Fats Waller

PLUS THE COMPLETE LONDON SUITE AND RARE RADIO TRANSCRIPTIONS

This collection brings together all the studio piano solos Waller recorded for Victor. It is an amazing corpus, and doubly interesting as Fats performs many of his numerous compositions. His most important solo recordings other than his Victor sides, are the movements of his “London Suite”, added here as a bonus on Disc 2.

To round out this collection, we included all the piano solo tracks from an extended 1939 radio transcription session, on which he had previously recorded quintet, organ and vocal tracks. They present Fats Waller’s only existing recorded renditions of the beautiful standard “Poor Butterfly” and Handy’s perennial “Saint Louis Blues”. The last track, taken from another 1939 transcription session, shows Fats improvising on a popular opera number.

DISC 1:
01 BLUE BLACK BOTTOM
02 HANDFUL OF KEYS
03 NUMB FUMBLIN’
04 AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
05 SWEET SAVANNAH SUE
06 I’VE GOT THE FEELING I’M FALLING (tk 2)
07 I’VE GOT THE FEELING I’M FALLING (tk 3)
08 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (tk 1)
09 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (tk 2)
10 GLADYSE (tk 1)
11 GLADYSE (tk 2)
12 VALENTINE STOMP (tk 1)
13 VALENTINE STOMP (tk 2)
14 WAITING AT THE END OF THE ROAD (tk 1)
15 WAITING AT THE END OF THE ROAD (tk 2)
16 BABY, OH WHERE CAN YOU BE? (tk 1)
17 BABY, OH WHERE CAN YOU BE? (tk 2)
18 GOIN’ ABOUT (tk 1)
19 GOIN’ ABOUT (tk 2)
20 MY FEELINGS ARE HURT
21 SMASHING THIRDS
22 MY FATE IS IN YOUR HANDS
23 TURN ON THE HEAT
24 ST. LOUIS BLUES
25 AFTER YOU’VE GONE
26 AFRICAN RIPPLES

TOTAL TIME 79:32

DISC 2:
01CLOTHES LINE BALLET
02 ALLIGATOR CRAWL
03 VIPER’S DRAG
04 KEEPIN’ OUT OF MISCHIEF NOW
05 STARDUST
06 BASIN STREET BLUES
07 TEA FOR TWO
08 I AIN’T GOT NOBODY
09 GEORGIA ON MY MIND
10 ROCKIN’ CHAIR
11 CAROLINA SHOUT (tk 1)
12 CAROLINA SHOUT (tk 2)
13 HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
14 RING DEM BELLS
15 LONDON SUITE I: PICCADILLY *
16 LONDON SUITE II: CHELSEA *
17 LONDON SUITE III: SOHO *
18 LONDON SUITE IV: BOND STREET *
19 LONDON SUITE V: LIMEHOUSE *
20 LONDON SUITE VI: WHITECHAPEL *
21 POOR BUTTERFLY *
22 SAINT LOUIS BLUES *
23 HALLELUJAH *
24 TEA FOR TWO *
25 A HANDFUL OF KEYS *
26 SWALTZING WITH FAUST *

TOTAL TIME : 78:14
* Bonus tracks