The John R.T. Davies Collection: Vol. 1: Jazz Classics

Original Release Date:  April 24, 2007

Track Listing

• 1. That's Where the South Begins
• 2. Jamaica Shout
• 3. Long About Midnight
• 4. Star Dust
• 5. Sing It Way Down Low
• 6. Sing It Way Down Low
• 7. Let's Have a Jubilee
• 8. I Still Want You
• 9. (Looks Like) I'm Breaking the Ice
• 10. Sing It Way Down Low
• 11. Let's Have a Jubilee
• 12. House Rent Party Day
• 13. It's the Rhythm in Me
• 14. Worry Blues
• 15. Bright Eyes
• 16. Put on an Old Pair of Shoes
• 17. Sugar Is Sweet and So Are You
• 18. I'm Livin in a Great Big Way
• 19. Swing Me With Rhythm
• 20. The Lady in Red
• 21. Chinatown, My Chinatown
• 22. Chasing Shadows
• 23. Basin Street Blues
• 24. In a Little Gypsy Tea Room
• 25. Let's Swing It
• 26. Start the Band
• 27. Oh Baby!
• 28. Hello Montreal!
• 29. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• 30. I Ain't Got Nobody
• 31. A Jazz Holiday
• 32. Jungle Blues
• 33. Shim-Me-Sha-Wobble
• 34. Clarinet Marmalade
• 35. My Little Dream Boat
• 36. She's Funny That Way
• 37. Allah's Holiday
• 38. Limehouse Blues
• 39. Glad Rag Doll
• 40. Roses of Picardy
• 41. Russian Lullaby
• 42. I'm the Medicine Man For the Blues
• 43. Maybe - Who Knows?
• 44. In the Land of Jazz
• 45. Lewisada Blues
• 46. Lewisada Blues
• 47. Farewell Blues
• 48. Wabash Blues
• 49. I Must Be Dreaming
• 50. Tain't So Honey, 'Tain't So
• 51. Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now
• 52. Just Like a Melody Out of a Sky
• 53. Pickin' Cotton
• 54. I'm on the Crest of a Wave
• 55. Doin' Things
• 56. I Must Have That Man
• 57. That's the Good Old Sunny South
• 58. Weary River
• 59. I'm in Seventh Heaven
• 60. Little Pal
• 61. Chant of the Jungle
• 62. That Wonderful Something (Is Love)
• 63. Promises: Take C
• 64. Dancing With Tears in My Eyes: Take A
• 65. I'm Only Human After All
• 66. Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You
• 67. Promises: Take B
• 68. Dancing With Tears in My Eyes: Take C
• 69. You're My Past Present and Future
• 70. I Want to Ring Bells
• 71. Doin' the Uptown Lowdown
• 72. Gather Lip Rouge While You May
• 73. Moon Glow
• 74. Cheese and Crackers
• 75. Wasting My Love on You
• 76. My Man From Caroline
• 77. I Like a Little Gin Like That
• 78. FiddleSticks: Take 1
• 79. FiddleSticks: Take 2
• 80. Everybody Shuffle
• 81. Moon Glow
• 82. Phantom Rhapsody
• 83. Sugar
• 84. Hanid
• 85. Blue Room
• 86. At Sundown
• 87. It Ain't the Humidity (It's the Beat!)
• 88. Body & Soul
• 89. Is George Really George?
• 90. Over the Rainbow
• 91. Long, Long Ago
• 92. Kettle Blues

Credits

• Louis Prima: Trumpet, Vocals
• George Barnes: Guitar
• Bud Freeman: Sax (Tenor)
• Jonah Jones: Trumpet
• Max Kaminsky: Trumpet
• Pee Wee Russell: Clarinet
• Muggsy Spanier: Cornet
• Jack Teagarden: Trombone
• Claude Thornhill: Piano
• Joe Venuti: Piano, Violin
• Ray Bauduc: Drums
• Phil Napoleon: Trumpet
• Frank Teschemacher: Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
• George Wettling: Drums
• George Van Eps: Guitar
• Sidney Arodin: Clarinet
• Rube Bloom: Piano
• Red Bone: Trombone
• Arnold Brillhardt: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
• George Brunies: Trombone, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
• Jimmy Dorsey: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
• Tommy Dorsey: Trombone
• Lennie Hayton: Piano, Celeste
• Milt Hinton: Bass
• Will Hudson: Announcer
• Stan King: Drums
• Manny Klein: Trumpet
• Nappy Lamare: Guitar
• John Lucas: Drums
• Chauncey Morehouse: Drums, Vocals
• Bill Rank: Trombone
• Jack Ryan: String Bass
• Arthur Schutt: Piano, Celeste
• Artie Shapiro: String Bass
• Frank Signorelli: Piano, Celeste
• Frank Luther: Vocals
• Harry Barth: Brass Band
• Charlie Butterfield: Trombone
• Max Farley: Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Alto)
• Garry McAdams: Guitar
• Dick McDonough: Guitar
• Frank Pinero: Piano
• Joe Tarto: Drums, String Bass, Announcer, Brass Band
• Fuzzy Farrar: Trumpet
• Pete Pumiglio: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Hank Stern: Brass Band
• Larry Alpeter: Trombone
• Harry Goldfield: Trumpet
• Brian Peerless: Liner Notes
• Andy Secrest: Trumpet
• Sammy Shapiro: Violin
• Smith Ballew: Violin, Vocals
• Talmadge Lewis: Clarinet, Sax (C-Melody), Vocals, Whistle (Human)
• Harry Raderman: Trombone
• Walter Kahn: Trumpet
• Charlie Margulis: Trumpet
• Alfie Evans: Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
• Ray Lodwig: Trumpet
• Herb Quigley: Drums, Vibraphone
• Rube Crozier: Oboe, Sax (Tenor)
• Leo McConville: Trumpet
• Charlie Crump: Liner Notes
• Jim Godbolt: Liner Notes
• Joe Raymond: Violin
• Bernie Daly: Sax (Tenor)
• Frankie Ross: Piano
• Pat Davies: Sax (Tenor)
• Wallace Blumberry: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Sol Klein: Violin
• Irene Beasley: Vocals
• Dave Bennett: Producer