Louisiana Hayride

Another nice collection in the Art Deco series. For a cool site dedicated to the Boswell Sisters, check out www.bozzies.com. Cover and booklet info here. Enjoy. +

Tracks

1. Rock and Roll
2. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
3. Louisiana Hayride
4. Shuffle Off to Buffalo
5. Sophisticated Lady
6. Song of Surrender
7. Sleep, Come on and Take Me
8. That's How Rhythm Was Born
9. Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia, The
10. Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night
11. Forty-Second Street
12. Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
13. Darktown Strutter's Ball, The
14. If I Had a Million Dollars
15. It's Written All Over Your Face
16. Charlie Two-Step
17. Trav'lin All Alone
18. St. Louis Blues
19. Dinah
20. Object of My Affection, The

It's The Girls

There have been sister vocal groups before and after, but none have ever equaled the impact on popular music that the Boswell Sisters brought to the scene. Though they made their first recording for Victor in 1925, it was the Brunswick years 1931-1935 that they made their most popular recordings which they made along with the best in the business - the Dorseys, Joe Venuti among others. Enjoy. +

Tracks

1. It's the Girl
2. That's What I Like About You
3. Heebie Jeebies
4. Concentratin' (on You)
5. Wha'd Ja Do to Me?
6. I'm All Dressed up With a Broken Heart
7. When I Take My Sugar to Tea
8. Don't Tell Him What Happened to Me
9. Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On
10. I'm Gonna Cry (Cryin' Blues)
11. This Is the Missus/Ladies and Gentleman/That's Love/Life Is Just a Bowl Of Cherries
12. My Future Just Passed
13. What Is It?
14. Shine on Harvest Moon
15. Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy
16. We're on the Highway to Heaven
17. Time on My Hands
18. Nights When I'm Lonely
19. Shout, Sister, Shout
20. It's You

Cheerful Little Earful

Here's the second volume of Ben Selvin. On the post for volume one I cited the entry from Wikipedia which reports that Selvin's output is estimated at 13,000 - 20,000 song titles. I now doubt that seriously based on something I read in Scott Yanow's book under his entry for Chick Bullock. Yanow stated that Bullock recorded more than 4,000 songs during his career, when the number is actually about 740 (according to Peter Murphy's 1983 discography). I say "about" because I've found 3 or 4 or so titles that weren't listed, as well as determining that 1 record is decidedly not Bullock. Anyway, most of Bullock's songs were issued on several labels even though they were the exact same recording, often on as many as nine different labels (also accounting for pseudonyms). I suspect that the case is similar for Ben Selvin, though he was far more prolific than Bullock, and that there is sloppy counting going on. So again, 20,000? How many recording sessions per year would that require? I bet the count doesn't match up with the known recording dates. Anyway, this is another fine collection from this label. Enjoy. +

Tracks

1. Free and Easy [1]
2. Smile, Darn Ya, Smile
3. Why?
4. Mona
5. Do Ya Love Me? (Just a Tiny Bit, Do Ya?) [1]
6. Why Do You Suppose?
7. I Miss a Little Miss (Who Misses Me in Sunny Tennessee)
8. Do Ya Love Me? (Just a Tiny Bit, Do Ya?) [2]
9. 'Tain't No Sin
10. Thank Your Father
11. When I Am Housekeeping for You
12. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
13. Thank Your Father [2]
14. I'm in the Market for You
15. Whole Darned Thing's for You
16. Why Have You Forgotten Waikiki?
17. My Man from Caroline
18. I'm in the Market for You [2]
19. Free and Easy [2]
20. Cheerful Little Earful
21. Whole Darned Thing's for You [2]
22. It's Easy to Fall in Love
23. You Said It

