Ethel Waters – Stormy Weather – All The Hits And More 1921-47 – 3CD

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. Starting her career 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 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 Listing:

CD1: Ethel Waters Accompanied By Cordy Williams' Jazz Masters: 1. Down Home Blues -   Ethel Water's Jazz Masters: 2. Dying With The Blues -   Ethel Waters And The Jazz Masters: 3. There'll Be Some Changes Made -   Ethel Waters And Joe Smith's Jazz Masters: 4. Jazzin' Babies Blues -   Ethel Waters And Her Jazz Masters: 5. Georgia Blues -   6. At The New Jump Steady Ball -   Ethel Water's Jazz Masters: 7. Brown Baby -   Ethel Waters And The Jazz Masters: 8. Memphis Man -   Ethel Waters: 9. Sweet Man Blues -   10. Black Spatch Blues -   11. Craving Blues -   12. Pleasure Mad -   Ethel Waters & Her Ebony Four: 13. Sweet Georgia Brown -   Ethel Waters & Her Ebony 4: 14. Sympathetic Dan -   15. Loud Speakin' Papa (You'd Better Speak Easy To Me) -   Ethel Waters' Plantation Orchestra: 16. Dinah -   Ethel Waters & Her Ebony 4: 17. I've Found A New Baby - Ethel Waters: 18. Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night -   Ethel Waters & Her Ebony Four: 19. Maybe Not At All -   Ethel Waters: 20. Shake That Thing -   21. Bring Your Greenbacks -   22. I Wonder What's Become Of Joe -   23. Sugar -

CD2: Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band: 1. Heebie Jeebies -   Ethel Waters: 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? -   Ethel Waters & Her Ebony 4: 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 -   Ethel Waters W Novelty Acc.: 21. Three Little Words -   Ethel Waters & Her Ebony 4: 22. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone -   23. When Your Lover Has Gone -

CD3: Ethel Waters & Her Ebony 4: 1. You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You -   2. Shine On, Harvest Moon -   3. River, Stay 'Way From My Door -   4. Heat Wave -   Ethel Waters: 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 -