Name: The First of the Singer Songwriters: Key Cuts 1924-1946 [Box]
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The First of the Singer Songwriters

Key Cuts 1924-1946 [Box]

By Hoagy Carmichael

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CD (1 Disc); Mono

Release Date

19 January 2004

Album: The First of the Singer Songwriters: Key Cuts 1924-1946 [Box]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Riverboat Shuffle
2)	Boneyard Shuffle
3)	Washboard Blues
4)	Washboard Blues
5)	Boneyard Shuffle
6)	Riverboat Shuffle
7)	One Night in Havana
8)	Stardust
9)	When Baby Sleeps
10)	Friday Night
11)	Washboard Blues
12)	So Tired
13)	March of the Hoodlums
14)	Walkin' the Dog
15)	Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
16)	Smile
17)	Stardust
18)	Stardust
19)	March of the Hoodlums
20)	Walkin' the Dog
21)	Rockin' Chair
22)	Harvey
23)	Stardust
24)	March of the Hoodlums
25)	March of the Hoodlums
1)	Walkin' the Dog
2)	What Kind O' Man Is You?
3)	Rockin' Chair
4)	Manhattan Rag
5)	Manhattan Rag
6)	What Kind O' Man Is You?
7)	Barbaric
8)	High and Dry
9)	My Sweet
10)	Stardust
11)	Rockin' Chair
12)	Georgia on My Mind
13)	One Night in Havana
14)	Bessie Couldn't Help It
15)	Lazy River
16)	Papa's Gone Bye-Bye Blues (Jewish Boy Blues)
17)	Stardust
18)	March of the Hoodlums
19)	Come Easy, Go Easy, Love
20)	Georgia on My Mind
21)	Lazy River
22)	Stardust
23)	Georgia on My Mind
24)	Washboard Blues
1)	Daybreak
2)	In the Still of the Night
3)	Rockin' Chair
4)	After Twelve O'Clock
5)	Sing It Way Down Low
6)	Thanksgivin'
7)	Charlie Two-Step
8)	Old Man Harlem
9)	Old Man Harlem
10)	Snowball
11)	Snowball
12)	Snowball
13)	Lazy Bones
14)	Lazy Bones
15)	Lazy Bones
16)	One Morning in May
17)	Stardust
18)	Cosmics
19)	Washboard Blues
20)	Judy
21)	One Morning in May
22)	Moon Country (Is Home to Me)
23)	Moon Country (Is Home to Me)
24)	Moon Country (Is Home to Me)
25)	Down T' Uncle Bills
1)	Thanksgivin'
2)	New Orleans
3)	New Orleans
4)	Two Sleepy People
5)	New Orleans
6)	Hong Kong Blues
7)	Riverboat Shuffle
8)	Two Sleepy People
9)	Bread and Gravy
10)	Stardust
11)	Skylark
12)	No More Toujours l'Amour
13)	Vine Street Parade
14)	World of No Goodbyes, A
15)	Sweet Lorraine
16)	Whale Song, The
17)	How Little We Know
18)	Billy-A-Dick
19)	Hong Kong Blues
20)	Baltimore Oriole
21)	Stardust
22)	Memphis in June
23)	Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
24)	Ginger and Spice
25)	Ole Buttermilk Sky
26)	Walk It Off
27)	It Ain't Gonna Be Like That

