1993.03 various artists 2CD "Stars of the Apollo"
US: Sony-Columbia / Legacy 53407
A 01 (03:31) | Bessie Smith | Gimme a pigfoot (W. "Socks" Wilson) |
(03:12) | Bessie Smith | He's long gone from Bowling Green (B. Bubbles) |
(02:50) | Bessie Smith | The lure of the South (A. Razof) |
(03:28) | Bessie Smith | I wanna hot dog for my roll (T. Hammed, C. Williams) |
(02:48) | Bessie Smith | Shake your ashes (A. Hill) |
(02:56) | Mills Brothers | Sweet Sue, just you (W. J. Harris, V. Young) |
(02:51) | Mills Brothers | Fifteen minute intermission (B. Cannon, S. Skylar) |
(02:49) | Mills Brothers | Reefer man (Andy Razaf, R. J. Robisnon) |
(02:51) | Mills Brothers | Harlem Woodie (L. Douglass, James P. Johnson) |
(02:35) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | Doin' the new low down (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) |
(03:00) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | Rhythm rhapsody (W. Randall) |
(02:51) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | Blackwater blues (Bessie Smith) |
(03:11) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | All my life (Sidney Mitchell, Sam Stept) |
(02:25) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | From Monday on (Harry Barris, Bing Crosby) |
(02:41) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | When my baby left me (E. Vinson, C. Williams) |
(03:09) | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | I got an uncle in Harlem (J. Cavanaugh, C. McCarthy, Pa...) |
(02:33) | Slim Gaillard | Sploghm (Slim Gaillard, H. D. Squires) |
(03:24) | Slim Gaillard | Four day creep (Ida Cox) |
(02:58) | Slim Gaillard | Wherever you are (C. Friend, C. Tobias) |
(03:13) | Slim Gaillard | Lose the blackout blues (A. Green, B. Ram, B. Russell) |
(02:38) | Slim Gaillard | Stop You're breakin' my heart (T. Koehler, B. Lane) |
(02:22) | Slim Gaillard | Saturday night fish fry (L. Jordan, E. Walsh) |
(02:40) | Slim Gaillard | Gabbin' blues (L. Kirkland, R. McCoy) |
(02:47) | Slim Gaillard | You're just an old antidisestablish-mentarian ismist (Duke Ellington, D. George) |
(03:01) | Sarah Vaughan | Ain't misbehavin' (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Wal...) |
(06:33) | Sarah Vaughan | Venus velvet (B. Brown) |
(02:26) | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | I put a spell on you (Jalacy Hawkins) |
(02:42) | Aretha Franklin | Evil gal blues (Leonard Feather, Lionel Hampton) |
- Production: Chris Albertson
- Recording: 1927.03.31 - 1965.01.07
- Reissue production: Michael Brooks
- Liner notes: Chris Albertson
- Notes
- This double CD is a straight reissue of the original double LP. Its 28 selections mostly focus on singers and bands from the swing era that performed at one time or another at the Apollo. All but eight of the numbers are from the 1927-1942 period.