Portrait, Volume 1 - Fats Waller

Portrait, Volume 1

Compilation by Fats Waller

Released 6 March 2003

Tracklist

CD 1: Fats Waller Stomp
1
Muscle Shoals Blues
3:17
2
Birmingham Blues
3:00
3
St. Louis Blues
2:52
4
Lennox Avenue Blues
2:36
5
Soothin’ Syrup Stomp
2:53
6
Sloppy Water Blues
3:02
7
Loveless Love
3:05
8
Messin’ Around With the Blues
3:00
9
Rusty Pail
3:01
10
Stompin’ the Bug
3:13
11
Hog Maw Stomp
3:05
12
Blue Black Bottom
2:53
13
Sugar (instrumental)
3:01
14
Sugar (vocal)
3:16
15
Beale Street Blues (vocal)
3:14
16
Beale Street Blues (instrumental)
3:05
17
I’m Going to See My Ma
3:11
18
Fats Waller Stomp
3:21
19
Savannah Blues
2:55
20
Won’t You Take Me Home
2:41
CD 2: A Handful of Keys
1
He’s Gone Away
2:37
2
I Ain’t Got Nobody
3:06
3
The Digah’s Stomp
2:53
4
Red Hot Dan
3:17
5
Geechee
3:01
6
Please Take Me Out of Jail
2:46
7
Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
2:42
8
When You’re With Somebody Else
2:22
9
Willow Tree
3:24
10
’Sippi
3:13
11
Thou Swell
3:02
12
Persian Rug
3:33
13
Handful of Keys
2:46
14
The Minor Drag
2:39
15
Harlem Fuss
3:19
16
Numb Fumblin’
2:50
17
Ain’t Misbehavin’
3:02
18
Sweet Savannah Sue
3:01
19
I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling
2:49
20
Love Me or Leave Me
2:37
21
Gladyse
2:53
CD 3: Valentine Stomp
1
Valentine Stomp
3:14
2
Waiting at the End of the Road
3:22
3
Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be?
3:16
4
Waiting at the End of the Road
3:05
5
Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be?
2:53
6
Tanglefoot
3:06
7
That’s All
3:20
8
Goin’ About
3:08
9
My Feelin’s Are Hurt
3:04
10
Smashing Thirds
3:06
11
Lookin’ Good but Feelin’ Bad
2:32
12
I Need Someone Like You
3:29
13
Big Business, Part 1
3:39
14
Big Business, Part 2
3:07
15
My Fate Is in Your Hands
3:04
16
My Fate Is in Your Hands
2:41
17
Turn on the Heat
2:25
18
Lookin’ For Another Sweetie
3:03
19
Ridin’ But Walkin’
2:29
20
Won’t You Get Off It, Please?
2:59
21
When I’m Alone
3:26
CD 4: I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby
1
St. Louis Blues
3:00
2
After You’re Gone
3:23
3
Girls Like You Were Meant for Boys Like Me
2:56
4
Arkansas Blues
2:34
5
Egyptian Ella
3:17
6
I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby (And My Baby’s Crazy ’Bout Me)
3:04
7
Dallas Blues
3:18
8
Royal Garden Blues
3:01
9
I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby (And My Baby’s Crazy ’Bout Me)
3:20
10
Draggin’ My Heart Around
3:19
11
A Shine on Your Shoes
3:08
12
A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid
3:18
13
I Wish I Were Twins
2:39
14
Armful O’Sweetness
3:00
15
Do Me a Favor
3:10
16
Georgia May
2:33
17
Don’t Let It Bother You
2:50
18
Have a Little Dream on Me
2:49
19
Serenade for a Wealthy Widow
2:38
20
How Can You Face Me?
2:47
21
Sweetie Pie
3:03
CD 5: Honeysuckle Rose
1
Mandy
2:31
2
Let’s Pretend There’s a Moon
3:28
3
You’re Not the Only Oyster in the Stew
3:12
4
Honeysuckle Rose
2:39
5
Believe It, Beloved
2:42
6
Dream Man (Make Me Dream Some More)
2:58
7
I’m Growing Fonder of You
3:18
8
If It Isn’t Love
2:55
9
Breakin’ The Ice
3:18
10
African Ripples
3:18
11
Clothes Line Ballet
3:07
12
Alligator Crawl
2:42
13
Viper’s Drag
2:58
14
I’m a Hundred Percent for You (vocal)
3:05
15
I’m a Hundred Percent for You (instrumental)
3:03
16
Baby Brown (vocal)
3:12
17
Baby Brown (instrumental)
2:32
18
Night Wind
3:16
19
Because of Once Upon a Time
3:13
20
I Believe in Miracles
2:57
21
You Fit Into the Picture
2:25
CD 6: Sweet and Low
1
Louisiana Fairy Tale
3:26
2
I Ain’t Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me) (vocal)
3:00
3
I Ain’t Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me) (instrumental)
