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Am I Blue: Ethel Waters Sings ’Em

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Label: Retrospective

Cat No: RTS4352

Barcode: 0710357435225

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 7th June 2019

Artists

Ethel Waters
Bunny Berigan
Benny Carter
Jimmy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Duke Ellington
Tyree Glenn
Benny Goodman
Johnny Hodges
James P Johnson
Manny Klein
Jack Teagarden
Joe Venuti
Clarence Williams

Artists

Ethel Waters
Bunny Berigan
Benny Carter
Jimmy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Duke Ellington
Tyree Glenn
Benny Goodman
Johnny Hodges
James P Johnson
Manny Klein
Jack Teagarden
Joe Venuti
Clarence Williams

About

Am I Blue? offers a marvellous cross-section from the best of one of the finest of all jazz-styled vocalists, the pioneering Ethel Waters (1896-1977). Starting out as a blues/vaudeville singer (known as “Sweet Mama Stringbean”), the black American singer, entertainer, and later accomplished actress on stage and screen, became one of the era’s most accomplished and sensitive interpreters of popular songs. Essentially a jazz singer with a polished and smooth, blues-infected style, one of the best of her era, she knew how to extract the maximum from lyrics. This generous double album offers a gloriously satisfying summary of a dazzling career that brought her 26 record hits from pre-electric 1921 through to 1938, 20 of them included here.

Contents:

CD 1 (1923-1931)
1. Am I Blue?
2. Ethel Sings ’Em
3. Sweet Georgia Brown
4. Dinah
5. Shake That Thing
6. I’ve Found A New Baby
7. I’m Coming, Virginia
8. My Handy Man
9. West End Blues
10. Organ Grinder Blues
11. Birmingham Bertha
12. True Blue Lou
13. Shoo-Shoo Boogie Boo
14. Georgia Blues
15. Waiting At The End Of The Road
16. Long, Lean, Lanky Mama
17. Black And Blue
18. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
19. I Got Rhythm
20. Three Little Words
21. When Your Lover Has Gone
22. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
23. You Can’t Stop Me From Loving You
24. River, Stay ’Way From My Door
25. Shine On, Harvest Moon

CD 2 (1932-1940)
1. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
2. Porgy
3. Stormy Weather
4. Don’t Blame Me
5. Shadows On The Swanee
6. Heat Wave
7. Harlem On My Mind
8. I Just Couldn’t Take It, Baby
9. A Hundred Years From Today
10. Come Up And See Me Sometime
11. Miss Otis Regrets
12. When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
13. Moonglow
14. I Ain’t Gonna Sin No More
15. You’re A Sweetheart
16. I’ll Get Along Somehow
17. Frankie And Johnny
18. Jeepers Creepers
19. Y’ Had It Comin’ To You
20. Bread And Gravy
21. Down In My Soul
22. Georgia On My Mind
23. Old Man Harlem
24. Baby, What Else Can I Do?
25. Taking A Chance On Love
26. Cabin In The Sky