Jazz In The Charts – Volumes 1 through 4, Top Hits from 1917 through 1926 on CD

Description: Jazz In The Charts – Volumes 1 through 4, Top Hits from 1917 through 1926 on CD The Jazz in the Charts CD series was an ambitious project to transfer all of the top-charting jazz hits of the Twentieth Century to a series of 100 CDs. Here you can purchase the first four entries in this landmark compilation. Each CD comes in a sturdy binder complete with a 22- to 24-page booklet jammed with details about each recording, including release date, personnel, songwriters, and where the song charted on the nation's pop music lists. For jazz fans, this is an indispensable record of the earliest days of jazz. Eighty-six never-to-be-forgotten hits. Nearly four and a half hours of music on four CDs. Volume One – 1917 to 1921. 25 tracks – Starting with the first jazz number to chart in America, "Livery Stable Blues" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Other highlights of this disk include "Darktown Strutter's Ball" (ODJB), "Tiger Rag" (ODJB), "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" (Wilbur Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra), "Crazy Blues" (Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds), "Palesteena" (ODJB), "Royal Garden Blues" (two versions: Mamie Smith and the ODJB), "Some Little Bird" (Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra), and "St. Louis Blues" (ODJB). See photo for full listing. Volume Two – 1921 to 1923. 17 tracks – Selections include "Bandana Days" (Eubie Blake), "There'll Be Some Changes Made" (Ethel Waters), "Arkansas Blues" (Noble Sissle), "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" (California Ramblers), "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" (Okeh Syncopators led by Harry Reser), and "Some Of These Days" (ODJB). See photo for full listing. Volume Three – 1923 to 1925. 22 tracks – Selections include "Who's Sorry Now?" (Original Memphis Five), "Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues" (Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams), "Down Hearted Blues" (Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake), "St. Louis Blues" (W.C. Handy's Orchestra), "Dipper Mouth Blues" (King Oliver's Jazz Band), "Midnight Kisses" (California Ramblers), "Charleston Crazy" (Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra), and "Night Hawk Blues" (Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra). See photo for full listing. Volume Four – 1925 to 1926. 22 tracks – Selections include "Cake Walkin' Babies From Home" (Clarence Williams' Blue Five), "Yearning (Just For You)" (Harry Reser's Syncopators), "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ethel Waters & Her Ebony Four), "I Ain't Got Nobody" (Bessie Smith and her Band), "Carolina Stomp" (Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra), "Flamin' Mamie" (Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra), and "Muskrat Ramble" (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five). See photo for full listing. Just to brighten your day, here are the lyrics for "Flamin' Mamie": Flamin' Mamie, sure-fire vamp, the hottest babe in townShe's a heart-scorcher, she loves to torture the guys, she burns them downOf all those ever-turnin' mamas, not one comparesFor she stands endurance, carries fire insurance on everything she wears. When it comes to lovin' she's a human oven but she's hard to understandIt may sound funny but paper money burns right in her handHer father's name is Burns, he works in a mine, says she ate a box of matches at the age of nine. Flamin' Mamie, sure-fire vamp, the hottest babe in town. This is your chance for a ringside seat to witness the birth of jazz. Some of these CDs aren't available online and others are prohibitively expensive. But you can have all four for just $50 – that's just $12.50 per CD – with no charge for shipping. If you'd like to see more collections like this one, visit my eBay site at https://www.ebay.com/sch/biwood35/m.html?item=186484490657&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m145687.l2562 New collections are being added weekly.

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Location: Phoenix, Arizona

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