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Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby | Well Did You Evah? | Frank Sinatra in Hollywood | Reprise | ||||
Fred Astaire and Judy Garland | A Couple of Swells | Top Hat, White Tie and Tails | ASV Living Era | ||||
Louis Jordan o/ Chick Webb Orchestra | Gee! But You're Swell | Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions | Mosaic | ||||
Teddy Wilson Orchestra v/ Helen Ward | It's Swell of You | Classic Brunswick & Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions | Mosaic | ||||
Blossom Dearie | Thou Swell | Blossom Dearie | UMVD | ||||
Chet Baker | My Heart Stood Still | Chet Baker: Career 1952 - 1988 | Pacific Jazz | ||||
Ella Fitzgerald | To Keep My Love Alive | The Rogers and Hart Songbook | Verve | ||||
Mel Torme o/ Billy May | Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga | Ole Torme | Verve | ||||
Lalo Guerrero | Los Chucos Suaves | Pachuco Boogie | Arhoolie | ||||
Rosemary Clooney o/ Perez Prado | I Only Have Eyes for You | A Touch of Tabasco | Liberty | ||||
Nat King Cole | Papa Loves Mambo | The Extraordinary | Capitol | ||||
Desi Arnaz | El Cumbanchero | The Best of Desi Arnaz The Mambo King | Sony Legacy | ||||
Duke Ellington Orchestra | Main Stem | The Blanton-Webster Band | RCA | ||||
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra | Wrappin' It Up (The Lindy Glide) | Tidal Wave | Decca | ||||
Willie Bryant And His Orchestra | Rigamarole | Big Ben | Proper UK | ||||
Sidney Bechet | Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho | You Might As Well | Jazz 2 Jazz | ||||
Artie Shaw Orchestra | The Carioca | Strike It, Rich! | Proper UK | ||||
Django Reinhardt | I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) | The Indispensable | RCA | ||||
Bing Crosby | I'm Through With Love | Bing! His Legendary Years | MCA | rec 1931 | |||
Eddy Duchin Orchestra | Can't We Talk It Over? | Best of the Big Bands | rec 1932 | ||||
The Mills Brothers | Nobody's Sweetheart | Anthology 1931-1968 | MCA | rec 1931 | |||
Duke Ellington Orchestra v/ Ivie Anderson | I've Got the World On a String | Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia & Master Sessions | Mosaics | rec 1933 | |||
Earl Hines Orchestra v/ Walter Fuller | Rosetta (vocal take) | Classic Earl Hines Sessions (1928-1945) | Mosaic | rec 1933 | |||
Imperio Argentina | Los Tres Golpes | Cubans in Europe Vol. 2 1929-1934 | Harlequin | rec 1930 | |||
Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies | Keep a Knockin' | Father of Western Swing | Proper UK | rec 1932 | |||
Duke Ellington Orchestra v/ Ivie Anderson | Raisin' the Rent | Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia & Master Sessions | Mosaic | rec 1933 | |||
W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band | St. Louis Blues | W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band | Inside Sounds | rec 1923 Handy is the song's composer | |||
Bessie Smith / Louis Armstrong & Fred Longshaw | St. Louis Blues | Bessie Smith The Collection | Columbia | rec 1925 Armstrong cornet, Longshaw pump organ, on the air I mistakenly attribute this to King Oliver's band | |||
Art Tatum solo piano | St. Louis Blues | The Brunswick and Decca Recordings 1932-34 | Resurfaced | rec 1933 | |||
Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra | St. Louis Blues | The Complete Columbia Recordings Session Vol. 3 | Legacy | rec 1939 | |||
Earl Hines Orchestra | Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues | Classic Earl Hines Sessions (1928-1945) | Mosaic | rec 1940 | |||
Glenn Miller & the Army Air Force Band | St. Louis Blues March | The Essential Glenn Miller | RCA Victor/Legacy | rec 1943 | |||
Louis Armstrong & the All Stars | St. Louis Blues | Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy | Columbia | rec 1954 many consider this the finest interpretation of this song. Personally I prefer his 1925 recording with Bessie Smith | |||
Ethel Merman | I've Still Got My Health | There's No Business Like Show Business | Flapper |