

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1Didn’t It Rain [1937]
recording of:
Didn't It Rain (in 1937)
writer:
[traditional]
arranger:
H. Knight (in 1947) and Sister Rosetta Tharpe (in 1947)
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet3:17
2Smoke Dreams [1937‐01‐08]
xylophone:
Red Norvo (on 1937-01-08)
vocals:
Mildred Bailey (on 1937-01-08)
recording of:
Smoke Dreams (on 1937-01-08)
lyricist:
Arthur Freed
composer:
Nacio Herb Brown
Mildred Bailey3:08
3Where the Lazy River Goes By [1937‐01‐28]
alto saxophone:
Scoops Carry (on 1937-01-28) and Joe Eldridge (on 1937-01-28)
double bass:
Truck Parham (on 1937-01-28)
drums (drum set):
Zutty Singleton (on 1937-01-28)
guitar:
John Collins (on 1937-01-28)
piano:
Teddy Cole (on 1937-01-28)
tenor saxophone:
Dave Young (on 1937-01-28)
trumpet:
Roy Eldridge (on 1937-01-28)
vocals:
Gladys Palmer (on 1937-01-28)
recording of:
Where the Lazy River Goes By (on 1937-01-28)
lyricist:
Harold Adamson
composer:
Jimmy McHugh
Gladys Palmer2:35
4I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter [1937‐03]
recording of:
I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter (in 1937-03)
writer:
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington2:02
5I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter [1937‐03‐05]
recording of:
I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter (on 1937-03-05)
writer:
Duke Ellington
Ivie Anderson & Rex Stewart2:36
6Pistol Slapper Blues [1937]
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1938-04-05)
guitar:
Blind Boy Fuller (on 1938-04-05)
vocals:
Blind Boy Fuller (on 1938-04-05)
recording of:
Pistol Slapper Blues (in 1937)
lyricist and composer:
Fulton Allen
Blind Boy Fuller2:43
7You Showed Me the Way [1937‐03‐24]
recording of:
You Showed Me the Way (on 1937-03-24)
writer:
Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Green, Teddy McRae and Chick Webb
Ella Fitzgerald3:22
8Darling Nelly Gray [1937‐04‐07]
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1937-04-07)
guitar:
Bernard Addison (on 1937-04-07) and John Mills, Sr. (on 1937-04-07)
trumpet:
Louis Armstrong (on 1937-04-07)
baritone vocals:
Harry Mills (on 1937-04-07)
bass vocals:
John Mills, Sr. (on 1937-04-07)
tenor vocals:
Donald Mills (on 1937-04-07) and Herbert Mills (on 1937-04-07)
vocals:
Louis Armstrong (on 1937-04-07) and The Mills Brothers (on 1937-04-07)
recording of:
Darling Nellie Gray (on 1937-04-07)
composer:
Benjamin R. Hanby
Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers2:45
9Make Me a Pallet on the Floor [1937‐05‐04]
recorded in:
Aurora, Illinois, United States (on 1937-05-04)
bass:
[unknown] (on 1937-05-04)
guitar:
Willie B. James (on 1937-05-04)
piano:
Black Bob (on 1937-05-04)
lead vocals:
Yas Yas Girl (on 1937-05-04)
recording of:
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (on 1937-05-04)
composer:
[traditional]
arranger:
Bunk Johnson
arrangement of:
Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
Merline Johnson2:54
10Mean to Me [1937‐05‐11]
recording of:
Mean to Me (on 1937-05-11)
lyricist:
Roy Turk
composer:
Fred Ahlert
publisher:
Crawford Music Corp., Cromwell Music, Inc., Fred Ahlert Mus. Corp. and Pencil Mark Music
Billie Holiday3:09
11Shake ’em on Down [1937]
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1937-09-02)
guitar:
[unknown] (on 1937-09-02) and Bukka White (on 1937-09-02)
lead vocals:
Bukka White (on 1937-09-02)
recording of:
Shake ’Em On Down (on 1937-09-02)
lyricist and composer:
Bukka White
publisher:
Conrad Music
Bukka White3:00
12Keep Me Every Day [1937‐05‐21]
recording of:
Keep Me Everyday (on 1937-05-21)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional]
Mahalia Jackson2:47
13Good Morning Blues [1937‐08‐09]
recording of:
Good Morning Blues (on 1937-08-09)
lyricist, composer and arranger:
Huddie William Ledbetter
publisher:
Kensington Music Ltd. and TRO-Folkways Music Publishers, Inc.
