The Classic Sessions 1928-1949

Compilation by Eddie Condon

Released 2001

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Makin' Friends
  • 1
    Sugar
    McKenzie and Condon’s Chicagoans
    3:14
  • 2
    China Boy
    McKenzie and Condon’s Chicagoans
    2:50
  • 3
    Nobody's Sweetheart
    McKenzie and Condon’s Chicagoans
    3:14
  • 4
    Liza
    McKenzie and Condon’s Chicagoans
    3:09
  • 5
    Friars Point Shuffle
    Jungle Kings
    2:54
  • 6
    Darktown Strutters Ball
    Jungle Kings
    2:33
  • 7
    There'll Be Some Changes Made
    Chicago Rhythm Kings
    2:59
  • 8
    I Found a New Baby
    Chicago Rhythm Kings
    3:14
  • 9
    Jazz Me Blues
    Frank Teschemacher’s Chicagoans
    2:43
  • 10
    Oh! Baby
    Eddie Condon's Quartet
    2:58
  • 11
    Indiana
    Eddie Condon's Quartet
    2:57
  • 12
    Makin' Friends
    Eddie Condon and His Footwarmers
    3:04
  • 13
    I'm Gonna Stomp Mr Henry Lee
    Eddie's Hot Shots
    3:34
  • 14
    That's a Serious Thing
    Eddie's Hot Shots
    3:32
  • 15
    Minor Drag
    Fats Waller and His Buddies
    2:45
  • 16
    Indiana
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    2:53
  • 17
    Tailspin Blues
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:05
  • 18
    I Need Someone Like You
    Fats Waller and His Buddies
    3:38
  • 19
    Hello Lola
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:17
  • 20
    One Hour
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:30
  • 21
    Girls Like You Were Meant for Boys Like Me
    McKenzie's Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:04
  • 22
    I Can't Believe You're in Love With Me
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:14
  • 23
    You Rascal, You
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:03
  • 24
    Georgia
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:23
  • 25
    Darktown Strutters Ball
    Mound City Blue Blowers
    3:31
  • CD 2: Let's Swing It
  • 1
    Bugle Call Rag
    Billy Banks and His Orchestra
    2:48
  • 2
    Oh! Peter
    Billy Banks and His Orchestra
    3:05
  • 3
    Yes Suh!
    The Rhythmakers
    2:47
  • 4
    Who Stole the Lock
    Jack Bland and His Rhythmakers
    2:41
  • 5
    A Shine on Your Shoes
    Jack Bland and His Rhythmakers
    3:02
  • 6
    Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn
    Jack Bland and His Rhythmakers
    3:06
  • 7
    The Eel
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 8
    Tennessee Twilight
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:01
  • 9
    Madame Dynamite
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 10
    Home Cooking
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 11
    The Eel
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 12
    Home Cooking
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 13
    Murder in the Moonlight
    Red McKenzie & His Rhythm Kings
    2:55
  • 14
    Let's Swing It
    Red McKenzie & His Rhythm Kings
    2:59
  • 15
    Double Trouble
    Red McKenzie & His Rhythm Kings
    2:35
  • 16
    That's What You Think
    Red McKenzie & His Rhythm Kings
    2:42
  • 17
    Every Now and Then
    Red McKenzie & His Rhythm Kings
    3:13
  • 18
    What Is There to Say?
    Bud Freeman and His Windy City Five
    3:25
  • 19
    Keep Smilin' at Trouble
    Bud Freeman and His Windy City Five
    3:07
  • 20
    I Can't Get Started
    Bunny Berigan and His Boys
    3:28
  • 21
    Sweet Thing
    Dick Porter and His Orchestra
    2:49
  • 22
    Easy to Love
    Putney Dandridge and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 23
    Old Fashioned Swing
    Sharkey Bonano
    2:44
  • 24
    Wolverine Blues
    Joe Marsala and His Chicagoans
    2:53
  • 25
    Jazz Me Blues
    Joe Marsala and His Chicagoans
    2:55
  • CD 3: Tappin' the Commodore Till
  • 1
    Embraceable You
    Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven
    4:11
  • 2
    Tappin' the Commodore Till
    Bud Freeman and His Gang
    2:47
  • 3
    "Life" Spears a Jitterbug
    Bud Freeman and His Gang
    2:55
  • 4
    What' the Use?
    Bud Freeman and His Gang
    3:21
  • 5
    I Found a New Baby
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:42
  • 6
    Easy to Get
