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Mildred Bailey
The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey
Part 1 of 2
Discs 1 - 5
5 discs
320kbps CBR - MP3
2000

Mildred Baily was the older sister of Alton \"Al\" Rinker, Bing Crosby\'s first musical partner, and the wife of Red Norvo.

Born as Mildred Rinker in Tekoa, Washington, Bailey retained the last name of her first husband, Ted Bailey, when she moved to Seattle to bolster her singing career. With the help of her second husband, Benny Stafford, she became an established blues and jazz singer on the West Coast. According to Gary Giddins\' book Bing Crosby - A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903-1940, in 1925 she secured work for her brother, Al Rinker and his partner Bing Crosby. Giddins further states that Crosby first heard of Louis Armstrong and other Chicago black jazz records from Bailey\'s own record collection. Crosby helped Bailey in turn by introducing her to Paul Whiteman. She sang with Paul Whiteman\'s band from 1929 to 1933 (Whiteman had a popular radio program and when Bailey debuted with her version of \"Moaning Low\" in 1929, public reaction was immediate, although she did not start recording with Whiteman until late 1931).

Her first two records were as uncredited vocalist for an Eddie Lang Orchestra session in 1929 (\"What Kind O\' Man Is You?\", an obscure Hoagy Carmichael song that was only issued in the UK) and a 1930 recording of \"I Like To Do Things For You\" for Frankie Trumbauer. She was Whiteman\'s popular female vocalist through 1932 (recording in a smooth crooning style), when she left the band due to salary disagreements. She then recorded a series of records for Brunswick in 1933 (accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers), as well an all-star session with Benny Goodman\'s studio band in 1934 that featured Coleman Hawkins.

In the mid 1930s, she recorded with her third husband Red Norvo. A dynamic couple, they earned the nicknames \"Mr. and Mrs. Swing\". During this period (from 1936-1939) Norvo recorded for Brunswick (with Bailey as primary vocalist) and Bailey recorded her own set of recordings for Vocalion, often with Norvo\'s band. Some of her recordings instead featured members of Count Basie\'s band. Despite her divorce from Norvo, she and Red would continue to record together until 1945. Suffering from diabetes and depression (during her adult life Bailey was overweight), she only made a few recordings following World War II.

Mildred Bailey died December 12, 1951, in Poughkeepsie of heart failure, aged 44, chiefly due to her diabetes. Bailey\'s ashes were scattered. Red Norvo outlived Mildred by nearly half a century, dying in April 1999, a week after his 91st birthday.

Jazz vocal collectors have always considered her one of the best vocalists of her era (refer to many Downbeat polls and articles in Downbeat and many other jazz publications), Despite being a big woman, Bailey had a sweet, rather small yet very expressive voice, and quite a light, unique swinging vocal style (refer to many recordings). Many of her most outstanding records were among the best versions recorded:


Tracks

Disc 1

01. What Kind of Man Is You? [Alternate Take]
02. What Kind of Man Is You?
03. I Like to Do Things for You
04. Is That Religion? [Alternate Take]
05. Is That Religion?
06. Harlem Lullaby
07. There\'s a Cabin in the Pines
08. Lazy Bones
09. Shoutin\' in That Amen Corner
10. Snowball
11. But I Can\'t Make a Man
12. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love
13. Doin\' the Uptown Lowdown
14. Heat Wave
15. Junk Man [Take 2]
16. Junk Man [Take 3]
17. Ol\' Pappy
18. Emaline
19. I\'d Love to Take Orders from You
20. I\'d Rather Listen to Your Eyes
21. Someday, Sweetheart
22. When Day Is Done

disc 2

23. It All Begins and Ends With You
24. A Porter\'s Love Song to a Chambermaid/Old Fashioned Love/Carolina Shout
25. Picture Me Without You
26. It Can Happen to You
27. Now That Summer Is Gone
28. Now That Summer Is Gone [Alternate Take][#]
29. It\'s Love I\'m After
30. Peter Piper
31. For Sentimental Reasons
32. It\'s Love I\'m After
33. \'Long About Midnight
34. More Than You Know
35. A Thousand Dreams of You
36. Smoke Dreams
37. Slumming on Park Avenue
38. I\'ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
39. My Last Affair
40. Trust in Me
41. Where Are You?
42. You\'re Laughing at Me

Disc 3

43. Never in a Million Years
44. There\'s a Lull in My Life
45. Rockin\' Chair [Take 1]
46. Rockin\' Chair [Take 2]
47. Little Joe
48. If You Ever Should Leave
49. The Man Got in My Eyes
50. Heaven Help This Heart of Mine
51. It\'s the Natural Thing to Do
52. It\'s the Natural Thing to Do [Alternate Take][#]
53. Everyone\'s Wrong But Me
54. Posin\'
55. Posin\' [Alternate Take][#]
56. The Morning After
57. Tears in My Heart
58. Worried over You
59. Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
60. Just a Stone\'s Throw from Heaven
61. Loving You
62. Right or Wrong

Disc 4

63. I See Your Face Before Me [Alternate Take]
64. I See Your Face Before Me
65. Thanks for the Memory [Alternate Take]
66. Thanks for the Memory
67. From the Land of the Sky Blue Water [Alternate Take][#]
68. From the Land of the Sky Boue Water
69. Lover, Come Back to Me
70. Lover, Come Back to Me
71. Always and Always
72. I Was Doing All Right
73. I Was Doing All Right [Alternate Take][#]
74. It\'s Wonderful
75. Love Is Here to Stay
76. More Than Ever
77. The Weekend of a Private Secretary
78. Please Be Kind
79. There\'s a Boy in Harlem
80. There\'s a Boy in Harlem [Alternate Take][#]
81. Bewildered
82. I Cant\' Face the Music [Take 1]
83. I Cant\' Face the Music [Take 1]
84. Don\'t Be That Way [Take 1]
85. Don\'t Be That Way [Take 3]
86. At Your Beck and Call

Disc 5

87. Says My Heart
88. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]
89. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]
90. Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 1]
91. Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 2]
92. Rock It for Me
93. After Dinner Speech [Take 1]
94. After Dinner Speech [Take 1]
95. If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
96. Daydreaming (All Night Long)
97. A Cigarette and a Silhouette
98. (I\'ve Been) Saving Myself for You
99. You Leave Me Breathless
100. Washboard Blues
101. My Melancholy Baby
102. My Melancholy Baby [Alternate Take][#]
103. \'Round My Old Deserted Farm
104. The Lonesome Road
105. So Help Me
106. Small Fry
107. As Long as You Live [Rehearsal Take][#]
108. As Long as You Live
109. Born to Swing



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