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ROCKIN' CHAIR LADY

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2 CD Set. Washingtonian Mildred Rinker 1907 1951 took her first married name to become, as 'Mildred Bailey', the first truly great white jazz singer. In every way she was a big star; she was built on a huge scale, and she outsold all other jazz ladies of the 30s apart from Billie Holiday. Seemingly ill equipped for her role, she had a small, fragile, unusually high pitched voice of limited range yet she possessed an innate ability to swing and her sweet toned, caressing treatment of ballads and smoky, knowing style with the blues had few peers. When she remarried in 1933, to the diminutive vibes player Red Norvo, the ill matched couple were 'Mr. & Mrs. Swing'. Mildred Bailey was known as 'The Rockin' Chair Lady' after her great success with Hoagy's Carmichael's classic, and that provides the title for Living Era's centenary tribute. Here are quite simply the 50 finest recordings she made, spanning from her first ever disc in 1929 What Kind O' Man Is You?, through her golden years of the 30s to her full 1947 version of one of her key songs All Of Me. She always worked with the top jazzmen and the list of accompanying musicians reads like a who's who of the giants of jazz: Johnny Hodges, Coleman Hawkins, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman and, of course, Red Norvo.

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Rockin' Chair

What Kind O' Man Is You?

When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Georgia On My Mind

Harlem Lullaby

Lazy Bones

Heat Wave

Junk Man

Ol' Pappy

Someday, Sweetheart

Willow Tree

So Help Me If I Don't Love You

Honeysuckle Rose

Squeeze Me

Downhearted Blues

A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid

More Than You Know

Smoke Dreams

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

Trust In Me

Where Are You?

Never In A Million Years

There's A Lull In My Life

The Moon Got In My Eyes

It's The Natural Thing To Do

Bob White, Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?

Thanks For The Memory

Lover, Come Back To Me

Weekend Of A Private Secretary

Please Be Kind

Don't Be That Way

Says My Heart

I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

My Melancholy Baby

The Lonesome Road

Small Fry

My Reverie (Rêverie)

Old Folks

Have You Forgotten So Soon?

St. Louis Blues

Begin The Beguine

’tain't What You Do, It's The Way That Cha Do It

Gulf Coast Blues

Prisoner Of Love

Darn That Dream

Peace, Brother!

Don't Take Your Love From Me

Me And The Blues

At Sundown

All Of Me

Label:	ASV
Number:	2020
Item Code:	60239
Format:	2-CD
Genre:	VOCALS - JAZZ & POP
Dates:	(1929-1947)
Price:	$26.00
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