Jack Teagarden 1939 1940

Jack Teagarden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Corporation
• ASIN: B000001NP3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,161,807 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm Takin' My Time With You

2. I Wanna Hat With Cherries

3. Two Blind Loves

4. Hawaii Sang Me to Sleep

5. It's a Hundred to One (I'm in Love)

6. I'll Remember

7. Peg O' My Heart

8. At Least You Could Say Hello

9. A Table in a Corner

10. Stop Kicking My Heart Around

11. If What You Say Is True

12. So Many Ways

13. Muddy River Blues

14. Wolverine Blues

15. Red Wing

16. United We Swing

17. Beale Street Blues

18. Somewhere a Voice Is Calling

19. Swingin' on the Teagarden Gate

20. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars JT, June 18, 2009

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This review is from: Jack Teagarden 1939 1940 (Audio CD)

This was a really swinging band but came along about four years too late. Tea made a bad career move when he signed a lengthy contract with Paul Whiteman that didn't allow him to leave until 1939. Had T started this band in 1935 instead of staying all that time with Whiteman, he would have been a hot item at the dawning of the swing era. Instead, by '39, this hot style was on the way out and the slower fox trot style was now dominating by Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman. The liner notes say Tea lost $40,000 trying to keep this band going___a tremendous sum of money for that time. There are some slower ballad tunes too, with Tea and Kitty Kallen vocals; a gal who would gain stardom with Harry James four years later. Terrific music from a band that unfortunately was short-lived because it's time had come and gone before it got a chance to succeed.