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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Mercer | Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive | Mosaic Select: Johnny Mercer | Mosaic | ||||
| Bing Crosby | You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby | Too Marvelous for Words: Songs of Johnny Mercer | Capitol | ||||
| Larry Clinton & His Orchestra | Jeepers Creepers | The Very Best of Larry Clinton & His Orchestra | |||||
| Mildred Bailey o/ Red Norvo and His Orchestra | Cuckoo In The Clock | There'll Never be Another You | Proper | ||||
| Benny Goodman Orchestra v/ Martha Tilton | And the Angels Sing | Let's Dance | Big Band Jazz | trumpet solo by Ziggy Elman | |||
| Fred Astaire | One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO | Rhino | written for the movie THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. all songs in this set: words written by lyricist Johnny Mercer | |||
| Frank Sinatra | One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) | Only The Lonely | Capitol | ||||
| Ella Fitzgerald w/ Paul Smith, piano | Angel Eyes | Let No Man Write My Epitaph | Verve | ||||
| Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown | Lullaby of Birdland | Sarah Vaughan + Clifford Brown | Polygram | ||||
| Eartha Kitt | Je Cherche Un Homme | Miss Kitt To You | RCA | ||||
| Mel Torme | Nice Work If You Can Get It | The Bethlehem Years | Bethlehem Archives | ||||
| Dean Martin | In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | Too Marvelous for Words: Songs of Johnny Mercer | Capitol | great request! here's to cool, cool, cool evenings and thank you for the correction: this was written by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael, not Harold Arlen | |||
| Ella FItzgerald | Fascinating Rhythm | The George and Ira Gershwin Songbook | Verve | great request and THANK YOU for reminding me of George Gershwin's 125th birthday on Tuesday! I will do an all-Gershwin show next week! | |||
| Duke Ellington Ochestra v/ Herb Jeffries | Flamingo | The Blanton-Webster Band | RCA | happy birthday Herb Jeffries! | |||
| Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra v/ Bob Eberle & Helen O'Connell | Tangerine | The Jimmy Dorsey Years | |||||
| Doris Day o/ Les Brown | My Lost Horizon | Strictly Swing, Vol. 1 | I believe this is Doris Day's first recording, it was a soundie | ||||
| Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | I'll Get By | Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions | Mosaic | ||||
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | Am I Blue? | Lady Day | Sony | ||||
| Duke Ellington Orchestra v/ Herb Jeffries | My Little Brown Book | The Blanton-Webster Band | RCA | this song was Jeffries' biggest hit recording, charted at #4 | |||
| Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra | Georgia On My Mind | First of the Singer-Songwriters | Proper UK | ||||
| Joe Venuti's Blue Four | I've Found A New Baby | The New York Sessions 1926-1935 | |||||
| Hal Kemp & His Orchestra | Them There Eyes | The Hot Sides: 1926-1931 | Retrieval | ||||
| Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | Chinatown, My Chinatown | "Satchmo" Ambassador of Jazz | Verve | great request! | |||
| Casa Loma Orchestra | Casa Loma Stomp | Big Band Jazz, Vol. 1 | |||||
| Harry Reser and His Six Jumping Jacks | Cock-a-Doodle, I'm Off My Noodle, My Baby's Back | Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks, 1926-1930 | Retrieval | did not have the Six Jumping Jacks song requested, hope you enjoy this! | |||
| Ted Weems & His Orchestra v/ Parker Gibbs | Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken (Lay A Little Egg For Me) | The Essential Ted Weems 1923-1930 | Retrieval | to make up for not having the Six Jumping Jacks song | |||
| Louis Armstrong and His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra | Body and Soul | "Satchmo" Ambassador of Jazz | Verve | ||||
| Bing Crosby with the Mills Brothers | Dinah | Four Boys and a Guitar | Columbia | ||||
| Lee Morse | I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) | A Musical Portrait 1925-1951 | Take Two | ||||
| Fats Waller | After You've Gone | Complete Recorded Works Vol. 2 | JSP | ||||
| Isham Jones Orchestra | Stardust | Legendary Bands of the 20s | first ballad arrangement of "Stardust," it was instrumental in the song becoming so popular | ||||
| Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards | I'll See You In My Dreams | Singin' In The Rain | ASV Living Era | ||||