
Artist: Mildred Bailey
Album: The Complete Columbia Recordings
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2010
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- What Kind of Man Is You? [Alternate Take]
- What Kind of Man Is You?
- I Like to Do Things for You
- Is That Religion? [Alternate Take]
- Is That Religion?
- Harlem Lullaby
- There's a Cabin in the Pines
- Lazy Bones
- Shoutin' in That
- Snowball
- But I Can't Make a Man
- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love
- Doin' the Uptown Lowdown
- Heat Wave
- Junk Man [Take 2]
- Junk Man [Take 3]
- Ol' Pappy
- Emaline
- I'd Love to Take Orders from You (Lyrics)
- I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes
- Someday, Sweetheart
- When Day Is Done B
- CD 2:
- It All Begins and Ends With You
- A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid / Old Fashioned Love / Carolina Shout
- Picture Me Without You
- It Can Happen to You
- Now That Summer Is Gone
- Now That Summer Is Gone [Alternate Take]
- It's Love I'm After
- Peter Piper
- For Sentimental Reasons
- It's Love I'm After
- 'Long About Midnight
- More Than You Know (Lyrics)
- A Thousand Dreams of You
- Smoke Dreams
- Slumming on Park Avenue
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- My Last Affair
- Trust in Me
- Where Are You?
- You're Laughing at Me
- CD 3:
- Never in a Million Years
- There's a Lull in My Life
- Rockin' Chair [Take 1]
- Rockin' Chair [Take 2]
- Little Joe Jule Styne
- If You Ever Should Leave
- The Man Got in My Eyes
- Heaven Help This Heart of Mine
- It's the Natural Thing to Do
- It's the Natural Thing to Do [Alternate Take]
- Everyone's Wrong But Me
- Posin'
- Posin' [Alternate Take]
- The Morning After
- Tears in My Heart
- Worried over You
- Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
- Just a Stone's Throw from Heaven
- Loving You
- Right or Wrong
- CD 4:
- I See Your Face Before Me [Alternate Take]
- I See Your Face Before Me
- Thanks for the Memory [Alternate Take]
- Thanks for the Memory
- From the Land of the Sky Blue Water [Alternate Take]
- From the Land of the Sky Boue Water
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- Lover, Come Back to Me [Alternate Take]
- Always and Always
- I Was Doing All Right
- I Was Doing All Right [Alternate Take]
- It's Wonderful
- Love Is Here to Stay
- More Than Ever
- The Weekend of a Private Secretary
- Please Be Kind
- There's a Boy in Harlem
- There's a Boy in Harlem [Alternate Take]
- Bewildered
- I Cant' Face the Music [Take 1]
- I Cant' Face the Music [Take 1]
- Don't Be That Way [Take 1]
- Don't Be That Way [Take 3]
- At Your Beck and Call
- CD 5:
- Says My Heart
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]
- Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 1]
- Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 2]
- Rock It for Me
- After Dinner Speech [Take 1]
- After Dinner Speech [Take 1]
- If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
- Daydreaming (All Night Long)
- A Cigarette and a Silhouette
- (I've Been) Saving Myself for You
- You Leave Me Breathless
- Washboard Blues
- My Melancholy Baby
- My Melancholy Baby [Alternate Take]
- 'Round My Old Deserted Farm
- The Lonesome Road
- So Help Me E
- Small Fry
- As Long as You Live [Rehearsal Take]
- As Long as You Live J
- Born to Swing
- CD 6:
- Put Your Heart in a Song
- Wigwammin'
- The Sunny Side of Things
- How Can I Thank You?
- Garden of the Moon
- Now It Can Be Told
- Jump Jump's Here [Take 1]
- Jump Jump's Here [Take 1]
- I Haven't Changed a Thing [Take 1]
- I Haven't Changed a Thing [Take 2]
- Love Is Where You Find It
- I Used to Be Color Blind
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Take 1]
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Take 2]
- This Is Madness (To Love Like This)
- Who Blew Out the Flame?