Blowin' Up A Breeze

Chu Berry is perhaps best known for his tenor saxophone work with Cab Calloway's Cotton Club Orchestra. Prior to joining Calloway's orchestra, Berry worked with Sammy Stewart, Benny Carter, Teddy Hill, and Fletcher Henderson. Though Berry based his style on that followed by Coleman Hawkins, the older man regarded Berry as his equal. His composition "Christopher Columbus" was the last important hit recording of the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, recorded in 1936. It is one of the most popular riff tunes from the swing era and used as the final showstopper in Benny Goodman's first Carnegie Hall Jazz concert dating from 1938. Berry also played for a while in the Count Basie Big band. His most impressing recording with that band is "Oh, Lady Be Good". (from Wiki). Enjoy. +

Tracks

1. Now You're Talking My Language
2. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
3. Too Marvelous for Words
4. Limehouse Blues
5. Chuberry Jam
6. Maelstrom
7. My Secret Love Affair
8. Ebb Tide
9. Sittin' In
10. Stardust
11. Body and Soul
12. Forty Six, West Fifty Two
13. Blowin' Up a Breeze
14. On the Sunny Side of the Street
15. Monday at Minton's
16. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
17. Dream Girl, Pt. 1
18. Dream Girl, Pt. 2
19. Get Lost, Pt. 1
20. Get Lost, Pt. 2

Mahogany Hall Stomp

The great Bunny Berigan with some nice sides including a remake of his biggest hit I Can't Get Started. Enjoy. +

Tracks

1. Roses In December
2. Mother Goose
3. Frankie And Johnnie
4. Mahogany Hall Stomp
5. Let'Er Go
6. Turn On That Red-Hot Heat (Burn Your Blues Away)
7. I Can't Get Started
8. The Prisoner's Song
9. Why Talk About Love?
10. Caravan
11. A Study In Brown
12. Sweet Varsity Sue
13. Gee, But It's Great To Meet A Friend
14. Ebb Tide
15. Have You Ever Been In Heaven?
16. Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm
17. I'd Love To Play A Love Scene (Opposite You)
18. I Want A New Romance
19. Miles Apart
20. A Strange Loneliness
21. In A Little Spanish Town
22. Black Bottom

You're Telling Me

2 hits for 2 bits - how can you beat that? From a review on Amazon: Nobody is quite sure what happened to Charlie Palloy, the mysterious bandleader, guitarist, and baritone who recorded for the bargain-priced Crown Records label between 1932 and 1933. Was he a better-known musician working under a stage name or just a good Bing Crosby impersonator destined for obscurity? Regardless, these 23 tracks capture one of the Depression-era's most enigmatic and talented bandleaders in fine form. His budget-priced 78s (sold through Woolworth's for a quarter) were forged on the repertoire of Crosby's latest hits, but Palloy's single-note guitar solos--a hint at the sounds of jazz guitar to come--make these interpretations utterly fascinating. From the stripped-down arrangement of "Young and Healthy" to the full-bodied swing of "Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia," Palloy shines. His slightly ragged voice is somehow endearing and his talent on the frets is unmistakable. What other bandleader in the '20s or '30s would sing, scat, and do a guitar solo on "Forty-Second Street"? Guitarist-bandleader Nick Lucas may be a better-known figure than Palloy (after all, he did popularize "Tip Toe Through the Tulips"), but that's a shame: Palloy is every bit as interesting and his playing is just as remarkable. --Jason Verlinde. This is a fantastic collection. Enjoy. +

Tracks

1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
2. Young and Healthy
3. And So I Married the Girl
4. Stormy Weather
5. Say It Isn't So
6. Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia
7. Learn to Croon
8. Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
9. (Hi-Ho Lack-A-Day) What Have We Got to Lose?
10. Me Minus You
11. Forty Second Street
12. I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
13. Hustlin' and Bustlin' for Baby
14. On a Steamer Coming Over
15. You'll Never Get up to Heaven That Way
16. What a Perfect Combination
17. Gold Diggers Song (We're in the Money)
18. Pettin' in the Park
19. You're Telling Me
20. Try a Little Tenderness
21. One Little Word Led to Another
22. Just an Echo in the Valley
23. Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me