The Early Years, Part 1

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I’ll Chase the Blues Away

  Chick Webb and His Orchestra
  2:33
• 2
  Love and Kisses

  Chick Webb and His Orchestra
  3:18
• 3
  Rhythm and Romance

  Chick Webb and His Orchestra
  3:05
• 4
  Under the Spell of the Blues

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:59
• 5
  When I Get Low I Get High

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:26
• 6
  Sing Me a Swing Song (and Let Me Dance)

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:36
• 7
  A Little Bit Later On

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  3:03
• 8
  Love, You’re Just a Laugh

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  3:10
• 9
  You’ll Have to Swing It (“Mr. Paganini”)

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:55
• 10
  Vote for Mr. Rhythm

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:27
• 11
  My Last Affair

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:44
• 12
  Organ Grinder’s Swing

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:50
• 13
  Shine

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:51
• 14
  Darktown Strutters’ Ball

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  3:03
• 15
  Take Another Guess

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:43
• 16
  You Showed Me the Way

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  3:19
• 17
  Cryin’ Mood

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:38
• 18
  If You Ever Should Leave

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  3:05
• 19
  Everyone’s Wrong but Me

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  3:04
• 20
  Just a Simple Melody

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  2:58
• 21
  I Got a Guy

  Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb
  3:18
• CD 2
• 1
  Rock It for Me
  3:09
• 2
  I Want to Be Happy
  4:31
• 3
  The Dipsy Doodle
  3:10
• 4
  If Dreams Come True
  2:35
• 5
  Hallelujah!
  4:05
• 6
  Bei mir bist Du schoen

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  3:03
• 7
  It’s My Turn Now

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:55
• 8
  It’s Wonderful

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:56
• 9
  I Was Doing All Right

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:54
• 10
  A‐Tisket, A‐Tasket
  2:39
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Heart of Mine
  2:54
• 12
  I’m Just a Jitterbug
  3:16
• 13
  You Can’t Be Mine (and Someone Else’s, Too)

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:58
• 14
  If You Only Knew

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:45
• 15
  Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
  2:55
• 16
  McPherson Is Rehearsin’ (to Swing)
  3:07
• 17
  Everybody Step
  2:43
• 18
  Wacky Dust
  3:02
• 19
  Strictly From Dixie

  Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
  2:47
• 20
  F.D.R. Jones
  2:52
• 21
  It’s Foxy
  2:59
• 22
  I Found My Yellow Basket
  2:33

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Release credits

• Beverly Peer
  double bass [2.1-12, 2.14-22, 1.9-14, 1.16-21]
• Bill Thomas
  double bass [3-8]
• Bobby Johnson
  guitar [1.18-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-22]
• Bobby Stark
  trumpet [2.1-5, 2.10-12, 2.15-18, 2.20-22, 1.1-10, 1.16-17, 1.20-21]
• Chauncey Haughton
  reeds [2.1, 1.20-21]
• Chick Webb
  conductor [1-3], drums (drum set) [1.1-14, 1.16-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-22]
• Chick Webb and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2.3, 2.10-12, 1.6-8]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [1-5]
• Dick Vance
  trumpet [20-22]
• Don Kirkpatrick
  piano [8]
• Edgar Sampson
  alto saxophone [1-8]
• Ella Fitzgerald
  vocal [1.1-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-22]
• Elmer Williams
  tenor saxophone [1-5]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [2-5, 10-12, 15-18, 20-22]
• George Matthews
  trombone [10-12, 15-18, 20-22]
• Hilton Jefferson
  alto saxophone [15-22]
• Joe Steele
  piano [1-7]
• John Kirby
  double bass [1-2]
• John Trueheart
  guitar [1-14, 16-17]
• Louis Jordan
  alto saxophone [1.9-10, 1.15-21, 2.1-12, 2.14]
• Mario Bauzá
  trumpet [1.1-10, 1.16-17, 1.20-21, 2.1-5, 2.10-12, 2.15-18]
• Nat Story
  trombone [1.6-10, 1.16-17, 1.20-21, 2.1-5, 2.10-12, 2.15-18, 2.20-22]
• Pete Clark
  alto saxophone [1-3], clarinet [11-14], reeds [4-10, 12, 15-17]
• Sandy Williams
  trombone [1.1-14, 1.16-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-22]
• Taft Jordan
  trumpet [2.1-3, 2.3-12, 2.14-22, 1.1-14, 1.16-21]
• Teddy McRae
  reeds [13-14, 18-19], tenor saxophone [1.6-12, 1.16-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-22]
• Tommy Fulford
  piano [1.9-21, 2.1-12, 2.14-22]
• Wayman Carver
  baritone saxophone [9-10], tenor saxophone [1.6-8, 1.20-21, 2.1, 2.3, 2.10-12, 2.20-22], woodwind [3-8, 15-17]
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Issues

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  (Combined release view)
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  The Early Years, Part 1

  2x CD
  1992
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  The Early Years, Part 1

  2x CD
  12 August 1997