{"product_id":"waller-fats-complete-rec-v-1-4cd-bx-78806590272","title":"Fats Waller - Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 [CD BOX]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas '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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuscle Shoals Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBirmingham Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e'Taint Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Got Ev'rything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMama's Got the Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Go Round Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStingaree Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Can't Do What My Last Man Did\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSister Kate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Can't Do What My Last Man Did\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrixie Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'm Cert'ny Gonna See 'Bout That\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSquabbling Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Harlem's Araby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Don't Know My Mind Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWest Indies Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaybe Someday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(I'm Gonna See You) When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Get Mad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's the Matter Now?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNobody Knows de Trouble I See\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCouldn't Hear Nobody Pray\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAin't Got Nobody to Grind Ma Coffee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMama's Losin' a Mighty Good Chance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHenderson Stomp, The\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChant, The\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt Louis Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLenox Avenue Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Do You Know About That\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShut Your Mouth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoothin' Syrup Stomp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSloppy Water Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLoveless Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMessin' Around with the Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRusty Pail, The\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStompin' the Bug\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHog-Maw Stomp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlue Black Bottom Stomp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhiteman Stomp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'm Coming Virginia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreach the Word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'll Just Stand and Ring My Hands and Cry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrue Friendship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristians' Trouble Is Ended, The\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSugar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSugar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeale Street Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeale Street Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'm Going to See My Ma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Fats\" Waller Stomp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSavannah Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWon't You Take Me Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnything That Happens Just Pleases Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI've Got the Joogie Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGone But Not Forgotten\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Live on in Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBye-Bye Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe's Gone Away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Ain't Got Nobody\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDigah's Stomp, The\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Hot Dan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeechee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease Take Me out of Jail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack in Your Own Back Yard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNobody Knows How Much I Love You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's the Use of Being Alone?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWillow Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e'Sippi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThou Swell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePersian Rug\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChicago Blues - 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