Face the Music 8.07.14

Fats Waller in the Early 1940s

You’re Some Pretty Doll {No. 2}

Fats Waller with Eddie Condon’s Band

featuring clarinetist Pee Wee Russell 1940

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Fats Waller and his Rhythm

vocal harmony by the Deep River Boys 1942

Fats Waller’s Original E flat Blues

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Sad Sap Sucker Am I

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

All That Meat and No Potatoes

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Two Bits (Really Fine)

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Send Me, Jackson

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Buck Jumpin’

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Up Jumped You With Love

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1942

You Run Your Mouth, I’ll Run My Business

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Liver Lip Jones

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

A Square From Delaware

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

You’re Gonna Be Sorry

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

You Must Be Losing Your Mind

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Stop Pretending

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Come And Get It

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Rump Steak Serenade

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Clarinet Marmalade

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Face the Music 7/31/14:  Fats Waller - Marvels 

Georgia on my Mind
piano solo 1941

Swaltzing with Faust
piano solo 1939

Rockin' Chair
Piano solo 1941

Intermezzo
piano solo 1939

Honeysuckle Rose
(a la Bach/Beethoven/Brahms/Waller)
piano solo 1941

Dry Bones
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Ring Dem Bells
piano solo 1941

The Bells of San Raquel
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Poor Butterfly
piano solo 1939

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
organ solo 1939

Jitterbug Waltz
Fats Waller, his Rhythm  & Orchestra 1942

Let's Get Away From It All
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Scram!
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Pantin' in the Panther Room
(rare alternate take)
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Mamacita
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Everybody Loves My Baby
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Twenty Four Robbers
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Face the Music 7.24.14

Rhythm & Romance: Studies in Relationship Dynamics

followed by a Rambunctious set of Puerile Regressions

Rhythm and Romance

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

All My Life

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

S’posin’

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

You’ve Been Reading My Mail

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

The Panic Is On

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

The Curse of an Aching Heart

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

I Just Made Up With That Old Gal of Mine

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

To a Sweet Pretty Thing

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

Bye Bye Baby

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

There Goes My Attraction
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

My Mommy Sent Me to the Store

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

I Love to Whistle

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1938

Buckin’ the Dice

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

A Tisket, A Tasket

Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm 1938

Shortnin’ Bread

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Eep, Ipe, Wanna Piece-a Pie

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Patty Cake, Patty Cake

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1938

Hey! Stop Kissin’ My Sister

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

Handful of Keys
Fats Waller solo piano broadcast transcription 1939

Face the Music 7.17.14

Lounging at the Waldorf

broadcast in spite of the

capitalistic/cultural haemmorhage

surrounding the ann arbor art fairs

Hallelujah, I’m a Bum

Fats Waller singing

while accompanying himself

on the organ 1939

Abercrombie Had a Zombie

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

B Flat Blues

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Moutnain

Fats Waller singing

while accompanying himself

on the organ 1939

Suitcase Susie

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Us on a Bus

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Let’s Sing Again

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

Beat It Out

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Lounging at the Waldorf

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

You Asked For It – You Got It

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Marie

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1938

Fat and Greasy

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1936

Darktown Strutter’s Ball

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

The Joint is Jumpin’

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Chant of the Groove
Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Havin’ a Ball

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Floatin’ Down to Cotton Town

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

When Fats Waller visited London in the late 1930s, he composed a piano suite inspired by the places he saw.

This week's program will open with these impressions, followed by highlights from the same portion of his brief but incredibly prolific recording career. His 1939 rendition of Vincent Youmans' "Hallelujah" is among my personal favorites.