If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Honeysuckle Rose
  2:42
• 2
  How Can You Face Me
  2:48
• 3
  The Panic Is On
  3:16
• 4
  Sugar Rose
  3:11
• 5
  I’m Crazy ’bout My Baby
  2:18
• 6
  Lost Love
  3:07
• 7
  Our Love Was Meant to Be
  3:31
• 8
  The Joint Is Jumpin’
  2:49
• 9
  A Hopeless Love Affair
  3:14
• 10
  Hold My Hand
  2:58
• 11
  Patty Cake, Patty Cake
  3:17
• 12
  Honey Hush
  3:20
• 13
  Anita
  3:14
• 14
  Squeeze Me
  3:09
• 15
  Old Grand Dad
  2:46
• 16
  All That Meat and No Potatoes
  2:47
• 17
  Ain’t Nothing to It
  3:12
• 18
  Bessie, Bessie, Bessie
  3:01
• 19
  Cash for Your Trash
  3:24
• 20
  You Must Be Losing Your Mind
  2:33
• 21
  Up Jumped You With Love
  3:20
• 22
  Ain’t Misbehavin’
  3:57
• CD 2
• 1
  St. Louis Blues
  2:53
• 2
  ’Sippi
  3:05
• 3
  Thou Swell
  3:00
• 4
  Numb Fumblin’
  2:53
• 5
  Ain’t Misbehavin’
  3:02
• 6
  Love Me or Leave Me
  2:40
• 7
  Smashin’ Thirds
  3:06
• 8
  My Fate Is in Your Hands
  2:42
• 9
  African Ripples
  3:10
• 10
  Viper’s Drag
  2:58
• 11
  Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now
  3:14
• 12
  Stardust
  3:14
• 13
  Carolina Shout
  2:38
• 14
  Serenade for a Wealthy Widow
  2:39
• 15
  Rosetta
  2:48
• 16
  Functionizin’
  3:07
• 17
  Loungin’ at the Waldorf
  2:57
• 18
  Blue Turnin’ Grey Over You
  4:24
• 19
  In the Gloamin’
  3:23
• 20
  Mamacita
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 21
  The Jitterbug Waltz
  3:23
• 22
  Honeysuckle Rose
  3:08
• CD 3
• 1
  (I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead) You Rascal You
  3:14
• 2
  You’re Not the Only Oyster in the Stew
  3:12
• 3
  What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasin’ You)
  2:51
• 4
  Lulu’s Back in Town
  2:37
• 5
  I’m Going to Sit Myself Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
  3:31
• 6
  Dinah
  3:08
• 7
  There’ll Be Some Changes Made
  3:08
• 8
  Somebody Stole My Gal
  3:29
• 9
  Christopher Columbus
  2:51
• 10
  It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
  2:55
• 11
  She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific
  2:38
• 12
  The Sheik of Araby
  3:08
• 13
  Two Sleepy People
  3:05
• 14
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  3:05
• 15
  Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
  2:06
• 16
  ’Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)
  2:51
• 17
  Your Feet’s Too Big
  3:06
• 18
  Darktown Strutters Ball
  2:43
• 19
  I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
  2:58
• 20
  You Run Your Mouth, I’ll Run My Business
  3:04
• 21
  Let’s Get Away From It All
  3:02
• 22
  ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
  2:59

