The Chronological Classics: Count Basie, Volume 1: 1936-1941

Compilation by Count Basie

Released 2000

Tracklist

  • CD 1: 1936-1938
  • 1
    Shoe Shine Boy
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 2
    Evenin'
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 3
    Boogie Woogie
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:17
    3.0 ★
  • 4
    Oh! Lady Be Good
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 5
    Honeysuckle Rose
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 6
    Pennies From Heaven
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 7
    Swingin' at the Daisy Chain
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 8
    Roseland Shuffle
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:35
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    Exactly Like You
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 10
    Boo Hoo
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:29
  • 11
    The Glory of Love
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • 12
    Boogie Woogie
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 13
    Smarty
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 14
    One O'Clock Jump
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 15
    Listen My Children (and You Shall Hear)
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 16
    John's Idea
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 17
    Good Morning Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:15
  • 18
    Our Love Was Meant to Be
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 19
    Time Out
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 20
    Topsy
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 21
    I Keep Remembering
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 22
    Out the Window
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:48
  • 23
    Don't Miss Your Baby
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 24
    Let Me Dream
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 25
    Georgiana
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:41
  • CD 2: 1939
  • 1
    Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 2
    Dupree Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 3
    When the Sun Goes Down
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 4
    Red Wagon
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • 5
    You Can Depend on Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 6
    Cherokee, Part 1
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 7
    Cherokee, Part 2
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 8
    Blame It on My Last Affair
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:42
  • 9
    Jive at Five
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 10
    Thursday
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 11
    Evil Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:12
  • 12
    Oh! Lady, Be Good
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 13
    I Ain't Got Nobody
    Basie’s Bad Boys
    2:53
  • 14
    Going to Chicago
    Basie’s Bad Boys
    3:04
  • 15
    Live and Love Tonight
    Basie’s Bad Boys
    3:03
  • 16
    Love Me or Leave Me
    Basie’s Bad Boys
    2:29
  • 17
    What Goes Up Must Come Down
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 18
    Rock-A-Bye Basie
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 19
    Baby, Don't Tell on Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 20
    If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 21
    Taxi War Dance
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 22
    Don't Worry About Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 23
    Jump for Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • CD 3: 1939, Volume 2
  • 1
    And the Angels Sing
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 2
    If I Didn't Care
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 3
    Twelfth Street Rag
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 4
    Miss Thing, Part 1
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 5
    Miss Thing, Part 2
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 6
    Lonesome Miss Pretty
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • 7
    Bolero at the Savoy
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 8
    Nobody Knows
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:48
  • 9
    Pound Cake
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 10
    You Can Count on Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 11
    You and Your Love
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 12
    How Long Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 13
    Sub-Deb Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 14
    Moonlight Serenade
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 15
    Song of the Islands
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 16
    I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 17
    Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:31
  • 18
    Dickie's Dream
    Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven
    3:11
  • 19
    Lester Leaps In
    Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven
    3:14
  • 20
    The Apple Jump
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 21
    I Left My Baby
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 22
    Riff Interlude
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 23
    Volcano
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 24
    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • CD 4: 1939-1940
  • 1
    Ham 'n' Eggs
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 2
    Hollywood Jump
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:36
  • 3
    Someday Sweatheart
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 4
    I Never Knew
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:41
  • 5
    Tickle Toe
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:40
  • 6
    Let's Make Hey! While the Sun Shines
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 7
    Louisiana
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:27
  • 8
    Easy Does It
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:28
  • 9
    Let Me See
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 10
    Blues (I Still Think of Her)
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:48
  • 11
    Somebody Stole My Gal
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 12
    Blow Top
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 13
    Gone With "What" Wind
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:48
  • 14
    Super Chief
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:25
  • 15
    You Can't Run Around
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 16
    Evenin'
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:40
  • 17
    The World Is Mad, Part 1
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:37
  • 18
    The World Is Mad, Part 2
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 19
    Moten Swing
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:21
  • 20
    It's Torture
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 21
    I Want a Little Girl
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:41
  • 22
    All or Nothing at All
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 23
    The Moon Fell in the River
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 24
    What's Your Number?
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 25
    Draftin' Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:27
  • CD 5: 1940-1941
  • 1
    Five O'Clock Whistle
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 2
    Love Jumped Out
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 3
    My Wanderin' Man
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 4
    Broadway
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 5
    It's the Same Old South
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 6
    Stampede in G Minor
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 7
    Who Am I?
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 8
    Rockin' the Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 9
    It's Square but It Rocks
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:29
  • 10
    I'll Forget
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 11
    You Lied to Me
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 12
    Wiggle Woogie
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:40
  • 13
    Beau Brummel
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 14
    Music Makers
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 15
    Jump the Blues Away
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 16
    Deep in the Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 17
    The Jitters
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • 18
    Tuesday at Ten
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 19
    Undecided Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 20
    I Do Mean You
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:48
  • 21
    9:20 Special
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 22
    H and J
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 23
    Feedin' the Bean
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 24
    Goin' to Chicago Blues
    Count Basie and His Orchestra
    3:20

