Breakin' The Ice: The Early Years, Part 1 (1934-1935)

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid
  3:21
• 2
  I Wish I Were Twins
  2:40
• 3
  Armful o’ Sweetness
  3:02
• 4
  Do Me a Favor
  3:10
• 5
  Georgia May
  2:36
• 6
  Then I’ll Be Tired of You
  3:09
• 7
  Don’t Let It Bother You
  2:50
• 8
  Have a Little Dream on Me
  2:45
• 9
  Serenade for a Wealthy Widow (instrumental)
  2:37
• 10
  How Can You Face Me?
  2:46
• 11
  Sweetie Pie
  3:04
• 12
  Mandy
  2:30
• 13
  Let's Pretend There’s a Moon
  3:27
• 14
  You’re Not the Only Oyster in the Stew
  3:12
• 15
  Honeysuckle Rose
  2:38
• 16
  Believe It, Beloved
  2:40
• 17
  Dream Man (Make Me Dream Some More)
  2:58
• 18
  I’m Growing Fonder of You
  3:19
• 19
  If It Isn’t Love
  2:54
• 20
  Breakin’ the Ice
  3:16
• 21
  I’m a Hundred Percent for You
  3:06
• 22
  I’m a Hundred Percent for You (instrumental)
  3:03
• CD 2
• 1
  Baby Brown
  3:13
• 2
  Baby Brown (instrumental)
  2:33
• 3
  Night Wind
  3:21
• 4
  Because of Once Upon a Time
  3:13
• 5
  I Believe in Miracles
  2:54
• 6
  You Fit Into the Picture
  2:28
• 7
  Louisiana Fairy Tale
  3:27
• 8
  I Ain’t Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)
  2:49
• 9
  I Ain’t Got Nobody (instrumental)
  2:50
• 10
  Whose Honey Are You?
  2:37
• 11
  Whose Honey Are You? (instrumental)
  3:07
• 12
  Rosetta
  2:59
• 13
  Rosetta (instrumental)
  2:48
• 14
  Pardon My Love
  3:05
• 15
  What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasin’ You)
  2:50
• 16
  What’s the Reason (instrumental)
  2:48
• 17
  Cinders
  2:59
• 18
  (Oh Suzannah) Dust Off That Old Pianna
  2:33
• 19
  Lulu’s Back in Town
  2:36
• 20
  Sweet and Slow
  3:31
• 21
  You’ve Been Taking Lessons in Love (From Somebody New)
  3:07
• 22
  You’re the Cutest One
  3:21

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Release credits

• Al Casey
  guitar
• Ben Whitted
  alto saxophone [3], clarinet [1-4]
• Bill Coleman
  trumpet [1.15-22, 2.1-6]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [1-15, 15-20]
• Charles Turner
  double bass [1.21-22, 2.1-22]
• Fats Waller
  additional [7], celesta [11-13, 16-18], organ [3, 5], piano [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-22, 1.1-22], spoken vocals [7, 9], vocal [2.1, 2.3-8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14-15, 2.17-22, 1.1-8, 1.10-21]
• Floyd O'Brien
  trombone [9-14]
• Gene Sedric
  clarinet [2.5-6, 1.15-19], reeds [2.1, 1.21], tenor saxophone [2.1-5, 1.5-8, 1.19-22]
• Harry Dial
  additional [7], drums (drum set), spoken vocals [7], vibraphone [1, 9, 18]
• Herman Autrey
  trumpet [2.7-22, 1.1-14]
• Mezz Mezzrow
  alto saxophone [9-14], clarinet [9-14]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [8-22], clarinet [7-22], reeds [8, 20-21]

Issues

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  Breakin' The Ice: The Early Years, Part 1 (1934-1935)

  2x CD
  13 June 1995