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Release credits

• Adrian Rollini
  bass saxophone [1]
• Al Casey
  guitar [1.1-2, 1.5-11, 1.16-21, 2.14-15, 2.17, 2.19-21, 3.2-5, 3.9-16, 3.21-22], trumpet [16]
• Alton Moore
  trombone [22]
• Arnold Boling
  drums (drum set) [6-10]
• Arthur Trappier
  drums (drum set) [2.21, 1.19-21]
• Artie Bernstein
  double bass [1]
• Benny Carter
  trumpet [22]
• Benny Morton
  trombone [16]
• Bill Coleman
  trumpet [1]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [1.1, 1.1-2, 2.14, 3.2]
• Bob Carroll
  tenor saxophone [1.17, 1.20, 2.16, 2.21]
• Bunny Berigan
  trumpet [22]
• Cedric Wallace
  double bass [1.10-21, 2.19-21, 3.12-22]
• Charles Turner
  double bass [3.3-11, 1.3-8, 1.8-9, 2.15-17]
• Charlie Teagarden
  trumpet [1]
• Chauncey Graham
  tenor saxophone [12-13]
• Dave McRae
  alto saxophone [17]
• Dick McDonough
  guitar [22]
• Ed Anderson
  trumpet [16]
• Emmett Matthews
  reeds [16], soprano saxophone [16]
• Fats Waller
  Hammond organ [2.20-21, 3.21], celesta [2.15, 1.4], lead vocals [5], piano [1.1-22, 1.22, 3.1-20, 3.22, 2.4-17, 2.19, 2.21-22], pipe organ [1-3], solo [10-11, 13], spoken vocals [14], vocal [2.20, 3.1-22, 1.1-22]
• Fats Waller and His Rhythm
  performer [5], performing orchestra [12]
• Floyd O'Brien
  trombone [1.2, 2.14, 3.2]
• Fred Robinson
  trombone [16]
• Fred Skerritt
  alto saxophone [3.12, 2.19, 1.10], reeds [16]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [2-3]
• Gene Porter
  reeds [22]
• Gene Sedric
  clarinet [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.8, 1.21, 2.17], reeds [3.9-11, 3.13-22, 1.3-9, 1.11, 1.14-16, 1.18-20, 2.16-17, 2.20-21], saxophone [8], tenor saxophone [1.3-5, 1.10, 1.17, 1.21, 2.16, 2.19, 3.12]
• George James
  alto saxophone [2.21, 1.20], reeds [16]
• George Robinson
  trombone [1.10, 2.19, 3.12]
• George Wettling
  drums (drum set) [22]
• George Wilson
  trombone [2.21, 1.17, 1.20]
• Hank Duncan
  piano [16]
• Harry Dial
  drums (drum set) [3.2-5, 2.14-15, 1.1-2], vibraphone [14]
• Herb Flemming
  trombone [1.20, 2.21]
• Herman Autrey
  trumpet [3.2-10, 3.12-16, 1.2-13, 1.17, 1.19-20, 2.14-17, 2.19, 2.21]
• Irving Ashby
  guitar [22]
• Jabbo Smith
  cornet [2-3]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [1], vocal [1]
• Jackie Fields
  alto saxophone [2.21, 1.20]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [2-3]
• James Smith
  guitar [3.6-8, 1.3-4, 2.16]
• Jimmy Powell
  alto saxophone [1.10, 1.17, 3.12, 2.19]
• Joe Catalyne
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Joe Thomas
  trumpet [2.21, 1.20]
• John Hamilton
  trumpet [1.10, 1.14-18, 1.20-21, 2.19-21, 3.12, 3.17-22]
• John Haughton
  trombone [1.10, 2.19, 3.12]
• John Smith
  guitar [1.12-15, 3.17-20]
• Larry Hinton
  drums (drum set) [12-13]
• Lawrence Fields
  alto saxophone [21]
• Lonnie Simmons
  tenor saxophone [1.10, 3.12, 2.19]
• Max Farley
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Mezz Mezzrow
  alto saxophone [2.14, 3.2, 1.2], clarinet [1.2, 2.14, 3.2]
• Nappy Lamare
  guitar [1]
• Nathaniel Williams
  trumpet [3.12, 1.10, 1.20, 2.19, 2.21]
• Pee Wee Russell
  clarinet [1]
• Raymond Hogan
  trombone [17]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [3.3-8, 2.15], clarinet [2.15, 3.3-8], reeds [3.5, 2.16]
• Slam Stewart
  double bass [22]
• Slick Jones
  drums (drum set) [1.5-11, 1.14-18, 1.20, 3.11-22, 2.19-21], vibraphone [7]
• Slim Moore
  trombone [22]
• Stan King
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Sterling Bose
  trumpet [1]
• Tommy Dorsey
  trombone [22]
• Una Mae Carlisle
  vocal [19]
• William Allsop
  alto saxophone [1.10, 2.19, 3.12]
• Yank Porter
  drums (drum set) [2.16-17, 1.3-4]
• Zutty Singleton
  drums (drum set) [22]
• Show all credits (68)

Issues

• I
  (Combined release view)
• 

  I
  If You Got to Ask, You Ain’t Got It!

  3x Digital Media
  1926
• 

  I
  If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!

  3x CD
  2006
• T
  The Best of Fats Waller

  3x CD
  2008