Recorded January 1998

Recording Engineer - Rex Foord

Washington and Lee Swing
Thornton Allen, MV Sheafe and CA Robbins 1910. 1st recorded 1929 Memphis Stompers

Grandpa Spells
Jellyroll Morton 1923. 1st recorded Jellyroll Morton 1926

Basin Street Blues
Spencer Williams 1928. 1st recorded Charlston Chasers 1931

Thats A Plenty
Lou Pollack and Ray Gilbert 1914. 1st recorded Miff Mole 1929

Big Butter and Egg Man
Percy Venabie and Louis Armstrong 1926. 1st recorded Louis Armstrong 1926

Jazz Ball Band
Nick La Rocca and Larry Shields 1917. 1st recorded Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1918

Do You Know What it Means To Miss Orleans
Louis Alter and Eddie DeLange 1946. 1st recorded Louis Armstrong 1946

Fidgetty Feet
Nick La Rocca and Larry Shields 1918 1st recorded Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1918. Originally called "war Cloud" possibly to aid the sale of war bonds. Its name was changed later by JS McDonald of the Victor Recording Company.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along
Saul Chaplin, Albert Nichols, Sammy Cahn, Mann Holiner and Al Freeman 1936. 1st recorded Fats Waller 1936. Originally called the "Slave Song"

Dinah
Harry Akst, Sam Lewis and Joe Young 1925. 1st recorded Bing Crosby 1931

Just A Gigalo
Leonello Casucci and Irvin Caesar 1929. 1st recorded Bing Crosby 1929 (Banned from public broadcast due to suggestive lyrics in verse. Later recorded Louis Armstrong 1931

After You've Gone
J Turner Layton and Henry Creamer 1918. 1st recorded Bessie Smith 1927

Dixie Down Beat
Zep Meissner and Irving Mills

Twelfth Street Rag
Euday L Bowman, James S Sumner and Andy Razaf 1914. 1st recorded Louis Armstrong 1927

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