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Various Artists : American Pop: From Minstrels to Mojos |
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Genre: Various |
Dates: 1899-1946 |
If you want to understand the development of American music up to World War II, there's no better place to start than this exemplary nine-disc box. Beginning with a scratchy 100+ year-old minstrel recording and ending with a harbinger of free jazz, starring legendary giants from Al Jolson to Dizzy Gillespie and shadowy cult figures from Emmett Miller to Washboard Sam, it's a bottomless well of weird water, kids—and it was popular. Complete with exhaustive notes.
Playlist:
DISC 1:
1. Mama's Black Baby Boy - The Unique Quartette
2. Poor Mourner - Cousins And De Moss
3. Coon Band Contest, A - Vess Ossman
4. Cakewalk - Unknown
5. Pasquinale - Sousa Band
6. Bill Bailey - Arthur Collins
7. Nobody - Bert Williams
8. Grand Old Rag - Billy Murray
9. De Little Old Log Cabin In
10. Bully, The - May Irwin
11. Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? - Nora Bayes
12. You Made Me Love Me - Al Jolson
13. Hungarian Rag - The
14. Down Home Rag - James Reese
15. Desecration Rag - Felix Arndt
16.
17. That's The Kind Of Baby For Me - Eddie Cantor
18. Tiger Rag - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
19. After You've Gone - Marion Harris
20.
21.
22. Sweet Man O' Mine - Mamie Smith
23. Love
24. Sounds Of
25. Keep Off The Grass - James P. Johnson
DISC 2:
1. Society Blues - Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra
2. Ragtime Annie - Eck Robertson
3. It Ain't Gonna Rain
4. Original
5. Old Hen Cackled And The Rooster's Gonna Crow, The - Fiddlin' John Carson
6. New Orlean Joys - Jelly Roll Morton
7.
8. Elephant's Wobble - Benny Moten's
9. Working Man Blues - King Oliver
10. Lucky Rock Blues - Ma Rainey
11.
12. Johnny Dunn's Cornet Blues - Johnny Dunn
13.
14. Prisoner's Song -
15. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel - Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers
16. Suitcase Blues - Hersal Thomas
17. When The Work's All Done This Fall - Carl Sprague
18. Sugar Hill - Crockett Ward & His Boys
19. Candy Girl - Uncle Bunt Stephens
20. Long Lonesome Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
21. It's All Right Now -
22. Sweet And Low Down - George Gerswhin (piano solo)
23. Stockyard Strut - Freddie Keppard
24. Cross-Eyed Butcher And The Cacklin' Hen, The - Uncle Dave Macon
DISC 3:
1. Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton
2. Flop Eared Mule - Kahle Brewer
3. Country Blues - Doc Boggs
4. New Jelly Roll Blues - Peg Leg Howell
5. After You've Gone - Sophie Tucker
6. Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
7. I'm Coming Virginia - Bing Crosby/Paul Whiteman
8. My Pretty Girl - Jean Goldkette
9. Woke Up With The Blues In My Fingers - Lonnie Johnson
10. I'm Coming Virginia - Frankie Trumbauer/Bix Beiderbecke
11. Old
12. There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood - The Giddens Sisters
13. Blue Guitar Stomp - Clifford Hayes
14. Silhouette - Rube Bloom
15. No More Goodbyes - Ernest Stoneman et al.
16. O' Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
17. Pick Poor Robin Clean - Luke Jordan
18.
19. Train Forty-Five - Grayson & Whitter
20. Mama 'Taint Long For Day - Blind Willie McTell
21. My Money Never Runs Out - Gus Cannon
22. Motherless
23. Washboard Blues - Hoagy Carmichael
24. Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
DISC 4:
1.
2. Deep Elm - Willard Robison
3. Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
4. Black Beauty - Duke Ellington
5. Somethin' Doin' - Hayes & Prater
6.
