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The complete Decca recordings, Count Basie

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The complete Decca recordings

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Count Basie

Decca jazzGRP presents the legendary masters of jazz

Disc 1. Honeysuckle Rose / Thomas Waller (2:58) -- Pennies from heaven / Arthur Johnston (3:00) -- Swinging at the daisy chain / Count Basie (2:48) -- Roseland shuffle / Count Basie (2:32) -- Exactly like you / Jimmy McHugh (2:41) -- Boo hoo / Edward Heyman, John Jacob Loeb (2:25) -- The glory of love / Billy Hill (2:29) -- Boogie woogie (I may be wrong) / Count Basie, James Rushing (2:49) -- Smarty (you know it all) / Burton Lane (2:40) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie (3:00) -- Listen my children and you shall hear / Burton Lane (3:05) -- John's idea / Count Basie (2:53) -- Good morning blues / Eddie Durham, Count Basie, James Rushing (1st take) (3:12) -- Good morning blues / Eddie Durham, Count Basie, James Rushing (2nd take) (3:03) -- Our love was meant to be / Joe Davis, Joe Waller, Alexander Hill (2:45) -- Time out / Eddie Durham (3:01) -- Topsy / Eddie Durham (3:12) -- I keep remembering / Isham Jones (2:45) -- Out the window / Count Basie, Eddie Durham (2:47) -- Don't you miss your baby / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, James Rushing (3:08) -- Let me dream / Henry Jerome (3:09) --Disc 2. Georgianna / Red McKenzie, Frank Carle, Croom, Johnson (2:33) -- Blues in the dark / Count Basie (3:04) -- Sent for you yesterday / Eddie Durham, James Rushing (2:57) -- Every tub / Count Basie, Eddie Durham (3:14) -- Now will you be good? / Henry Jentes, Harry Pease, Arthur Terker (2:46) -- Swingin' the blues / Eddie Durham, Count Basie (2:45) -- Mamma don't want no peas 'n' rice 'n' coconut oil / Charles [Lofthouse] (2:51) -- Blue and sentimental / Count Basie, Jerry Livingston, Mack David (3:10) -- Doggin' around / Herschel Evans, Edgar William Battle (3:02) -- Stop beatin' 'round the mulberry bush / Bickley Reichner, Clay Boland (1st take) (3:01) -- Stop beatin' 'round the mulberry bush / Bickley Reichner, Clay Boland (2nd take) (3:04) -- London Bridge is falling down / Ira Schuster, Abel Baer, Tot Seymour (2:55) -- Texas shuffle / Herschel Evans (3:07) -- Jumpin' at the woodside / Count Basie (3:08) -- How long blues / Leroy Carr (2:55) -- The dirty dozens / Rufus Perryman (3:01) -- Hey lawdy mama / Cleve Reed (2:44) -- The fives / Thomas, Thomas (2:45) -- Boogie woogie / Clarence Smith (3:01) -- Dark rapture / Benny Goodman, Manny Kurtz, Edgar Sampson (2:38) -- Shorty George / Count Basie (2:44) -- The blues I like to hear / Buster Smith, James Rushing (3:07) -- Do you wanna jump, children? / Jimmy Van Heusen, Bryant, Selsman (2:39) -- Panassie stomp / Count Basie (2:47) --Disc 3. My heart belongs to Daddy / Cole Porter (2:54) -- Sing for your supper / Richard Rodgers (2:42) -- Oh! Red / Joe McCoy (2:53) -- Fare thee honey, fare thee well / J. Mayo Williams, John Akers (1st take) (3:04) -- Fare thee honey, fare thee well / J. Mayo Williams, John Akers (2nd take) (3:02) -- Dupree blues / George White, W. Herman (3:04) -- When the sun goes down / Leroy Carr (1st take) (2:45) -- When the sun goes down / Leroy Carr (2nd take) (2:54) -- Red wagon / Richard M. Jones (2:52) -- You can depend on me / Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines (3:07) -- Cherokee / Ray Noble (part 1) (3:10) -- Cherokee / Ray Noble (part 2) (3:03) -- Blame it on my last affair / Henry Nemo, Irving Mills (1st take) (2:43) -- Blame it on my last affair / Henry Nemo, Irving Mills (2nd take) (2:42) -- Jive at five / Harry Edison (2:49) -- Thursday / Dorothy Sachs, Irvin Graham, Louis Haber (3:04) -- Evil blues / Count Basie, Harry Edison, James Rushing (3:13) -- Oh, lady be good / George Gershwin (3:10)

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