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Artist Song Album Label Comments
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra Avalon The Jimmime Lunceford Collection 1930-47 Acrobat
Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra New King Porter Stomp Big Band Jazz Vol. 1
Fats Waller & His Rhythm Truckin' Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3 JSP
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra v/ Ivie Anderson Let's Have a Jubilee Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia & Master Recordings Mosaic
Pearl Bailey Takes Two to Tango Takes Two to Tango ASV Living Era great request!!
Eartha Kitt Monotonous Miss Kitt To You RCA Victor
Ella Fitzgerald To Keep My Love Alive The Rodgers & Hart Song Book Verve
Dinah Washington TV Is The Thing This Year The Dinah Washington Story Mercury
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five G.I. Jive Let The Good Times Roll RCA
Freddie Jenkins' Harlem Seven I Can't Dance (I Got Ants in My Pants) Sounds of Harlem Vol. 1 Hep
Skeets Tolbert And His Gentlemen of Swing Jumpin' In The Numbers 1942 Classics
The Three Keys Heebie Jeebies The Human Orchestra Jasmine
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five v/ Louis Armstrong Heebie Jeebies "Satchmo" Ambassador of Jazz Verve rec 1926 this song is often falsely credited as being the invention of scat singing
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra v/ Don Redman My Papa Doesn't Two-Time No Time Anthology of Scat Singing Vol. 1 1924-1941 rec 1924 this is the earliest recording of scat singing that I know of, but there are reported earlier instances of people scatting in live performances
Denny "Dinty" Curtis w/ Art Landry & His Orchestra Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue Charleston Era: The Definitive Album ASV Living Era rec 1925
Bessie Smith w/ Henderson's Hot Six Cake Walking' Babies From Home The Somplete Recordings, Vol 2 Columbia rec 1925
Horace Heidt & His Brigadiers This Can't Be Love The Golden Age of American Sweet Bands Jasmine
Orrin Tucker & His Orchestra Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny oh Oh Johnny! The Golden Years 1938-1949 Collector's Choice
Fred Astaire No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO Rhino from the movie TOP HAT
The Boswell Sisters Cheek to Cheek Shout, Sister, Shout! ASV Living Era song was also written for TOP HAT
Ella Fitzgerald o/ Chick Webb And His Orchestra Love And Kisses Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions 1934-1941 Mosaic rec 1935 one of Fitzgerald's earliest recordings. At this time she was modeling her singing style after Connee Boswell who we heard in the previous song
Joe Venuti's Blue Four Cheese and Crackers CLassic Columbia & OKeh Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang Sessions Mosaic
Dick Robertson Ain't She Sweet? The Big Broadcast, Vol. 5: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s Rivermont
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra v/ Adelaide Hall The Blues I Love To Sing The Enduring Charm Of Adelaide Hall - Original Recordings 1927 - 1944 Bygone Days
Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra, v/ Hoagy Carmichael So Tired In Person Avid song written by Carmichael
Doris Day o/ Les Brown and His Orchestra Celery Stalks at Midnight Complete Recordings with Les Brown Jazz Factory
Xavier Cugat Orchestra v/ Lina Romay Alma Llanerna Maracas, Marimbas and Mambos: Latin Classics at MGM Rhino from the film BATHING BEAUTY
Lena Horne As Long As I Live Stormy Weather Bluebird
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra Who's Yehoodi? Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions Mosaic
George Formby Bless 'Em All The Ukulele Man Prism GREAT REQUEST!!
Oscar Aleman I'm Beginning To See The Light Swing Guitar Masterpieces Acoustic
Erno Rapee's Orchestra Save The Last Dance For Me Complete Hit Of The Week Recordings Vol. 4: 1932 Archeophone