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Release credits

  • trumpet [5.1-24, 4.4-7, 4.12-25]
  • arranger [3.21, 4.4-5]
  • trombone [2.6-8, 2.10-12, 2.21, 3.1-17, 3.20-24, 4.1-3, 4.5, 1.17-19, 1.21-25]
  • trumpet [9-24]
  • arranger [5.2, 2.10], trumpet [5.1-24, 1.5-25, 2.9-23, 3.1-24, 4.1-7, 4.12-25]
  • tenor saxophone [3.1-17, 3.20-24, 2.18-23, 4.1-3, 4.5-7, 4.12-25, 5.1, 5.3-24]
  • arranger [14]
  • trumpet [1-8]
  • alto saxophone [5-12]
  • guitar [5-8]
  • tenor saxophone [21, 23]
  • conductor [3.19, 3.21, 4.5], organ [14-15], piano [4.1-25, 2.1-4, 2.6-13, 2.16-23, 5.1-24, 1.1, 1.1-3, 1.3-25, 3.1-5, 3.7-8, 3.10-13, 3.15, 3.17-24], piano accordion [19]
  • trombone [4.1-7, 4.12-25, 5.1-24, 1.5-25, 3.1-17, 3.20-24, 2.6-8, 2.10-23]
  • trombone [3.1-24, 4.1-7, 4.12-25, 5.1-24, 2.6-12, 2.17-23]
  • tenor saxophone [14-24]
  • arranger [6, 9, 15]
  • alto saxophone [1.13-16, 1.18, 1.20-25, 4.1-7, 4.12-25, 2.6-8, 2.10-12, 2.17-21, 3.1-17, 3.20-24, 5.1-24], baritone saxophone [14], clarinet [14], tenor saxophone [22-23], vocal [18, 24]
  • trombone [14-24]
  • trumpet [3.1-17, 3.20-24, 1.9-25, 4.1-7, 4.12-25, 5.1-24, 2.6-8, 2.10, 2.17-23]
  • arranger [14, 16, 20-25], electric guitar [14, 20], guitar [18, 20-25], trombone [14, 18, 20-25]
  • arranger [5, 8, 10-11]
  • guitar [3.1-24, 2.1-16, 2.18-23, 4.1-25, 5.1-24, 1.9-25]
  • trombone [5-16, 18, 20]
  • trumpet [2.6-12, 2.17-23, 4.1-25, 5.1-24, 3.1-17, 3.20-24]
  • vocal [3.1-2, 3.7, 3.10-11, 3.13-14, 3.24, 4.3, 4.10, 4.22-23, 2.8, 2.10, 2.20, 2.22, 5.3, 5.7, 5.9-11, 5.16]
  • clarinet [5-16, 16, 18, 20-25], tenor saxophone [5-16, 18, 20, 20-25]
  • alto saxophone [2.10, 2.21, 1.5-16, 1.18, 1.20-25, 4.4-5, 4.5, 3.3, 3.17, 3.21, 5.2], baritone saxophone [3.3, 3.7, 3.10-13, 3.17, 3.21, 2.10, 2.21, 5.1-24, 4.1-5, 4.5-25, 1.5-16, 1.18, 1.20-25], reeds [6-9, 11-12, 17-23], saxophone [1-6, 8-17, 20-24]
  • arranger [17]
  • vocal [2.5, 2.11, 2.14, 2.17, 2.19, 1.2-3, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.17, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25, 5.5, 5.19, 5.24, 4.11, 4.15, 4.21, 4.25, 3.8, 3.12, 3.16, 3.21]
  • drums (drum set) [4.1-25, 1.1, 1.1-3, 1.3-25, 2.1-16, 2.18-23, 3.1-24, 5.1-24]
  • trumpet [5-8]
  • producer [1.4, 4.5, 3.19, 3.21]
  • trumpet [25]
  • tenor saxophone [4.5, 2.6-8, 2.10-12]
  • clarinet [1.4-16, 1.16, 1.18, 1.20-25, 3.18-19, 3.19], tenor saxophone [2.5-16, 2.18-23, 4.1-7, 4.12-25, 1.1, 1.1-3, 1.3-16, 1.18, 1.20, 1.20-25, 3.1-19, 3.19-24, 5.1-4]
  • arranger [13, 18]
  • tenor saxophone [5-13]
  • trumpet [4.1-3, 4.5, 2.5-23, 3.1-17, 3.20-24]
  • alto saxophone [2, 21, 23], saxophone [4.12-15, 5.1, 5.3-20, 5.22, 5.24]
  • performing orchestra [3.3, 3.18-19, 5.2, 1.5, 1.7-8, 1.20]
  • trombone [5.1-13, 4.4-7, 4.12-25]
  • double bass [5.1-24, 1.1, 1.1-3, 1.3-4, 1.4-12, 1.12-14, 1.14-25, 2.1-16, 2.18-23, 3.1-19, 3.19-21, 3.21-24, 4.1-5, 4.5, 4.5-25]

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