Stars Of The Apollo / Various (1972)

Product Summary Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records UPC: 00074645340722 Release Date: 9/17/2008 Buy.com Sku: 62276776 Item#: M96QKP Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Gimmie A Pigfoot - Bessie Smith/Buck & His Band ~ Various Artists 2. He's Long Gone From Bowling Green - Buck, Bubbles & Their Buckets (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Various Artists 3. Lure Of The South, The - Mamie Smith ~ Various Artists 4. I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll - Butterbeans & Susie ~ Various Artists 5. Shake Your Ashes - Claude Hopkins & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 6. Sweet Sue, Just You - The Mills Brothers ~ Various Artists 7. Fifteen Minute Intermission - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 8. Reefer Man - Baron Lee & The Blue Rhythm Band ~ Various Artists 9. Harlem Woogie - Jimmy Johnson & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 10. Doin' The New Low Down - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson/Don Redman & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 11. Rhythm Rhapsody - Earl Hines & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 12. Backwater Blues - Ruby Smith/Jimmy Johnson & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 13. All My Life - Ella Fitzgerald/Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 14. From Monday On - Ella Logan/Spirits Of Rhythm ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. When My Baby Left Me - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson/Cootie Williams & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 2. I Got An Uncle In Harlem - Hot Lips Page & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 3. Sploghm - Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys ~ Various Artists 4. Four Day Creep - Ida Cox & Her All-Star Band ~ Various Artists 5. Wherever You Are - Billie Holiday/Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 6. Lose The Blackout Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra/Jimmy Rushing ~ Various Artists 7. Stop You're Breakin' My Heart - Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra/Maxine Sullivan ~ Various Artists 8. Saturday Night Fish Fry - Pearl Bailey/Jackie "Moms" Mabley ~ Various Artists 9. Gabbin' Blues - Big Maybelle/Leroy Kirkland & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 10. You're Just An Old Antidisestablish- Mentarian Ismist - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 11. Ain't Misbehavin' - Sarah Vaughan ~ Various Artists 12. Venus Velvet - Bobby Brown Quartet ~ Various Artists 13. I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins ~ Various Artists 14. Evil Gal Blues - Aretha Franklin ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: John Mills, Sr., Slim Gaillard (vocals, guitar); Douglas Daniels (vocals, tiple); Hot Lips Page (vocals, trumpet); Count Basie, Buck Washington (vocals, piano); Leo Watson (vocals, drums); Bob Ysoquirre, Susie Hawthorne, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Logan, Donald Mills, Harry Mills, John W. Sublett , Ida Cox, Joe Edwards, Jackie Mabley, Wilbur Daniels, Jimmy Rushing, Mamie Smith, Maxine Sullivan, Maybelle Smith, Moms Mabley, Pearl Bailey, Anna Robinson, Ray Nance, Aretha Franklin, Ruby Smith, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Slam Stewart, Mills Brothers, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson , Billie Holiday, Billy Banks, Sarah Vaughan, Herbert Mills, Butterbeans & Susie, Cabell "Cab" Calloway (vocals); Billy Taylor, Sr. , John Williams (bass voice); Danny Barker , Danny Karker, James Cannady, Walter Jones, Freddie Green, Gene Fields, Bennett James, Lawrence Dixon, Benny James , Bob Johnson, Jimmy Shirley, John Trueheart, Teddy Bunn, Tony Mottola, Al Casey, Fred