A Good Man Is Hard to Find: The Middle Years, Part 2 (1938-1940)

~ Release by Fats Waller and His Rhythm (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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1Anita
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-06-28)
drums (drum set):
Larry Hinton (Jazz drum player) (on 1939-06-28)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-06-28)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-06-28)
tenor saxophone:
Chauncey Graham (Sax player) (on 1939-06-28)
trumpet:
Herman Autrey (Jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-06-28)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-06-28)
recording of:
Anita (on 1939-06-28)
lyricist and composer:
Fats Waller
3:15
2What a Pretty Miss
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-06-28)
drums (drum set):
Larry Hinton (Jazz drum player) (on 1939-06-28)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-06-28)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-06-28)
tenor saxophone:
Chauncey Graham (Sax player) (on 1939-06-28)
trumpet:
Herman Autrey (Jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-06-28)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-06-28)
2:35
3Squeeze Me
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-08-10)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-08-10)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-08-10)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-08-10)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-08-10)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
recording of:
Squeeze Me (on 1939-08-10)
lyricist:
Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader)
composer:
Fats Waller
publisher:
MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated)
3:10
4Bless You
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-08-10)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-08-10)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-08-10)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-08-10)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-08-10)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
3:19
5It’s the Tune That Counts
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-08-10)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-08-10)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-08-10)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-08-10)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-08-10)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
3:04
6Abdullah
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-08-10)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-08-10)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-08-10)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-08-10)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
recording of:
Abdullah (on 1939-08-10)
writer:
Edgar Battle, Slick Jones and Cornelius Lawrence
2:58
7Who’ll Take My Place (When I Am Gone)
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-08-10)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-08-10)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-08-10)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-08-10)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-08-10)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
2:56
8Bond Street
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-08-10)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-08-10)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-08-10)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-08-10)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1939-08-10)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-08-10)
recording of:
Bond Street
composer:
Fats Waller
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp.
3:15
9It’s You Who Taught It to Me
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
2:43
10Suitcase Susie
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
2:46
11Your Feet’s Too Big
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1939-11-03)
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
recording of:
Your Feet’s Too Big (on 1939-11-03)
lyricist:
Ada Benson
composer:
Fred Fisher (in 1936)
3:06
12You’re Lettin’ the Grass Grow Under Your Feet
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
3:19
13Darktown Strutters Ball
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
recording of:
Darktown Strutters’ Ball (on 1939-11-03)
lyricist and composer:
Shelton Brooks (in 1917)
publisher:
J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd. and Leo Feist, Inc.
part of:
For Me and My Gal (1942 movie)
2:44
14I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (take 1)
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Una Mae Carlisle (on 1939-11-03) and Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
recording of:
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (on 1939-11-03)
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
Aldi Music Company, Cotton Club Publishing and EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated)
sub-publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Ltd., ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label), コンソーシアム音楽出版 C・F事業部 (Consortium Music Publishing, CF Division) (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
cover recording of:
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
Aldi Music Company, Cotton Club Publishing and EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated)
sub-publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Ltd., ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label), コンソーシアム音楽出版 C・F事業部 (Consortium Music Publishing, CF Division) (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
2:58
15I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (take 2)
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-11-03)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1939-11-03)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1939-11-03)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
reeds:
Gene Sedric (on 1939-11-03)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-11-03)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1939-11-03)
recording of:
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (on 1939-11-03)
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
Aldi Music Company, Cotton Club Publishing and EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated)
sub-publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Ltd., ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label), コンソーシアム音楽出版 C・F事業部 (Consortium Music Publishing, CF Division) (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
3:10
16Swinga-Dilla Street
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
Hammond organ and piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
2:46
17At Twilight
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
recording of:
At Twilight (on 1940-01-12)
lyricist:
William Tracey
composer:
Maceo Pinkard
3:22
18Oh! Frenchy
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
part of:
V Disc (by matrix number) (number: VP 982 (2))
3:03
19Cheatin’ on Me
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set) and vibraphone:
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
3:13
20Black Maria
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
3:14
21Mighty Fine
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
vocals:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
3:03
22The Moon Is Low
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
instrumental recording of:
The Moon Is Low (from MGM film "Montana Moon") (on 1940-01-12)
lyricist:
Arthur Freed
composer:
Nacio Herb Brown (US songwriter)
recording of:
The Moon Is Low (from MGM film "Montana Moon") (on 1940-01-12)
lyricist:
Arthur Freed
composer:
Nacio Herb Brown (US songwriter)
3:07
23The Moon Is Low, Part 2
double bass:
Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1940-01-12)
drums (drum set):
Slick Jones (on 1940-01-12)
guitar:
John Smith (US jazz guitarist, active 1930s-1960s) (on 1940-01-12)
Hammond organ and piano:
Fats Waller (on 1940-01-12)
reeds:
Eugene Sedric (on 1940-01-12)
trumpet:
John Hamilton (jazz trumpet player) (on 1940-01-12)
instrumental recording of:
The Moon Is Low (from MGM film "Montana Moon") (on 1940-01-12)
lyricist:
Arthur Freed
composer:
Nacio Herb Brown (US songwriter)
2:49