2:54
4
Whose Honey Are You? (vocal)
2:39
5
Whose Honey Are You? (instrumental)
3:12
6
Rosetta (vocal)
3:05
7
Rosetta (instrumental)
2:47
8
Pardon My Love
3:05
9
What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasin’ You) (vocal)
2:46
10
What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasin’ You) (instrumental)
2:47
11
Cinders
2:57
12
(Oh Suzannah) Dust Off That Old Pianna
2:32
13
Lulu’s Back in Town
2:36
14
Sweet and Slow
3:26
15
You’ve Been Taking Lessons in Love
3:06
16
You’re the Cutest One
3:16
17
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
3:30
18
I Hate to Talk About Myself
2:37
19
Dinah
3:05
20
Take It Easy
3:08
CD 7: Sugar Blues
1
You’re the Picture (I’m the Frame)
3:38
2
My Very Good Friend the Milkman
3:33
4.0 ★
3
Blue Because of You
2:56
4
There’s Going to Be the Devil to Pay
2:29
5
12th Street Rag
2:50
6
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
3:09
7
Somebody Stole My Gal
3:30
8
Sweet Sue
2:55
9
Truckin’
3:20
10
Sugar Blues
2:51
11
Just as Long as the World Goes ’round and ’Round (And I Go Around With You)
3:07
12
Georgia Rockin’ Chair
2:44
13
Brother, Seek and Ye Shall Find
2:51
14
The Girl I Left Behind Me
3:18
15
You’re So Darn Charming
2:46
16
Woe! Is Me
2:59
17
Rhythm and Romance
3:16
18
Loafin’ Time
2:30
19
(Do You Intend to Put an End To) A Sweet Beginning Like This
2:53
20
Got a Bran’ New Suit
2:37
21
I’m on a See‐Saw
3:04
22
Thief in the Night
2:50
CD 8: Functionizin’
1
When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful
3:37
2
I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed
2:38
3
Spreadin’ Rhythm Around
2:41
4
A Little Bit Independent
2:55
5
You Stayed Away Too Long
3:11
6
Sweet Thing
3:22
7
Fat and Greasy
3:09
8
Functionizin’
3:07
9
I Got Rhythm
3:10
10
The Panic Is On
3:14
11
Sugar Rose
3:09
12
Ooh! Look‐A‐There, Ain’t She Pretty?
2:32
13
Moon Rose
2:54
14
West Wind
3:34
15
That Never‐To‐Be‐Forgotten Night
3:12
16
Sing an Old Fashioned Song (To a Young Sophisticated Lady)
3:24
17
Garbo Green
2:59
18
All My Life
2:48
19
Christopher Columbus
2:53
20
Cross Patch
3:30
21
It’s No Fun
2:47
CD 9: Fractious Fingering
1
Cabin in the Sky
3:27
2
Us on a Bus
2:41
3
Stay
2:50
4
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
2:54
5
The More I Know You
2:21
6
You’re Not the Kind
3:07
7
Why Did I Lie to Myself About You?
2:51
8
Let’s Sing Again
2:19
9
Big Chief De Sota
2:53
10
Black Raspberry Jam
2:37
11
Bach Up to Me
2:39
12
Fractious Fingering
2:41
13
Paswonky
2:32
14
Lounging at the Waldorf
2:55
15
Latch On
3:04
16
I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby
2:17
17
I Just Made Up With That Old Girl of Mine
2:51
18
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
3:24
19
There Goes My Attraction
2:12
20
The Curse of an Aching Heart
2:29
21
Bye‐Bye‐Baby
2:18
CD 10: Havin’ A Ball
1
S’posin’
2:51
2
Copper Colored Gal
2:52
3
I’m at the Mercy of My Love
3:03
4
Floatin’ Down to Cotton Town
2:19
5
La‐De‐De, La‐De‐Da
3:01
6
Hallelujah! Things Look Rosy Now (vocal)
2:47
7
Hallelujah! Things Look Rosy Now (instrumental)
2:46
8
’Tain’t Good (Like a Nickel Made of Wood) (vocal)
2:29
9
’Tain’t Good (Like a Nickel Made of Wood) (instrumental)
2:29
10
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells (vocal)
3:01
11
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells (instrumental)
3:00
12
A Thousand Dreams of You (vocal)
2:58
13
A Thousand Dreams of You (instrumental)
3:02
14
A Rhyme of Love
2:40
15
I Adore You
2:47
16
Havin’ A Ball
2:59
17
I’m Sorry I Made You Cry
2:47
18
Who’s Afraid of Love?
2:56
19
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
2:33
20
One in a Million
2:43
21
Nero
2:39