Guy, Charlie Christian (guitar); Talcott Reeves (banjo); Buddy Lucas (harmonica, trombone); Edmond Hall (clarinet, reeds); Jimmy Hamilton, Tony Scott , Benny Goodman (clarinet); Budd Johnson (reeds, tenor saxophone, trumpet); Chu Berry (reeds, tenor saxophone); Darnell Howard, Andrew Brown , Don Redman, Gene Johnson , Edward Inge, Robert Carroll , Bobby Sands , Rupert Cole, Hilton Jefferson, Crawford Wethington, Jerry Blake, Joe Garland, Teddy McRae, Walter Thomas (reeds); Caughey Roberts (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Earle Warren (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Bair Bey, Vincent, Vincent Bair-Beyes, Jess Carneol, Bobby Brown , Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Toots Mondello, Hymie Schertzer, Charlie Holmes (alto saxophone); Bob Dorsey, Gene Sedric, Weywood Henry, Al Sears, Sam "The Man" Taylor , Babe Russin, Greely Walton, Buddy Tate (tenor saxophone); John Williams , Eddie Powell, Harry Carney, Haywood Henry, Dave McRae (baritone saxophone); Manny Klein, Cootie Williams, Wardell Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Dud Bascomb, Ed Lewis, Edward Lewis, Emmett Berry, Ernie Royal, Charlie Allen, Ed Anderson , Frankie Newton, Lammar Wright, Sr., Wilbur Bascomb, Sr., Harold Baker, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Henry "Red" Allen, Langston Curl, Wandell Jones, Albert Snaer, Davis, Milton Fletcher, Louis Bacon, Sylvester Lewis, Joe Guy, Al Killian, Mario Bauz , Miles Davis, Sidney DeParis, Walter Fuller, Shelton Hemphill, Francis Williams, Shirley Clay, Buck Clayton, Charlie Spivak (trumpet); Jack Lacey, Alfred Cobbs, Dicky Wells, Robert Scott , Fernando Arbello, Fred Norman, Fred Robinson , Freddy Robinson , George Washington , Bob Asher, Eli Robinson, Gene Mikell, Kenneth Stuart, Jimmy Buxton, J.C. Higginbotham, Jack Teagarden, Henry Hicks, Keg Johnson, Lawrence Brown , Louis Taylor , Quentin Jackson, Robert Horton, Sandy Williams , Tyree Glenn, Bennie Green , Benny Morton, Trummy Young, Jonas Walker, Claude Jones (trombone); Henry Turner (tuba); Claude Hopkins, Claude Thornhill, Ken Kersey, Duke Ellington, Eddie Heywood, Edgar Hayes, Fletcher Henderson, Fletcher Smith, Ray Tunia, Skip Hall, Horace Henderson, Jaki Byard, James P. Johnson, Loumell Morgan, Bennie Paine, Jimmy Jones , Teddy Wilson, Ernie Hayes, Earl Hines (piano); Paul Griffin (organ); O'Neill Spencer, Cozy Cole, Charles Smith, Gary Chester , Hubert Pettaway, J.C. Heard, George Ballard, Jo Jones , Lionel Hampton, Manzie Johnson, Panama Francis, Pete Jacobs, Big Sid Catlett, Sonny Greer, Specs Powell, Frankie Dunlop, Wallace Bishop, Charlie Smith , Chauncey Morehouse (drums). Audio Remasterer: Kevin Boutote . Liner Note Author: Chris Albertson. Recording information: 03/31/1927-01/07/1965. Unknown Contributor Roles: Davis; Omer Simeon. Arranger: Leroy Kirkland. This double CD is a straight reissue of the original double LP. Its 28 selections mostly focus on singers and bands from the swing era that performed at one time or another at the Apollo; all but eight of the numbers are from the 1927-42 period. Highpoints of this hodgepodge collection include Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot," The Mills Brothers' "Sweet Sue," Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's "Doin' the New Lowdown," Slim Gaillard's "Sploghm," Sarah Vaughan's "Ain't Misbehavin'," Screamin' Jay Hawkins's remarkable "I Put a Spell on You" and Aretha Franklin's "Evil Gal Blues." ~ Scott Yanow Producer: Chris Albertson; Nedra Olds-Neal (Reissue); Michael Brooks (Reissue)   Technical Info Release Date : 03/02/1993 Original Release Date : 1972 Catalog ID : 53407 Label : Legacy Recordings Number of Discs : 2 Runtime : 84m : 25s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mono SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00074645340722