- With You on My Mind
- Old Folks
- CD 7:
- St. Louis Blues
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- Have You Forgotten So Soon?
- Have You Forgotten So Soon? [Alternate Take]
- They Say
- Blame It on My Last Affair
- I Go for That
- St. Louis Blues
- St. Louis Blues [Alernate Take]
- I Cried for You
- Begin the Beguine
- What Shall I Say?
- Cuckoo in the Clock
- There'll Never Be Another You
- It's Slumbertime Along the Swanee
- 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
- 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) [Alternate Take]
- Love's a Necessary Thing
- Love's a Necessary Thing [Alternate Take]
- Downhearted Blues
- I Can Read Between the Lines
- CD 8:
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Barrelhouse Music
- Arkansas Blues
- Gulf Coast Blues [Take 1]
- Gulf Coast Blues [Take 2]
- You Don't Know My Mind Blues
- Prisoner of Love
- Three Little Fishes
- That Sly Old Gentleman
- Tit Willow
- The Lamp Is Low
- And the Angels Sing
- It Seems Like Old Times
- Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)
- Moon Love
- The Florever Blowing Bubbles
- The Little Man Who Wasn't There
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- You're the Moment in My Life
- You and Your Love
- CD 9:
- Don't Dally With the Devil
- Ain't That Good News?
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Make With the Kisses
- Make With the Kisses [Alternate Take]
- Heaven in My Arms
- I Thought About You
- Faithful Forever
- That Lucky Fellow
- Bluebirds in the Moonlight
- Blue Rain
- I've Gone Off the Deep End
- I Shoulda Stood in Bed
- Darn That Dream
- Darn That Dream [Alternate Take]
- Peace, Brother!
- Peace, Brother! [Alternate Take]
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- All the Things You Are
- Hold On
- CD 10:
- Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) [Alternate Take]
- Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)
- Little High Chairman
- Easy to Love
- Give Me Time
- They Can't Take That Away from Me
- A Bee Gezindt
- After All I've Been to You
- Don't Take Your Love from Me [Alternate Take]
- Don't Take Your Love from Me
- Fools Rush In
- From Another World
- I'm Nobody's Baby
- Give Me Time
- How Can I Ever Be Alone?
- Tennessee Fish Fry
- I'll Pray for You
- Blue (And Broken Hearted)
- Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry [Alternate Take]
- Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry
- I'll Be Around [Alternate Take]
- I'll Be Around
- My Little Cousin
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Indisputably the most complete Mildred Bailey anthology ever released in one package, Mosaic's ten-CD box set contains most if not all of the recordings she made between October 1929 and March 1942. During that span of years (extending from the Wall Street Crash to the first few months of U.S. involvement in the Second World War) she worked with a dizzyingly diverse range of outstanding musicians, cutting her very first sides with guitarist Eddie Lang, then performing with a series of jazz-infused dance bands including Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and those led by Frankie Trumbauer, the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Mildred's third husband Red Norvo. Even if she did handle bigoted Tin Pan Alley tunes like "Weekend of a Private Secretary," "Snowball," and "There's a Boy in Harlem," Mildred Bailey was quite at home collaborating with some of the best Afro-American musicians of her generation. These included a group led by bassist John Kirby, trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton, pianists Teddy Wilson and Mary Lou Williams, and saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Herschel Evans, Ben Webster, and Chu Berry. That list barely scratches the surface of the instrumental talent heard on this in-depth survey covering the most important years of Mildred Bailey's recording career. The 214 tracks include more than 30 alternates; those who only want a sequentially presented overview of the master takes should try the Red Norvo and Mildred Bailey portions of the Classics Chronological Series. A versatile vocalist who could croon mellifluously or swing with intestinal fortitude, Mildred Bailey is remembered as one of the great influential jazz and pop vocalists of the 1930s. Released as a limited edition in the year 2000, Mosaic's massive box set was an unprecedented tribute to her artistry.
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