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Singers and soloists of the swing bands

Title
Singers and soloists of the swing bands [sound recording] / selected by Martin Williams and annotated by Mark Tucker.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, c1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Williams, Martin, 1924-1992.
  • Tucker, Mark.
Description
4 sound cassettes : 1 7/8 ips, Dolby processed; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. +
Subjects
Genre/Form
Jazz.
Contents
  • After you've gone/Bing Crosby--Black and blue; Blue again: Star dust; I've got the world on a string; Swing that music; Struttin with some barbecue/Louis Armstrong--It's the talk of the town/Coleman Hawkins--Nagasaki/Red Allen--Zaz zuh zaz; My gal/Cab Calloway
  • -- A ghost of a chance/Chu Berry--A porter's love song to a chambermaid; Smoke dreams/Mildred Bailey--I can't get started/Bunny Berigan--Clap hands!Here comes Charley/Chick Webb--
  • Undecided; Have mercy/Ella Fitzgerald--At long last love/Bea Wain--I gotta right to sing the blues/Jack Teagarden--Embraceable you/Bobby Hackett--'Tain't what you do/Trummy Young--Well, all right, then /Jimmie Lunceford--More than you know/Benny Carter/Roy Felton--Star dust/Jack Jenney--Kitty on toast/Ray Nance--Piano man/Earl Hines--
  • Skylark;Stormy Monday blues/Billy Eckstine--Darn that dream;The man I love;Solo flight;How deep is the ocean;Why don't you do right;Clarinade;Blue skies--B.Goodman/Orch./featured artists: Mildred Bailey,Helen Forrest,Charlie Christian,Peggy Lee and Art Lund.
  • All or nothing at all/Frank Sinatra--I'll get by; You don't know what love is/Dick Haymes--I'm beginning to see the light/Kitty Kallen--Contrasts/Jimmy Dorsey--Tangerine/Bob Eberly/ Helen O'Connell--I'm glad there is you/B.Eberly--Oh, look at me now/F.Sinatra/Pied Pipers --Everything happens to me/ F.Sinatra--Yes indeed/Jo Stafford/Sy Oliver--Daybreak/F.Sinatra--Manhattan Serenade/Jo Stafford--Day in day out/Helen Forrest--St. James Infirmary /Hot Lips Page--I can't get started ; Swing brother swing ; They can't take that away from me/Billie Holiday--If I could be with you/Helen Humes--Nobody knows ; I want a little girl/Jimmy Rushing--Everyday/Joe Williams--Let me off uptown/Roy Eldridge/Anita O'Day--After you've gone;Rockin chair/R.Eldridge--That's what you think/Anita O'Day--McGhee special/Howard McGhee.
  • All God's chillun got rhythm/Ivie Anderson--Echoes of Harlem/ Cootie Williams--Yearning for love/Lawrence Brown--I got it bad/Ivie Anderson--I don't know what kind of blues I got/Herb Jeffries--I'm just a lucky so-and-so/Al Hibbler--Passion flower/Johnny Hodges--Little rock getaway/Bob Zurke--I'm free/Billy Butterfield--My Inspiration/Irving Fazola--Chattanooga Choo Choo/Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly and the Modernaires--Serenade in blue/Ray Eberle--Sentimental journey/Doris Day--You're my thrill/Lena Horne--The moose/Dodo Marmarosa--What a difference a day made/Kay Starr.
  • Tess's torch song/Pearl Bailey -- Good jelly blues/Billy Eckstine -- I'll wait and pray ; Lover man ; Mean to me/Sarah Vaughan -- In a sentimental mood/Billy Eckstine -- Body and soul/Ginnie Powell -- I only have eyes for you/David Allyn -- Happiness is just a thing called Joe/ Frances Wayne -- Everywhere/Bill Harris/Woody Herman/Orch.-- Early Autumn/Stan Getz/Woody Herman/Orch.-- A Sunday kind of love/Fran Warren/Claude Thornhill/Orch.-- Mingus Fingers / Charles Mingus/Lionel Hampton/Orch.-- Willow weep for me/June Christy/Stan Kenton/Orch.--All about Ronnie -- Chris Connor/Stan Kenton/Orch. -- I can't get started/ Dizzy Gillespie/Orch.
OCLC
  • ocm17278821
  • SCSB-336495
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library