01 - Ring Dem Bells - Duke Ellington02 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Ben Selvin Orchestra
This song was first recorded by Leo Reisman weeks after the 1929 stockmarket crash. This recording would be the biggest hit of 1930 and would become a hopeful anthem for recovery from the Great Depression. It would be used as a campaign song for FDR in 1932.
03 - Three Little Words - The Rhythm Boys with the Duke Ellington Orchestra
This is nice. The Rhythm Boys were the vocalists from Paul Whiteman's orchestra and included a not-yet-famous Bing Crosby. Here they are singing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the earliest recorded Ellington/Crosby collaboration. Considering how prolific and prone to collaboration these two were I was surprised that I can only find a couple other recordings of them together (St. Louis Blues in 1932, and several tracks from a radio show broadcast May 29, 1941).
04 - China Boy - Red Nichols
05 - Georgia On My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael
06 - Stardust - Isham Jones
Both of these songs were written by Hoagy Carmichael. This is the first hit version of Stardust which would become a jazz standard.
07 - Oh, Lady Be Good - Red Nichols
A nice dixieland rendition of the Gershwin classic.
08 - Puttin' on the Ritz - Jan Garber
I like to think this is what the Mos Eisley Cantina Band's version of this Irving Berlin classic would sound like.
09 - Exactly Like You - Louis Armstrong
10 - The Count - Bennie Moten
I don't actually know if this song's title is a reference to the band's piano player, William James Basie.
11 - Happy Feet - Paul Whiteman with The Rhythm Boys
12 - I Got Rhythm - Red Nichols
13 - What Is This Thing Called Love - Leo Reisman
14 - Jungle Nights in Harlem - Ellington, Duke
15 - Tiger Rag - Louis Armstrong
16 - Bessie Couldn't Help It - Louis Armstrong
17 - After You've Gone - Red Nichols
Red Nighols' orchestra again. This time with a different vocalist - Wingy Manone I think.
18 - Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington
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