7. Ham Beats All Meat - Dr. Humphrey Bate
8. Melancholy Baby - Paul Whiteman
9. Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller
10. Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas
11. Wild Cat - Joe Venuti/Eddie Lang
12. Indiana - Frank Teschemacher/Eddie Condon/Joe Sullivan/Gene Krupa
13. Oysters & Wine At 2 A.M. - Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette
14. Lonesome Swallow - Ethel Waters
15. Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Beamon
16. How Long - Frank Stokes
17. Miner's Blues, The - Frank Hutchinson
18. Ice Water Blues - Deford Bailey
19. Acorn Stomp -
20. Heavy Hearted Blues - Tarlton & Darby
21. Next Week Sometime - Alex Johnson
22. Tell Me Woman Blues -
23. Just Too Soon - Earl Hines
24. Tight Like This - Louis Armstrong
DISC 5:
1. Away Out On The Mountain - Riley Puckett
2. Baby Please Loan Me Your Heart - Papa Charlie Jackson
3. Jump Steady Blues - Pinetop Smith
4. Get Away From My Window (Stay Away) - Butterbeans & Susie
5. Madame Young - Dennis McGee/Sady Courville
6. Till Times Get Better - Jabbo Smith
7. He Rambled - Charlie Poole
8. Feelin' The Spirit - Louis Russell
9. Blind Arthur's Breakdown - Blind Blake
10. K.C. Moan -
11. You Don't Understand - Bessie Smith
12. Hell Broke Loose In Georgia - The Skillet Lickers
13. Squabblin' - Walter Page's Blue Devils
14. There'll Be No Distinction There - Blind Alfred Reed
15. You Got To Wet It - Frankie Jaxon
16. I Hate A Man Like You - Lizzie Miles
17. Dry Spell Blues (Part 1) - Son House
18. Motherless Children -
19. Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock
20. Guitar Rag - Roy Harvey/Jess
21. Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
22. Draggin' My Heart Around - Fats Waller
DISC 6:
1. So Sorry Dear - Two Poor Boys
2. Get On Board Aunt Susan - Jimmie Davis
3. Let Me Be Your Sidetrack - Jimmie Rodgers
4. Stardust - Louis Armstrong
5. Last Kind Word Blues - Geeshie Wiley
6. Tiger Rag - Art Tatum
7. Shanghai Rooster Yodel #2 - Cliff Carlisle
8. Washboard Blues - Connee Boswell
9. Darkness On The Delta (When It's) - Isham Jones
10. Moten Swing - Benny Moten's
11. Home On The Range - Lee Sims
12. Dance Of The Octopus - Red Norvo
13. I've Got The
14. Montana Plains - Patsy Montana
15. Bay Rum Blues - Gwenn Foster
16. My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby - Wilf Carter
17. Someday Sweetheart - Bing Crosby
18. Railroad Blues - Sam McGhee
19. Down South Camp Meeting - Fletcher
20. Bring Up Breakdown - Arthur Schutt
21. Dinah - Boswell Sisters
22. Some Of These Days - Milt Brown
23. Fiddler's Dream - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith
DISC 7:
1. When The Sun Goes Down (In The Evening) - Scrapper Blackwell/Leroy Carr
2. What's The Reason - Mills Brothers
3. Sola -
4.
5. It Never Dawned On Me - Teddy Wilson
6. Tillie's Downtown Now - Bunny Berrigan
7. Honeysuckle Rose - Mildred Bailey
8. I'm In The Mood For Love - Adelaide Hall
9. River Blues - Bill Boyd
10. I Want You By My Side - Jazz Gillum
11. I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail - Blue Sky Boys
12. Dinah - Benny Goodman
13. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Billie Holiday
14. Liza - Don Albert & His Orch.
15. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day - Robert Johnson
16. Church In The Wildwood, The - Chuck Wagon Gang
17.
18. Good Morning Little School Girl - Sonny Boy Williamson
19. Topsy - Count Basie
20. Dust - Gene Autry
21. Diminuendo In Blue - Duke Ellington
22. Cowboy Night Herd Song - Roy Rogers
23. Road To Ruin, The -
24. Body And Soul - Larry Adler/Django Reinhardt
25. Little Joe - Carter Family
DISC 8:
1. Let That Liar Alone -
2. You're Okay - Bob Wills
3. Deep Purple - Art Tatum
4. P.L.K. Special - Jimmy Yancey
5. If Dreams Come True - James P. Johnson
6. Stairway To The Stars - Ella Fitzgerald
7. Walk Around - The Soul Stirrers
8. I'm Always Dreaming Of You - Floyd Tillman
9. Muleskinner Blues - Roy Acuff
10. I Ain't Got No Home - Woody Guthrie
11. After Hours - Erskine Hawkins
12. Oh Yes? Take Another Guess - Hank Penny
13. Sugar - Lee Wiley
14. Seldom The Sun - Alec Wilder
15. Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe
16. Piney Brown's Blues - Big Joe Turner
17. Trail Of The Great Divide - Slim Rinehart
18. Walking The Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
19. Swing To Bop - Charlie Christian
20. Hello Babe - Lil Green
21. I Got The Blues - Big Maceo
22. You Got To Get Out Of Here -
23. She's Funny That Way - Frank Sinatra
24. Mean Old Frisco Blues - Arthur Crudup
25. Buster's Last Stand - Claude Thornhill
DISC 9:
1. Rock Daniel - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
2. Indiana - Lester Young/Nat Cole
3. I Got A Break Baby - T. Bone
4.
5. Rainbow Mist - Coleman Hawkins
6.
7. Share Croppin Blues - Kay Starr/Charlie Barnet
8. Don't Let That Man Get You Down -
9. Honeydripper, The - Joe Liggins
10. Indiana - Don Byas
11. Man I Love, The - Artie Shaw
12. In A Mezz - Sammy Price
13. Buzz Me - Ella Mae Morse
14. I Don't Know Enough About You - Peggy Lee
15. Shaw 'Nuff - Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie
16. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' - Louis Jordan
17. I'll Get Along Somehow - Charles Brown
18. Boogie Woogie Baby - Delmore Brothers
19. This Subdues My Passion - Charles Mingus
20. Filipino Baby - Cowboy Copas
21. I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again - Maddox Brothers And Rose
22. What Is This Thing Called Love - Lennie Tristano