Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions

Compilation by Chu Berry

Released 2007

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Blue Interlude
    The Chocolate Dandies
    3:31
  • 2
    I Never Knew (alternate take)
    The Chocolate Dandies
    3:08
  • 3
    I Never Knew
    The Chocolate Dandies
    3:08
  • 4
    Once Upon a Time
    The Chocolate Dandies
    3:29
  • 5
    Krazy Kapers
    The Chocolate Dandies
    3:32
  • 6
    Do Your Duty
    Chu Berry acc. by Buck and His Band
    3:30
  • 7
    I’m Down in the Dumps
    Chu Berry acc. by Buck and His Band
    3:16
  • 8
    (Lookie, Lookie, Lookie) Here Comes Cookie
    Teddy Hill and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 9
    When the Robin Sings His Song Again
    Teddy Hill and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 10
    Rosetta
    Henry Allen and His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 11
    I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again
    Henry Allen and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 12
    Get Rhythm in Your Feet
    Henry Allen and His Orchestra
    2:49
  • 13
    Chasing Shadows
    Putney Dandridge and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 14
    Chasing Shadows
    Putney Dandridge and His Orchestra
    2:39
  • 15
    When I Grow Too Old to Dream
    Putney Dandridge and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 16
    I’d Love to Take Orders From You
    Mildred Bailey and Her Swing Band
    2:45
  • 17
    I’d Rather Listen to Your Eyes
    Mildred Bailey and Her Swing Band
    3:10
  • 18
    When Day Is Done
    Mildred Bailey and Her Swing Band
    3:31
  • 19
    Twenty Four Hours a Day
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 20
    Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 21
    Eeny Meeny Meiny Mo
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:15
  • 22
    I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
    Gene Krupa’s Swing Band
    3:07
  • 23
    Mutiny in the Parlor
    Gene Krupa’s Swing Band
    3:05
  • 24
    I’m Gonna Clap My Hands
    Gene Krupa’s Swing Band
    3:00
  • 25
    Swing Is Here
    Gene Krupa’s Swing Band
    2:57
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Christopher Columbus
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 2
    Grand Terrace Swing
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 3
    Blue Lou
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 4
    Stealin’ Apples
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 5
    Moonrise on the Lowlands
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 6
    I’ll Always Be in Love With You
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:06
  • 7
    Jangled Nerves
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 8
    Mary Had a Little Lamb
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 9
    Too Good to Be True
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 10
    Warmin’ Up
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:19
  • 11
    Blues in C‐sharp minor
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:24
  • 12
    Where There’s You There’s Me
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 13
    Do You or Don’t You Love Me
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 14
    Mary Had a Little Lamb
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 15
    Shoe Shine Boy
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:35
  • 16
    Sing, Sing, Sing
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:36
  • 17
    Knock, Knock Who’s There? (alternate take)
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 18
    Knock, Knock Who’s There?
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 19
    Jim Town Blues
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 20
    You Can Depend on Me
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:32
  • 21
    Slummin’ on Park Avenue
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:37
  • 22
    Slummin’ on Park Avenue
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 23
    Rhythm of the Tambourine
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:42
  • 24
    Back in Your Own Backyard
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 25
    Rose Room
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:05
  • 26
    Great Caesar’s Ghost
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:22
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Now You’re Talking My Language
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:54
  • 2
    Back Home Again in Indiana
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:50
  • 3
    Back Home Again in Indiana (alternate take)
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:54
  • 4
    Too Marvelous for Words (alternate take)
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:58
  • 5
    Too Marvelous for Words
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:56
  • 6
    Limehouse Blues (alternate take)
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:54
  • 7
    Limehouse Blues
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:56
  • 8
    All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 9
    Chris and His Gang
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    3:05
  • 10
    I’m Always in the Mood for You
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 11
    She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 12
    Go South, Young Man
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:12
  • 13
    Mama, I Want to Make Rhythm
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 14
    Queen Isabella
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 15
    Savage Rhythm
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 16
    Chuberry Jam
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:21
  • 17
    Maelstrom (alternate take)
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:50
  • 18
    Maelstrom
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:52
  • 19
    My Secret Love Affair
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:53
  • 20
    Ebb Tide
    Chu Berry and His Stompy Stevedores
    2:48
  • 21
    A Minor Breakdown
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:26
  • 22
    A Minor Breakdown
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:31
  • 23
    Bugle Blues
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 24
    My First Impression of You
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 25
    With a Smile and a Song
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 26
    With a Smile and a Song
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • CD 4
  • 1
    When You’re Smiling
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 2
    I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
    Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 3
    Thanks for the Memory (alternate take)
    Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
    2:44
  • 4
    Thanks for the Memory
    Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
    2:37
  • 5
    Lover Come Back to Me (alternate take)
    Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
    3:17
  • 6
    Lover Come Back to Me
    Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
    3:12
  • 7
    Annie Laurie
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 8
    Loch Lomond
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 9
    My Mariuccia Take a Steamboat
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:37
  • 10
    In the Land of Yamo Yamo
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 11
    Rustle of Swing (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 12
