Note: This broadcast initiates 
a projected fourteen week series
dedicated to the Fats Waller Legacy

Face the Music 5.01.14

Fats Waller in the 1920s

Fully half of these recordings

spotlight Fats Waller as

the very first jazz organist

Muscle Shoals Blues

piano solo 1922

St. Louis Blues

pipe organ solo 1926

Birmingham Blues

piano solo 1922

Lenox Avenue Blues

pipe organ solo 1926

Willow Tree

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Loveless Love

pipe organ solo 1927

West Indies Blues

Jamaica Jazzers 1924

Soothin’ Syrup Stomp

pipe organ solo 1927

Geechee

Morris’ Hot Babies 1927

Henderson Stomp

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Blue Black Bottom Stomp

piano solo 1927

Thou Swell

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

The Chant

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Persian Rug

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Sloppy Water Blues

pipe organ solo 1927

You Don’t Know My Mind Blues

Jamaica Jazzers 1924

Mournful Tho’ts

Jimmy Johnson’s Orchestra 1928

I’m Coming Virginia

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Face the Music 4.24.14

Questionable Content IV

Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go

With Friday on Saturday Night?

Ciro’s Club Coon Orchestra

London England, 1917

What Did Romie-O Juliet

When He Climbed Her Balcony?

Five Harmaniacs 1926

O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

Bert Williams backed by the

Charles Adams Prince Orchestra 1918

Can’t You Wait ‘Til You Get Home?

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1929

Was I Drunk?

Georgia White 1936

Who Ya Hunchin’?

Chick Webb & his Orchestra 1938

Ain’t She Sweet?

Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra 1939

That Certain Party

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis 1948

Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?

Dean Martin 1960

How Come You Do Me Like You Do?

Rosa Henderson accompanied by

Fletcher Henderson 1924

Can I Do It For You? Parts I & II

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe 1930

Chevrolet

Ed & Lonnie Young 1959

Chevrolet

Jim Kweskin Jug Band 1967

Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)

Donovan 1965

Hey Gyp

The Animals 1966

Face the Music 4.17.14

Questionable Content III

When Do We Dance?

George Gershwin in London 1926

Music Hall Waltz Medley including

Are We to Part Like This, Bill?

White Star Orchestra 1997

Was It a Dream?

Lillie Delk Chrsitian with

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Four 1928

What’s the Use of Cryin’ Baby?

Jack Purvis & his Orchestra 1930

How Deep is the Ocean?

Coleman Hawkins 1943

What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?

Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band 1939

Baby Won’t You Please Come Home?

Bill Coleman & his Orchestra

avec Django Reinhardt 1937

Honey Where You Been So Long?

Ma Rainey with Lovie Austin’s

Blues Serenaders 1924

Honey Won’t You Allow Me

One More Chance?

Henry Thomas 1927

What’s Your Price?

Lena Wilson 1931

How Long, How Long Blues

Tampa Red’s Hokum Jug Band

with Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1928

Where My Shoes At?

Charley Taylor & Ishman Bracey 1929

Any Rags?

Wooden Joe Nicholas 1945

Oh, Didn’t He Ramble?

Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band

radio broadcast 1947

How Many Mo’ Years?

Othar Turner {1990s}

Wasn’t He Bad?

Washboard Sam 1939

Corrine Corrini,

Where You Been So Long?

Wingy Manone & his Orchestra 1938

Why Don’t You Do Right?

Nora Lee King with

Sammy Price 1941

Face the Music 4.10.14

Questionable Content Part II

What Is This Thing Called Love?

{composed by Cole Porter 1930}

piano roll played by T. Lawrence Cook

Isn’t There a Little Love?

Joe “Wingy” Manone

& his Club Royale Orchestra 1928

Can I Tell You?

King Oliver & his Orchestra 1929

What Is There To Say?

Bud Freeman & his Windy City Five

featuring Bunny Berigan 1935

Oh, Wasn’t It Nice?

Mattie Dorsey

with pianist Troy Snapp 1927

Pardon Me, Pretty Baby

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four

vocal by Harold Arlen 1931

Porque?

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra 1935

Baby, Oh Where Can You Be?

Fats Waller - piano solo 1929

Where or When?

Edmond Hall Quartet

with Teddy Wilson 1944

What Am I Here For?

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1942

How About Me?

{composed by Irving Berlin in 1928}

Dick Hyman - piano solo 1987

What Will I Do In The Morning?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Do You Remember?

Big Maceo 1949

What’s The Matter with the Mill?