Jimmy Rushing3:08
14Nice Work If You Can Get It [1937‐10‐14]
clarinet:
Johnny Mintz (on 1937-10-14)
double bass:
Gene Traxler (on 1937-10-14)
drums (drum set):
Dave Tough (on 1937-10-14)
guitar:
Carmen Mastren (on 1937-10-14)
piano:
Howard Smith (on 1937-10-14)
tenor saxophone:
Bud Freeman (on 1937-10-14)
trombone:
Tommy Dorsey (on 1937-10-14)
trumpet:
Pee Wee Erwin (on 1937-10-14)
vocals:
Edythe Wright (on 1937-10-14)
recording of:
Nice Work If You Can Get It (on 1937-10-14)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1937)
composer:
George Gershwin (in 1937)
publisher:
Chappell & Co., Inc. and Gershwin Publishing Corp (in 1937)
part of:
A Damsel in Distress (1937 film score)
part of:
Crazy for You (1992 musical)
part of:
My One and Only (1983 Broadway musical)
Edythe Wright & Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven2:24
15The Folks Who Live on the Hill [1937‐10‐22]
recording of:
The Folks Who Live on the Hill (on 1937-10-22)
lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II
composer:
Jerome Kern
publisher:
Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc.
part of:
High, Wide and Handsome (1937 film)
Maxine Sullivan3:05
16My Man [1937‐11‐01]
recording of:
My Man (Mon homme) (Channing Pollock lyrics) (on 1937-11-01)
lyricist:
Jacques Charles and Albert Willemetz
composer:
Maurice Yvain
translator:
Channing Pollock
publisher:
CBS Feist Catalog, Inc. (ended) and Éditions Salabert France
translated version of:
Mon homme
Billie Holiday3:04
17I Want to Be Happy [1937‐11‐02]
recording of:
I Want to Be Happy (No, No, Nanette) (on 1937-11-02)
lyricist:
Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach
composer:
Vincent Youmans
part of:
No, No, Nanette
Ella Fitzgerald4:32
18Bei mir bist du schön [1937‐11‐24]
vocals:
The Andrews Sisters (on 1937-11-24)
recording of:
Bei mir bist du schön (English version) (on 1937-11-24)
lyricist:
Sammy Cahn
additional composer:
Saul Chaplin
composer:
Sholom Secunda
translated version of:
בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין (Bay mir bistu sheyn)
The Andrews Sisters3:10
19Tiger Rag [1938]
guitar:
Herbert Mills (on 1932-04-14) and John Mills, Jr. (on 1932-04-14)
baritone vocals:
Harry Mills (on 1932-04-14)
bass vocals:
John Mills, Jr. (on 1932-04-14)
tenor vocals:
Donald Mills (on 1932-04-14) and Herbert Mills (on 1932-04-14)
recording of:
Tiger Rag ("Hold that tiger" lyrics) (on 1932-04-14)
lyricist:
Harry DeCosta
composer:
Eddie Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro and Larry Shields
is based on:
Tiger Rag (original 1917 instrumental version)
The Mills Brothers1:50
20What More Can a Man Do? [1938]
guitar:
Lonnie Johnson (on 1938-04-01)
piano:
Peetie Wheatstraw (on 1938-04-01)
vocals:
Peetie Wheatstraw (on 1938-04-01)
Peetie Wheatstraw3:06
21Sweet Adeline [1938]
recording of:
Sweet Adeline (in 1938)
composer:
Elliott Smith
The Golden Gate Quartet2:25
22Now They Call It Swing [1938‐01‐12]
recording of:
Now They Call It Swing (on 1938-01-12)
lyricist:
Vaughn De Leath and Walter Hirsch
composer:
Norman Cloutier and Lou Handman
Billie Holiday3:08
23Sent for You Yesterday [1938‐02‐16]
recording of:
Sent for You Yesterday (on 1938-02-16)
lyricist:
Jimmy Rushing
composer:
Count Basie and Eddie Durham
Jimmy Rushing2:59
24Mule Blues [1938]
recorded in:
Aurora, Illinois, United States (on 1938-12-16)
bass:
Ransom Knowling (on 1938-12-16)
guitar:
Big Bill Broonzy (on 1938-12-16)
harmonica and lead vocals:
Jazz Gillum (on 1938-12-16)
piano:
Joshua Altheimer (on 1938-12-16)
Jazz Gillum3:17
25Chinatown My Chinatown [1938‐02‐17]
recording of:
Chinatown, My Chinatown (on 1938-02-17)
lyricist:
William Jerome (in 1910)
composer:
Jean Schwartz (in 1910)
publisher:
Beuscher and Sim
Slim & Slam2:42
26How Long Baby Will You Keep Me This Way [1938‐04‐21]
Rosetta Howard2:23
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