Mills Brothers - Tiger Rag: The Singles Collection Vol. 1 1931-47 [CD]
Mills Brothers - Tiger Rag: The Singles Collection Vol. 1 1931-47 [CD]
Release Date: /// Acrobat
Couldn't load pickup availability
Mills Brothers - Tiger Rag: The Singles Collection Vol. 1 1931-47 - It's a representative overview of the first era of their career and is a fine showcase for their highly distinctive style of vocal harmonies. - The Mills Brothers were a pioneering vocal quartet, who performed in a jazz-flavoured barbershop style and were forerunners of the doowop groups of later years- they broke new ground as the first African-American group to have their own network radio show in the USA. In the course of their long career they made more than 2,000 recordings and had around 60 US chart entries. So prolific were that we have chosen to present their releases on 78s and 45s in two 4-CD sets, of which this is the first (Vol. 2 is ACQCD7186). This 104-track 4-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from their releases on the Brunswick and Decca labels from their debut in 1931 through to 1947, with just about every release represented by at least one side. It features 38 of their hits, including the No. 1s "Tiger Rag", "Dinah", "Paper Doll" and "You Always Hurt The One You Love", and the Top 5 entries "You Rascal You", "I Heard", "Good-Bye Blues", "Rockin' Chair", "St. Louis Blues", "Swing It Sister" and "Sleepy Head". It features duet recording with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. It's a representative overview of the first era of their career and is a fine showcase for their highly distinctive style of vocal harmonies.
Tracklist:
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Tiger Rag
- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
- You Rascal You
- Dinah
- How Am I Doin', Hey, Hey
- I Heard
- Shine
- Goodbye Blues
- Rockin' Chair
- Chinatown, My Chinatown
- Loveless Love
- St Louis Blues
- Sweet Sue Just You
- Bugle Call Rag
- The Old Man of the Mountain
- Coney Island Washboard
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- Git Along
- Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
- Doin' the New Lowdown
- Diga Diga Doo
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- Smoke Rings
- I've Found a New Baby
- Money in My Pockets
- Swing It Sister
- Sleepy Head
- Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
- My Gal Sal
- Old Fashioned Love
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Nagasaki
- Lazybones
- Some of These Days
- Sweeter Than Sugar
- Limehouse Blues
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- There Goes My Headache
- What's the Reason
- Sweet Lucy Brown
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Rhythm Saved the World
- Solitude
- London Rhythm
- Swing for Sale
- Pennies from Heaven
- Dedicated to You
- Big Boy Blue
- The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don't Watch Out)
- Rockin' Chair Swing
- Darling Nellie Grey
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
- Long About Midnight
- The Old Folks at Home
- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
- The Flat Foot Floogie
- Caravan
- My Walking Stick
- Sixty Seconds Got Together
- Julius Caesar
- The Lambeth Walk
- The Yam
- Just a Kid Named Joe
- Funiculi, Funicula
- Sweet Adeline
- You Tell Me Your Dream and I'll Tell You Mine
- Goodbye Blues
- Sweet Sue, Just You
- Way Down Home
- Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
- It Don't Mean a Thing
- Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
- Old Black Joe
- Marie
- W.P.A
- Boog It
- Cherry
- Just a Dream of You, Dear
- My Gal Sal
- Sleepy Time Gal
- Moonlight Bay
- On the Banks of the Wabash
- Once Upon a Dream
- Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline?
- Love's Old Sweet Song
- Paper Doll
- I'll Be Around
- I Met Her on Monday
- In Old Champlain
- You Always Hurt the One You Love
- Till Then
- Put Another Chair at the Table
- I Wish
- Don't Be a Baby, Baby
- Never Make a Promise in Vain
- There's No One But You
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- When You Were Sweet Sixteen
- I Guess I'll Get the Papers
- Too Many Irons in the Fire
- I'm Afraid to Love You
- You Broke the Only Heart That Ever Loved You
UPC: 824046718527
Label: ACROBAT
Release Date: 12.6.24
Format: CD
Share
