Big Bands: Music From the War Years

~ Release by The BBC Big Band (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: Disc One
2▼CD: Disc Two
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1One O'Clock Jump
conductor:
Barry Forgie
performer:
The BBC Big Band
cover recording of:
One O’Clock Jump
composer:
Count Basie (pianist) (in 1937)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc.
recording of:
One O’Clock Jump
composer:
Count Basie (pianist) (in 1937)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc.
3:00
2Song Of India
recording of:
Song of India
writer:
Red Bone (trombonist)
composer:
Николай Андреевич Римский‐Корсаков (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer)
piano arranger:
Edgar Fairchild
is based on:
Sadko: Scene IV. Song of the Indian Guest
3:05
3Little Brown Jug
conductor:
Roland Shaw (composer)
performer:
The BBC Big Band
recording of:
Little Brown Jug (arr. Finegan 1939)
writer:
Joseph Eastburn Winner (composer/publisher) (in 1868)
arranger:
John Wasson and Bill Finegan (in 1939)
arrangement of:
Little Brown Jug
2:25
4Jersey Bounce
2:47
5American Patrol
orchestra and performer:
The BBC Big Band
conductor:
Barry Forgie
recording of:
American Patrol (swing version)
composer:
F. W. Meacham (in 1885)
arranger:
Jerry Gray (US big band arranger and conductor) (in 1942)
publisher:
Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited (not for release label use! post-2008 subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment)
arrangement of:
American Patrol
3:25
6Cherokee
recording of:
Cherokee
lyricist and composer:
Ray Noble
publisher:
Peter Maurice Music Co., Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin) and Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.
3:00
7I Get A Kick Out Of You
recording of:
I Get a Kick Out of You
lyricist and composer:
Cole Porter (composer) (in 1934)
publisher:
Chappell Music (UK), Chappell Music Ltd., Harms, Inc., Warner Bros., Inc. (not for release label use!), Warner Chappell and Chappell (in 1974)
part of:
Anything Goes
3:00
8Boogie Woogie Maxine
2:30
9On The Sunny Side Of The Street
recording of:
On the Sunny Side of the Street
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
Ancar Enterprises Inc., Cotton Club Publishing, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. and Vydia Music Publishing
sub-publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Lawrence Wright Music Co., Ltd., Memory Lane Music Ltd., Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Ltd. and シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント A事業部 (Shinko Music Entertainment, A Division)
part of:
American Splendor
3:05
10Tuxedo Junction
recording of:
Tuxedo Junction
lyricist:
Buddy Feyne
writer:
Dash, Feyne, Hawkins and Johnson (US jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist & arranger)
composer:
Bill Johnson (US jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist & arranger), Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne and Erskine Hawkins
3:25
11Big John's Special
3:10
12Hamp's Boogie Woogie
3:23
13Pinetops Boogie
conductor:
Barry Forgie
performer:
The BBC Big Band
3:15
14Harlem Nocturne
2:46
15Don't Be That Way
recording of:
Don’t Be That Way
lyricist:
Mitchell Parish
composer:
Benny Goodman (clarinetist and bandleader) and Edgar Sampson
publisher:
EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP), Robbins Music Corp. Ltd., Robbins Music Corporation and The Songwriters Guild
part of:
New York, New York (1977 musical film soundtrack)
3:05
16You Made Me Love You
recording of:
You Made Me Love You
writer:
Louis Armstrong and Percy Venable
3:15
17Solitude
recording of:
(In My) Solitude
lyricist:
Eddie DeLange (in 1934) and Irving Mills (in 1934)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1934)
publisher:
American Academy of Music, Inc., De Lange Music Co., EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated) and J. R. Lafleur & Son Ltd.
3:30
18Down South Camp Meeting
2:10
19Serenade In Blue
conductor:
Roland Shaw (composer)
performer:
The BBC Big Band
cover recording of:
Serenade in Blue
lyricist:
Mack Gordon
composer:
Harry Warren (US composer and lyricist)
publisher:
Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc.
recording of:
Serenade in Blue
lyricist:
Mack Gordon
composer:
Harry Warren (US composer and lyricist)
publisher:
Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc.
3:25
20Oh Lady Be Good
recording of:
Overture to Lady Be Good
composer:
George Gershwin (composer)
3:32
21Leap Frog
recording of:
Leap Frog
composer:
Charlie Parker (aka “Bird”, jazz alto saxophonist)
2:31
22After You've Gone
recording of:
After You’ve Gone
lyricist:
Henry Creamer (Lyricist) (in 1918)
composer:
Turner Layton (in 1918)
publisher:
Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd. and Morley Music Corp.
part of:
For Me and My Gal (1942 movie)
2:30
23Cotton Tail
3:25
24Painted Rhythm
recording of:
Painted Rhythm
composer:
Stan Kenton
3:15