Title: Of The Complete Recorded Works 1938-40, Vol. 5
Artist: Fats Waller
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065904920
Genre: Jazz Traditional
Release Date: 2008-08-19
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: BOXED SET

In this fifth volume of our Fats Waller edition, Fats takes rare trips overseas. Fats' audiences were falling in the US. Europe was an obvious refuge. Fats' asking price was an unprecedented $2500 a week. The British accepted the figure without hesitation. Fats' first appearance was in Glasgow - a tough town. To up the ante, Fats wore a kilt for his first show. They'd either love him or hate him. It was love. An audience of 2100 called him back for ten curtain calls. A week later, he did the same at the London Palladium. After the Palladium date, Fats recorded at HMV's Abbey Road. Jazz-inspired players were called in. One broke off his honeymoon to play with Fats. A week after his first UK session, Fats was at the Abbey Road organ to cut a sequence of spirituals. He finished in tears. Across the Channel he was as feted as he had been in Britain. His spiritual records had reached France and he was asked to play them in Notre Dame. Fats then started a royal progress, marred by problems in Germany. Hitler's saber-rattling became so worrying that the tour was canceled. Fats went home. So to the famous October 13th session. With the four confidently struck chords that open Two Sleepy People, Fats seems to be saying I'm back! And with his regular band in terrific form, he was. Europe could rout out a decent group of session players, but they'd rarely duplicate this casual virtuosity. The round of touring and recording continued. So great were Europe's attractions, that Fats made another Transatlantic trip, where again, he made some historic 'serious' recordings that might not have been considered in the US. Those recordings are here. Make your own judgment. Fats returned to a US that welcomed him. The grueling treadmill resumed. The last sides here are less famous than Fats' showcase material, but no worse for that. On Oh Frenchy the whole band reveals it's New Orleans side - the finale a call-to-arms that would soon be sounded for real.

Tracks:
1.1 There's Honey on the Moon Tonight
1.2 If I Were You
1.3 (Take Me Back to) the Wide Open Spaces
1.4 On the Bumpy Road to Love
1.5 Fair and Square
1.6 We, the People
1.7 Don't Try Your Jive on Me
1.8 Ain't Misbehavin'
1.9 The Flat Foot Floogie
1.10 Pent Up in a Penthouse
1.11 Music, Maestro, Please
1.12 A-Tisket, A-Tasket
1.13 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
1.14 All God's Chillun Got Wings
1.15 Go Down Moses
1.16 Deep River
1.17 Water Boy
1.18 Lonesome Road
1.19 That Old Feeling
1.20 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
1.21 Two Sleepy People
1.22 Shame! Shame!
1.23 I'll Never Forgive Myself
1.24 You Look Good to Me
1.25 Tell Me with Your Kisses
1.26 Yacht Club Swing
2.1 Love, I'd Give My Life for You
2.2 I Wish I Had You
2.3 I'll Dance at Your Wedding
2.4 Imagine My Surprise
2.5 I Won't Believe It
2.6 The Spider and the Fly
2.7 Patty Cake, Patty Cake
2.8 A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2.9 You Outsmarted Yourself
2.10 Last Night a Miracle Happened
2.11 Good for Nothin' But Love
2.12 Hold Tight
2.13 Kiss Me with Your Eyes
2.14 Sweet Sue
2.15 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
2.16 You Asked for It-You Got It
2.17 Some Rainy Day
2.18 'Tain't What You Do
2.19 Got No Time
2.20 Step Up and Shake My Hand
2.21 Undecided
2.22 Remember Who You're Promised to
2.23 You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It
2.24 Not There, Right There
2.25 Cottage in the Rain
3.1 Piccadilly
3.2 Chelsea
3.3 Soho
3.4 Bond Street
3.5 Limehouse
3.6 Whitechapel
3.7 Smoke Dreams of You
3.8 You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It
3.9 Honey Hush
3.10 I Used to Love You
3.11 Wait and See
3.12 You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams
3.13 Anita
3.14 What a Pretty Miss
3.15 Squeeze Me
3.16 Bless You
3.17 It's the Tune That Counts
3.18 Abdullah
3.19 Who'll Take My Place?
3.20 Bond Street
3.21 It's You Who Taught It to Me
3.22 Suitcase Susie
3.23 Your Feet's Too Big
3.24 You're Lettin' the Grass Grow Under Your Feet
3.25 Darktown Strutters' Ball
3.26 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
4.1 I've Got a Crush on You
4.2 Someone to Watch Over Me
4.3 How Long Has This Been Going On?
4.4 But Not for Me
4.5 Swinga-Dilla Street
4.6 At Twilight
4.7 Oh! Frenchy
4.8 Cheatin' on Me
4.9 Black Maria
4.10 Mighty Fine
4.11 The Moon Is Low
4.12 The Moon Is Low, Pt. 2
4.13 Ain't Misbehavin'
4.14 I'll Never Forgive Myself
4.15 You Look Good to Me
4.16 Tell Me with You Kisses
4.17 I'll Dance at Your Wedding
4.18 A Good Man Is Hard to Find
4.19 Good for Nothin' But Love
4.20 Hold Tight
4.21 Kiss Me with Your Eyes
4.22 Remember Who You're Promised to
4.23 Honey Hush
4.24 I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Fats Waller: Of The Complete Recorded Works 1938-40, Vol. 5 - COMPACT DISCS

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