Research Catalog

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, p1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, Martin, 1924-1992.
• Tucker, Mark, 1954-2000.
• Valburn/Ellington Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Description

• 6 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo., mono.; 12 in. +
• 4 sound cassettes : analog, Dolby processed +

Subjects

• Jazz
• Big band music
• Jazz vocals
• Popular music

Genre/Form

Jazz.

Note

• Jazz ensembles, piano music, and blues.

Event (note)

• Originally recorded and issued 1929-1956.

Contents

• After you've gone / B. Crosby -- Black and blue ; Blue again ; Star dust ; I've got the world on a string ; Swing that music ; Struttin' with some barbecue / L. Armstrong -- It's the talk of the town / C. Hawkins -- Nagasaki / R. Allen -- Zaz zuh zaz ; My gal / C. Calloway -- A ghost of a chance / C. Berry -- A porter's love song to a chambermaid ; Smoke dreams / M. Bailey -- I can't get started / B. Berigan -- Clap hands! Here comes Charley! / C. Webb.
• Undecided ; Have mercy / E. Fitzgerald -- At long last love / B. Wain -- I gotta right to sing the blues / J. Teagarden -- Embraceable you / B. Hackett -- 'Tain't what you do / T. Young -- Well, all right, then / J. Lunceford -- More than you know / B. Carter, R. Felton -- Star dust / J. Jenney -- Kitty on toast / R. Nance -- Piano man / E. Hines -- Skylark ; Stormy Monday blues / B. Eckstine -- Darn that dream / B. Goodman, M. Bailey -- The man I love / B. Goodman, H. Forrest --Solo flight / B. Goodman, C. Christian.
• How deep is the ocean? ; Why don't you do right? / B. Goodman, P. Lee -- Clarinade / B. Goodman -- Blue skies / B. Goodman, A. Lund -- All or nothing at all / F. Sinatra -- I'll get by ; You don't know what love is / D. Haymes -- I'm beginning to see the light / K. Kallen -- Contrasts / J. Dorsey -- Tangerine / B. Eberly, H. O'Connell -- I'm glad there is you / B. Eberly -- Oh, look at me now / F. Sinatra, P. Pipers -- Everything happens to me / F. Sinatra -- Yes indeed / J. Stafford, S. Oliver -- Daybreak / F. Sinatra.
• Manhattan serenade / J. Stafford -- Day in, day out / H. Stafford -- St. James Infirmary / H.L. Page -- I can't get started ; Swing! Brother, swing! ; They can't take that away from me / B. Holiday -- If I could be with you / H. Humes -- Nobody knows ; I want a little girl / J. Rushing -- Every day / J. Williams -- Let me off uptown / R. Eldridge, A. O'Day -- After you've gone ; Rockin chair / R. Eldridge -- That's what you think / A. O'Day -- McGhee special / H. McGhee.
• All God's chillun got rhythm / I. Anderson -- Echoes of Harlem / C. Williams -- Yearning for love / L. Brown -- I got it bad / I. Anderson -- I don't know what kind of blues I got / H. Jeffries -- I'm just a lucky so-and-so / A. Hibbler -- Passion flower / J. Hodges -- Little Rock getaway / B. Zurke -- I'm free / B. Butterfield -- My inspiration / I. Fazola -- Chattanooga Choo Choo / T. Beneke, P. Kelly, and the Modernaires -- Serenade in blue / R. Eberle -- Sentimental journey / D. Day -- You're my thrill / L. Horne -- The moose / D. Marmarosa -- What a difference a day made / Kay Starr.

LCCN

95784611

OCLC

• ocm17320802
• SCSB-376293

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library