ANDY KIRK AND HIS TWELVE CLOUDS OF JOY – 1939-1940 | The Classics Chronological Series – 640 (1992) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy was a top-notch Kansas City swing band that, by 1939, featured the pop vocals of Pha Terrell, the more blues-oriented singing of June Richmond, creative arrangements by Mary Lou Williams, and some excellent soloing from pianist Williams and Dick Wilson on tenor. Most memorable in this entry in Classics' "complete" Andy Kirk CD series are "Floyd's Guitar Blues" (an odd but pioneering electric guitar feature for Floyd Smith), "Wham" and "Scratching In the Gravel." Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1     You Set Me on Fire 2:57
Colwell / MacKinnon
2     (I Guess) I'll Never Learn 3:12
Gordon / Kaufmann
3     Close to Five 2:55
Mary Lou Williams
4     Floyd's Guitar Blues 3:09
Floyd Smith
5     (I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do) Then I'll Be Happy 2:31
Lew Brown / Sidney Clare / Cliff Friend
6     S'posin' 2:26
Paul Denniker / Andy Razaf
7     I'll Never Fail You 2:55
Victor Mizzy / Irv Taylor
8     Why Don't I Get Wise to Myself 2:42
Sid Bass / Ken Hecht
9     I'm Getting Nowhere With You 2:46
Wood / Adams
10     I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You 3:02
Bing Crosby / Ned Washington / Victor Young
11     Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 2:51
Sidney Clare / Sam H. Stept
12     Big Jim Blues 2:56
Mary Lou Williams
13     Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam!) 3:05
Eddie Durham / Taps Miller
14     Love Is the Thing 2:57
Ned Washington / Victor Young
15     Why Go on Pretending 2:57
Mary Lou Williams
16     It Always Will Be You 3:16
Hays / Copano / O'Day
17     Fine and Mellow 3:02
Billie Holiday     
18     Scratchin' in the Gravel 3:10
Mary Lou Williams / D. Wilson
19     Fifteen Minute Intermission 3:06
Buddy Cannon / Sunny Skylar
20     Take Those Blues Away 2:51
Jackson
21     Now I Lay Me Down to Dream 2:54
Eddie Howard, Jr. / Ted Fio Rito    
22     There Is No Greater Love 3:02
Isham Jones / Marty Symes
Credits :    
Alto Saxophone – Earl Miller (tracks: 1 to 16), Rudy Powell (tracks: 17 to 22)
Bass – Booker Collins
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – John Harrington
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Edward Inge (tracks: 17 to 22)
Directed By – Andy Kirk
Drums – Ben Thigpen
Guitar, Electric Guitar – Floyd Smith
Piano – Mary Lou Williams
Tenor Saxophone – Dick Wilson, Don Byas (tracks: 1 to 16)
Trombone – Fred Robinson (tracks: 13 to 22), Henry Wells (tracks: 1 to 12), Ted Donnelly
Trumpet – Clarence Trice, Earl Thomson (tracks: 1 to 16), Harold Baker (tracks: 17 to 22), Harry Lawson
Vocals – June Richmond (tracks: 5, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20), Pha Terrell (tracks: 1, 2, 6 to 10, 14, 15, 21, 22)