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Table of Contents:

• Gimme a pigfoot (Bessie Smith)
• He's long gone from Bowling Green (Buck and Bubbles and their Buckets)
• The lure of the South (Mamie Smith)
• I wanna hot dog for my roll (Butterbeans and Susie)
• Shake your ashes (Claude Hopkins and his orchestra)
• Sweet Sue, just you (The Mills Brothers)
• Fifteen minute intermission (Cab Calloway and his orchestra)
• Reefer man (Baron Lee and the Blue Rhythm Band)
• Harlem woogie (Jimmy Johnson and his orchestra)
• Doin' the new low down (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson)
• Rhythm rhapsody (Earl Hines and his orchestra)
• Backwater blues (Ruby Smith)
• All my life (Ella Fitzgerald)
• From Monday on (Ella Logan with the Spirits of Rhythm)
• When my baby left me (Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinton)
• I got an uncle in Harlem ("Hot Lips" Page and his orchestra)
• Sploghm (Slim Gaillard and his Flat Foot Floogie Boys)
• Four day creep (Ida Cox and her All-Star Band)
• Wherever you are (Billie Holiday)
• Lose the blackout blues (Count Basie and his orchestra with Jimmy Rushing)

• Stop you're breakin' my heart (Claude Thornhill and his orchestra with Maxine Sullivan)
• Saturday night fish fry (Pearl Bailey and Jackie "Moms" Mabley)
• Gabbin' blues (Big Maybelle)
• You're just an old antidisestablishmentarianismist (Duke Ellington and his orchestra)
• Ain't misbehavin' (Sarah Vaughan)
• Venus velvet (Bobby Brown Quartet)
• I put a spell on you ("Screamin'" Jay Hawkins)
• Evil gal blues (Aretha Franklin).

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Contributors:

Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955 , performer

Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949 , performer

Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 , performer

Smith, Ruby , performer

Fitzgerald, Ella , performer

Logan, Ella, 1913-1969 , performer

Vinson, Eddie , performer

Page, Hot Lips, 1908-1954 , performer

Gaillard, Slim , performer

Cox, Ida, 1889-1967 , performer

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 , performer

Basie, Count, 1904-1984 , performer

Rushing, Jimmy , performer

Thornhill, Claude , performer

Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987 , performer

Bailey, Pearl , performer

Mabley, Moms , performer

Big Maybelle, 1924-1972 , performer

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 , performer

Nance, Ray, 1913-1976 , performer

Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 , performer

Hawkins, Screamin' Jay , performer

Franklin, Aretha , performer

Buck and Bubbles , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Butterbeans & Susie (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Mills Brothers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Mills Blue Rhythm Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Spirits of Rhythm , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

John Hammond collection

Subjects:

Apollo Theatre (New York, N.Y. : 42nd Street)

Popular music

Blues (Music)

African Americans — Music

African Americans

New York (State)

United States

Genres:

Music

General Notes:

Columbia: KG 30788 (C 30789--C 30790).
Blues, jazz vocals, and rhythm and blues songs; by performers who appeared at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
Recorded 1927-64.
Program notes by Chris Albertson, with discographical notes, on container.
From the Collection of Ray Charles.
(C.2) From the collection of Mark Logar.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs (84 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, monophonic ; 12 in.

Physical Characteristics:

vinyl; 12 in.; 33 1/3 rpm

Audio Characteristics:

analog; 33 1/3 rpm; mono

Call Numbers:

LPZ

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Columbia: KG 30788
Publisher Number, Columbia: C 30789--C 30790

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

73760762

OCLC Numbers:

3616798