VA - The Story Of Vocal Jazz: 1941-1953 (10CD) (2004)

Tracklist:

CD 1:
11-01. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock Me (1941)
11-02. Lena Horne - You're My Thrill (1941-01-07)
11-03. Una Mae Carlisle - Blitzkrieg Baby (1941-03-10)
11-04. Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good (1941)
11-05. Ella Fitzgerald - My Man (1941-03-31)
11-06. Dick Haymes - I'll Get By (1941-04-07)
11-07. Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right? (1941-04-23)
11-08. Tex Beneke & Paula Kelly And Modernaires, The With Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941-05-07)
11-09. Champion Jack Dupree - That's All Right (1941)
11-10. Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge - Let Me Off Uptown (1941-05-08)
11-11. Billie Holiday - Am I Blue (1941-05-09)
11-12. Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child (1941-05-09)
11-13. Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (1941)
11-14. Helen Forrest - When The Sun Comes Out (1941-06-04)
11-15. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Trouble In Mind (1941-06-27)
11-16. Fats Waller - Come And Get It (1941-07-01)
11-17. Herb Jeffries - Jump For Joy (1941-07-12)
11-18. Art Tatum - Toledo Blues (1941-07-26)
11-19. Big Joe Turner - Blues On Central Avenue (1941-09-08)
11-20. Ivie Anderson - Rocks In My Bed (1941-09-26)
11-21. Hot Lips Page - St. James Infirmary (1941-11-12)
11-22. Brownie McGhee - Unfair Blues (1941)
11-23. Walter Brown - New Confessin' The Blues (1941-11-18)
11-24. Memphis Slim - Whiskey And Gin Blues (1941-12-04)
11-25. Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1941-12-15)

CD 2:
12-01. Southern Sons - I'm Free At Last (1942)
12-02. Georgia Peach And Her Gospel Singers - Do Lord Send Me (1942)
12-03. Helen Forrest - Skylark (1942-01-29)
12-04. Lonnie Johnson (2) - Flyright Baby (1942-02-13)
12-05. Anita O'Day - That's What You Think (1942-02-26)
12-06. Jazz Gillum - I'm Gonna Leave You On The Outskirts Of Town (1942)
12-07. Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right (1942-02-27)
12-08. Billy Eckstine - Skylark (1942-03-19)
12-09. Bonnie Davis - Don't Stop Now (1942)
12-10. Ella Mae Morse - Cow Cow Boogie (1942-05-21)
12-11. Billie Holiday - Trav'lin' Light (1942-06-12)
12-12. Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene (1943)
12-13. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (1943)
12-14. Golden Gate Quartet - Rock My Soul (1943)
12-15. Ada Brown & Fats Waller - That Ain't Right (1943-01-23)
12-16. Lena Horne - Honeysuckle Rose (1943-04-27)
12-17. Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (1943-10-04)
12-18. Ella Fitzgerald With Ink Spots - Cow Cow Boogie (1943-11-03)
12-19. Betty Roche - Go Away Blues (1943-11-09)
12-20. June Richmond - Baby Don't Tell Me No Lie (1943-12-03)
12-21. Nat King Cole - Embraceable You (1943-12-15)
12-22. Dinah Washington - Salty Papa Blues (1943-12-29)
12-23. Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land (1944)
12-24. Memphis Minnie - When My Man Comes Home (1944)
12-25. Ida James - Close To You (1944-01)
12-26. Eddie "Mr. Cleanhead" Vinson - Cherry Red Blues (1944-01-06)

CD 3:
13-01. Louis Prima - The Very Thought Of You (1944-04)
13-02. Billie Holiday - As Time Goes By (1944-04-01)
13-03. Billie Holiday - He's Funny That Way (1944-04-08)
13-04. Five Red Chaps - Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night (1944-05-04)
13-05. Cecil Gant - I Wonder (1944-06)
13-06. Dorothy Dandridge & Louis Armstrong - Watcha Say (1944-08-09)
13-07. Billy Eckstine - Blowing The Blues Away (1944-09-05)
13-08. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happen Every Day (1944-09-22)
13-09. Billie Holiday - Lover Man (1944-10-04)
13-10. Ella Johnson & Buddy Johnson - That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch (1944-10-04)
13-11. Peggy Mann - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (1944-11-16)
13-12. Sarah Vaughan - September Song (1944-11-19)
13-13. Doris Day - Sentimental Journey (1944-11-20)
13-14. Kitty Kallen - I'm Beginning To See The Light (1944-11-21)
13-15. Lena Horne - As Long As I Live (1944-11-21)
13-16. Josh White - Number 12 Train (1944-12)
13-17. Jimmy Rushing - Jimmy's Blues (1944-12-06)
13-18. Lee Wiley - Wherever There's Love (1944-12-12)
13-19. Woody Herman - I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues (1944-12-12)
13-20. Sarah Vaughan - A Night In Tunisia (1944-12-31)
13-21. Tampa Red - Mercy Mama Blues (1945)
13-22. Ivory Joe Hunter - Blues At Sunrise (1945)
13-23. Rubberlegs Williams - That's The Blues (1945-01-04)
13-24. Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - Caldonia Boogie (1945-01-19)
13-25. Buddy Stewart & Dave Lambert (3) - What's This (1945-01-22)

