The Gold Collection: 40 Classic Performances

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The St. Louis Blues
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Careless Love
  3:27
• 3
  Cake Walkin' Babies
  3:11
• 4
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 5
  T'Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  3:28
• 6
  Sing Sing Prison Blues
  3:05
• 7
  Sinful Blues
  3:11
• 8
  Reckless Blues
  3:05
• 9
  The Yellow Dog Blues
  3:04
• 10
  Nashville Women's Blues
  3:45
• 11
  I Ain't Got Nobody
  3:11
• 12
  I Want Every Bit of It
  2:38
• 13
  Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
  3:21
• 14
  Honey Man Blues
  3:14
• 15
  Trombone Cholly
  3:12
• 16
  There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:20
• 17
  Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  3:23
• 18
  Mean Old Bedbug Blues
  3:13
• 19
  Lock and Key
  2:59
• 20
  After You've Gone
  2:56
• CD 2
• 1
  Alexander's Ragtime Band
  3:00
• 2
  Back Water Blues
  3:19
• 3
  It Won't Be You
  2:49
• 4
  Empty Bed Blues, Part 1
  3:02
• 5
  Devil's Gonna Git You
  3:12
• 6
  Poor Man's Blues
  3:26
• 7
  I'm Wild About That Thing
  2:49
• 8
  Kitchen Man
  2:57
• 9
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 10
  He's Got Me Goin'
  3:14
• 11
  Wasted Life Blues
  3:04
• 12
  Keep It to Yourself
  3:32
• 13
  On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
  2:56
• 14
  Moan, You Moaners
  3:13
• 15
  Hustlin' Day
  3:32
• 16
  New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
  2:59
• 17
  Long Old Road
  3:28
• 18
  Safety Mama
  3:26
• 19
  Gimme a Pigfoot
  3:30
• 20
  Do Your Duty
  3:23

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Release credits

• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [19]
• Bessie Smith
  lead vocals [13-14], vocal [1.1, 1.4, 1.12, 1.15, 1.20, 2.1-3, 2.5, 2.8-12, 2.16-20]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [19-20]
• Bob Fuller
  clarinet [5]
• Bobby Johnson
  banjo [19], guitar [19-20]
• Buck Washington
  piano [19-20]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [20]
• Charlie Dixon
  banjo [1]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [3, 12, 16-17]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.16-17, 1.4, 1.12]
• Coleman Hawkins
  clarinet [1]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [9]
• Demas Dean
  cornet [3]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [9]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [8]
• Ernest Elliott
  clarinet [5]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [1]
• Floyd Casey
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Frankie Newton
  trumpet [19-20]
• Fred Longshaw
  piano [3], reed organ [1]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [9, 12, 16], clarinet [12, 16]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [19-20]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [2, 10, 13-14]
• Jimmy Harrison
  trombone [1]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [1]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [19-20]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [1]
• Louis Bacon
  trumpet [12, 16]
• Porter Grainger
  piano [5]
• The Bessemer Singers
  choir vocals [13-14]
• Show all credits (31)

Issues

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  The Gold Collection: 40 Classic Performances

  2x CD
  1 January 1999