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Table of Contents:

• The moon shines on the moonshine (Bert Williams)
• I'm a little blackbird looking for a bluebird (From the show Dixie to Broadway) (Clarence Williams' Blue Five)
• Dinah (Ethel Waters)
• I ain't scared of you (Butterbeans and Susie)
• Camp meeting day (Noble Sissle and his orchestra)
• Memories of you (Louis Armstrong and his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra)
• Aux Iles Hawaii (Josephine Baker)
• Oh! Lady be good (Buck and Bubbles)
• Go Harlem (Jimmy Johnson and his orchestra)
• How'm I doin'? (Connie's Inn Orchestra)
• A shine on your shoes/Louisiana hayride (Monette Moore)
• The man from Harlem (Cab Calloway and his orchestra)
• Old Yazoo (Washboard Rhythm Kings)
• You gave me everything but love (Adelaide Hall)
• Doin' the new low-down (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson)
• Baby, are you satisfied? (Dickey Wells' Shim Shammers)
• Rosetta (Earl Hines and his orchestra)
• Jungle fever (Mills Brothers)
• Miss Otis regrets (Four Blackbirds)
• Margie (Claude Hopkins and his orchestra)

• Catch on? (Blanche Calloway and her orchestra)
• A high hat, a piccolo and a cane (Putney Dandridge and his orchestra)
• It was a sad night in Harlem (Duke Ellington and his orchestra)
• Keep a twinkle in your eye (Nicholas Brothers)
• When lights are low (Elisabeth Welch)
• I may be wrong (But I think you're wonderful) (John Kirby and his orchestra)
• The flat foot floogie (Slim and Slam)
• T'ain't what you do (it's the way that you do it) (Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra)
• Don't worry 'bout me (Count Basie and his orchestra)
• Baby look at you (Pete Johnson and his Boogie Woogie Boys)
• Body and soul (Billie Holiday and her orchestra)
• How long blues (Count Basie and his orchestra)
• If I had a ribbon bow (Maxine Sullivan)
• Waiting for Jane (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson)
• Prisoner of love (Lena Horne)
• Saturday night fish fry (Pearl Bailey, Moms Mabley)
• Nat meets June (Metronome All Stars)
• Ain't misbehavin' (Sarah Vaughan)
• What kind of fool am I? (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
• A-tisket, a-tasket (Ella Fitzgerald with the Chick Webb Orchestra)
• Hey! Bartender give that man a drink (Joe Williams and the Red Saunders Orchestra)
• Today I sing the blues (Aretha Franklin)
• Trying (Laverne Baker)
• Please come home for Christmas (Charles Brown)
• Tutti frutti (Little Richard)
• Try me (James Brown)
• For the love of money (O'Jays)
• Summer breeze (Isley Brothers)
• Sexual healing (Marvin Gaye)
• Dance to the music (Sly and the Family Stone).

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Contributors:

Williams, Bert, 1874-1922 , performer

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977 , performer

Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975 , performer

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 , performer

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 , performer

Washington, Buck , performer

Bubbles, John W. , performer

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

Moore, Monette , performer

Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 , performer

Hall, Adelaide , performer

Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949 , performer

Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 , performer

Hopkins, Claude , performer

Calloway, Blanche , performer

Dandridge, Putney, 1902-1946 , performer

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 , performer

Welch, Elisabeth , performer

Kirby, John, 1908-1952 , performer

Gaillard, Slim , performer

Stewart, Slam , performer

Lunceford, Jimmie , performer

Basie, Count, 1904-1984 , performer

Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 , performer

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 , performer

Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987 , performer

Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 , performer

Horne, Lena , performer

Bailey, Pearl , performer

Mabley, Moms , performer

Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 , performer

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 1925-1990 , performer

Fitzgerald, Ella , performer

Williams, Big Joe, 1903-1982 , performer

Franklin, Aretha , performer

Baker, LaVern , performer

Brown, Charles, 1922-1999 , performer

Little Richard, 1932-2020

Brown, James, 1933-2006 , performer

Gaye, Marvin , performer

Albertson, Chris , writer of supplementary textual content

Clarence Williams' Blue Five , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

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

Connie's Inn (New York, N.Y.) > Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Dickey Wells' Shim Shammers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

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

Four Blackbirds (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

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

Metronome All Stars , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

O'Jays (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

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

Sly & the Family Stone (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Legacy

Subjects:

Jazz

Jazz vocals

Popular music

African American entertainers

Motion picture music — Excerpts

Motion picture music

United States

Genres:

Jazz

Motion picture music

Popular music

Excerpts

Performers:

Various performers.

Performance Medium:

Singer; instrumental ensemble
Big band

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
(Disc 1) recorded between 1919-1936.
(Disc 2) recorded between 1938-1982.
Program and biographical notes, by Chris Albertson, and pictures in booklet.
Analog and acoustical recordings.
From the collection of Mark Logar.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustration, portraits ; 29 cm)

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 152,208- 152,209

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 074645245423
Publisher Number, Columbia/Legacy: C2K 52454
Publisher Number, Columbia/Legacy: CK 52455
Publisher Number, Columbia/Legacy: CK 52456

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

94702525

OCLC Numbers:

28226807