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Album: The First of the Singer Songwriters: Key Cuts 1924-1946 [Box]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Riverboat Shuffle
2)	Boneyard Shuffle
3)	Washboard Blues
4)	Washboard Blues
5)	Boneyard Shuffle
6)	Riverboat Shuffle
7)	One Night in Havana
8)	Stardust
9)	When Baby Sleeps
10)	Friday Night
11)	Washboard Blues
12)	So Tired
13)	March of the Hoodlums
14)	Walkin' the Dog
15)	Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
16)	Smile
17)	Stardust
18)	Stardust
19)	March of the Hoodlums
20)	Walkin' the Dog
21)	Rockin' Chair
22)	Harvey
23)	Stardust
24)	March of the Hoodlums
25)	March of the Hoodlums
1)	Walkin' the Dog
2)	What Kind O' Man Is You?
3)	Rockin' Chair
4)	Manhattan Rag
5)	Manhattan Rag
6)	What Kind O' Man Is You?
7)	Barbaric
8)	High and Dry
9)	My Sweet
10)	Stardust
11)	Rockin' Chair
12)	Georgia on My Mind
13)	One Night in Havana
14)	Bessie Couldn't Help It
15)	Lazy River
16)	Papa's Gone Bye-Bye Blues (Jewish Boy Blues)
17)	Stardust
18)	March of the Hoodlums
19)	Come Easy, Go Easy, Love
20)	Georgia on My Mind
21)	Lazy River
22)	Stardust
23)	Georgia on My Mind
24)	Washboard Blues
1)	Daybreak
2)	In the Still of the Night
3)	Rockin' Chair
4)	After Twelve O'Clock
5)	Sing It Way Down Low
6)	Thanksgivin'
7)	Charlie Two-Step
8)	Old Man Harlem
9)	Old Man Harlem
10)	Snowball
11)	Snowball
12)	Snowball
13)	Lazy Bones
14)	Lazy Bones
15)	Lazy Bones
16)	One Morning in May
17)	Stardust
18)	Cosmics
19)	Washboard Blues
20)	Judy
21)	One Morning in May
22)	Moon Country (Is Home to Me)
23)	Moon Country (Is Home to Me)
24)	Moon Country (Is Home to Me)
25)	Down T' Uncle Bills
1)	Thanksgivin'
2)	New Orleans
3)	New Orleans
4)	Two Sleepy People
5)	New Orleans
6)	Hong Kong Blues
7)	Riverboat Shuffle
8)	Two Sleepy People
9)	Bread and Gravy
10)	Stardust
11)	Skylark
12)	No More Toujours l'Amour
13)	Vine Street Parade
14)	World of No Goodbyes, A
15)	Sweet Lorraine
16)	Whale Song, The
17)	How Little We Know
18)	Billy-A-Dick
19)	Hong Kong Blues
20)	Baltimore Oriole
21)	Stardust
22)	Memphis in June
23)	Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
24)	Ginger and Spice
25)	Ole Buttermilk Sky
26)	Walk It Off
27)	It Ain't Gonna Be Like That

EAN

0788065901820

Writer

Hoagy Carmichael

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Studio

Label

JSP (UK)

