Stompin' at the Savoy

Stompin' at the Savoy

ASIN: B00005UWTT

Track Listings

1. Stompin' At The Savoy

2. Let's Get Together

3. If Dreams Come True

4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

5. Blue Minor

6. Don't Be That Way

7. What A Shuffle

8. Blue Lou

9. Down Home

10. Go Harlem

11. Sing Me A Swing Song And Let Me Dance

12. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley!

13. Strictly Jive

14. Rock it For

15. Harlem Congo

16. I Want Be Happy

17. Midnite In A (Midnite In Harlem)

18. A-Tisket, A-Tasket

19. Azure

20. Spinnin' The Webb

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

You Got The Love
Once You Get Started
Dance With Me
Sweet Things
Tell Me Something Good
You're Welcome, Stop On By
Pack'd My Bags
I'm A Woman (I'm A Backbone)
At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)

Tracks:

Ain't That Peculiar
Stay
What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
Do You Love What You Feel
Ain't Nobody
One Million Kisses
Try A Little Understanding
Don't Go To Strangers

Customer Reviews:

An excellent recording.......2007-04-11

This is a terrific record of an excellent band. It is highly representative of what their performances were like. I travelled as stage manager with Chaka and her post-Rufus band (with Tony Maiden on guitar, though), and heard her perform these tunes night after night. I never tired of it then, and I haven't tired of this recording. R & B like it should be.

FANTASTIC.......2006-11-29

This Double Album set is a Must-Have on the Double. Chaka Khan and Rufus rock the house on this live recording. And on the last track "Don't Go to Strangers" is so velvet, smooth and beautiful. (Ralph Burns penned the arrangements on this one incl. special guest Joe Sample on piano). This song is like a outstanding jazz standard which turns you on and keeps you going and feel blessed.

Get the vinyl.......2006-08-14

a) it sounds better and b) gatefold LP artwork beats the stuffing out of a 5" x 5" CD insert any day!

Live is Live.......2003-11-20

This is the best live recording I have ever heard. Rufus and Chaka were at their very, very best, so much so that some of the songs sound better than the original. The double cd also include 4 new songs including the now famous Ain't Nobody and a wonderful rendition of the jazz standard, Don't Go To Strangers. Chaka thrives when she sings jazz, just brilliant. A must have cd for any who loves live music.

One of the best live albums I ever heard.......2002-05-12

Rufus and Chaka are smokin' on this album. They sing their classic songs plus a few extras such as Ain't that pecular. Ain't nobody is a good track as well.

Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra

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Pops Stoppers

Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra

Manufacturer: Philips
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ASIN: B0000041CP
Release Date: 1995-05-16

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Sophisticated Ladies (Medley) - A Tribute to Duke Ellington:: Sophiscated Lady - Take the 'A' Train - Mood Indigo - It Don't Mean A Thing
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Customer Reviews:

Pops Stoppers.......2007-05-06

Thank you for sending this--excellent recording. Great music, and enjoyed by all generations in our family...from 19 yrs.....to 90 yrs....We all have enjoyed it so much.....Thank you...

Black And Blue: A Musical Revue (1989 Original Broadway Cast)

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Diverse offering full of laughter, love and the blues!!

Black And Blue: A Musical Revue (1989 Original Broadway Cast)

Manufacturer: Drg
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000PIF
Release Date: 1992-04-10

Tracks:

Blues: I'm A Woman
Royal Garden Blues
St. Louis Blues
After You've Gone
If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It
I Want A Big Butter And Egg Man
Stompin' At The Savoy
I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues
Black And Tan Fantasy
T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
Call It Stormy Monday/I'm Getting 'Long Alright
Body And Soul
I'm Confessing
Am I Blue
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
In A Sentimental Mood
Black And Blue

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Diverse offering full of laughter, love and the blues!!.......1998-12-24

This musical soundtrack is my favorite! It has a diverse offering of artists who range in vocals from a very robust and alluring tenor to enchanting soprano. The types of songs go from fun & upbeat to "somebody-please-get-me-a-tissue" blues. These selections will make you envision whatever scene/theme that is being performed and will force you to crawl into the number and savor/enjoy the fun or the blues of it.

