Description
Title: Jukebox Hits: 1935-1947
Artist: Jimmie Lunceford
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046407629
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2005-01-25
Number of Discs: 1
Acrobat. 2004. Jazz criticism over the years has not been kind to Jimmie Lunceford and it was the band”s innate commerciality and rather vulgar amount of actual hits that may have turned off the jazz academics. Truth be known Jimmie Lunceford”s Orchestra was far and away the most popular swing band with Black audiences, ever. Basie and Ellington are considered the epitome of hit Black bands, but Lunceford was way up there with them. This CD brings together all of Lunceford”s biggest chart hits. No band could compete with them for dancing, but until now most CDs by Lunceford have been part of a chronological series or a package geared more to the jazz fan rather than the R&B or dance fan, which is what you get here.
Tracks:
1.1 Rhythm Is Our Business
1.2 Swanee River
1.3 Organ Grinder”s Swing
1.4 T”aint Good (Like a Nickel Made of Wood)
1.5 This Is My Last Affair
1.6 Slumming on Park Avenue
1.7 Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
1.8 For Dancers Only
1.9 Posin”
1.10 The First Time I Saw You
1.11 Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
1.12 T”aint What You Do
1.13 Blues in the Night (PTS I ; II)
1.14 Life Is Fine
1.15 I”m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town PT 1
1.16 I”m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town PT 2
1.17 It Had to Be You
1.18 Backdoor Stuff PT 1
1.19 Backdoor Stuff PT 2
1.20 I Dream a Lot About You
1.21 Buzz Buzz Buzz
1.22 Baby, Are You Kiddin”
1.23 The Honeydripper
1.24 Cement Mixer
1.25 Call the Police