Dimensions

12.1 x 14 x 5.7 centimeters (0.48 kg)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Hoagy Carmichael (vocals, violin, cornet, piano, celesta); Dick Robertson (vocals, violin); Clarence Hutchenrider (vocals, clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Frankie Trumbauer (vocals, reeds, C-melody saxophone); Louis Armstrong, Nat Gonella (vocals, trumpet); Pee Wee Hunt (vocals, trombone); Irving Brodsky (vocals, piano, celesta); Fats Waller, Martha Boswell (vocals, piano); Connee Boswell, Ella Logan, Ethel Waters, Helvetia "Vet" Boswell, Jimmy Rushing, Al Bowlly, Maxine Sullivan, Mildred Bailey, Milt Hinton, Anita Boyer, Red McKenzie, Carson Robison (vocals); Mike Pingatore, Harry "Buzz" Wernert, Dick McDonough, Gene Gifford, Roy Smeck (guitar, banjo); Eddie Durham (guitar, trombone); Bert Thomas, Danny Barker , Eddie Lang, Perry Botkin and His Orchestra, Everett Barksdale, Bob Gillette, Jack Bland, Fritz Ciccone, Al Costi, Wilbur Hall, Leroy Berry, Clarence Holiday, Lonnie Johnson, Mark Sheridan, Perry Botkin, Bernard Addison, Carl Kress (guitar); Joe Galbraith , Eddie Condon, Joe Galbreath, "Big" Mike McKendrick, Dave Wilborn, Arnold Habbe, Fred Guy (banjo); Matty Malneck (violin, vibraphone); Mischa Russell, Eddie South, Eddie Wolfe, Walter Wright, Reginald Pursglove, Eric Siday, Kurt Dieterle, Mel Jenssen, Henry Whiteman, Joe Venuti, John Bowman , Victor Young (violin); Harold Stokes (accordion, piano); Chester Hazlett (clarinet, reeds, alto saxophone); Pee Wee Russell (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Bob Wise, Freddy Gardner, Art Ralston, Kenny Sargent (clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet, alto saxophone, cornet); Arnold Brillhardt, Lester Boone, Kerval Chauncey Goodwin, Dick Kent, Eddie Barefield, Theodore McCord, Gene Woods, George Oldham, Milton Senior, Bobby Holmes , Scoville Brown, Albert Nicholas, Russell Procope, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Charlie Holmes (clarinet, alto saxophone); Harry Berly, Reg Pink, Lawrence "Bud" Freeman, Albert Washington, Jr., Gene Sedric, George W. Thomas , Pat Davis, Castor McCord, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Jack Mayhew, Izzy Friedman, Ray McDermott, Jimmy Hartwell, Clifford King, Sidney Arodin (clarinet); Charles Strickfaden (bass clarinet, reeds, alto saxophone); Dick Dickerson, Bob Hutsell, Stewart Anderson, Reggie Byleth, Joe Lendin, John Cordaro, Matty Matlock (reeds); Jack Washington (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Don Redman, Bernard Daly, Larry Gordon, Glen Gray, Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Hugo Winterhalter (alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins, Larry Binyon, Bunny Bardach, Maurice Bennett, Maurice Freedman, Harold Keating, Don Barrigo, Teddy Hill, George Harper, Bud Freeman, Budd Johnson (tenor saxophone); Fizz Goodrich (baritone saxophone); Min Leibrook (bass saxophone); Fred Murray (trumpet, cornet); Manny Klein, Sterling Bose, Max Goldberg, Cootie Williams, Andy Secrest, Alfie Noakes, Leo McConville, Joe Keyes, Ray Conolly, The Russell Smith Orchestra, Oliver Suderman, Andy Anderson , Nick Galetta, Nat Natoli, Byron Smart, Ed Anderson , Freddie Jenkins, Bob Mayhew, Tom Gonsoulin, Grady Watts, Dee Stewart, Bill Moore Lucky Seven Band, Henry "Red" Allen, Herman Autrey, Langston Curl, Hot Lips Page, Tommy Howell, Charlie Margulis, Ellis Whiutlock, John Nesbitt, Eddie Mallory, Johnny Carlson, Bobby Lee Jones, Harry Goldfield, Ray Lodwig, Red Nichols, Arthur Whetsol, Sonny Dunham, Zilner Randolph, Bobby Stark , Bubber Miley, Bunny Berigan (trumpet); Fred Rollison, Muggsy Spanier, Rex Stewart, Bix Beiderbecke, Charles Bud Dant (cornet); Warren Carr, Bill Rank, Abe Lincoln, Billy Rauch, Ray Noonan, Sonny Lee, Hannibal Matthews, Fritz Hummel, Glenn Miller, Red Ginsler, Oscar Rossberg, Boyce Cullen, J.C. Higginbotham, Jack Fulton, Jack Jenney, Harold Matthews, Jack Teagarden, Henry Hicks, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Lew Davis, Miff Mole, Tommy Dorsey , Tyree Glenn, Benny Morton, Dan Minor, Claude Jones, Lee Howell, Preston Jackson (trombone); Juan Tizol (valve trombone); Jack Russin, Count Basie, Charlie Alexander , Dick Voynow, Duke Ellington, Ellis Larkins, George Marks, Harry Bason, Fletcher Henderson, Antonia Spaulding, Fulton McGrath, Reginald Beane, Harold Hood, Harry Jacobson, Joe Hall , Irving Riskin, Luis Russell, Arnold Ross, Todd Rhodes, Roy Bargy, Arthur Schutt, Charlie LaVere (piano); Red Norvo (vibraphone, xylophone); Hal McDonald, Chauncey Morehouse (vibraphone, drums); Bill Harty, Cuba Austin, George March, Wally Gordon, Willie Lynch, Paul Richter, Mel Miller, Herb Quigley, Earl MacDowell, Gene Krupa, Andy Van Sickle, Jimmy Bertrand, Frank Billings, Jack Williams, Walter Johnson Jr., Tony Briglia, Paul Barbarin, Slick Jones, Sonny Greer, Spike Jones, Vic Berton, Vic Moore, Walter Johnson , Yank Porter, Stan King, Cliff Williams , Willie McWashington (drums).
