The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey

Mildred Bailey

The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey

10 discs

320kbps CBR - MP3

2000



Mildred Baily was the older sister of Alton "Al" Rinker, Bing Crosby's first musical partner, and the wife of Red Norvo.



Born as Mildred Rinker in Tekoa, Washington, Bailey retained the last name of her first husband, Ted Bailey, when she moved to Seattle to bolster her singing career. With the help of her second husband, Benny Stafford, she became an established blues and jazz singer on the West Coast. According to Gary Giddins' book Bing Crosby - A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903-1940, in 1925 she secured work for her brother, Al Rinker and his partner Bing Crosby. Giddins further states that Crosby first heard of Louis Armstrong and other Chicago black jazz records from Bailey's own record collection. Crosby helped Bailey in turn by introducing her to Paul Whiteman. She sang with Paul Whiteman's band from 1929 to 1933 (Whiteman had a popular radio program and when Bailey debuted with her version of "Moaning Low" in 1929, public reaction was immediate, although she did not start recording with Whiteman until late 1931).



Her first two records were as uncredited vocalist for an Eddie Lang Orchestra session in 1929 ("What Kind O' Man Is You?", an obscure Hoagy Carmichael song that was only issued in the UK) and a 1930 recording of "I Like To Do Things For You" for Frankie Trumbauer. She was Whiteman's popular female vocalist through 1932 (recording in a smooth crooning style), when she left the band due to salary disagreements. She then recorded a series of records for Brunswick in 1933 (accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers), as well an all-star session with Benny Goodman's studio band in 1934 that featured Coleman Hawkins.



In the mid 1930s, she recorded with her third husband Red Norvo. A dynamic couple, they earned the nicknames "Mr. and Mrs. Swing". During this period (from 1936-1939) Norvo recorded for Brunswick (with Bailey as primary vocalist) and Bailey recorded her own set of recordings for Vocalion, often with Norvo's band. Some of her recordings instead featured members of Count Basie's band. Despite her divorce from Norvo, she and Red would continue to record together until 1945. Suffering from diabetes and depression (during her adult life Bailey was overweight), she only made a few recordings following World War II.



Mildred Bailey died December 12, 1951, in Poughkeepsie of heart failure, aged 44, chiefly due to her diabetes. Bailey's ashes were scattered. Red Norvo outlived Mildred by nearly half a century, dying in April 1999, a week after his 91st birthday.



Jazz vocal collectors have always considered her one of the best vocalists of her era (refer to many Downbeat polls and articles in Downbeat and many other jazz publications), Despite being a big woman, Bailey had a sweet, rather small yet very expressive voice, and quite a light, unique swinging vocal style (refer to many recordings). Many of her most outstanding records were among the best versions recorded:Tracks



Disc 1



01. What Kind of Man Is You? [Alternate Take]

02. What Kind of Man Is You?

03. I Like to Do Things for You

04. Is That Religion? [Alternate Take]

05. Is That Religion?

06. Harlem Lullaby

07. There's a Cabin in the Pines

08. Lazy Bones

09. Shoutin' in That Amen Corner

10. Snowball

11. But I Can't Make a Man

12. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love

13. Doin' the Uptown Lowdown

14. Heat Wave

15. Junk Man [Take 2]

16. Junk Man [Take 3]

17. Ol' Pappy

18. Emaline

19. I'd Love to Take Orders from You

20. I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes

21. Someday, Sweetheart

22. When Day Is Done



disc 2



23. It All Begins and Ends With You

24. A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid/Old Fashioned Love/Carolina Shout

25. Picture Me Without You

26. It Can Happen to You

27. Now That Summer Is Gone

28. Now That Summer Is Gone [Alternate Take][#]

29. It's Love I'm After

30. Peter Piper

31. For Sentimental Reasons

32. It's Love I'm After

33. 'Long About Midnight

34. More Than You Know

35. A Thousand Dreams of You

36. Smoke Dreams

37. Slumming on Park Avenue

38. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

39. My Last Affair

40. Trust in Me

41. Where Are You?

42. You're Laughing at Me



Disc 3



43. Never in a Million Years

44. There's a Lull in My Life

45. Rockin' Chair [Take 1]

46. Rockin' Chair [Take 2]

47. Little Joe

48. If You Ever Should Leave

49. The Man Got in My Eyes

50. Heaven Help This Heart of Mine

51. It's the Natural Thing to Do

52. It's the Natural Thing to Do [Alternate Take][#]

53. Everyone's Wrong But Me

54. Posin'

55. Posin' [Alternate Take][#]

56. The Morning After

57. Tears in My Heart

58. Worried over You

59. Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)

