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Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Tony Pastor | One Meat Ball | "T" You're Adorable | Jasmine | you get no bread | |||
Cab Calloway | (Hep-Hep) The Jumpin' Jive | 1930-1939 | L'art Vocal | ||||
Illinois Jacquet | Bottoms Up | For Jumpers Only! | Delmark | ||||
Louis Jordan & Louis Armstrong | (I'll be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You | Let the Good Times Roll | Bear Family | ||||
Cozy Cole All Stars | Talk to Me | Big Ben | Proper UK | inst. | |||
Benny Goodman Orchestra v/ Mildred Bailey | I Didn't Know What Time It Was | Camel Caravan 4 November 1939 | otr-cat.com | recorded live for radio | |||
Benny Goodman Orchestra | Bolero | Camel Caravan 4 November 1939 | otr-cat.com | recorded live for radio; Goodman was learning classical clarinet in his spare time & popularized swing arrangements of classical music | |||
Frank Sinatra & Connie Haines o/ Tommy Dorsey | Oh, Look at Me Now! | It's All So New | Buddha | happy birthday Connie Haines! | |||
Benny Goodman Orchestra v/ Helen Ward | Night Wind | Golden Age of American Dance Bands | Jasmine | ||||
Doris Day o/ Les Brown | My Lost Horizon | 78" | Okeh | one of Doris' first recordings with Les Brown. In the soundie of this song, she's still brunette! | |||
Charlie Parker Quintet | Lover Man | The Essential Charlie Parker | inst. | ||||
Billie Holiday o/ Teddy Wilson | I Can't Give You Anything but Love | Lady Day | Sony | ||||
Nat King Cole Trio | It Could Happen to You | The Complete Capitol Recordings | Mosaic | ||||
Frank Sinatra | She's Funny That Way | Nice n' Easy | Capitol | ||||
Anita O'Day | Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered | Anita Sings the Most | Polygram | ||||
Chet Baker | Look for the Silver Lining | The Best of Chet Baker Sings | Blue Note | Happy birthday composer Jerome Kern! this song from Sally, 1920, w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern | |||
Oscar Peterson Trio | Ol' Man River | The Complete Jerome Kern Songbooks | Verve | Show Boat, 1927, w. Oscar Hammerstein m. Jerome Kern | |||
Pearl Bailey & The Charioteers | Who? | The Great COmposers: Jermone Kern | Sunny, 1925, w. Oscar Hammerstein m. Jerome Kern | ||||
Fred Astaire | Dearly Beloved | White Tie, Top Hat & Tails | ASV Living Era | You Were Never Lovelier 1942 w. Johnny Mercer m. Jerome Kern | |||
Lena Horne | Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man | The Lady & Her Music | Recall Records | Horne lost out to Ava Gardner for this part because the studio did not want to depict an interracial romance | |||
Billie Holiday o/ Teddy Wilson | A Fine Romance | Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia | 1933-1944 | Swingtime, 1936, w. Dorothy Fields m. Jerome Kern | |||
Johnny Green Orchestra | Waltz in Swing Time | Great American Composers - Jerome Kern | |||||
Fred Astaire | The Way You Look Tonight | White Tie, Top Hat & Tails | ASV Living Era | Swingtime. This song won the "Best Song" Oscar in 1937. Lyricist Dorothy Fields said that the first time Kern played the melody for her, she cried | |||
Blossom Dearie | I Won't Dance | Verve Jazz Masters 51 | Verve | Roberta, 1933, w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern | |||
Helen Forrest | All the Things You Are | Capitol Sings Jerome Kern | Capitol | Very Warm for May, 1939, w. Oscar Hammerstein m. Jerome Kern | |||
Nat King Cole | Pick Yourself Up | Songs from Stage and Screen | Rhino | Swingtime. Only Tin Pan Alley song ever referenced in a presidential inaugural address? | |||
Mel Torme | They Didn't Believe Me | Jazz and Velvet | Proper UK | The Girl from Utah, 1914, w. Herbert Reynolds m. Jerome Kern | |||
Fred Astaire | Never Gonna Dance | Starring Fred Astaire | ASV Living Era | Swingtime | |||
Artie Shaw Gramercy Five | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | Begin the Beguine | Membran | Roberta, 1933, w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern | |||
Ginger Rogers | I'll Be Hard to Handle | Head over High Heels | Trikont | Roberta. This movie was early in Astaire & Rogers partnership & they were second leads; Irene Dunne was the star | |||
Roy Eldridge | Mr. Ghost Goes to Town | 20th & Eldridge | |||||
Joe Reichman & His Orchestra | Me and the Moon | THe Golden Age of American Sweet Bands | Jasmine | ||||
Rudy Vallee | Flying Down to Rio | Sing for Your Supper | Movie Stars | title song from Fred & Ginger's first movie together | |||
Artie Shaw Orchestra | The Carioca | Begin the Beguine | Membran | also from Flying Down to Rio | |||
Frank Sinatra | THe Continental | Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics | Columbia | from The Gay Divorcee | |||
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | I Hear Music | Lady Day | Sony | not from a Fred & Ginger movie | |||
Jimmie Lunceford | Four or Five Times | Swingsation | |||||
Duke Ellington | Mood Indigo | Black, Brown and Beige | Collector's Choice | ||||
Johnny Dodd's Black Bottom Stompers | After You've Gone | Definitive Dodds | Great Moments in Jazz | feat. Louis Armstrong, Barney Bigard, Earl HInes |