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe 1930

Will You Spend Your Eternity in Hell?

Black Billy Sunday 1931

What’s That Thing She’s Shaking?

Papa Charlie Jackson 1934

What Will I Do?

Big Joe & his Rhythm 1941

Face the Music 4.03.14

Questionable Content, Part I

How Ya Baby?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Are You Sticking?

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

featuring clarinetist Barney Bigard 1941

Can’t We Be Friends?

Muggsy Spanier & his Orchestra 1942

What’s the Use?

Bud Freeman & his Gang 1938

How Can I?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Where or When?

Benny Goodman Trio

featuring Peggy Lee 1941

Why Did You Do That To Me?

Washboard Sam 1940

What You Want Me To Do?
King Oliver & his Orchestra 1929

Where Did You Stay Last Night?

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band 1923

Who’s Dis Heah Stranger?

Thomas Morris Orchestra 1926

What’s That Thing?

Jeanette’s Synco Jazzers 1927

What’s the Matter?

Memphis Jug Band 1929

Granny Will Your Dog Bite?

Othar Turner, Napoleon Strickland

& R.L. Boyce 1970

What You Gonna Do?

Old Ced Odom

& Lil Diamonds Hardaway 1936

Why?

Jelly Roll Morton’s Hot Six 1940

Can You Take It?

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1933

Who?
Joe Daniels & his Hot Shots 1936

What’s the Matter Now?

Rubberlegs Williams with

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker 1945

What’s This?

Illinois Jacquet 1945

Face the Music 3.27.14: Nineteen Short Films

Program inspired by the 52^nd Ann Arbor Film Festival

By the Waters of Minnetonka

Zez Confrey player piano roll 1927

Rosa Mia

Adalbert Lutter Tango Orchestra 1934

Tambourine Song

Morton Gould Orchestra 1960

Dance of the Octopus

Red Norvo marimba

Benny Goodman bass clarinet

Dick McDonough guitar

Artie Bernstein string bass 1933

Egyptia {intermezzo}

Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra

Japanese Sandman

Edgar Jackson’s Dance Orchestra 1932

Asleep in the Deep {parody}

Al Jolson 1911

Advertising Plant’s Baking Powder

George Graham 1896

Fragment of St. Hubert Mass

Hunting Horns 1899

Deep Blue Sea

Royal Bucks Hussars Band 1899

Teapot Dome Blues

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1923

Blue River

Bix Beiderbecke

with Frankie Trumbauer’s Orchestra 1927

My Baby Doesn’t Squawk

Thomas Morris & Joe Nanton

With the New Orleans Blue Five 1926

Cymbals, Cow Bell & Ratchet

Warren Baby Dodds 1944

Talking and Piano Experiment

Jimmy Yancey & Clarence Lofton 1943

Loose Wig

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1944

The Way You Look Tonight

Earl Bostic 1959

A New Pair of Shoes

Ned Sublette & the Persuasions

Hungarian Rock

by Gyorgy Ligeti

arranged for barrel organ by Pierre Charial

Big thanks to Weston Hughes
for presenting a beautiful version
of this program last week while I recovered
from a pulled back muscle garnished
with an attack of the gout.

This week's list of potentials & probabilities:

Face the Music 3.20.14

Boogie Woogie

King Oliver & his Orchestra 1930

Endurance Stomp

State Street Ramblers 1928

What’s the Matter Now?

Charles “Bozo” Nickerson 1930

Nobody Knows You

When You’re Down and Out

Clarence “Pinetop” Smith 1929

Unemployment Stomp

Big Bill Broonzy 1938

Daddy What You Done To Me

Coot Grant & Socks Wilson 1933

Newport Blues

Cincinnati Jug Band 1929

Cocaine

Dick Justice 1929

Lock and Key

Bessie Smith

with James P. Johnson 1927

Greenville Strut

Mississippi Sarah Watson

& Daddy Stovepipe 1931

Shake Your Shimmy

The Midnight Rounders

with Jimmy Blythe &

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1928

Everybody Loves My Baby

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra

with Louis Armstrong 1924

Yaaka Hoola Hickey Doola

Al Jolson 1916

That Thing Called Love

{written by Perry Bradford}

Zez Confrey piano roll 1919

Rippling Waters

Willie the Lion Smith 1939

Dardanella

Art Tatum 1949

Cow Cow Blues

Meade Lux Lewis

private live recording

California, late 1940s

Weary Blues

Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet 2013