- Fats Waller( Thomas Wright Waller )【 204 songs in total 】
- Thomas Wright 'Fats' Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. His best-known compositions, 'Ain't Misbehavin'' and 'Honeysuckle Rose', were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999.
Career
Against the opposition of his father, a clergyman, Waller became a professional pianist at the age of 15, working in cabarets and theaters.[citation needed] In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's 'Carolina Shout', a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.
Waller became one of the most popular performers of his era, finding critical and commercial success in the United States and Europe. He was also a prolific songwriter, and many songs he wrote or co-wrote are still popular, such as 'Honeysuckle Rose', 'Ain't Misbehavin'' and 'Squeeze Me'. Fellow pianist and composer Oscar Levant dubbed Waller 'the black Horowitz'. Waller is believed to have composed many novelty tunes in the 1920s and 1930s and sold them for small sums, attributed to another composer and lyricist.[citation needed]
Standards attributed to Waller, sometimes controversially, include 'I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby'. Biographer Barry Singer conjectured that this jazz classic was written by Waller and lyricist Andy Razaf and provided a description of the sale given by Waller to the New York Post in 1929—he sold the song for $500 to a white songwriter, ultimately for use in a financially successful show (consistent with Jimmy McHugh's contributions to Harry Delmar’s Revels, 1927, and then to Blackbirds of 1928). He further supports the conjecture, noting that early handwritten manuscripts in the Dana Library Institute of Jazz Studies of 'Spreadin' Rhythm Around' (Jimmy McHugh ©1935) are in Waller's hand. Jazz historian Paul S. Machlin comments that the Singer conjecture has 'considerable [historical] justification'. Waller's son Maurice wrote in his 1977 biography of his father that Waller had once complained on hearing the song, and came from upstairs to admonish him never to play it in his hearing because he had had to sell it when he needed money.[citation needed] Maurice Waller's biography similarly notes his father's objections to hearing 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' playing on the radio. Waller recorded 'I Can't Give You…' in 1938, playing the tune but making fun of the lyrics; the recording was with Adelaide Hall who had introduced the song to the world at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in 1928.
The anonymous sleeve notes on the 1960 RCA Victor album Handful of Keys state that Waller copyrighted over 400 songs, many of them co-written with his closest collaborator, Andy Razaf. Razaf described his partner as 'the soul of melody... a man who made the piano sing... both big in body and in mind... known for his generosity... a bubbling bundle of joy'.[citation needed] Gene Sedric, a clarinetist who played with Waller on some of his 1930s recordings, is quoted in these sleeve notes recalling Waller's recording technique with considerable admiration: 'Fats was the most relaxed man I ever saw in a studio, and so he made everybody else relaxed. After a balance had been taken, we'd just need one take to make a side, unless it was a kind of difficult number.'
Waller played with many performers, from Nathaniel Shilkret (on Victor 21298-A) and Gene Austin to Erskine Tate, Fletcher Henderson, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Adelaide Hall, but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, 'Fats Waller and his Rhythm'.
On one occasion his playing seemed to have put him at risk of injury. Waller was kidnapped in Chicago leaving a performance in 1926. Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by Al Capone. Waller was ordered inside the building, and found a party in full swing. Gun to his back, he was pushed towards a piano, and told to play. A terrified Waller realized he was the 'surprise guest' at Capone's birthday party, and took comfort that the gangsters did not intend to kill him. It is rumored that Waller stayed at the Hawthorne Inn for three days and left very drunk, extremely tired, and had earned thousands of dollars in cash from Capone and other party-goers as tips.
In 1926, Waller began his recording association with the Victor Talking Machine Company/RCA Victor, his principal record company for the rest of his life, with the organ solos 'St. Louis Blues' and his own composition, 'Lenox Avenue Blues'. Although he recorded with various groups, including Morris's Hot Babes (1927), Fats Waller's Buddies (1929) (one of the earliest multiracial groups to record), and McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929), his most important contribution to the Harlem stride piano tradition was a series of solo recordings of his own compositions: 'Handful of Keys', 'Smashing Thirds', 'Numb Fumblin'', and 'Valentine Stomp' (1929). After sessions with Ted Lewis (1931), Jack Teagarden (1931) and Billy Banks' Rhythmakers (1932), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm. This six-piece group usually included Herman Autrey (sometimes replaced by Bill Coleman or John 'Bugs' Hamilton), Gene Sedric or Rudy Powell, and Al Casey.