Tracks:

String of Pearls
Stompin' at the Savoy
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, The Manhattan Transfer
Straighten Up and Fly Right - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, John Pizzarelli
Sugar - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, The Manhattan Transfer
Skyliner - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, The Manhattan Transfer
Blues in the Night
Avalon - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, John Pizzarelli
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Clouds, Adapted from Nuages - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, The Manhattan Transfer
Jumpin' at the Woodside
Flying Home
I'll Be Seeing You - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, Janis Siegel
Sweet Georgia Brown

Customer Reviews:

A very nice SACD.......2004-06-09

This is a very enjoyable album. The sound quality is absolutely amazing! The first time I heard the clarinet solo on track #2, my jaw dropped at the amazing sound quality.

The soloists on the album include John Pizzareli, and the Manhattan Transfer. They are great musicians that bring a bit of variety to this album.

Tracks:

And The World Goes 'Round: Theme From New York, New York - Karen Mason
Jerome Robbins' Broadway: Times Square - New York, New York - Paul Gemignani
Follies In Concert: Broadway Baby - New York Philharmonic
Guys And Dolls: The Oldest, Established, Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York - Edward Strauss
42nd Street: Lullaby Of Broadway - Company
42nd Street: 42nd Street - Lee Roy Reams
The Garrick Gaieties: Manhattan - William Bolcom
Ain't Misbehavin': Lounging At The Waldorf - Luther Henderson
Thoroughly Modern Millie: Only In New York - Sheryl Lee Ralph
Strayhorn: Take The 'A' Train - Morgana King
Porgy And Bess: There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York - Skitch Henderson
Stompin' At The Savoy - The New Glenn Miller Orchestra
Spanish Harlem - Tommy Leonetti
Autumn In New York - Bobby Short
Native New Yorker - Odyssey
I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City - Harry Nilsson

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webb is no midget when it comes to music
I love this music
The right music but variable sound

Stompin' at the Savoy
Chick Webb
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005UWTT
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

Stompin' At The Savoy
Let's Get Together
If Dreams Come True
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Blue Minor
Don't Be That Way
What A Shuffle
Blue Lou
Down Home
Go Harlem
Sing Me A Swing Song And Let Me Dance
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley!
Strictly Jive
Rock it For
Harlem Congo
I Want Be Happy
Midnite In A (Midnite In Harlem)
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Azure
Spinnin' The Webb
Liza, All The Clouds'll Roll Away
Who Ya Hunchin'?
Undecided
'Tain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It
In The Groove At The Grove

Customer Reviews:

webb is no midget when it comes to music.......2006-02-08

this small man, is easily one of the greatest drummers we have ever seen, and this CD is nearly as great as he is. did they know then just how fortunate they were to hear and dance to this genius? if there were a time machine i would make my first trip to the savoy and dance to chick webb. it is not stereo, and i do not know if new tech magic could have helped in that area, but other than that..this is one of my favorite cd's....if you like this cd, then also check out louis jordand (best of).

I love this music.......2005-02-11

Chick Webb swings hard. This stuff will get your feet moving. The more I listen to it, the more difficult it is to turn it off. Now I understand why Gene Krupa said, after the Benny Goodman band played against Chick at the Savoy in 1938, "Those cats cut us to ribbons."

