Egged on by the inestimable Messrs. Riccardi and Hutchinson, I present my unexpurgated and hugely idiosyncratic list of the first 25 selections on my iPod, no cheating. Readers of similar temperaments are encouraged to respond:
Perdido, Stuff Smith
Sleigh Ride, Mark Shane’s Xmas All-Stars
Good Little, Bad Little You, Cliff Edwards (Venuti and Lang)
Blame it On the Blues, Duke Heitger’s Big Four
It’s A Sin to Tell A Lie, Humphrey Lyttelton
Walk It To Me, Hot Lips Page
Gassin’ the Wig, Roy Porter
Under A Texas Moon, Seger Ellis
They Say, Echoes of Swing
Some Rainy Day, Hal Smith’s Roadrunners
Linden Blues, Rex Stewart
There’s Something In My Mind, Ruby Braff
Down By The Old Mill Stream, Benny Goodman
Sweet Sue, Jammin’ at Rudi’s (Rudi Blesh, 1951)
Take the “A” Train, Duke Ellington
My Blue Heaven, Eddie Condon (Town Hall)
Farewell Blues, Eddie Condon (Decca)
Stay On the Right Side of the Road, Bing Crosby
Oriental Man, Simon Stribling
All That Meat and No Potatoes, The Three Keys
Stompin’ at the Savoy – Fine and Dandy, Coleman Hawkins (1967 JATP with Teddy Wilson)
Corrine Corrina, Red Nichols
Fascinatin’ Rhythm, Cliff Edwards
St. Louis Bllues, The Boswell Sisters
I’ll See You In My Dreams, Jeff Healey
Perhaps not a scientific cross-section or a scholarly sample, but those tracks — in that idiosyncratic assortment — offer great happiness. Anyone care to join in?
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Doin’ the iPod Shuffle (more fun than the New Low Down or the Dicty Glide). Today’s first 25:
Margie – Bill Coleman
If Dreams Come True – Dick Wellstood
Dopey Joe – Slim & Slam
Moonburn – Bing Crosby, Joe Sullivan
When I Take My Sugar To Tea – Marty Grosz
Low Cotton – Django, Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard
Now That I Need You, You’re Gone – Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Jimmy Dorsey
What Is There To Say – Ruby Braff, Ralph Sutton
Four Or Five Times – Lionel Hampton, Ziggy Elman, et al.
I Used To Be Color Blind – Fred Astaire
Sunday – Ukelele Ike
Blues In Bea’s Flat – Panama Francis, Savoy Sultans
Muggin’ Lightly – Luis Russell
The Sergeant On Furlough – Red Norvo, Flip Phillips, et al.
Put ‘Em Down Blues – Louis Armstrong
Coney Island Washboard – Mills Brothers
Blow, Champ, Blow – Hot Lips Page
Louise – Paul Whiteman w/ Bing
Blackstick – Sidney Bechet, Noble Sissle
In The Dark – Ken Peplowski, Howard Alden
Breezin’ Along With The Breeze – The Merry Macs
From The Land Of Sky Blue Water – Mildred Bailey
Zooming At The Zombie – John Kirby
Wolverine Blues – Wild Bill, Vic Dickenson, Bob Wilber, et al.
The Coffee Song – Rebecca Kilgore
If It Ain’t Love – Fats Waller
It’s Been So Long – Bobby Gordon, Dave McKenna
That’s 27 and counting…..
Nice! I’m going to have to go and look up some of those titles 🙂
Dameron Stomp – Harlan Leonard
I’ve Got The World On A String – Red McKenzie, Spirits of Rhythm
Waiting At The End Of The Road – Ethel Waters
Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip – Anita O’Day
Freeport Blues – Basie, Zoot Sims, Lockjaw Davis, Sweets Edison, et al.
Blue Lou (live) – Erroll Garner, Wardell Gray
The Horn – Ben Webster, Lips Page
It’s So Peaceful In The Country – Delta Rhythm Boys
Tootin’ My Baby Back Home – Ziggy Elman
Creole Belles – Evan Christopher, Dick Hyman
The Five O’Clock Whistle – Erskine Hawkins
Keen And Peachy – Woody Herman
So In Love – Hampton Hawes
Then You’ve Never Been Blue – Helen Carr
Sugar Hill Function – Red Allen
There’ll Be A Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin – Bing Crosby, Andrews Sisters
Through For The Night – Dan Barrett, Tom Baker
The Trumpet’s Prayer – King Oliver
Spain – Peter Ecklund, Joe Muranyi, Eddie Davis
Fantasy On Frankie And Johnny – Erroll Garner
Rampage In G Minor – Buck Clayton & His Swing Band
I’ve Got To Be A Rug Cutter – Erroll Garner
The Minor Drag – Jim Galloway, Dick Wellstood
Avalon – Joe Venuti, Zoot Sims
Roodles – Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
I’ll play!