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Release credits

Al Casey
guitar [9.1-21, 5.1-9, 5.14-21, 10.1-21, 8.18-21, 6.1-18, 4.12-21]
Albert Nicholas
alto saxophone [11-12], clarinet [20], reeds [18-21]
Alberta Hunter
vocal [14-15]
Andy Sannella
reeds [15]
Arnold Boling
drums (drum set) [7.1-22, 8.18-21, 9.1-9, 6.19-20]
Arville Harris
alto saxophone [14], clarinet [14], reeds [15]
Ben Whitted
alto saxophone [14], clarinet [12-15]
Benny Goodman
alto saxophone [3-4], clarinet [3-8]
Benny Morton
trombone [7-9]
Benny Payne
piano [1-2]
Bill Coleman
trumpet [4-9, 14-21]
Billy Taylor Sr.
double bass [4.12-21, 5.1-4, 5.4-9]
Bob Carroll
tenor saxophone [7-9]
Bobby Leecan
guitar [1, 6]
Bud Freeman
tenor saxophone [3]
Charles Turner
double bass [7.1-22, 6.1-20, 8.1-21, 9.1-21, 10.1-21, 5.14-21]
Charlie Gaines
trumpet [14-15]
Charlie Holmes
clarinet [20], reeds [18-21]
Charlie Irvis
trombone [1.18-20, 2.14-15]
Chuck Campbell
trombone [8]
Coleman Hawkins
tenor saxophone [3]
Dave Klein
trumpet [5-8]
Dick Cherwin
double bass [15]
Ed Anderson
trumpet [7-9]
Eddie Condon
banjo [3.11-12, 2.14-15, 4.3-4]
Emmett Matthews
reeds [7-9], soprano saxophone [7-9]
Fats Waller
additional [17], celesta [9.1, 9.6, 7.15, 7.17, 7.19, 6.5-7, 6.10-12, 8.4, 8.11-12], lead vocals [16, 19], organ [2.7-8, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 5.18, 5.20], piano [3.1-3, 3.8-21, 1.1-2, 1.12, 1.19, 2.1, 2.6, 2.13-21, 10.1-21, 8.1-21, 4.1-10, 4.12-21, 7.1-22, 6.1-20, 9.1-21, 5.1-17, 5.19, 5.21], pipe organ [2.1-6, 2.9-11, 3.4-7, 1.3-11, 1.13-20], solo [5.13, 2.13], spoken vocals [17, 19], vibraphone [7], vocal [9.1-9, 9.16-21, 7.1-22, 10.1-6, 10.8, 10.10, 10.12, 10.14-21, 4.6-10, 4.12-18, 4.20-21, 8.1-7, 8.9-21, 6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8-9, 6.11-20, 5.1-9, 5.14, 5.16, 5.18-21]
Fats Waller and His Buddies
performer [2.15, 3.20]
Fats Waller and His Rhythm
performer [8.1-2, 7.5, 6.17]
Floyd O'Brien
trombone [4.19-21, 5.1-3]
Four Wanderers
choir vocals [11-12]