The right music but variable sound.......2003-07-24

This product, by a prolific re-issue label operating in the UK, offers the best selection of the great drummer and bandleader's studio recordings available on a single CD. Webb's band was one of the most acclaimed dance orchestras to arise in Harlem and had a fine array of soloists such as Taft Jordan (trumpet and vocal), Edgar Sampson (reeds)and, late in the decade, Ella Fitzgerald. Webb himself, however, was second to none and may have been the best pre-Jo Jones drummer in jazz. As the decade and recording practice progressed (this CD runs up to Webb's untimely death in 1939)his abilities became more and more audible to posterity.
I might specially recommend Chick Webb to those whose acquaintance with big band jazz is so far limited to Duke Ellington, as there was a good working relationship between the two bandleaders. Duke assisted Webb in his early career, and many of Webb's soloists (Jordan, tenor sax player Elmer Williams, and alto player Russell Procope among them) would later play for Duke. Moreover, Webb's arrangers such as Edgar Sampson vied with Duke for coloratura orchestration.
This CD covers Webb's peak period in the early and mid thirties (e.g. "Stomping at the Savoy" and "Blue Minor", both Edgar Sampson arrangements) as well as some of the Ella Fitzgerald hits later in the decade, such as "A tisket a tasket". It includes, speaking of Ellington, Duke's own arrangement of his "Azure", which he himself never recorded, to my knowledge.
My only reservation would be some odd distortion which occurs in some, not all, of the tracks. This is a rather "watery" sound (heard also on the Decca re-issues of the same pieces) which may be easily explicable to those better versed in recording and transfer technology than I, but I have to say that I found it distracting, and I am not a hi-fi fanatic. Otherwise what the musicians were doing is audible enough.

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Stompin' at the Savoy
Harry James
Manufacturer: Delta
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Bluebeard's Blues
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Lament D'amour
King Porter Stomp
The Roach And I
Roly Poly
Stomping At The Savoy
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Stompin' at the Savoy : Harlem Nocturne 1944-1947

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Stompin' at the Savoy : Harlem Nocturne 1944-1947
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Slim's Jam - Slim Gaillard & His Orchestra
Atomic Boogie - Pete Johnson
Weddin' Day Blues - Pete Brown Brooklyn Blues Blowers, Cousin Joe
My Gal's a Jockey - Bill Moore Lucky Seven Band, Big Joe Turner
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Take the Hands Off the Clock - Tiny Bradshaw
Midnight in the Barrel House - Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Johnny Otis
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Write Me a Letter - The Ravens
Thirty Five Thirty - Paul Williams Sextet
My Good Pott - Doc Pomus
We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll - Wild Bill Moore, , Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams

Album Description

In clubs and juke joints, a new music took shape toward the end of the Second World War. Swining, sophiticated, and relentlessly high energy, it became known as "Rhythm & Blues." Savoy Records was among the first labels to record R&B, at a time when it was ignored and misunderstood by the music industry, and this ground breaking collection captures the birth of modern R&B.

Stompin' at the Savoy: The Original Indie-Label 1944-1961

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Stompin' at the Savoy: The Original Indie-Label 1944-1961
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Uncle Sam Blues - Hot Lips Page
Pete Brown's Boogie - Pete Brown Quintette
Hey Lawdy Mama - Miss Rhapsody
If Money Grew On Trees - The Toppers
S.K. Blues Parts 1 & 2 - Joe Turner
Evil Gal Blues - Albina Jones
I Ain't Mad At You, Pretty Baby - Gatemouth Moore
Prisoner Of Love - Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra
Harlem Nocturne - Johnny Otis
Slim's Jam - Slim Gaillard & His Orchestra
Atomic Boogie - Pete Johnson All Stars
Weddin' Day Blues - Cousin Joe
My Gal's A Jockey - Joe Turner
Open The Door, Richard Pards 1 & 2 - Dusty Fletcher
Take The Hands Off The Clock - Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra
Midnight In The Barrel House - Johnny Otis
Thriller Diller Poppa - Benny Roberts Orchestra
Write Me A Letter - The Ravens
Thirty Five Thirty - Paul Williams Sextet
My Good Pott - Doc Pomus
We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll - (Wild) Bill Moore

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Corn Bread - Hal Singer Sextet
My Fault - Brownie McGhee
Fat Stuff Boogie - Beale Street Gang
Red Hot Blues - T.J. Fowler And His Rockin' Jump Band
The Huckle-Buck - Paul Williams & His Hucklebuckers
I'll Always Be In Love With You - The X-rays
Deacon's Hop - Deacon McNeely & His Blue Jays
Rickey's Blues - The Ravens
Sure Like To Run - King Carl
Cheatin' Women - Kansas City Jimmy
Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis Quintet
If It's So Baby - The Robins
Cupid's Boogie - Little Esther & Mel Walker
Rockin' Blues - Johnny Otis Orchestra
Straighten Him Out - Marilyn Scott
I Will Wait - The Four Buddies
Helen's Advice - Helen Humes
Atlanta Boogie - Tommy Brown And His Orchestra
Stacked Deck - Billy Wright
All Nite Long - Johnny Otis Orchestra
I Want To Rock - Miss Sharecropper