CD 4:
14-01. Frances Wayne - Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe (1945-02-26)
14-02. Big Bill Broonzy - Why Did You Do That To Me (1945-03)
14-03. Joe Liggins - The Honey Dripper (1945-03-26)
14-04. Ella Fitzgerald - It's Only A Papermoon (1945-03-27)
14-05. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Boogie (1945-05)
14-06. Joya Sherrill - Everthing But You (1945-05-01)
14-07. Ernie Andrews - Sooth Me (1945)
14-08. Billy Eckstine - I Love The Rhythm In A Riff (1945-05-02)
14-09. Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man (1945-05-11)
14-10. Marie Ellington - I Don't Mind (1945-05-12)
14-11. Joya Sherrill & Kay Davis & Marie Ellington - It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (1945-05-14)
14-12. Joya Sherrill & Kay Davis & Marie Ellington & Al Hibbler - Solitude (1945-05-15)
14-13. Sarah Vaughan - Mean To Me (1945-05-25)
14-14. Julia Lee - Dream Lucky Blues (1945)
14-15. Julia Lee - Lotus Blossom (1945)
14-16. Wynonie Harris - Here Comes The Blues (1945-08-02)
14-17. Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues (1945-09-11)
14-18. Ella Fitzgerald - Flying Home (1945-10-04)
14-19. Ernie Andrews - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' (1945-10-04)
14-20. Ann Moore - Jivin' Joe Jackson (1945-10-09)
14-21. Al Hibbler - I'm Just A Lucky So And So (1945-11-26)
14-22. Dinah Washington - Mellow Mama Blues (1945-12-13)
14-23. Thelma Carpenter - Seems Like Old Times (1946)
14-24. Sister Ernestine Washington & Bunk Johnson's Band - Did I Wonder (1946-01-01)
14-25. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - You Won't Be Satisfied (1946-01-18)
14-26. Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache (1946-01-22)

CD 5:
15-01. Dorothy Reid - You Got Me Cryin' Again (1946-02-05)
15-02. Rex Stewart - B. O. Blues (1946-02-08)
15-03. Lightnin' Hopkins - Feel So Bad (1946)
15-04. Johnny Shines - Delta Pine Blues (1946-02-24)
15-05. Nat King Cole - Get Your Kicks On Route 66 (1946-03-15)
15-06. Louis Armstrong - Back O'Town Blues (1946-04-27)
15-07. Sarah Vaughan - If You Could See Me Now (1946-05-07)
15-08. Dizzy Gillespie - Oop-Bop-Sh'Bam (1946-05-15)
15-09. Carmen McRae - Pass Me By (1946-05-17)
15-10. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right Mama (1946)
15-11. Ray Nance - Just Squeeze Me (1946-07-09)
15-12. Alice Roberts - He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped (1946-07-09)
15-13. Kay Davis - Transblucency (1946-07-09)
15-14. June Christy - Willow Weep For Me (1946-07-25)
15-15. Marion Cox - St. Louis Blues (1946-09-03)
15-16. Jimmy Witherspoon - Ernestine (1946-09-03)
15-17. Leo Watson - Tight And Gay (1946-09-07)
15-18. T-Bone Walker - I'm Gonna Find My Baby (1946-09-30)
15-19. Ivie Anderson - Big Butter And Egg Man (1946-10)
15-20. Eddie "Mr. Cleanhead" Vinson - Cleanhead Blues (1946-10-03)
15-21. Louis Armstrong - Blues For Yesterday (1946-10-06)
15-22. Joe Mooney - Tea For Two (1946-12-30)
15-23. Reverend Kelsey - Tell Me How Long (1947)
15-24. Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman (1947)
15-25. Brownie McGhee - Big Legged Woman (1947)
15-26. Mahalia Jackson - Move On Up A Little Higher (1947)