1. Willow Weep for Me – Harry James
2. Pepper Steak – Washboard Rhythm Kings
3. Jumpin’ at the Woodside – Count Basie
4. Down Yonder – Tiny Parham & His Musicians
5. Singing the Blues – Fletcher Henderson
6. Beale Street Blues – Bill Coleman
7. Perdido – Stuff Smith
8. We Can’t Go On This Way – Ella Fitzgerald
9. Beautiful Texas – Milton Brown
10. Eep, Ipe, Wanna Piece of Pie – Fats Waller
11. Beat It Out – Fats Waller & His Rhythm
12. Lay Your Racket – Sidney Bechet
13. Cheek to Cheek – Oscar Peterson
14. All Of You – Bobby Hackett
15. Give It Up – Pete Brown
16. I Need Some Pettin – Bix Beiderbecke
17. That’s What I’m Talking About – Bennie Moten
18. Black Maria – Carroll Dickerson’s Savoy Orchestra
19 Okay Baby – Mckinney’s Cotton Pickers
20. Fat Stuff Serenade – Duke Ellington
21. Lover – Oscar Peterson
22. My Last Affair – Ella & Basie
23. Looking At You – Lee Wiley
24. Baby Brown – Bill Coleman
25. Let Your Light Shine On Me – Blind Willie Johnson
Those are righteous lists! Dawn, I consider myself a Pete Brown fancier: what is “Give It Up”? Is this the altoist who recorded with Newton, Joe Thomas, Maxine Sullivan, and that wonderful Decca session with Hackett, Kyle, and Carter? Please clarify! And thanks – – –
Great lists everybody! Just imagine if we actually put thought into our selections and their playing order! Maybe there’s more surprising juxtapositions this way?
1. Three Blind Mice, by Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke
2. Perdido, by Duke Ellington from Standard Transcriptions
3. Blue Cellophane, by Ellington, from Black, Brown and Beige
4. Squeeze Me, by the Basie Bunch, from Too Marvelous For Words
5.Twelfth Street Rag, by Louis Armstrong, from Hot Fives and Sevens
6. Sugar Hill Bop, by Wardell Gray, from the Wardell Gray Story
7. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You, by Chu Berry, from Complete Commodore Recordings
8. The Element Within Her (Demo), by Elvis Costello, from Punch the Clock
9. Berry’s Blues, by Illinois Jacquet, form Mosaic’s Illinois box set
10. I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance, by Wild Bill Davison, from complete Commodore Recordings
11. Memories of You #3, by Bud Freeman, from Commodores
12. On Revival Day (take 3), by Jack Purvis, from “” 1928-33
13. Time After Time, by Stan Getz, from Award Winner
14. I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling *edited alternate), by Louis Armstrong, from Satch Plays Fats
15. So Near, So Far, by Miles Davis, from Seven Steps To Heaven, The Complete
16.Whistlin’ The Blues No. 3, by Muggsy Spanier, from Commodores
17. Fickle Fay Creep, by Jelly Roll Morton, from the Pearls, Library of Congress
18. Topsy, by Ike Quebec, from the BluNote Swingtets
19. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, by Steely Dan, fro a Decade of Steely Dan
20. Our House, by Madness, from Total Madness
21. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair, by Led Zeppelin, from the BBC sessions
22. Time After Time, by Big Joe Turner, from Big Joe Rides Again
23. Taxman, by the Beatles, from Revolver
24. Ballad Medley, by Eddie Condon, fromRingside at Condon’s
25. Fun, by Sly and the Family Stone, from The Essential “”
26. Sobbin’ Blues, by King Oliver’s Jazz Band, from Masters of Jazz
27. My Fate Is In Your Hands, by Fats Waller, from “” 1929
28. Pleasin’ paul, by Victoria Spivey, from 1929-30 Henry “Red” Allen
29. Try Me (with instrumental bridge), by James Brown and the Famous Flames, fromLive at teh Apollo
30. You Sexy Thing, by Hot Chocolate, Every One’s a Winner
not a bad representation of some of the stuff I like to listen to. I have an ancient 40GB iPod filled to the max with 7000 tracks.
Hello everyone!
I’ve enjoyed going through your list. Keep ’em coming!