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Good Lovin' - H-Bomb Ferguson
Easy, Easy Baby - Varetta Dillard
Keyhole Blues - Eddie Mack
Got Nobody To Tell - T.J. Fowler
Forgive Me Baby - Henry Hayes Orchestra
My Kind Of Woman - Emitt Slay Trio
I Wanna Know - Dolly Cooper
Beggin' At Your Mercy - Earl Johnson
Mercy Mister Percy - Varetta Dillard
Little Daddy - Big Bertha
Darlene - The Dreams
That Ain't Right - Jimmy Crawford
Let's Make Love Tonight - Earl Williams
Don't Drop It - Wilbert Harrison
Johnny Has Gone - Varetta Dillard
Things Have Changed - Sticks McGhee
Don't Be Angry - Nappy Brown
Chop, Chop, Ching-a-Ling - The Roamers
Don't Cry Baby - Little Jimmy Scott
Is It Really You? - Nappy Brown
Rocking Boy - Chuz Alfred & His Combo

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Hot Rod - Hal Singer And His Orchestra
Just Leave It To Me - The Debutantes
Shake Me Up, Baby - Little Terry
Candy - Big Maybelle
Why Did You Make Me Cry? - The Cubs
Stop, Don't Go - Annie Laurie
Little By Little - Nappy Brown
Rib Joint - Sammy Price
Bad Boy - The Jive Bombers
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The Right Time - Nappy Brown
Bad Times - Billy Hope & The Bad Men
Going Back To Orleans - Jesse & Buzzy
Blues Early, Early Parts 1&2 - Big Maybelle
You Better Believe - The Gay Poppers
Honky Tonk Caboose - Sammy Price
Mind On Loving - Little Danny
Step Up And Resuce Me - Faye Adams
Nobody - Sammy Cotton

Album Description

In the face of impossible odds, a legendary music man had a vision for a new kind of record label. In its golden period Savoy discovered and produced artists that would define the sound of R&B for their generation. These four albums contain hit records and rediscovered treasures whose energy and passion make them timeless classics!

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Disappointing Vocals

Got Swing!

Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000088EA9
Release Date: 2003-02-25

Tracks:

String Of Pearls
Stompin' At The Savoy
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
Straighten Up And Fly Right
Sugar (That Sugar Baby Of Mine)
Skyliner
Blues In The Night
Avalon
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain;t Got That Swing)
Clouds, Adapted From Nuages
Jumpin' At Woodside
Flying Home
I'll Be Seeing You
Sweet Georgia Brown

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Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra here offer a veritable tour of the swing era. Kunzel has been conducting the orchestra since its formation in 1977. The set includes many of swing's cornerstone numbers, of course including Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," which is also celebrated as the source of the genre's name. The music flourished in the '30s and '40s, popularized by composers and bandleaders such as Count Basie, Glenn Miller, and the Dorsey brothers. To help realize this project, a number of vocalists were enlisted, all of whom have current resumes rich with forays into the swing era: the Manhattan Transfer, John Pizzarelli, and Janis Siegel (who's also a member of the aforementioned vocal quartet). From soaring group vocals on such numbers as "Skyliner" to straight-ahead instrumental grooves as on Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton's "Flying Home," this 14-song set celebrates the swing era by making it sound fresh today. --David Greenberger

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing Vocals.......2003-08-21

The orchestral approach to swing used on this recording unfortunately makes this date sound anemic. The swing band sound that is in integral part of this song list is either missing or meagerly represented among the orchestral arrangements and the hollow sounding concert hall acoustics. Worst of all, the Manhattan Transfer are mixed down so far that they almost sound like they don't get their own mikes. For anyone who loves MT as much as I do, this recording is a sadly wasted opportunity. Very disappointing. They deserve so much better.

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