Face the Music 8.21.14

Fats Waller - Film Soundtracks & Live Jams

This broadcast will feature numerous film soundtracks

and open with acetates from a radio jam session involving Louis Armstrong -

the only recordings on which the two men ever collaborated.

on Martin Block’s Make Believe Ballroom radio program, December 12th 1938

Jeepers Creepers

Honeysuckle Rose

On the Sunny Side of the Street

The Blues

I Got Rhythm

Tiger Rag

live on The Magic Key, NBC Network May 24th 1936

I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

Fats Waller Soundies, recorded November 1940 – released in 1941

Your Feets Too Big

Honeysuckle Rose

Ain’t Misbehavin’

The Joint is Jumpin’

from the film Hooray for Love (1935) 

Living in a Great Big Way

from the film King of Burlesque (1935)

I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed

live on the program Freedom's People (1941)

Honeysuckle Rose