Count Basie
The Complete Decca Recordings

Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings

  • Release date: 1992
  • Genre: Jazz/Swing
  • Format: CD box set
  • Category: jazz
  • Duration: 3:05:57
  • ****
  • Added January 25, 2004
  • Played September 3, 2015
  • Rated March 31, 2007

Tracks

1937
1. Andy Razaf/Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rosenot rated3:00
2. Johnny Burke/Arthur Johnston - Pennies from Heavennot rated3:02
3. Count Basie - Swinging at the Daisy Chainnot rated2:50
4. Count Basie - Roseland Shufflenot rated2:34
5. Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh - Exactly Like Younot rated2:43
6. Edward Heyman/John Jacob Loeb/Carmen Lombardo - Boo Hoonot rated2:27
7. Billy Hill - The Glory of Lovenot rated2:31
8. Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)not rated2:50
9. Ralph Freed/Burton Lane - Smarty (You Know It All)not rated2:42
10. Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump*****3:02
11. Ralph Freed/Burton Lane - Listen My Children and You Shall Hearnot rated3:07
12. Count Basie/Eddie Durham - John's Ideanot rated2:55
13. Count Basie/Eddie Durham/James Andrew Rushing - Good Morning Blues [1st Take]not rated3:14
14. Count Basie/Eddie Durham/James Andrew Rushing - Good Morning Blues [2nd Take]not rated3:05
15. Joe Davis/Alexander Hill/Fats Waller - Our Love Was Meant to Benot rated2:47
16. Edgar Battle/Eddie Durham - Time Outnot rated3:03
17. Edgar Battle/Eddie Durham - Topsynot rated3:14
18. Isham Jones/Charles Newman - I Keep Rememberingnot rated2:47
19. Count Basie/Eddie Durham - Out the Windownot rated2:49
20. Count Basie/Eddie Durham/Jimmy Rushing - Don't You Miss Your Babynot rated3:10
21. Henry Jerome - Let Me Dreamnot rated3:09
1:01:11
1938
1. Frankie Carle/Austen Croom/Red McKenzie - Georgiannanot rated2:35
2. Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing - Blues in the Darknot rated3:06
3. Count Basie/Eddie Durham/Jimmy Rushing - Sent for You Yesterdaynot rated2:58
4. Count Basie/Eddie Durham - Every Tubnot rated3:16
5. Eddie Durham - Now Will You Be Good?not rated2:48
6. Count Basie/Eddie Durham - Swingin' the Bluesnot rated2:47
7. L. Charles/L. Wolfe Gilbert - Mama Don't Want No Peas 'n' Rice 'n' Coconut Oilnot rated2:53
8. Count Basie/Mack David/Jerry Livingston - Blue and Sentimentalnot rated3:12
9. Edgar Battle/Herschel Evans - Doggin' Aroundnot rated3:04
10. Clay Boland/Bix Reichner - Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush [1st Take]not rated3:03
11. Clay Boland/Bix Reichner - Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush [2nd Take]not rated3:06
12. Abel Baer/Ira Schuster/Tot Seymour - London Bridge Is Falling Downnot rated2:57
13. Edgar Battle/Herschel Evans - Texas Shufflenot rated3:09
14. Count Basie - Jumpin' at the Woodsidenot rated3:10
15. Leroy Carr/J. Mayo Williams - How Long Bluesnot rated2:57
16. Rufus G. Perryman - The Dirty Dozensnot rated3:03
17. Jimmy Reed - Hey Lawdy Mamanot rated2:46
18. Richard M. Jones/Clarence Williams - The Fivesnot rated2:47
19. Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogienot rated3:03
20. Benny Goodman/Manny Kurtz/Edgar Sampson - Dark Rapturenot rated2:40
21. Count Basie/Andy Gibson - Shorty Georgenot rated2:46
22. Jimmy Rushing/Buster Smith - The Blues I Like to Hearnot rated3:09
23. Willie Bryant/Al Donahue/Victor Selsman/Jimmy Van Heusen - Do You Wanna Jump, Children?not rated2:41
24. Count Basie - Panassie Stompnot rated2:47
1:10:53
1939
1. Cole Porter - My Heart Belongs to Daddynot rated2:56
2. Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers - Sing for Your Suppernot rated2:44
3. Joe McCoy - Oh! Rednot rated2:55
4. John Akers/J. Mayo Williams - Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well [1st take]not rated3:06
5. John Akers/J. Mayo Williams - Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well [2nd take]not rated3:04
6. Woody Herman/George White - Dupree Bluesnot rated3:05
7. Leroy Carr - When the Sun Goes Down [1st take]not rated2:47
8. Leroy Carr - When the Sun Goes Down [2nd take]not rated2:56
9. Gene DePaul/Richard M. Jones/Don Raye - Red Wagonnot rated2:54
10. Charles Carpenter/Louis Dunlap/Earl Hines - You Can Depend on Menot rated3:09
11. Ray Noble - Cherokee [part 1]not rated3:12
12. Ray Noble - Cherokee [part 2]not rated3:05
13. Irving Mills/Henry Nemo - Blame It on My Last Affair [1st take]not rated2:45
14. Irving Mills/Henry Nemo - Blame It on My Last Affair [2nd take]not rated2:44
15. Count Basie/Harry "Sweets" Edison - Jive at Fivenot rated2:51
16. Irvin Graham/Louis Haber/Dorothy Sachs - Thursdaynot rated3:06
17. Count Basie/Harry "Sweets" Edison/Jimmy Rushing - Evil Bluesnot rated3:15
18. George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin - Oh, Lady Be Goodnot rated3:10
53:52

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