The Original American Decca Recordings (also published as The Complete Decca Recordings) is a collection of 3 CD tracks from 1992, led by the count of the jazz group Count Basie, recorded for the Decca label between 1937 and 1939.
Tracklist : Count Basie 1937-1939 The Original American Decca Recordings
Disc one: 1937
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) - 2:58
- "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) - 3:00
- "Swinging at the Daisy Chain" - 2:48
- "Roseland Shuffle" - 2:32
- "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:41
- "Boo Hoo" (Carmen Lombardo, Edward Heyman, John Jacob Loeb) - 2:25
- "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill) - 2:29
- "Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)" (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing) - 2:49
- "Smarty (You Know It All)" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) - 2:40
- "One O'Clock Jump" - 3:00
- "Listen My Children and You Shall Hear" (Lane, Freed) - 3:05
- "John's Idea" - 2:53
- "Good Morning Blues" [1st Take] (Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing) - 3:12
- "Good Morning Blues" [2nd Take] (Basie, Durham, Rushing) - 3:03
- "Our Love Was Meant to Be" (Alex Hill, Fats Waller, Joe Davis) - 2:45
- "Time Out" (Durham) - 3:01
- "Topsy" (Durham) - 3:12
- "I Keep Remembering" (Charles Newman, Isham Jones) - 2:45
- "Out the Window" (Basie, Durham) - 3:08
- "Don't You Miss Your Baby" (Basie, Durham, Rushing) - 3:08
- "Let Me Dream" (Henry Jerome) - 3:09
Note
Recorded in New York City on January 21 (tracks 1-4), March 26 (tracks 5-8), July 7 (tracks 9-12), August 9 (tracks 13-17) and October 13 (tracks 14-21), 1937
Disc two: 1938 Count Basie 1937-1939 The Original American Decca Recordings
- "Georgianna" (Austen Croom-Johnson, Frank Carle, Red McKenzie) - 2:33
- "Blues in the Dark" - 3:04
- "Sent for You" (Durham, Rushing) - 2:57
- "Every Tub" (Basie, Durham) - 3:14
- "Now Will You Be Good?" (Arthur Terker, Harry Jentes, Harry Pease) - 2:46
- "Swingin' the Blues" (Basie, Durham) - 2:45
- "Mama Don't Want No Peas 'n' Rice 'n' Coconut Oil" (L. Charles, L. Wolfe Gilbert) - 2:51
- "Blue and Sentimental" (Basie, Jerry Livingston, Mack David) - 3:10
- "Doggin' Around" (Edgar Battle, Herschel Evans) - 3:02
- "Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush" [1st Take] (Bickley Reichner, Clay Boland) - 3:01
- "Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush" [2nd Take] (Reichner, Boland) - 3:04
- "London Bridge Is Falling Down" (Abel Baer, Ira Schuster, Tot Seymour) 2:55
- "Texas Shuffle" (Evans) - 3:07
- "Jumpin' at the Woodside" - 3:08
- "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) - 2:55
- "The Dirty Dozen" (Rufus Perryman) - 3:01
- "Hey Lawdy Mama" (Cleve Reed) - 2:44
- "The Fives" (Hersal Thomas, George W. Thomas) - 2:45
- "Boogie Woogie" (Clarence Smith) - 3:01
- "Dark Rapture" (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Manny Kurtz) - 2:38
- "Shorty George" - 2:44
- "The Blues I Like to Hear" (Buster Smith, Rushing) - 3:07
- "Do You Wanna Jump, Children?" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Victor Selsman, Willie Bryant) - 2:39
- "Panassie Stomp" - 2:47
Note
Recorded in New York City on January 3 (tracks 1 & 2), February 16 (tracks 3-6), June 6 (tracks 7-9), August 12 (tracks 10-14) and November 9 (tracks 15-19) and November 16 (tracks 20-24), 1938
Disc three: 1939 Count Basie 1937-1939 The Original American Decca Recordings
- "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) - 2:54
- "Sing for Your Supper" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:42
- "Oh! Red" (Kansas Joe McCoy) - 2:53
- "Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well" [1st Take] (J. Mayo Williams, John Akers) - 3:04
- "Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well" [2nd Take] (Williams, Akers) - 3:02
- "Dupree Blues" (George White, Woody Herman) - 3:04
- "When the Sun Goes Down" [1st Take] (Carr) - 2:45
- "When the Sun Goes Down" [2nd Take] (Carr) - 2:54
- "Red Wagon" (Richard M. Jones) - 2:52
- "You Can Depend On Me" (Charlie Carpenter, Earl Hines, Louis Dunlap) - 3:07
- "Cherokee, Part 1" (Ray Noble) - 3:10
- "Cherokee, Part 2" (Noble) - 3:03
- "Blame It on My Last Affair" [1st Take] (Henry Nemo, Irving Mills) - 2:43
- "Blame It on My Last Affair" [2nd Take] (Nemo, Mills) - 2:42
- "Jive at Five" (Harry Edison) - 2:49
- "Thursday" (Dorothy Sachs, Irvin Graham, Louis Haber) - 3:04
- "Evil Blues" (Basie, Edison, Rushing) - 3:13
- "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:10
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