Jump For Joy > Original Cast

Show Details

Show: Jump for Joy (5)
Music: Duke Ellington (144)
Lyrics: Sid Kuller (14), Paul Francis Webster (116)

Recording Details

Date: 1941
Type: Audio / Stage Cast / (Compilation)
Method: Studio
Language: English
Location: US / CA / Los Angeles
Producer: Margaret Robinson (3), J.R. Taylor (3)
Liner Notes: Patricia Willard
Conductor: Duke Ellington (144), Rex Stewart (5)
Performer: Ivy Anderson, Herb Jeffries (4), Wonderful Smith, Joe Turner (2)
Notes: This is an archival reconstructed "cast recording" of the original 1941 production staged in Los Angeles, California.
Shortcode: [r23626]

Releases

Format: LP
Label: Smithsonian Collection R-037
Released: 1988
Country: US
Audio: Mono
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Also Contains: Bakiff/The Giddybug Gallop - 1941 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Bugle Breaks/West Indian Stomp - 1941 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good/Chocolate Shake - 1941 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Jump for Joy/The Brown-Skin Gal (in the Calico Gown) - 1941 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Rocks in My Bed/Bli-Blip - 1941 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Rocks in My Bed/Goin' to Chicago Blues - 1941 Joe Turner
Some Saturday/Subtle Slough - 1941 Rex Stewart and his Orchestra
Stomp Caprice/Blues on the Down Beat - 1941 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Notes: Compiled from several jazz recordings of the period, plus two 'Soundie' short film soundtracks. Hello, Mr. President is a monologue that appeared in this show and is here, taken from the film Top Sergeant Mulligan.
# Tracks: 15
Lists: 37 collectors / 2 wish lists
History: 2 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl35678]

Side A:
1. Stomp Caprice
2. Brown-Skin Gal (in the Calico Gown)
3. Bli-blip
4. Bli-blip (vocal by Ray Nance)
5. Hello, Mr. President (monologue by Wonderful Smith)
6. I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
7. I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (vocal by Ivy Anderson)
8. Bugle Breaks
Side B:
1. Subtle Slough
2. Rocks in My Bed
3. Rocks in My Bed (vocal by Joe Turner)
4. Jump for Joy
5. Chocolate Shake
6. Giddybug Gallop
7. Jump for Joy (vocal by Ivy Anderson)