Ethel Waters 1925 to 1926

Ethel Waters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Corporation
• ASIN: B000001NMR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #936,347 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Loud Speakin' Papa (You'd Better Speak Easy to Me)

2. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did

3. Pickininny Blues

4. Sweet Man

5. Dinah

6. No Man's Mamma

7. Tell 'Em About Me (When You Reach Tennessee)

8. Maybe Not at All

9. Shake That Thing

10. I've Found a New Baby

11. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

12. Bring Your Greenbacks

13. After All These Years

14. Throw Dirt in Your Face

15. I'm Saving It All for You

16. Refrigeratin' Papa (Mama's Gonna Warm You Up)

17. If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone)

18. Satisfyin' Papa

19. Sugar

20. I Wonder What's Become of Joe?

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutly wonderful..., January 18, 2000

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ab (ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ethel Waters 1925 to 1926 (Audio CD)

The best jazz/blues singer of the 20's, is highly influenced by Louis Armstrong, yet she has one of the sweetest, most appealing and swinging voices of the era. Of all the volumes in the classics labels reissue this is the one to start with, though all of theem are recommended highly.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavenly singing by a real jazzed angel!!!, September 25, 2000

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roarin20sGuy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ethel Waters 1925 to 1926 (Audio CD)

Ethel Waters had the most beautiful voice ever, when she sang the angels danced in heaven. I mean this woman's phrasing was completely jazzy, yet her voice was pure and sweet. Always a dicty singer, at times very white sounding, and theb the next minute she's be scattin' away, but always in high browl sophistocated style. This CD has her mostly singing the blues of the "20's blues craze", with just James P. Johnson, King of the stride piano(the CD would be worth picking up alone for James P. Johnson's piano playing). There are also a few soon to be jazz standards here "Heebie Jeebies" and the classic "Sugar" as well as the classic blues "Loud Speakin' Papa." This is the difinitive 20's Ethel Waters CD.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Talk about phrasing, March 5, 2003

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Jahlaune Hunt "Jahlaune Hunt" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ethel Waters 1925 to 1926 (Audio CD)

Ethel waters enuctuation and phrasing are excellant. If you like early Billie Holiday you will love her forerunner and arch enemy Ethel Waters. For her time she had such perfect timing and phrasing and each word is clear and precise though at times she tends to veer in the vaudevillian opretic style that was prevelant in her day. This is a good "old testemant to anyone considering to be a singer phrasing and enuuation is what makes a singer last! A great CD!