Francis J. Lapitino
harp [8]
Fred Robinson
trombone [7-9]
Fred Skerritt
reeds [7-9]
Garvin Bushell
reeds [9-11]
Gene Krupa
drums (drum set) [11-12]
Gene Sedric
clarinet [8.1-6, 8.10-17, 5.4-8, 5.20-21, 9.14, 9.16], reeds [9.1-21, 5.14, 5.16, 8.1-21, 10.1-21], tenor saxophone [9.16, 5.8-9, 5.14-20, 4.16-18, 8.1-17]
George "Pops" Foster
double bass [11-12, 18-21]
George Brunies
trombone [5-8]
George James
reeds [7-9]
Hank Duncan
piano [7-9]
Harry Barth
double bass [5-8], tuba [5-8]
Harry Dial
additional [17], drums (drum set) [5.1-9, 5.14-21, 4.12-21, 6.1-18], spoken vocals [17], vibraphone [5.7, 4.12, 4.19]
Henry “Red” Allen
trumpet [11-12, 18-21]
Herman Autrey
trumpet [9.1-21, 4.12-21, 10.1-21, 5.1-3, 6.1-20, 8.1-21, 7.1-22], vocal [18-19]
Hymie Wolfson
tenor saxophone [5-8]
J.C. Higginbotham
trombone [18-21]
Jabbo Smith
cornet [9-11]
Jack Teagarden
trombone [11-12, 18-21], vibraphone [12, 19]
James P. Johnson
piano [9-11]
James Smith
guitar [7.1-22, 8.1-17, 6.19-20]
Jimmy Archey
trombone [1, 6]
John Lucas
drums (drum set) [5-8]
Kaiser Marshall
drums (drum set) [18-21]
Larry Binyon
tenor saxophone [11-12, 18-21]
Leonard "Ham" Davis
trumpet [18, 20-21]
Lou Raderman
violin [2.7, 3.15]
Louis Martin
alto saxophone [5-8], baritone saxophone [5-8]
Mezz Mezzrow
alto saxophone [5.1-3, 4.19-21], clarinet [5.1-3, 4.19-21]
Milt Rettenberg
piano [7-8]
Muggsy Spanier
cornet [5-6], trumpet [5-8]
Orlando Roberson
vocal [18, 21]
Otto Hardwick
alto saxophone [11-12]
Red McKenzie
other instruments [3], vocal [4]
Rudy Powell
alto saxophone [6.2-20, 7.1-19, 7.21-22], clarinet [6.1-20, 7.1-22], reeds [8.7-9, 6.2, 6.14-15, 6.17]
Sam Blank
trombone [5-8]
Sam Shapiro
violin [5, 7]
Slick Jones
drums (drum set) [10.1-21, 9.16-21]
Sol Klein
violin [5, 7]
Ted Lewis
clarinet [5-6], vocal [5]
Thomas Morris
cornet [1.18-20, 2.1, 2.6]
Tony Girardi
guitar [5-8]
Will Johnson
banjo [18-21]
Yank Porter
drums (drum set) [8.1-17, 9.10-15], vibraphone [7]

Issues

P
Portrait, Volume 1
10x CD
6 March 2003