    Rustle of Swing
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:01
  • 13
    Three Swings and Out
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:16
  • 14
    I Like Music (with a Swing Like That)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 15
    Penguin Swing
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:32
  • 16
    Peck‐a‐Doodle‐Do
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 17
    At the Clambake Carnival
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 18
    Hoy‐Hoy
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 19
    Miss Hallelujah Brown
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:24
  • 20
    Shout, Shout, Shout
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 21
    Jive (Page “1” of the Hepster’s Dictionary)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 22
    Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:26
  • 23
    Blue Interlude
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:39
  • 24
    FDR Jones
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:23
  • 25
    That’s All I Ask of You (alternate take)
    Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
    3:02
  • 26
    That’s All I Ask of You
    Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
    2:59
  • CD 5
  • 1
    Floogie Walk
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:21
  • 2
    I Can Give You Love
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 3
    High Society
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 4
    Johnny Get Your Horn
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 5
    Sweethearts on Parade
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 6
    Shufflin’ at the Hollywood (alternate take)
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 7
    Shufflin’ at the Hollywood
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 8
    Denison Swing
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:18
  • 9
    Wizzin’ the Wizz (alternate take)
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 10
    Wizzin’ the Wizz
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 11
    Downright Disgusted Blues
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:31
  • 12
    Corrine Corrini
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:17
  • 13
    I’m a Real Kinda Papa
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 14
    Jumpy Nerves
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 15
    Boogie Woogie
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • 16
    Ain’t Cha Comin’ Home?
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    3:22
  • 17
    Royal Garden Blues
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 18
    In the Barrel
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 19
    Farewell Blues
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:41
  • 20
    Fare Thee, My Baby, Fare‐Thee‐Well
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 21
    Limehouse Blues
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:21
  • 22
    Trylon Swing
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 23
    Utt‐Da‐Zay
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 24
    Crescendo in Drums
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:49
  • 25
    The Jumpin’ Jive
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • CD 6
  • 1
    Pluckin’ the Bass (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 2
    Pluckin’ the Bass
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 3
    I Ain’t Getting Nowhere Fast
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 4
    Blue Lou
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 5
    When the Saints Go Marching In
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:31
  • 6
    My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:49
  • 7
    When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
    Wingy Manone and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 8
    Hot Mallets
    Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
    2:19
  • 9
    A Bee Gezindt
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 10
    Give, Baby, Give
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 11
    Do It Again
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 12
    Calling All Bars (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 13
    Calling All Bars
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:49
  • 14
    Do I Care? No, No (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 15
    Do I Care? No, No
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 16
    The Lone Arranger
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 17
    The Lone Arranger
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • 18
    Hard Times
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:22
  • 19
    Who’s Yehoodi? (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 20
    Who’s Yehoodi?
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 21
    Come on With the “Come on”
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 22
    A Ghost of a Chance (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 23
    A Ghost of a Chance
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 24
    Bye Bye Blues (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 25
    Bye Bye Blues
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • CD 7
  • 1
    Papa’s in the Bed With His Britches On (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:39
  • 2
    Papa’s in the Bed With His Britches On (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:36
  • 3
    Papa’s in the Bed With His Britches On
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • 4
    Boo‐Wah Boo‐Wah (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 5
    Boo‐Wah Boo‐Wah
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 6
    Cupid’s Nightmare
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 7
    Are You Hep to the Jive?
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 8
    Hot Air
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 9
    Lonesome Nights (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:01
  • 10
    Lonesome Nights
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 11
    A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ but a Bird (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 12
    A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ but a Bird (Breakdown)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 13
    A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ but a Bird
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 14
    The Workers’ Train
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:22
  • 15
    The Worker’s Train (Breakdown)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 16
    Run, Little Rabbit (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    4:30
  • 17
    Run, Little Rabbit
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 18
    Are You All Reet? (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 19
    Are You All Reet?
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 20
    Special Delivery (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 21
    Special Delivery (alternate take)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 22
    Special Delivery
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:01
  • 23
    Take the “A” Train
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:08
    5.0 ★
  • 24
    Hey Doc!
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    3:19
  • 25
    My Coo‐Coo Bird (Could Swing)
    Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    2:47