60. Just a Stone's Throw from Heaven

61. Loving You

62. Right or Wrong



Disc 4



63. I See Your Face Before Me [Alternate Take]

64. I See Your Face Before Me

65. Thanks for the Memory [Alternate Take]

66. Thanks for the Memory

67. From the Land of the Sky Blue Water [Alternate Take][#]

68. From the Land of the Sky Boue Water

69. Lover, Come Back to Me

70. Lover, Come Back to Me

71. Always and Always

72. I Was Doing All Right

73. I Was Doing All Right [Alternate Take][#]

74. It's Wonderful

75. Love Is Here to Stay

76. More Than Ever

77. The Weekend of a Private Secretary

78. Please Be Kind

79. There's a Boy in Harlem

80. There's a Boy in Harlem [Alternate Take][#]

81. Bewildered

82. I Cant' Face the Music [Take 1]

83. I Cant' Face the Music [Take 1]

84. Don't Be That Way [Take 1]

85. Don't Be That Way [Take 3]

86. At Your Beck and Call



Disc 5



87. Says My Heart

88. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]

89. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]

90. Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 1]

91. Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 2]

92. Rock It for Me

93. After Dinner Speech [Take 1]

94. After Dinner Speech [Take 1]

95. If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)

96. Daydreaming (All Night Long)

97. A Cigarette and a Silhouette

98. (I've Been) Saving Myself for You

99. You Leave Me Breathless

100. Washboard Blues

101. My Melancholy Baby

102. My Melancholy Baby [Alternate Take][#]

103. 'Round My Old Deserted Farm

104. The Lonesome Road

105. So Help Me

106. Small Fry

107. As Long as You Live [Rehearsal Take][#]

108. As Long as You Live

109. Born to Swing



Disc 6



110. Put Your Heart in a Song

111. Wigwammin'

112. The Sunny Side of Things

113. How Can I Thank You?

114. Garden of the Moon

115. Now It Can Be Told

116. Jump Jump's Here [Take 1]

117. Jump Jump's Here [Take 1]

118. I Haven't Changed a Thing [Take 1]

119. I Haven't Changed a Thing [Take 2]

120. Love Is Where You Find It

121. I Used to Be Color Blind

122. A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Take 1]

123. A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Take 2]

124. This Is Madness (To Love Like This)

125. Who Blew Out the Flame?

126. With You on My Mind [#]

127. My Reverie

128. What Have You Got That Gets Me?

129. Old Folks



Disc 7



130. St. Louis Blues [#]

131. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby

132. Have You Forgotten So Soon?

133. Have You Forgotten So Soon? [Alternate Take]

134. They Say

135. Blame It on My Last Affair

136. I Go for That

137. St. Louis Blues

138. St. Louis Blues [Alernate Take]

139. I Cried for You

140. Begin the Beguine

141. What Shall I Say?

142. Cuckoo in the Clock

143. There'll Never Be Another You

144. It's Slumbertime Along the Swanee

145. 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)

146. 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) [Alternate Take][#]

147. Love's a Necessary Thing

148. Love's a Necessary Thing [Alternate Take][#]

149. Downhearted Blues

150. I Can Read Between the Lines



Disc 8



151. There'll Be Some Changes Made

152. Barrelhouse Music

153. Arkansas Blues

154. Gulf Coast Blues [Take 1]

155. Gulf Coast Blues [Take 2]

156. You Don't Know My Mind Blues

157. Prisoner of Love

158. Three Little Fishes

159. That Sly Old Gentleman

160. Tit Willow

161. The Lamp Is Low

162. And the Angels Sing

163. It Seems Like Old Times

164. Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)

165. Moon Love

166. The Florever Blowing Bubbles

167. The Little Man Who Wasn't There

168. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You

169. You're the Moment in My Life

170. You and Your Love



Disc 9



171. Don't Dally With the Devil

172. Ain't That Good News? [#]

173. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

174. Make With the Kisses

175. Make With the Kisses [Alternate Take]

176. Heaven in My Arms

177. I Thought About You

178. Faithful Forever

179. That Lucky Fellow

180. Bluebirds in the Moonlight

181. Blue Rain

182. I've Gone Off the Deep End

183. I Shoulda Stood in Bed

184. Darn That Dream

185. Darn That Dream [Alternate Take]

186. Peace, Brother!

187. Peace, Brother! [Alternate Take]

188. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

189. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot [#]

190. All the Things You Are

191. Hold On



Disc 10:



192. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) [Alternate Take]

193. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)

194. Little High Chairman

195. Easy to Love

196. Give Me Time

197. They Can't Take That Away from Me

198. A Bee Gezindt

199. After All I've Been to You

200. Don't Take Your Love from Me [Alternate Take][#]

201. Don't Take Your Love from Me

202. Fools Rush In

203. From Another World

204. I'm Nobody's Baby

205. Give Me Time

206. How Can I Ever Be Alone?

207. Tennessee Fish Fry

208. I'll Pray for You

209. Blue (And Broken Hearted)

210. Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry [Alternate Take]

211. Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry

212. I'll Be Around [Alternate Take][#]

213. I'll Be Around

214. My Little Cousin



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