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:50
  • 7
    China Boy
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:44
  • 8
    As Long as I Live
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:31
  • 9
    The Sail Fish
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:32
  • 10
    Sunday
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    3:05
  • 11
    Satanic Blues
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    3:14
  • 12
    Oh! Baby
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    3:00
  • 13
    I Need Some Pettin'
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:42
  • 14
    Susie
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    3:01
  • 15
    Big Boy
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:44
  • 16
    Let There Be Love
    Doris Rhodes
    3:15
  • 17
    Sensation
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:51
  • 18
    Fidgety Feet
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:52
  • 19
    Tijuana
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:41
  • 20
    Copenhagen
    Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
    2:44
  • 21
    Prince of Wails
    Bud Freeman and his Famous Chicagoans
    2:34
  • 22
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1)
    Max Kaminsky, Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole, Brad Gowans, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman, Jess Stacy, Eddie Condon, Artie Shapiro & George Wettling
    4:21
  • 23
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find (2)
    Max Kaminsky, Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole, Brad Gowans, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Artie Shapiro & George Wettling
    4:14
  • 24
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find (3)
    Max Kaminsky, Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole, Brad Gowans, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman, Jess Stacy, Eddie Condon, Artie Shapiro & George Wettling
    4:01
  • 25
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find (4)
    Max Kaminsky, Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole, Brad Gowans, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman, Jess Stacy, Eddie Condon, Artie Shapiro & George Wettling
  • CD 4: We Called It Music
  • 1
    Don’t Leave Me Daddy
    Eddie Condon and His Band
    2:38
  • 2
    Georgia Cake Walk
    Art Hodes & His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 3
    Liberty Inn Drag
    Art Hodes & His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 4
    Indiana
    Art Hodes & His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 5
    Get Happy
    Art Hodes & His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 6
    Oh, Katharina
    Eddie Condon and His Band
    4:24
  • 7
    Uncle Sam’s Blues
    Eddie Condon and His Town Hall Jazz Band
    7:25
  • 8
    How Come You Do Me?
    Miff Mole and His Dixieland Jazz Band
    2:52
  • 9
    Clarinet Marmalade
    Joe Marsala's All Timers
    2:46
  • 10
    Joe’s Blues
    Joe Marsala's All Timers
    2:57
  • 11
    Village Blues
    Joe Marsala's All Timers
    2:53
  • 12
    Tiger Rag
    Joe Marsala's All Timers
    2:56
  • 13
    Peg O’ My Heart
    Miff Mole & His Nicksieland Band
    4:37
  • 14
    Cherry
    Eddie Condon and His Town Hall Jazz Band
    2:49
  • 15
    Ballin’ the Jack
    Eddie Condon and His Town Hall Jazz Band
    2:19
  • 16
    Jada
    Eddie Condon and His Town Hall Jazz Band
    2:53
  • 17
    When Your Lover Has Gone
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:30
  • 18
    Wherever There’s Love
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:06
  • 19
    Improvisation for March of Time
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:06
  • 20
    Just You, Just Me
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    2:37
  • 21
    Atlanta Blues
    Eddie Condon and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 22
    Keep on-a-Rainin’
    Billie Holiday, Horace Henderson & Eddie Condon
    3:21
  • 23
    We Called It Music
    Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon, Jack Lesberg & George Wettling
    5:12

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