Waller wrote 'Squeeze Me' (1919), 'Keepin' Out of Mischief Now', 'Ain't Misbehavin'' (1929), 'Blue Turning Grey Over You', 'I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling' (1929), 'Honeysuckle Rose' (1929) and 'Jitterbug Waltz' (1942). He composed stride piano display pieces such as 'Handful of Keys', 'Valentine Stomp' and 'Viper's Drag'.[citation needed]
He enjoyed success touring the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1930s, appearing on one of the first BBC television broadcasts on September 30, 1938 . While in Britain, Waller also recorded a number of songs for EMI on their Compton Theatre organ located in their Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood. He appeared in several feature films and short subject films, most notably Stormy Weather in 1943, which was released July 21, just months before his death. For the hit Broadway show Hot Chocolates, he and Razaf wrote '(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue' (1929), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong.
Waller performed Bach organ pieces for small groups on occasion. Waller influenced many pre-bebop jazz pianists; Count Basie and Erroll Garner have both reanimated his hit songs. In addition to his playing, Waller was known for his many quips during his performances.
Between 1926 and the end of 1927, Waller recorded a series of pipe organ solo records. These represent the first time syncopated jazz compositions were performed on a full-sized church organ.
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Take 2 - Remastered 2000
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A Handful of Keys
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A Little Bit Independent (Remastered)
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A Little Bit Independent
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A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid
James Johnson, Andy Razaf
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A-Tisket A-Tasket
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A-Tisket a-Tisket (Digitally Remastered)
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Abdullah
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After You've Gone (take 2)
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After You've Gone
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Ain't Misbehavin' (1989 Remastered)
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Ain't Misbehavin' (Digitally Remastered)
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Ain't Misbehavin' (Remastered, Part 2)
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Ain't Misbehavin' (Take 1) [Digitally Remastered]
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Ain't Misbehavin' - Two Sleepy People
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Ain't Misbehavin'
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Ain't Misbehaving
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All My Life
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All That Meat and No Potatoes (1989 Remastered)
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All That Meat and No Potatoes (Remastered)
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All That Meat and No Potatos
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Anita
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B Flat Blues (Remastered)
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Beale Street Blues (Remastered 2004)(Provided)
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Beale Street Blues - 2004 Remastered
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Beale Street Blues(Provided)
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Because of Once Upon a Time
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Believe It, Beloved (Remastered)(Provided)
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Black and Blue
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Blue Turning Grey Over You
2006
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But Not for Me
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1989 Remastered)(Provided)
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon (Remastered)(Provided)
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By The Light of the Silvery Moon - 1989 Remastered(Provided)
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Bye Bye, Baby(Provided)
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Cash For Your Trash (1989 Remastered)
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Cash for Your Trash (Remastered)
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Christopher Columbus (A Rhythm Cocktail)(Provided)
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Copper Colored Gal
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Cross Patch
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Dallas Blues
Lloyd Garrett, Hart Wand
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Darktown Strutter's Ball
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Dem Bones Dem Dry Bones
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Dinah (1939 partial take)
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Dinah (Remastered)
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Dinah
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Dinah
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Dinah
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Do You Intend to Put an End To A Sweet Beginning Like This
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Don't Let It Bother You (from the RKO Picture 'the Gay Divorce') (Remastered)
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Don't Let It Bother You (Remastered)
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Don't Try Your Jive on Me (Digitally Remastered)
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Good for Nothing (But Love)
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Handful of Keys - Remastered 2000
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Handful of Keys
Thomas 'fats' Waller
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Have a Little Dream on Me (Remastered)
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Have a Little Dream on Me
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Have A Little Dream On Me
Phil Baxter, Jack Murray, Billy Rose
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Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama)
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Hold Tight
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Honeysuckle Rose (Digitally Remastered)
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Honeysuckle Rose (Digitally Remastered)
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Honeysuckle Rose (Remastered)
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Honeysuckle Rose (Remastered)
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Honeysuckle Rose - Remastered 2002
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Honeysuckle Rose - Remastered
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Honeysuckle Rose
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Honeysuckle Rose
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Honeysuckle Rose
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Honeysuckle Rose
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Honeysuckle Rose
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Honeysuckle Rose
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Honeysuckle Rose
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How Can You Face Me? (Remastered)(Provided)
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How Can You Face Me?
Andy Razaf, Thomas Waller
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How Long Has This Been Going On?