CD 6:
16-01. Mahalia Jackson - There's Not A Friend Like Jesus (1947)
16-02. Mahalia Jackson - Amazing Grace (1947)
16-03. Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight (1947)
16-04. Cab Calloway - Hi De Ho Man (1947-02-03)
16-05. Melrose Colbert - Black And Blue (1947-10)
16-06. Muddy Waters - Gypsy Woman (1947)
16-07. Babs Gonzales - Oop-Pop-A-Da (1947-02-24)
16-08. Etta Jones - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman (1947-03-11)
16-09. Ann Moore - Meet Me At No Special Place (1947-03-13)
16-10. Lil Green - Lonely Woman (1947-04-18)
16-11. Nellie Lutcher - He's A Real Gone Guy (1947-04-30)
16-12. Walter Davis - Oh! Me Oh! My Blues (1947)
16-13. Roy Eldridge & Mel Torme - Honeysuckle Rose (1947-05-31)
16-14. Julia Lee - My Sin (1947-06-18)
16-15. Eddie "Mr. Cleanhead" Vinson - Have You Ever Missed Your Baby (1947-06-26)
16-16. Paul Gayten - Your Hands Ain't Clean (1947)
16-17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend (1947)
16-18. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Down By The Riverside (1947)
16-19. Wini Brown - Gone Again (1947-08-06)
16-20. Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (1947-08-11)
16-21. Kenny Hagood - The Way You Look Tonight (1947-08-27)
16-22. Mel Torme - My Baby Just Cares For Me (1947)
16-23. T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday (1947-09-13)
16-24. Melrose Colbert - Black And Blue (1947-10)
16-25. Frank Sinatra - All Of Me (1947-10-19)
16-26. Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business (1947-11-15)
16-27. Stick McGhee - Drinkin' Wine Spa-Dee-O-Dee (1947)

CD 7:
17-01. Al Hibbler - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (1947-11-18)
17-02. Dolores Parker - Once Upon A Dream (1947-11-20)
17-03. Kay Starr - Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong (1947-12-01)
17-04. Sunnyland Slim - Farewell Little Girl (1947-12-10)
17-05. Kay Penton - As Time Goes By (1947-12-18)
17-06. Nellie Lutcher - Fine Brown Frame (1947-12-27)
17-07. Helen Humes - Mad About You (1947-12-31)
17-08. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin's Boogie (1948)
17-09. Anita O'Day - How High The Moon (1948-02-10)
17-10. John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen (1948)
17-11. Kenny Hagood - All The Things You Are (1948-07-02)
17-12. Kenny Hagood - I Should Care (1948-07-02)
17-13. Roy Milton - Hop, Skip And Jump (1948-07-13)
17-14. Pee Wee Crayton - Central Avenue Blues (1948-10)
17-15. Jackie Cain & Roy Kral - Deed I Do (1948-10)
17-16. Kay Davis - Lush Life (1948-11-13)
17-17. Blue Lu Barker - Trombone Man Blues (1948-12-06)
17-18. Mary Ann McCall - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (1948-12-29)
17-19. Memphis Slim - Nobody Loves Me (1948)
17-20. Chubby Jackson & Shorty Rogers & Terry Gibbs - Lemon Drop (1948-12-30)
17-21. Rose Murphy - Busy Line (1948-12-31)
17-22. Ray Charles - Blues Before Sunrise (1949)
17-23. Big Joe Turner - Shake It Break It (1949)
17-24. Rae Pearl - Casbah (1949-01-18)
17-25. Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee (1949-01-20)

