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Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1
Fats Waller
CD BOX Rel Date: 2007-06-05
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Thomas 'Fats' Waller was born in New York in 1904. His musical talents were obvious early - as was his charm - aged six, Fats talked his way into unlimited access to a neighbor's piano. His older brother Bob persuaded the family to buy their own instrument. Fats was sent to lessons, but soon dropped out - he could learn a tune simply by watching his teacher play it. It was at school that Fats first sensed the fun of playing to an audience. He found that he could easily work a crowd into a frenzy of stamping and clapping with a combination of humorous asides, knowing winks and artistry. By Fats' fourteenth birthday it was obvious that his destiny lay in music. He quit school so that he could get a job to finance piano lessons. Before long, he gravitated to a food delivery company that specialised in the discreet supply of booze. This gave him an entree into Harlem's clubs, where he was able to watch piano idols like James P Johnson. Fats inveigled himself into the Lincoln movie theatre. He sat in for both the pianist who accompanied the movies and the intermission organist. When the organist fell sick, Fats - then 15 - stepped in. Soon after, he was offered the job permanently. In 1920 Fats met James P Johnson who recognised the young man's talent. Johnson coached Fats, introduced him to the jazz fraternity and got him gigs. By the time the first two tracks here were cut, Fats had married. The producer on the session had brought the sheet music for Muscle Shoals Blues to the studio - so this might have been the first time Fats had seen it. Already the mature artist is on display. Fats was asked to improvise a B-side. Birmingham Blues was the result. Not a bad morning's work. Thus started a career in entertainment, which almost never faltered. Fats himself was in a continuous state of forward motion, his energy undimmed until shortly before the end. But that's the future. In the meantime we have a heap of supremely entertaining music to enjoy.

Tracklist:

  1. Muscle Shoals Blues
  2. Birmingham Blues
  3. 'Taint Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do
  4. You Got Ev'rything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me
  5. Mama's Got the Blues
  6. Last Go Round Blues
  7. Stingaree Blues
  8. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
  9. Sister Kate
  10. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
  11. Trixie Blues
  12. I'm Cert'ny Gonna See 'Bout That
  13. Squabbling Blues
  14. In Harlem's Araby
  15. You Don't Know My Mind Blues
  16. West Indies Blues
  17. Maybe Someday
  18. (I'm Gonna See You) When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine
  19. You Get Mad
  20. What's the Matter Now?
  21. Nobody Knows de Trouble I See
  22. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
  23. Ain't Got Nobody to Grind Ma Coffee
  24. Mama's Losin' a Mighty Good Chance
  25. Henderson Stomp, The
  26. Chant, The
  27. St Louis Blues
  28. Lenox Avenue Blues
  29. What Do You Know About That
  30. Shut Your Mouth
  31. Soothin' Syrup Stomp
  32. Sloppy Water Blues
  33. Loveless Love
  34. Messin' Around with the Blues
  35. Rusty Pail, The
  36. Stompin' the Bug
  37. Hog-Maw Stomp
  38. Blue Black Bottom Stomp
  39. Whiteman Stomp
  40. I'm Coming Virginia
  41. Preach the Word
  42. I'll Just Stand and Ring My Hands and Cry
  43. True Friendship
  44. Christians' Trouble Is Ended, The
  45. Sugar
  46. Sugar
  47. Beale Street Blues
  48. Beale Street Blues
  49. I'm Going to See My Ma
  50. "Fats" Waller Stomp
  51. Savannah Blues
  52. Won't You Take Me Home
  53. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
  54. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me
  55. I've Got the Joogie Blues
  56. Florence
  57. Gone But Not Forgotten
  58. You Live on in Memory
  59. Bye-Bye Florence
  60. He's Gone Away
  61. I Ain't Got Nobody
  62. Digah's Stomp, The
  63. Red Hot Dan
  64. Geechee
  65. Please Take Me out of Jail
  66. Back in Your Own Back Yard
  67. Nobody Knows How Much I Love You
  68. What's the Use of Being Alone?
  69. Original Blues
  70. Willow Tree
  71. 'Sippi
  72. Thou Swell
  73. Persian Rug
  74. Chicago Blues - (take)
  75. Mournful Tho'ts
  76. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
  77. Trixie Blues
  78. St Louis Blues
  79. What Do You Know About That
  80. Shut Your Mouth
  81. Soothin' Syrup Stomp
  82. Sloppy Water
  83. Messin' Around with the Blues
  84. Rusty Pail, The
  85. Stompin' the Bug
  86. Hog-Maw Stomp
  87. "Fats" Waller Stomp
  88. Savannah Blues
  89. Won't You Take Me Home
  90. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
  91. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me
  92. I've Got the Joogie Blues
  93. He's Gone Away
  94. Digah's Stomp, The
  95. Red Hot Dan
  96. Geechee
  97. Please Take Me out of Jail
  98. Willow Tree
  99. 'Sippi
  100. Thou Swell

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