Classic Jazz / Everybody's Happy

Ted Lewis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00006AAVG
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,844 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aunt Hagar's Blues [#]

2. Clarinet Marmalade [#]

3. Yellow Dog Blues [#]

4. Dip Your Brush in the Sunshine (And Keep on Painting Away) [#]

5. When My Baby Smiles at Me [#]

6. Sobbin' Blues [#]

7. Dallas Blues [#]

8. Royal Garden Blues [#]

9. Frankie and Johnny [#]

10. The Darktown Strutters' Ball [#]

11. A Jazz Holiday [#]

12. A Good Man Is Hard to Find [#]

13. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble [#]

14. Jungle Blues [#]

15. Ho Hum! [#]

16. Farewell Blues [#]

17. O! Katharina [*]

18. I've Found a New Baby [*]

19. Is Everybody Happy Now? [*]

20. (I Got a Woman, Crazy for Me) She's Funny That Way [*]

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2 on 1 includes Classic Jazz & Everybody's Happy. The best of Ted Lewis' six-decade career is presented here on two albums from the Epic archives. Memorable moments from this collection include 'The Darktown Strutters', 'Ball, Frankie And Johnny' and 'When My Baby Smiles At Me.' Includes 8 bonus tracks 'O! Katharina', 'I've Found A New Baby', 'Is Everybody Happy Now?', '(I Got A Woman, Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way', 'San', 'On The Sunny Side Of The Street', 'Three O'Clock In The Morning' & 'Just A Gigolo'. 2002.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everybody's Happy with Classic Jazz, February 22, 2010

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This review is from: Classic Jazz / Everybody's Happy (Audio CD)

This CD is a compilation issued by Columbia and Collectable Records of

two early to mid-fifties LPs consisting of Ted Lewis recordings made primarily

from the late twenties to the earlier part of the thirties.

Each LP had only eight cuts on them, the first looks like it might have been a ten inch Columbia album featuring 'Aunt Hagar's Blues," "Dip Your Brush in the Sunshine" and two cuts featuring Fats Waller, "The Dallas Blues," and "Royal Garden Blues."

The second eight cuts of the twenty four on this CD are from a mid-fifties Epic Records LP entitled "Everybody's Happy" with titles such as "Frankie And Johnnie," "Shim Me Sha Wobble," Jelly Roll Morton's "Jungle blues" and the

venerable "The Darktown Strutter's Ball."

And the final third of this CD is eight recordings previously unissued on CD until this 2002 issue. Some of these titles are well worth hearing including:

"She's Fnuny That Way," "San," and "I've Found A New Baby." but the slower tempo final three cuts are jewels, "Sunny Side Of the Street,""Three O'Clock in the Morning" and "Just A Gigilo."

The word "Jazz" is part of the title of one of these long ago LPs and Ted Lewis wasn't much of a jazzman, more of a popular entertainer, but on this disc you will hear young Benny Goodman, Jimmmy Dorsey and especially Muggsy Spanier. And on two cuts, the wonderful Fats Waller, one of the true geniuses of 20th Century music. This CD is a well presented musical bargain, I recommend it. "Yessir."