CD 8:
18-01. Ray Charles - Alone In The City (1949-02)
18-02. Sammy Davis Jr. - I Ain't Got Nobody (1949-02-22)
18-03. Addie Williams - Maybe Someday (1949-02-23)
18-04. Babs Gonzales - Prelude To A Nightmare (1949-03-15)
18-05. John Lee Hooker - Crawling King Snake (1949)
18-06. Ella Fitzgerald - Black Coffee (1949-04-28)
18-07. Jimmy Witherspoon - No Rollin' Blues (1949-05-09)
18-08. Bill Landford - Run For A Long Time (1949)
18-09. Betty Carter - The Huckle Buck (1949-05-10)
18-10. Gil Fuller - Mean To Me (1949-07-11)
18-11. Roy Byrd - Her Mind Is Gone (1949-08-19)
18-12. Johnny Hartman - September In The Rain (1949-08-23)
18-13. Billie Holiday - Them There Eyes (1949-08-29)
18-14. Willie Dixon - Signifying Monkey (1949)
18-15. Ella Fitzgerald - Bassin' Street Blues (1949-09-20)
18-16. Sonny Parker - Sad Feelin' (1949-10-27)
18-17. Pearl Bailey - Saturday Night Fish Cry (1949-11-03)
18-18. Robins, The & Little Esther - Double Crossing Blues (1949-12-01)
18-19. Fats Domino - The Fat Man (1949-12-10)
18-20. Sarah Vaughan - Summertime (1949-12-21)
18-21. Sarah Vaughan - Mean To Me (1949-12-25)
18-22. Judy Garland - Get Happy (1950)
18-23. Jimmie Rodgers - Ludella (1950)
18-24. Ray Charles - Late In The Evenin' (1950)
18-25. June Christy - Lonesome Road (1950-02-04)

CD 9:
19-01. Annie Ross - Le Vent Vert (1950-02-22)
19-02. Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues (1950)
19-03. Frank Sinatra - My Blue Heaven (1950-04-24)
19-04. Marie Knight - In The Shaded Green Pastures (1950-05-03)
19-05. Sarah Vaughan - It Might As Well Be Spring (1950-05-18)
19-06. Sarah Vaughan - Can't Get Out Of This Mood (1950-05-18)
19-07. Sonny Terry - Telephone Blues (1950)
19-08. Louis Armstrong - C'est Si Bon (1950-06-26)
19-09. Ella Fitzgerald - Someone To Watch Over Me (1950-09-12)
19-10. B.B. King - The Other Night Blues (1950)
19-11. Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey (1950-09-21)
19-12. Yvonne Lanauze - Love You Madly (1950-11-20)
19-13. Charles Brown - Black Nite (1950-12-21)
19-14. Dorothy Ellis - Slowly Go Out Of My Mind (1951)
19-15. Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (1951-02)
19-16. Tony Harper - Baby Blues (1951-04-11)
19-17. Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby - Gone Fishing (1951-04-27)
19-18. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - So High (1951-07-03)
19-19. B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues (1951)
19-20. Shelly Manne - Blues In Burlesque (1951-09-20)
19-21. Angelic Gospel Singers, The & Dixie Hummingbirds - One Day (1951-12)
19-22. Little Jimmy Scott - Come What May (1952-01-10)
19-23. Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things (1952-03-26)
19-24. Hot Lips Page - The Devil's Kiss (1952-06-26)
19-25. Ella Fitzgerald - Angel Eyes (1952-06-26)

CD 10:
20-01. Anita O'Day - The Lady Is A Tramp (1952-07)
20-02. Dinah Washington - I Cried For You (1952)
20-03. Eddie Jefferson - The Birdland Story (1952-07-11)
20-04. Betty Roche - All Of Me (1952-07-30)
20-05. Jackie Paris & Tamara Hayes - I Miss You So (1952-11)
20-06. Big Bill Broonzy - Down By The River Side (1953)
20-07. Lowell Fulson - Blues Never Fail (1953)
20-08. Joe Carroll - Ooh-Shoo-Bee-Doo-Bee (1953-02-09)
20-09. Eddie Jefferson - Old Shoes (1953-02-20)
20-10. Chris Connor - All About Ronnie (1953-03-25)
20-11. Jimmy Grissom - Street Blues (1953-03-30)
20-12. Honey Gordon - Can You Blame Me (1953-04-29)
20-13. Peggy Lee - Easy Living (1953-05-01)
20-14. Peggy Lee - Black Coffee (1953-05-04)
20-15. Ray Charles - Losing Hand (1953-05-17)
20-16. Dave Lambert Singers - In The Still Of The Night (1953-05-25)
20-17. Sonya Hedenbratt - Somebody Loves Me (1953-06-10)
20-18. Della Reese - Blue And Orange Birds (1953-06-30)
20-19. Billy Eckstine - How High The Moon (1953-07-09)
20-20. Nat King Cole - There Will Never Be Another You (1953-08-03)
20-21. Jo Ann Greer - Back In Your Own Backyard (1953-09)
20-22. Annie Ross - The Song Is For You (1953-09-14)
20-23. Babs Gonzales - Ornithology (1953-10-09)
20-24. Janet Thurlow - Blue Tide (1953-10-28)
20-25. Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon (1953-11-18)