Helen Humes: Helen Humes Collection 1927-62 - COMPACT DISCS

Helen Humes: Helen Humes Collection 1927-62 - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Helen Humes Collection 1927 62 Artist: Helen Humes Label: Acrobat Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 824046321321 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2017 10 13 Number of Discs: 2 Helen Humes was a blues and jazz singer who defied categorisation, working successfully as a big band vocalist with Harry James and then replacing Billie Holiday in Count Basie's orchestra, as a classic blues performer and R&B jump blues hitmaker during the 1940s, a noted jazz

Title: Helen Humes Collection 1927-62
Artist: Helen Humes
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046321321
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2017-10-13
Number of Discs: 2

Helen Humes was a blues and jazz singer who defied categorisation, working successfully as a big band vocalist with Harry James and then replacing Billie Holiday in Count Basie's orchestra, as a classic blues performer and R&B/jump blues hitmaker during the 1940s, a noted jazz stylist in the '50s and, during her later career, a sophisticated interpreter of ballads and popular songs. This great-value 49-track 2-CD comprises recordings from across more than three decades of her career, from her studio debut as a 14-year-old in 1927 through to the early 60s. As well as including some of her titles with James and Basie, it encompasses recordings with some of top blues, R&B and names of the '40s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Milton, Buck Clayton, Pete Brown, Leonard Feather, Bill Doggett and Dexter Gordon, plus noted recordings with Red Norvo in the '50s, and 'live' recordings done in London in the early '60s with T-Bone Walker, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon. It naturally features her two big Top 10 R&B chart hits of the '40s, "Be-Baba-Leba" and "Million Dollar Secret". It's a varied and highly entertaining showcase for her very special talent.

Tracks:
1.1 If Papa Has Outside Lovin' - 2:47
1.2 Garlic Blues - 2:57
1.3 Jubilee - 2:48
1.4 I Can Dream Can't I - 2:59
1.5 It's the Dreamer in Me - 2:55
1.6 Song of the Wanderer - 3:02
1.7 Blues with Helen - 3:37
1.8 Love of My Life - 3:28
1.9 Dark Rapture - 2:38
1.10 My Heart Belongs to Daddy - 2:59
1.11 Blame It on My Last Affair - 2:46
1.12 Thursday - 3:11
1.13 And the Angels Sing - 3:03
1.14 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - 2:34
1.15 All or Nothing at All - 2:44
1.16 My Wandering Man - 3:06
1.17 It's Square But It Rocks - 2:26
1.18 Mound Bayou - 2:36
1.19 Gonna Buy Me a Telephone - 3:05
1.20 I Would If I Could But I Can't - 2:59
1.21 Fortune Tellin' Man - 3:15
1.22 Be-Baba-Leba - 2:44
1.23 He May Be Your Man - 2:59
1.24 Blue Prelude - 3:09
2.1 Central Avenue Boogie - 2:38
2.2 Pleasin' Man Blues - 3:05
2.3 He Don't Love Me Anymore - 2:49
2.4 Crazy 'Bout a Man - 2:31
2.5 They Raided the Joint - 2:29
2.6 Flippity Flop Flop - 2:01
2.7 Today I Sing the Blues - 2:54
2.8 Married Man Blues - 3:12
2.9 I've Got the Strangest Feeling - 3:08
2.10 Rock Me to Sleep - 2:41
2.11 Million Dollar Secret - 3:13
2.12 I Cried for You - 3:06
2.13 Airplane Blues - 2:31
2.14 The Laziest Gal in Town - 2:31
2.15 Loud Talkin' Woman - 2:56
2.16 Woojamacooja - 2:41
2.17 Real Fine Daddy - 2:14
2.18 It's Wonderful - 3:20
2.19 I Hadn't Anyone Till You - 3:16
2.20 Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - 2:26
2.21 A Good Man Is Hard to Find - 3:04
2.22 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 2:42
2.23 If I Could Be with You (One Hour) - 3:22
2.24 Baby Won't You Please Come Home - 3:09
2.25 St. Louis Blues - 2:34