Complete 1950-1952 Decca Recordings

Original Release Date:  February 25, 2003

Track Listing

• 1. I Want a Roof Over My Head
• 2. Show Me How (You Milk the Cow)
• 3. Blue Light Boogie
• 4. Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
• 5. I'll Never Be Free
• 6. Tamburitza Boogie
• 7. (You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse
• 8. Lemonade
• 9. It's a Great, Great Pleasure
• 10. You Will Always Have a Friend
• 11. Trouble Then Satisfaction
• 12. Life Is So Peculiar
• 13. You Rascal You
• 14. Teardrops from My Eyes
• 15. Weak Minded Blues
• 16. Is My Pop in There?
• 17. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
• 18. If You're So Smart, How Come You Ain't Rich
• 19. Trust in Me
• 20. Louisville Lodge Meeting
• 21. How Blue Can You Get?
• 22. May Every Day Be Christmas
• 23. Please Don't Leave Me
• 24. Bone Dry
• 25. Three Handed Woman
• 26. Fat Sam from Birmingham
• 27. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
• 28. There Must Be a Way
• 29. Come and Get It
• 30. Slow Down
• 31. Work, Baby Work
• 32. Never Trust a Woman
• 33. All of Me
• 34. There Goes My Heart
• 35. Lay Something on the Bar
• 36. Junco Partner
• 37. Time Marches On
• 38. Azure-Te (Paris Blues)
• 39. Oil Well, Texas
• 40. Jordan for President
• 41. The Soon-A-Baby
• 42. You Didn't Want Me Baby
• 43. A Man's Best Friend Is a Bed
• 44. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
• 45. It's Better to Wait for Love
• 46. Only Yesterday
• 47. Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)
• 48. Crazy Baby [*]

Credits

• Bill Doggett: Piano, Composer
• Leonard Feather: Composer
• Ella Fitzgerald: Vocals
• Wardell Gray: Composer
• Bill Jennings: Guitar (Electric)
• Hank Jones: Piano
• Louis Jordan: Composer, Sax (Alto), Vocals
• Oliver Nelson: Sax (Alto)
• Horace Silver: Composer
• Ray McKinley: Composer
• Bill Davis: Composer
• Jimmy McHugh: Composer
• Richard Rodgers: Composer
• Milton Ager: Composer
• Bennie Benjamin: Composer
• Walter Bishop, Sr.: Composer
• Ray Brown: Bass
• Bob Burgess: Trombone
• Johnny Burke: Composer
• Bob Carter: Composer
• Alfred Cobbs: Trombone, Composer
• John Collins: Guitar
• Leon Comegys: Trombone
• Ervin Drake: Composer
• Dorothy Fields: Composer
• Marty Flax: Sax (Baritone)
• Lorenz Hart: Composer
• Aaron Izenhall: Trumpet
• Josh Jackson: Sax (Tenor)
• John Malachi: Piano
• Nelson Riddle: Orchestra Director
• Bert Payne: Guitar (Electric)
• Reuben Phillips: Sax (Tenor)
• Ben Raleigh: Composer
• Arthur Schwartz: Composer
• Bob Shad: Composer
• Jimmy Shirl: Composer
• Charlie Smith: Drums
• Irv Taylor: Composer
• Rudy Toombs: Composer
• James Van Heusen: Composer
• George David Weiss: Composer
• J. Mayo Williams: Composer
• Jimmy Peterson: Piano
• Charlie Rice: Drums
• Valliford: Vocals
• Vasil Crienica: Composer
• Vaughn Horton: Composer
• Chris Columbus: Drums
• Bob Mitchell: Trumpet
• Arthur Johnston: Composer
• Antonio González Padilla: Liner Notes
• Sheldon Smith: Composer
• Billy Moore Jr.: Composer
• Mort Dixon: Composer
• Harry Woods: Composer
• Seymour Simons: Composer
• Gerald Marks: Composer
• Benny Davis: Composer
• Robert Ellen: Composer
• Sammy Gallop: Composer
• Fleecie Moore: Composer
• Jessie Mae Robinson: Composer
• J. Leslie McFarland: Composer
• Russell Royster: Composer
• David Saxon: Composer
• Irving Taylor: Composer
• Bill Tennyson: Composer
• Sam Theard: Composer
• Joe Willoughby: Composer
• Jack Adrian: Composer
• Ned Wever: Composer
• Irving "Skinny" Brown: Sax (Tenor)
• Stan Tayor: Composer
• J.G. Calvados: Editing, Preparation
• Walt Barrows: Composer
• Bernard Zee: Composer
• Libby Zee: Composer
• Brooks. Harvey: Composer
• Matthew Strange: Composer
• Bob Astor: Composer