Recording information: Camden, NJ (05/06/1924-10/14/1938); Chicago, IL (05/06/1924-10/14/1938); Kansas City (05/06/1924-10/14/1938); London, England (05/06/1924-10/14/1938); Los Angeles, CA (05/06/1924-10/14/1938); New York, NY (05/06/1924-10/14/1938); Richmond, IN (05/06/1924-10/14/1938).
Directors: Don Redman; Duke Ellington; Eddie South; Perry Botkin and His Orchestra; Frankie Trumbauer; Glen Gray; Jack Jenney; Matty Malneck; Perry Botkin; Ray Noble; Billy May; Hoagy Carmichael.
Arrangers: Gene Gifford; Bill Challis; Ray Noble; Billy May.
Its title aside (which suggests that Hoagy Carmichael was a some distant forerunner of Jackson Browne or Dar Williams, a case that would be both difficult and a little absurd to make), there's no doubt that this four-disc, 101-track collection from English reissue label JSP is carefully and lovingly assembled, and it outlines an impressive and amazing legacy. Carmichael was technically a singer/songwriter, of course, in the sense that he was quite capable of performing his songs at a commercial level, and he certainly had a public persona as an unassuming, laid-back, slightly world weary but jivin' jazz cat out of Indiana, but his songs didn't depend on that persona in order to get across, and that, more than anything, sets him apart from most if not all of the so-called singer/songwriters of the present day. Carmichael is also different than the other great American jazz and pop song stylists of his time like the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin in a couple of important ways. He didn't necessarily need a lyricist, for one, although he worked frequently with great ones like Johnny Mercer, Mitchell Parish, Frank Loesser and Stuart Gorrell, and his songs only occasionally had romance as a central theme, preferring instead to deal with places, times and mindsets, with a song like "Georgia on My Mind" being a perfect example. It's a love song, certainly, but it is a love song to a place, and more specifically, to a place in time, and (as the title states) a place in mind. Even Carmichael's most famous composition, "Stardust," isn't so much a song about love as it is a song about thinking about a song about love, which makes it a love song one step removed. Songs like "Rockin' Chair," "Lazy River" and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" may be romantic in tone but they aren't love songs in any normal sense. Perhaps this is why Carmichael's melodies also do so well as instrumentals, since they depend more on mood, time and feel than any kind of romantic plot line. At the very least, Carmichael's songs are extremely versatile, which this expansive anthology makes clear. There are nine different versions of "Stardust" here done in almost every conceivable way (including by Carmichael himself), and almost that many versions of "Georgia on My Mind." The list of bandleaders compiled here tackling Carmichael tunes is simply mind blowing, including sides by Frank Trumbauer, Red Nichols, Paul Whiteman, Eddie Lang, Irving Mills, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, the Dorsey Brothers, Isham Jones and Bennie Moten, among many others. Songs are done fast, slow, and in-between, with sung lyrics and without them. They always work. Carmichael is featured singing and performing his own melodies on maybe a dozen tracks, and while his versions may not be -- and usually aren't -- the most definitive, they are in some ways the most revealing, as his everyman Joe perception of his work shines clear as a desk bell in that slightly weary and amused voice he had. This is a marvelous anthology, but it may be a bit too much for casual listeners who probably don't need to hear nine versions of "Stardust" to grasp its importance and power, and they may be better off with a single-disc collection like Bluebird's carefully selected Stardust Melody from 2002. Those interested in a deeper look at Carmichael's own versions of his work can turn to the exhaustive ten-disc In Person 1925-1955 box put out by Avid in 2006 or the wonderfully concise single-disc Hoagy Sings Carmichael from 1956. This set, meanwhile, balances between Carmichael's own versions of his compositions and key versions by other pop and jazz artists recorded between 1926 and 1946. All of these sets are excellent in their own way, framing the legacy of a very unique writer, one who wrote love songs to places and ideas, and in doing so, defined the concept of Americana in the purest sense. ~ Steve Leggett