The Definitive Fats Waller

Compilation by 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

More by Fats Waller

Release credits

  • double bass [8, 10, 12, 15-16, 18, 21-22]
  • piano [2.1-18, 2.20-28, 1.1-12, 1.12, 1.14-16, 1.18-24, 1.26-30], vocal [1.1-7, 1.10-12, 1.12, 1.14-16, 1.18-24, 2.1-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-28]
  • reeds [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]
  • trumpet [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]
  • guitar [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]
  • drums (drum set) [27-28]
  • alto saxophone [1, 3, 5, 7], clarinet [1, 3, 7], reeds [1, 3]
  • drums (drum set) [8-12, 14-16, 18-24]

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