Mrs. Swing [Box set]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Blessed with a light, clear, bell-like voice & a musician's ear, coupled with excellent diction, Mildred Bailey could sing a song with such conviction & warmth that she could make the listener believe in it no matter how superficial the actual message. She was the number one white singer of the swing era, and truly was Mrs. Swing. 100 tracks have been shoehorned onto four CDs including all her greatest recordings between 1929 & 1942. Includes 52-page booklet. Standard jewel cases housed in a box. Proper. 2003.

Mrs. Swing, Music, Mildred Bailey, Classic Female Blues, Jazz, Jazz Vocals, Pop, Popular Music, Standards, Swing, Traditional Pop
Mrs. Swing
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Mildred is so good YOU REALLY NEED THE BOX SET!
  • Amazing music,
  • Mildred Bailey , Jazz, and Political Correctness
  • GREAT MILDRED BAILEY COMPILATION
 Mrs. Swing
Mildred Bailey
Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000918PK
Release Date: 2003-05-05

Tracks:

  1. What Kind O' Man Is You? - Mildred Bailey, Eddie Lang & His Orchestra
  2. Is That Religion? - Mildred Bailey, The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
  3. Harlem Lullaby - Mildred Bailey, The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
  4. Lazy Bones - Mildred Bailey, The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
  5. But I Can't Make a Man - Mildred Bailey, The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
  6. Doin' the Uptown Lowdown - Mildred Bailey, The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
  7. Heat Wave - Mildred Bailey, Casa Loma Orchestra
  8. Junk Man - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  9. Ol' Pappy - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  10. Emaline - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  11. I'd Love to Take Orders From You - Mildred Bailey & Her Swing Band
  12. I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes - Mildred Bailey & Her Swing Band
  13. Someday Sweetheart - Mildred Bailey & Her Swing Band
  14. When Day Is Done - Mildred Bailey & Her Swing Band
  15. Willow Tree - Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats
  16. Honeysuckle Rose - Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats
  17. Squeeze Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats
  18. Downhearted Blues - Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats
  19. Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  20. Picture Me Without You - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  21. Now That Summer Is Gone - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  22. For Sentimental Reasons - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  23. It's Love I'm After - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  24. 'Long About Midnight - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra

Tracks:

  1. More Than You Know - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  2. Thousand Dreams of You - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  3. Smoke Dreams - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  4. Slumming on Park Avenue - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  5. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  6. My Last Affair - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  7. Trust in Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  8. Where Are You? - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  9. You're Laughing at Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  10. Never in a Million Years - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  11. There's a Lull in My Life - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  12. Rockin' Chair - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  13. If You Should Ever Leave - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  14. Moon Got in My Eyes - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  15. Heaven Help This Heart of Mine - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  16. It's the Natural Thing to Do - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  17. Posin' - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  18. Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?) - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  19. I See Your Face Before Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  20. Thanks for the Memory - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  21. Lover, Come Back to Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  22. Always and Always - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  23. I Was Doing All Right - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  24. It's Wonderful - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  25. Love Is Here to Stay - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra

Tracks:

  1. Weekend of a Private Secretary - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  2. Please Be Kind - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  3. Bewildered - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  4. I Can't Face the Music - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  5. Don't Be That Way - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  6. At Your Beck and Call - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  7. Says My Heart - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  8. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  9. Rock It for Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  10. If You Were in My Place - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  11. (I've Been) Saving Myself for You - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  12. You Leave Me Breathless - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  13. Washboard Blues - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  14. My Melancholy Baby - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  15. So Help Me - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  16. Small Fry - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  17. As Long as You Live (You'll Be Dead If You Die) - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  18. Put Your Heart in a Song - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  19. Sunny Side of Things - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  20. Garden of the Moon - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  21. Love Is Where You Find It - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  22. I Used to Be Color Blind - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  23. This Is Madness (To Love Like This) - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  24. My Reverie - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  25. What Have You Got That Gets Me? - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  26. Old Folks - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra

Tracks:

  1. Have You Forgotten So Soon? - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  2. They Say - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  3. Blame It on My Last Affair - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  4. St. Louis Blues - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  5. Begin the Beguine - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  6. Cuckoo in the Clock - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  7. There'll Never Be Another You - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  8. 'Taint What You Do - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  9. There'll Be Some Changes Made - Mildred Bailey & Her Oxford Greys
  10. Gulf Coast Blues - Mildred Bailey & Her Oxford Greys
  11. Prisoner of Love - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  12. Lamp Is Low - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  13. Moon Love - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  14. Ghost of a Chance - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  15. You're the Moment in My Life - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  16. I Thought About You - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  17. Bluebirds in the Moonlight - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  18. Darn That Dream - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  19. Peace, Brother! - Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  20. All the Things You Are - Mildred Bailey
  21. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) - Mildred Bailey
  22. Give Me Time - Mildred Bailey
  23. Don't Take Your Love From Me - Mildred Bailey
  24. Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra
  25. I'll Be Around - Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo & His Orchestra

Album Description

Blessed with a light, clear, bell-like voice & a musician's ear, coupled with excellent diction, Mildred Bailey could sing a song with such conviction & warmth that she could make the listener believe in it no matter how superficial the actual message. She was the number one white singer of the swing era, and truly was Mrs. Swing. 100 tracks have been shoehorned onto four CDs including all her greatest recordings between 1929 & 1942. Includes 52-page booklet. Standard jewel cases housed in a box. Proper. 2003.