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Release credits

  • alto saxophone [23], baritone saxophone [18, 23], reeds [6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 4.12-14, 4.16-24, 3.10-15, 3.22-23, 5.1, 5.22-25], saxophone [6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.20-21, 6.21, 6.25, 7.5, 7.8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.24-25]
  • arranger [21, 23, 25]
  • tenor saxophone [3]
  • alto saxophone [3], arranger [3]
  • piano [6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 5.1, 5.22-25, 4.12-14, 4.16-24, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24, 3.10-16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23], vibraphone [17], vocal [19]
  • clarinet [1-2, 5-7]
  • arranger [25]
  • conductor [6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.21, 6.25, 7.5, 7.8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.24], lead vocals [18, 25], vocal [3.10-13, 5.1, 5.23, 5.25, 7.3, 7.5, 7.7-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.24-25, 6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.20-21, 6.25, 4.14, 4.16, 4.18-22, 4.24]
  • performing orchestra [6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.21, 6.25, 7.5, 7.8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.24]
  • arranger [2]
  • electric guitar [3]
  • reeds [5.1, 5.22-25, 4.16-24, 6.2, 6.9-11]
  • trombone [5.1, 5.22-25, 3.10-15, 3.22-23, 4.12-14, 4.16-24, 6.2, 6.9-11]
  • piano [3]
  • tenor saxophone [3]
  • double bass [3, 5], drums (drum set) [3.1-2, 3.5-7, 5.1, 5.22-25, 6.2-3, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25]
  • guitar [6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 3.16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 4.12-14, 4.16-24, 5.1, 5.22-25]
  • trombone [5.1, 5.22-25, 6.2, 6.9-11, 3.10-15, 3.22-23, 4.12-14, 4.16-24]
  • trumpet [6.2-3, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25]
  • reeds [4.12-14, 3.10-15, 3.22-23]
  • trombone [1-2, 5-7]
  • alto saxophone [7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25], reeds [13, 15, 17-18]
  • piano [1-2, 5-7]
  • trumpet [1-2, 5-7], vocal [1, 5]
  • trumpet [4.12-14, 4.16-24, 3.10-16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23, 5.1, 5.22-25]
  • double bass [1-2, 5-7]
  • alto saxophone [18, 23], reeds [6.13, 6.15, 6.17, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.21, 6.25, 7.3, 7.5, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25]
  • trumpet [22, 24-25]
  • trombone [5.1, 5.22-25, 6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 4.12-14, 4.16-24, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 3.10-16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23]
  • trumpet [5.1, 5.22-25, 6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 3.10-15, 3.22-23, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 4.12-14, 4.16-24]
  • guitar [1-2, 5-7]
  • tenor saxophone [3.1-2, 3.5-7, 3.10-16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23, 5.1, 5.22-25, 6.2-3, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 4.12-14, 4.16-24]
  • drums (drum set) [4.12-14, 4.16-24, 3.10-16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23]
  • vibraphone [3]
  • performing orchestra [3]
  • trumpet [5.22-25, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25]
  • double bass [3.10-16, 3.16, 3.18-20, 3.22-23, 5.1, 5.22-25, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 4.12-14, 4.16-24, 6.2-3, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25]
  • guitar [10-15]
  • trombone [7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25]
  • trumpet [4.12-14, 4.16-24, 3.10-15, 3.22-23, 5.1]
  • trombone [7.3, 7.5-7, 7.22, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25], vocal [24]
  • tenor saxophone [6.2, 6.9-11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17-18, 6.20-21, 6.23, 6.25, 5.1, 5.22-25, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.13-14, 7.19, 7.22, 7.24-25, 3.10-15, 3.22-23, 4.12-14, 4.16-24]

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