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I am hundred percent for you
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I Believe in Miracles (Remastered)
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I Believe in Miracles
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Jimmy McHugh
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I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby (Digitally Remastered)
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby - 1995 Remastered - Take 2
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I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby
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I Love To Whistle
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I Wish I Were Twins (Remastered)
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I Wish I Were Twins
Eddie De Lange, Frank Loesser, Joseph Meyer
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I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You
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I'll Never Smile Again
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I'm a Hundred Percent for You (vocal)
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I'm a Hundred Percent for You
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I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby (#2 - 1936)
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I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (and My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me) - Remastered 2000
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I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me) [Remastered]
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I'm Crazy 'bout my Baby (and My Baby's Crazy 'bout Me)
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I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (Digitally Remastered)
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I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
Alexander Hill, Thomas Waller
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I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby
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I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby
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I'm Crazy About My Baby
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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Remastered 2004)
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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter - 1991 Remastered
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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Remastered 2000
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I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (Remastered Version)
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I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (Remastered)
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I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
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I've Got a Crush on You
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I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (Remastered)
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I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
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I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
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Inside (This Heart of Mine) [Remastered]
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Inside
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It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (Remastered)
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It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Billy Mayhew
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Keepin' Out of Mischief Now (Remastered)
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Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now - Remastered 2000
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Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now - Remastered 2002
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Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
A Razaf, T Waller
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Let's Sing Again (Remastered Version)
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Let's Sing Again
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Lies
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Little Curly Hair In A Highchair
Charles Tobias and Nat Simon
Charles Tobias and Nat Simon
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Lonesome Road (Digitally Remastered)
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Lonesome Road
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Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad (Remastered)
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Lulu's Back In Town (Remastered 2004)
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Lulu's Back In Town (Remastered)
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Lulu's Back In Town - Remastered 2000
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Lulu's Back in Town
Al Dubin, Harry Warren
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My Very Good Friend the Milkman
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Papa Better Watch Your Step
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Please Keep Me In Your Dreams (Digitally Remastered)
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Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
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S'posin' (Remastered Version)(Provided)
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S'posin' (Remastered)(Provided)
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Smarty (You Know It All)
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Solitude
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Someone to Watch Over Me
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Spring Cleaning (Getting Ready for Love) [Digitally Remastered]
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Spring Cleaning (Getting Ready for Love) [Remastered 2004](Provided)
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Squeeze Me (Remastered)
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Squeeze Me - 2000 Remastered
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Squeeze Me
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St Louis Blues
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St. Louis Blues
William Christopher Handy
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Stardust (Remastered)
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Stay(Provided)
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Stormy Weather: Ain't Misbehavin'
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Sweet and Slow (Remastered Version)
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Sweet and Slow (Remastered)
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Sweet and Slow - Remastered 2002
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Sweet and Slow
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Sweet Sue, Just You (Remastered) (Take 1)
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Sweet Sue, Just You (Remastered)
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Sweet Sue, Just You
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T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
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Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
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Take It Easy (Remastered)
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Take It Easy
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Tea for Two (Remastered)
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That Ain't Right (Remastered)
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That Ain't Right
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That Old Feeling (Digitally Remastered)
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That Old Feeling
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That's What the Birdie Sang to Me
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The Curse of an Aching Heart(Provided)
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The Darktown Strutters' Ball (Digitally Remastered)
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The Flat Foot Floogie (Digitally Remastered)
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The Flat Foot Floogie
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The Joint Is Jumpin' (Remastered 2004)
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The Joint Is Jumpin' - Remastered 2000
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The Joint Is Jumpin'
James Johnson, Andy Razaf, Thomas Waller
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The Joint Is Jumping
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The Reefer Song
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There's a Gal in My Life
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This Is So Nice It Must Be Illegal (Remastered)
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This Is So Nice It Must Be Illegal
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Tiger Rag
Harry De Costa, Edwin Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Anthony Sbarbaro, Larry Shields
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178
Truckin' (Digitally Remastered)
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Truckin' - Remastered 2002
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Truckin'
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Truckin'
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Twenty-Four Robbers (1989 Remastered)
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Twenty-four robbers (Remastered)
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Twenty-Four Robbers
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Two Sleepy People (Digitally Remastered)
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Two Sleepy People - Remastered 2000
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Two Sleepy People
Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser
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Until The Real Thing Comes Along (Digitally Remastered)
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Until The Real Thing Comes Along
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Viper's drag (Remastered)
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Viper's Drag
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West Wind
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You're a Viper (The Reefer Song)
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You're Laughing at Me (Remastered)(Provided)
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You're Laughing At Me(Provided)
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You're Not the Kind
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You're Slightly Less Than Wonderful
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Your Feet's Too Big - 2000 Remastered
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Your Feet's Too Big
Ida Benson, Fred Fisher
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Your Feets To Big
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Your Feets Too Big (Remastered 2004)
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Your Feets Too Big
Ada Benson, Fred Fisher
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'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
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'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do