Album Details

Blessed with a Light, Clear, Bell-like Voice and a Musician's Ear, Coupled with Excellent Diction, Mildred Bailey Could Sing a Song with Such Conviction and Warmth, that She Would Make You, the Listener, Believe in It, No Matter How Superficial the Actual Message. She was the Number One White Singer of the Swing Era, She Truly was Mrs. Swing. 100 Tracks have Been Shoehorned Onto the Four CDs Including all of her Greatest Recordings Between 1929 and 1942. The Set Comes with a 52 Page Booklet.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Mildred is so good YOU REALLY NEED THE BOX SET!.......2005-02-15

Mildred Bailey was not just the first real Jazz band singer. She was one of the earliest real jazz singers and she continued to have a jazz based strain to her singing throughout her career unlike some singers with her success who might have gone more pop. She was fun. She was fun. She was fun. She jived, she joked, she played.

She is just so good you can't just have dribs and drops and drabs, you need the Box Set. Oh Mildred we miss you soooo bad!

You are going to smile when you hear Mildred and know she is really serious when she is serious. She could bring out the jazz in the most wooden of accompaniest, but usually she had great musicians, white, black or otherwise playing behind her, because Mildred is fun.

In an age before television, Bailey continued to have fans white and Black who did not know she was white. This remains true even recently when I have loaned tapes of Mildred to other African Americans without any liner notes or anything and had them ask why they had never heard of this great Black singer.

However, I do find it distressing that Mildred Bailey seems to be so forgotten. She was the first prominent female band singer in Jazz. She was and is fun to listen to and a great voice. Mildred was actually able to swing and swing hard even with Paul Whiteman. She produced masterpieces using some of the same small groups as Billie Holday for HER Columbia recordings, although Bailey semed to prefer Herschal Evans to Lester Young. Bailey was also pretty out front for the time as a white female singer performing with an all black combo--"Mildred Baily and Her Oxford Browns." Mildred was simply magnificent in the small combos her husband Red Novro organized, She had a sense of humor about her performances and a bit of salaciousness that you won't find in Billie's recordings.

I don't think it was just out of sentimentality, but in tribute to her artistry, that Sinatra and Bing Crosby (who owed his career to Bailey's bringing him in contact with Whiteman)spent thousands of dollars helping her out in the last years of her life when health problems and the end of her career led her to very hard times.

Mildred was a great singer, a great jazz pioneer, and a lot of fun. How does anyone get along without the joy her music has brought to my life. There have been times when my life was worse than it is now when I was depressed and just thinking about one of Mildred's tracks on this CD started to turn my life around!

5 out of 5 stars Amazing music,.......2004-08-16

All I can say is that I bought this box, listened to it more than any other collection of music I've ever owned, and then started buying all 9 CDs in the Chronological Classics of Mildred Bailey series. Never since I first discovered the recordings of Lee Wiley and Ethel Waters did a voice stun and touch me like hers. Her voice has been described as light and sweet, which it is, but that belies the amazing complexity and emotionally wrenching quality of her best performances (of which there are many). Witness her version of "Rockin' Chair", easily the best version of the song I have ever heard. All I can say is, if you think you enjoy vocal jazz and don't know Mildred, you've got a lot of listening to do.
Buy this set for a cheap introduction to Mildred Bailey, although you may find yourself wanting more as I did.
(Let me also recommend the music of Ethel Waters, Anita O'Day, Connee Boswell, Annette Hanshaw and Lee Wiley, other superlative, jazz singers who are not heard nearly enough today.)

5 out of 5 stars Mildred Bailey , Jazz, and Political Correctness.......2003-09-30

