The Definitive Fats Waller

Tracklist

• CD 1: Volume 1
• 1
  Baby Brown
  1:23
• 2
  The Viper's Drag
  2:25
• 3
  How Can You Face Me?
  1:50
• 4
  Down Home Blues
  2:01
• 5
  Dinah (1935 take)
  1:55
• 6
  A Handful of Keys (1935 take)
  1:41
• 7
  Solitude
  3:09
• 8
  The Moon Is Low (take 1)
  3:01
• 9
  The Moon Is Low (take 2)
  3:03
• 10
  The Sheik of Araby
  2:52
• 11
  E Flat Blues (take 1)
  0:56
• 12
  E Flat Blues (take 2)
  3:18
• 13
  Honeysuckle Rose (take 1)
  2:34
• 14
  Honeysuckle Rose (take 2)
  3:21
• 15
  Ain't Misbehavin'
  3:35
• 16
  Sweet Sue, Just You
  2:31
• 17
  Nagasaki (breakdown)
  0:06
• 18
  Nagasaki
  2:29
• 19
  I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (breakdown)
  0:22
• 20
  I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
  2:51
• 21
  The Spider and the Fly
  2:40
• 22
  Lonesome Me
  3:58
• 23
  After You've Gone (take 1)
  3:25
• 24
  After You've Gone (take 2)
  3:07
• 25
  Dinah (1939 partial take)
  0:47
• 26
  Poor Butterfly
  3:36
• 27
  St. Louis Blues
  2:54
• 28
  Hallelujah
  3:11
• 29
  Tea for Two
  4:06
• 30
  A Handful of Keys (1939 take)
  2:49
• CD 2: Volume 2
• 1
  I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby
  2:13
• 2
  Tea for Two
  3:10
• 3
  Believe It, Beloved
  2:07
• 4
  Sweet Sue, Just You
  2:09
• 5
  Somebody Stole My Gal
  2:17
• 6
  Honeysuckle Rose
  3:09
• 7
  Night Wind
  3:16
• 8
  African Ripples
  2:07
• 9
  Because of Once Upon a Time
  1:41
• 10
  Where Were You on the Night of June the Third?
  2:01
• 11
  Clothesline Ballet
  2:36
• 12
  Don't Let It Bother You
  1:19
• 13
  E-Flat Blues
  2:32
• 14
  Alligator Crawl
  2:18
• 15
  Zonky
  1:45
• 16
  Hallelujah (#1)
  2:09
• 17
  Do Me a Favor
  1:50
• 18
  California, Here I Come
  2:36
• 19
  I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
  2:50
• 20
  My Fate Is in Your Hands
  1:01
• 21
  Ain't Misbehavin'
  2:36
• 22
  You're the Top
  2:24
• 23
  Blue, Turning Grey Over You
  1:17
• 24
  Russian Fantasy
  2:20
• 25
  I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby (#2 - 1936)
  2:23
• 26
  Truckin' (1936)
  1:55
• 27
  You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It (1939)
  2:41
• 28
  Not There, Right There (1939)
  2:56
• 29
  George Jessel Show Theme (Stompin' at the Savoy) (radio 1939)
  2:06
• 30
  Hallelujah (#2 - Jessel Show - 1939)
  1:40
• 31
  By the Light of the Silvery Moon (Jessel Show - 1939)
  2:15

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Release credits

• Cedric Wallace
  double bass [8, 10, 12, 15-16, 18, 21-22]
• Fats Waller
  piano [1.1-12, 1.14-16, 1.18-24, 1.26-30, 2.1-18, 2.20-28], vocal [1.1-7, 1.10-12, 1.14-16, 1.18-24, 2.1-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-28]
• Gene Sedric
  reeds [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]
• John Hamilton
  trumpet [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]
• John Smith
  guitar [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]
• Johnny Marks
  drums (drum set) [27-28]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [1, 3, 5, 7], clarinet [1, 3, 7], reeds [1, 3]
• Slick Jones
  drums (drum set) [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]

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