The Birth of the Blues: DeSylva, Brown & Henderson > Compilation

Recording Details

Type: Audio / (Compilation)
Method: Studio
Language: English
Music: Ray Henderson (141)
Lyrics: Buddy G. DeSylva (207), Lew Brown (153)
Producer: Colin Brown (14), Tony Watts (28)
Liner Notes: Tony Watts (28)
Conductor: Leonard Joy (23), Victor Young (165)
Performer: Al Goodman & His Orchestra (3), Sam Browne (27), Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra (2), Chorus (2), Bing Crosby (463), B.G. DeSylva (207), New Englanders, Ruth Etting (46), George Olsen & His Orchestra, Carroll Gibbons (58), Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra (2), Annette Hanshaw (15), Jack Hylton (33), Lewis James (11), Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra (2), Al Jolson (171), Helen Kane (14), Anne Lenner (8), Jean Napier, Paul Whiteman Orchestra (17), Paul Robeson (50), Savoy Hotel Orpheans (8), Elliott Shaw (4), Gloria Swanson (13), Jack Teagarden (27)
Shortcode: [r13915]

Releases

Format: CD
Label: Pearl 7803
Released: 1998-05-19
Barcode: 727031780328
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# Tracks: 23
Lists: 9 collectors / 2 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl19883]

1. Best Things in Life Are Free [From Good News]
2. Birth of the Blues [From George White's Scandals of 1926]
3. Black Bottom [From George White's Scandals of 1926]
4. Don't Tell Him What Happened to Me
5. Varsity Drag [From Good News]
6. Button Up Your Overcoat [From Follow Through]
7. One More Time
8. If You Haven't Got Love [From Indescreet]
9. Used to You [From Say It with Songs]
10. My Lucky Star [From "Follow Through"]
11. Forgetting You
12. Little Pal [From Say It with Songs]
13. My Sin
14. I'm in Seventh Heaven [From Say It with Songs]
15. I Want to Be Bad [From Follow Through]
16. Good for You, Bad for Me
17. Without Love [from Flying High}
18. You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You? [From Follow Through]
19. Sonny Boy [From The Singing Fool]
20. You're the Cream in My Coffee [From Hold
21. I'm a Dreamer (Aren't We All) [From Sunny Side Up]
22. If I Had a Talking Picture of You [From Sunny Side Up]
23. Good News [From Good News]