Mildred Bailey - The Queen Of Swing: All The Hits And More 1929-47 Mildred Bailey was a jazz singer of Native American descent who was known variously as "The Queen Of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs Swing", and who enjoyed a successful career during the 1930s and '40s, having more than 40 hits in her own name and as a band singer with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra, and the orchestras of Paul Whiteman, The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and Red Norvo (who was also her husband). This excellent-value 73-track 3-CD comprises all those hits, plus selected recordings by Mildred with those and other bands, like those of Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer and Jimmie Noone, and leading her own orchestra or with various top class accompanists, including the Ellis Larkins Trio. It features the No. 1 hits "All Of Me" with Paul Whiteman, "Please Be Kind" with Red Norvo and "Darn That Dream" with Benny Goodman, along with recordings which were among the original versions from that era of future classic Great American Songbook standards. As her nicknames suggest, she was a leading performer during the swing era as a highly individual and stylish interpreter of songs from across the spectrum of jazz, swing, Hollywood, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley pop, and this collection offers a substantial and thoroughly entertaining showcase for her talent.

Track List

1. What Kind O' Man Is You
2. I Like To Do Things For You
3. Travellin' All Alone
4. You Call It Madness
5. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
6. Georgia On My Mind
7. All Of Me
8. I'll Never Be The Same
9. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
10. Lazy Bones
11. Shoutin' In The Amen Corner
12. Doin' The Uptown Lowdown
13. Heat Wave
14. Ol' Pappy
15. When Day Is Done
16. Willow Tree
17. Squeeze Me
18. Down-Hearted Blues
19. A Porter's Love Song
20. It Can Happen To You
21. For Sentimental Reasons
22. More Than You Know
23. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
24. Slumming On Park Avenue
25. Smoke Dreams
26. My Last Affair
27. Trust In Me
28. Where Are You?
29. Never In A Million Years
30. Rockin' Chair
31. The Moon Got In My Eyes
32. It's The Natural Thing To Do
33. Worried Over You
34. Bob White (Watcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
35. Right Or Wrong
36. I See Your Face Before Me
37. Thanks For The Memory
38. Lover Come Back To Me
39. Love Is Here To Stay
40. The Week-End Of A Private Secretary
41. Please Be Kind
42. Don't Be That Way
43. Says My Heart
44. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
45. My Melancholy Baby
46. Small Fry
47. So Help Me (If I Don't Love You)
48. Garden Of The Moon
49. My Reverie
50. Have You Forgotten So Soon?
51. I Go For That
52. Blame It On My Last Affair
53. I Cried For You
54. St. Louis Blues
55. Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)
56. Gulf Coast Blues
57. Arkansas Blues
58. There'll Be Some Changes Made
59. Moon Love
60. You're The Moment In My Life
61. (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance
62. I Thought About You
63. Bluebirds In The Moonlight
64. Darn That Dream
65. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam!)
66. It's So Peaceful In The Country
67. It's A Woman's Prerogative
68. Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
69. Me And The Blues
70. At Sundown
71. Almost Like Being In Love
72. Born To Be Blue
73. Can't We Be Friends