Classics does its usual stellar job in chronicling a five-year tenure of Ethel Waters, covering sides she made for Bluebird, Decca, and New York's Liberty Music Shop. It's an interesting mix of blues, pop, and jazz, with her inimitable style guiding it all. A few big jazz names like Tyree Glenn, Danny Barker, and Milt Hinton pop up in the various backing units, but ultimately, it's all Waters' show. Cub Koda
Tracklist :
1 Hottentot Potentate 3:24
Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
Ethel Waters
feat: Russell Wooding
2 Thief in the Night 3:13
Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
Ethel Waters
feat: Russell Wooding
3 You're a Sweetheart 2:58
Harold Adamson / Jimmy McHugh
4 How Can I Face This Wearied World Alone? 2:33
Eddie Mallory
5 I'll Get Along Somehow 2:29
Dorothy Fields / Gerald Marks
6 You're Mine 2:46
Sam M. Lewis / Joseph Young
Ethel Waters
feat: Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
7 Frankie and Johnny 2:59
Traditional
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
8 They Say 2:27
Edward Heyman / Paul Mann / Stephen Weiss
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
9 Jeepers Creepers 2:47
Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
10 Lonesome Walls 2:34
DuBose Heyward / Jerome Kern
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
11 If You Ever Change Your Mind 2:47
Bud Green / Johnny Green / Maurice Sigler / Grady Watts / Mayme Watts
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
12 What Goes up Must Come Down 3:00
Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler
Ethel Waters
feat: Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
13 Y' Had It Comin' to You 2:15
Alan Jay Lerner
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord / William Steiner
14 Bread and Gravy 2:52
Hoagy Carmichael
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Benny Carter / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord
15 Down in My Soul 2:59
Porter Grainger
Ethel Waters
feat: Benny Carter / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord
16 Georgia on My Mind 3:23
Hoagy Carmichael / Stuart Gorrell
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Benny Carter / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord
17 Stop Myself from Worryin' over You 2:41
Reginald Beane / Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Benny Carter / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord
18 Old Man Harlem 2:52
Hoagy Carmichael / Rudy Vallée
Ethel Waters
feat: Benny Carter / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord
19 Push Out 2:42
Nathaniel Reed
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Benny Carter / Shirley Clay / Tyree Glenn / Eddie Mallory / Castor McCord
20 Baby, What Else Can I Do? 2:56
Walter Hirsch / Gerald Marks
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Garvin Bushell / Benny Carter / Eddie Mallory / Charles Turner
21 I Just Got a Letter 2:22
Dave Franklin / David Franklin
Ethel Waters
feat: Reginald Beane / Garvin Bushell / Benny Carter / Eddie Mallory / Charles Turner
22 Taking a Chance on Love3:03
Vernon Duke / Ted Fetter / John Latouche
Ethel Waters
feat: Max Meth & His Orchestra
23 Honey in the Honeycomb 2:47
Vernon Duke / John Latouche
Ethel Waters
feat: Max Meth & His Orchestra
24 Cabin in the Sky 3:14
Vernon Duke / John Latouche
Ethel Waters
feat: Max Meth & His Orchestra
25 Love Turned the Light Out 2:52
Vernon Duke / John Latouche
Danny Barker – Guitar
Reginald Beane – Composer, Organ, Piano
Garvin Bushell – Sax (Alto)
Benny Carter – Clarinet
Shirley Clay – Trumpet
Tyree Glenn – Trombone, Vocals (Background)
Milt Hinton – Sax (Baritone)
Eddie Mallory – Composer, Conductor, Trumpet
Castor McCord – Clarinet
Max Meth – Conductor
Max Meth & His Orchestra
William Steiner – Sax (Alto)
Ethel Waters – Composer, Vocals
Russell Wooding – Conductor
