Ultimate Rhythm & Blues Hits Collection 1942-1945 – Various Artists

1

Take It and Git

Various Artists

3:17

2

Stormy Monday Blues

Earl Hines & His Orchestra & Billy Eckstine

3:13

3

Mr Five by Five

Freddie Slack & His Orchestra & Ella Mae Morse

3:04

4

Let's Be Friends

Lil Green

3:19

5

I'm Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

3:08

6

When the Lights Go on Again (All over the World)

Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra & Dizzy Gillespie

3:17

7

Trav'lin' Light

Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Billie Holiday & Skip Layton

3:20

8

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

The Ink Spots

3:08

9

Cow Cow Boogie

Freddie Slack & His Orchestra & Ella Mae Morse

3:16

10

The Jitterbug Waltz

Fats Waller, His Rhythm & His Orchestra

3:24

11

See See Rider Blues

Bea Booze

3:19

12

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again?)

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

2:53

13

Hayfoot, Strawfoot

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra & Ivie Anderson

2:36

14

That Ain't Right

The King Cole Trio

3:12

15

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

The Southern Sons

3:17

16

It Had to Be You

Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra

3:12

17

Let Me Play with Your Poodle

Tampa Red & Big Maceo

2:39

18

Bicycle Bounce

Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra

3:23

19

Let's Beat out Some Love

Buddy Johnson & His Band

3:03

20

The Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender and Tall

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

2:30

21

Why Don't You Do Right?

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra & Peggy Lee

3:16

22

Apollo Jump

Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra

3:24

23

Baby Don't You Cry

Buddy Johnson & His Band & Warren Evans

3:06

24

Riffette

Freddie Slack & His Orchestra & T-Bone Walker

3:04

25

Flying Home

Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra

3:13

26

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

3:20

27

My Heart and I Decided

Ella Fitzgerald

3:02

28

Rusty Dusty Blues

Count Basie & His Orchestra & Jimmy Rushing

3:14

29

Paper Doll

The Mills Brothers

2:41

30

Hey Lawdy Mama (Meet Me in the Bottom)

June Richmond

2:59

31

Don't Cry Baby

Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra & Jimmy Mitchell

3:21

32

From Twilight 'Till Dawn

The 3 Shades & The 4 Dreamers

3:13

33

A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra & Ray Nance

2:58

34

Sentimental Lady

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

3:06

35

Five Guys Named Moe

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

3:03

36

All for You

The King Cole Trio

3:26

37

Sweet Slumber

Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra

3:16

38

Shoo-Shoo Baby

Ella Mae Morse

3:20

39

Ration Blues

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

3:09

40

Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra & Cootie Williams

3:25

41

Hurry, Hurry!

Benny Carter & His Orchestra & Savannah Churchill

2:54

42

Cherry

Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra & Jimmy Mitchelle

3:12

43

Solo Flight

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra & Charlie Christian

2:49

44

I Learned a Lesson I'll Never Forget

The 5 Red Caps

3:04

45

When My Man Comes Home

Buddy Johnson & His Band

3:09

46

Cow Cow Boogie

Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots

3:01

47

Main Stem

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra

2:53

48

Sometimes I'm Happy

Lester Young Quartet

3:13

49

Boogie-Woogie Ball

The 5 Red Caps

2:49

50

Salty Papa Blues

Dinah Washington & Lionel Hampton & His Sextet

3:07

51

Straighten up and Fly Right

The King Cole Trio

2:29

52

Gi Jive

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

3:02

53

I Can't See for Lookin'

The King Cole Trio

3:10

54

Cherry Red Blues

Cootie Williams & His Orchestra & Eddie Vinson

3:14

55

My Little Brown Book

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra & Herb Jeffries

3:15

56

Till Then

The Mills Brothers

2:40

57

Someone

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra

3:14

58

Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

2:47

59

Body and Soul

Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra

3:05

60

You Always Hurt the One You Love

The Mills Brothers

3:12

61

Hamp's Boogie Woogie

Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra

3:18

62

I Stay in the Mood for You

Billy Eckstine with DeLuxe All Star Band

2:57

63

Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?

The King Cole Trio

2:59

64

Going out the Back Way

Johnny Hodges & Orchestra

2:48

65

I Wonder

Cecil Gant

2:43

66

I'm Lost

King Cole Trio

3:11

67

Is You Is or Is You Ain't

Cootie Williams & His Orchestra & Eddie Vinson

2:52

68

I'm Making Believe

Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots

3:14

69

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots

3:14

70

It's Only a Paper Moon

The King Cole Trio

2:58

71

I Don't Mind

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra & Ivie Anderson

2:51

72

Somebody's Gotta Go

Cootie Williams & His Orchestra & Eddie Vinson

2:58

73

I'm Beginning to See the Light

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra & Joya Sherrill

3:16

74

Mop! Mop!

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

2:59

75

I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra, Al Hibbler & Kay Davis

2:44

76

Sk Blues, Pt. 1

Joe Turner & Pete Johnson's All Stars

3:03

77

Sk Blues, Pt. 2

Joe Turner & Pete Johnson's All Stars

3:01

78

Tippin' In

Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra

3:23

79

Cecil Boogie

Cecil Gant

2:23

80

Strange Things Happening Every Day

Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Sam Price Trio

2:49

81

Rock Me Mama

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

3:00

82

Caldonia

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

2:44

83

Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)

Billie Holiday & Toots Camarata Orchestra

3:19

84

If You Can't Smile and Say Yes (Please Don't Cry and Say No)

The King Cole Trio

3:08

85

Caldonia

Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra & Ace Harris

2:54

86

Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well

Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra & Wynonie Harris

2:58

87

Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

3:17

88

That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch

Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra

3:10

89

I'm Tired

Cecil Gant

3:06

90

The Honeydripper, Pt. 1

Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers

3:08

91

It's Only a Paper Moon

Ella Fitzgerald & The Delta Rhythm Boys

2:45

92

I'm a Shy Guy

The King Cole Trio

2:57

93

Jimmy's Blues

Count Basie & His Orchestra & Jimmy Rushing

2:56

94

Last Night (And Now Tonight Again)

Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra

3:04

95

Daddy Daddy

Savannah Churchill & Her All Star Orchestra

2:37

96

The Honeydripper

Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra & The Delta Rhythm Boys

2:49

97

Left a Good Deal in Mobile

Herb Jeffries & Joe Liggins' Honeydrippers

3:04

98

Things Have Changed

Big Maceo & Tampa Red

3:00

99

Beulah's Boogie

Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra

3:10

100

Be-Baba-Leba

Helen Humes & The Bill Doggett Octet

2:43

101

Blues at Sunrise

Ivory Joe Hunter & Johnny Moore's Three Blazers

3:18

102

Keep Your Arms Around Me

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

2:34

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