Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather: All The Hits And More 1921-47 (CD)

Ethel Waters was a singer and actress from Pennsylvania, whose music ranged across jazz, stage musicals, movies and pure pop in a career that spanned more than three decades. During the 1920s and '30s she recorded what were among the original versions of some of the most memorable standards of the era. Having performed as a child in vaudeville, she started her recording career at the dawn of the jazz age around the time she became a huge attraction on Broadway. This great-value 70-track 3-CD collection includes recordings from across her active career as a hit-focused recording artist before she turned her attention to TV. It comprises selected releases during this era on the Black Swan, Columbia, Brunswick, Decca, Bluebird and RCA labels, and features all her twenty-six career hits, including the No. 1s "Stormy Weather" and "Am I Blue", and other notable classics. It includes performances with Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Ben Selvin, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Bunny Berigan, Benny Carter and many others. She was one of the great song stylists of her era, and a unique personality, and this collection is a fabulous showcase for her distinctive talents.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Down Home Blues
2. Dying with the Blues
3. There'll Be Some Changes Made
4. Jazzin' Babies Blues
5. Georgia Blues
6. At the New Jump Steady Ball
7. Brown Baby
8. Memphis Man
9. Sweet Man Blues
10. Black Spatch Blues
11. Craving Blues
12. Pleasure Mad
13. Sweet Georgia Brown
14. Sympathetic Dan
15. Loud Speakin' Papa (You'd Better Speak Easy to Me)
16. Dinah
17. I've Found a New Baby
18. Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night
19. Maybe Not at All
20. Shake That Thing
21. Bring Your Greenbacks
22. I Wonder What's Become of Joe
23. Sugar

Disc: 2

1. Heebie Jeebies
2. We Don't Need Each Other Any More
3. I'm Coming Virginia
4. Satisfyin' Papa
5. Smile
6. Some of These Days
7. I'm Saving It All for You
8. Guess Who's in Town
9. West End Blues
10. Better Keep An Eye on Your Man
11. Georgia Blues
12. Birmingham Bertha
13. Am I Blue?
14. True Blue Lou
15. Shoo Shoo Boogie Boo
16. Waiting at the End of the Road
17. (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue
18. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
19. Memories of You
20. I Got Rhythm
21. Three Little Words
22. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
23. When Your Lover Has Gone

Disc: 3

1. You Can't Stop Me from Lovin' You
2. Shine on, Harvest Moon
3. River, Stay 'Way from My Door
4. Heat Wave
5. A Hundred Years from Today
6. I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby
7. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
8. St. Louis Blues
9. Porgy
10. Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
11. Don't Blame Me
12. Come Up and See Me Some Time
13. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today)
14. Give Me a Heart to Sing to
15. You're a Sweetheart
16. Jeepers Creepers
17. Frankie and Johnnie
18. What Goes Up Must Come Down (And Baby, You've Been Flying Too High
19. Bread and Gravy
20. Baby, What Else Can I Do
21. Georgia on My Mind
22. Cabin in the Sky
23. Honey in the Honeycomb
24. Careless Love