La Vergne Smith

3 LPs ON 1 CDs

PERSONNEL:

CD 1 (1-11) from the album Angel in the Absinthe House (Cook LP 1081)

La Vergne Smith, vocals & piano.

Recorded in New Orleans, late 1954


CD 1 (12-19) & CD 2 (1-4) from The New Orleans Nightingale (Savoy MG-1203

La Vergne Smith, vocals, piano & celeste (on CD-1 #14, CD-2 #4), unknown guitar, bass and drums.

Recorded in New Orleans, May 24 (CD1), September 15 (CD2), 1955


CD 2 (5-16) from the album La Vergne Smith (Vik LX-1056)

La Vergne Smith (vcl), accompanied by:
Wallace Davenport (tp)
Wendell Albert Eugene (tb)
Alvin 'Red' Tyler (bs)
Howard Mandolph (vib)
Ernst McLean (g)
Philip Darios (b)
Earl Palmer (d).

Recorded in New Orleans, June 11, 1956.

CD 1

01. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (Toombs) 1:36
02. Lover Man (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) 2:22
03. Hurry on Down to My House (Lutcher) 1:25
04. Blues in the Night (Arlen-Mercer) 2:36
05. Straighten Up and Fly Right (Cole-Mills) 1:18
06. One for the Road (Mercer-Arlen) 3:33
07. I Like That Kind of Carryin’ On (Pichon-Smith) 1:53
08. Moonlight in Vermont (Suessedorf-Blackburn) 3:22
09. That Old Black Magic (Arlen-Mercer) 2:00
10. Hey There (Adler-Ross) 3:22
11. You’d Better Go Man (Smith) 2:34
12. The Nearness of You (Carmichael-Washington) 3:21
13. A Hundred Years from Today (Young-Washington) 2:27
14. There is No Greater Love (Jones-Symes) 3:01
15. Am I Blue? (Askt-Clarke) 2:36
16. I’ve Got a Right to Cry (Liggins) 2:43
17. Fool That I Am (Carter-Saenz) 2:48
18. Mobile (Smith) 2:42
19. Somehow (Maser) 2:53


CD 2

01. Basin Street Blues (Armstrong-Williams) 2:17
02. Imagination (Van Heusen-Burke) 2:37
03. Careless (Jurgens-Howard-Quadling) 2:59
04. It’s Over (Smith) 3:19
05. Blue Skies (Berlin) 1:52
06. I Surrender Dear (Barris-Clifford-Crosby) 2:10
07. Out of Nowhere (Green-Heyman) 1:32
08. This Love of Mine (Sinatra-Sanicola) 1:49
09. St. Louis Blues (Handy) 2:52
10. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) 2:30
11. Blue Prelude (Bishop-Gordon Jenkins) 2:50
12. Too Marvelous for Words (Mercer-Whiting) 2:11
13. I Almost Lost My Mind (Hunter) 3:06
14. (How Can You Stay Away) So Long (Miller-Howfle-Burke) 2:59
15. Stormy Weather (Arlen-Koehler) 2:00
16. Glory of Love (Hill) 2:49