Let's be clear from the start---Mildred Bailey was a white jazz singer whose career streched from the mid-1920s through the WWII era. Mildred Bailey was also the first female jazz singer to front a band, and she was arguably the greatest female jazz singer whoever lived. No qualification necessary here. Again, Mildred was white, and I emphasize this point only becaue Ken Burns and other white jazz historians seem to think that they're doing the African American community some favor by pretending that only blacks in jazz really mattered. Bailey sang jazz just as Bix Beiderbecke (who was also white) played jazz and few, if any---black or white---did it better. Bailey sang with such a clear, bell-like tone, impeccable phrasing, and a natural swinging syncopation that every subsequent female jazz singer from Connee Boswell and Billie Holiday to Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee were simply variations on the Bailey model. It has become rather annoying that every time an accolade is written about a great white jazz singer or jazz musician the author feels compelled to "qualify" his praise of that artist by mentioning that he or she was indeed "white." The implication being that he or she was great only as far as white jazz artists are concerned. There is no need for such mushy left wing, politically correct, vacuous apologetics. There has been an unjustifiable neglect of a long, rich white jazz tradition that stretches as far back as the 1880s in cities like New Orleans, and to admit this is not taking anything away from a similarly long and great black jazz tradition. It is simply that the dawn of jazz was as populated by great Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans and other ethnic Americans as it was by African Americans. There were great black jazz artists and there were great white jazz artists. The first great jazz band to actually record a jazz record was The Original New Orleans Jazz Band which was headed by Nick La Rocca (who was white), and he composed that first popular jazz recording, "Tiger Rag." Somehow Mr. Burns seemed to miss that rather substantial slice of jazz history in his documentary. No one need qualify that the greatest coronet player in Jazz history is Bix Beiderbecke, who was white. Similarly, the greatest trumpet player in all of jazz was Louis Armstrong, who was black. Who could argue with that?Among the greatest jazz drummers are Louis Belson and Buddy Rich, who were white, but also Elvin Jones and Cozy Cole, who were black. The greatest jazz violinist was Joe Venuti, who was white. The greatest jazz guitarists included Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, who were black, but also Django Reinhardt and Eddie Lang who were white. The greatest jazz pianist-composer was Fats Waller, who was black. The point is, black Americans don't own jazz anymore than Woody Guthrie owns folk music. This is the same ignorance that allows nitwits to proclaim that Elvis Presley was the King of Rock and Roll when Little Richard, Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Carl Perkins, and Chuck Berry were doing it far earlier and far better. Whether it is simply a genuine ignorance of jazz history or a misplaced allegiance to the social disease known as political correctness (probably both), it is about time that both white and black jazz artists get their fair recognition. It is a sad but true fact that past racial discrimination against African-Americans was rampant, immoral, and abominable. For years the great early black jazz performers like King Oliver were cruely underappreciated, if not totally neglected. But pretending that all of Jazz was solely a black cultural phenomena and that all documentaries on the history of Jazz must focus exclusively on black artists in order to compensate for past discrimination is as deranged and as delusional as white racism was horrific. In the case of Mildred Bailey, enough is enough. Bailey was a great singer, plain and simple. She happened to be quite overweight and so she never attracted a popular following similar to that of a young Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee or Doris Day, all of whom were attractive. But singers should be evaluated not by their bust, waist, and hip measurements but rather by their voices. Music critics realized this, and they recognized the brilliance of Baily's unique vocalizing. Bailey was around in the 1920s, long before Holliday or Fitzgerlad. She had a sweeter and much less warbly voice than Holliday. (Some fans find Holliday's warble appealing, I don't. That's a matter of taste). In fact, Bailey had perfect pitch and intonation. To my mind, both Bailey and Fitzgerald were superior jazz vocalists to Holliday (and note, Bailey is white, Fitzgerald black). Mildred introduced so many classics it would take pages to list them, but among them are "Ghost of A Chance," "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm," "Georgia On My Mind," and "Rock'n Chair." Whether an uptempo swing tune or a smokey ballad, Mildred put a song over with musical brilliance. Obese, ill, and impoverished, Mildred Bailey died in relative obscuirty in 1951 and has since been largely forgotten. No movies or books about her life. Jazz collections advertised on TV invariably exclude her. Just as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey helped pioneer female blues singing back in the 1920s, Mildred Bailey did the same for jazz. She should be remembered and this collection is a step in rekindling her memory for true lovers of jazz---of all races, colors, and creeds. We need to replace political correctness with historical correctness.

5 out of 5 stars GREAT MILDRED BAILEY COMPILATION.......2003-08-03

Mildred Bailey, initially heavily influenced by Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, chose not to follow either the blues style or the melodic ballad method they each had made their own. In fact, when Mildred recorded her first songs in 1929, she could claim to be the first successful white female jazz vocalist, having taken a similar route as Billie Holiday who she admired. However, their voices were dissimilar, with Mildred's having a high bell-like quality enabled by perfect diction, and the ability to interpret lyrics in a believable way which heightened any song's sentiments. Both she and Billie had careers which were beset with personal problems and resulted in their early deaths - in Mildred's case at age 48. Compared with Billie, Mildred's recording career has received less attention, and this four CD set containing 100 tracks from the initial 1929 recording session follows through the years until 1942. Fortunately, Mildred was usually backed by the very best musicians and she recorded with husband Red Norvo's Orchestra, as well as under her own name when they recorded for different record companies. There were also odd sessions with the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman. Apart from featuring songs of the day which did not become standards, there are those which did like HEAT WAVE, PLEASE BE KIND, and PRISONER OF LOVE. She also had her own popular hits, ROCKIN' CHAIR, LAZY BONES and SMALL FRY for which she is particularly remembered. What is clear is the sheer variety of material Mildred recorded, with all songs stamped with her individual style and effort. This collection, together with its excellent career over-view and discography, is certainly one which should help bring her name back into popularity, ensuring she finds her place as one of the great early vocalists
Mrs. Vache's Boys
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    		Mrs. Vache's Boys
    Warrren Vache & Allan Vache
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    • first white rock and roller
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    5 out of 5 stars first white rock and roller.......2006-08-17

    The legendary pianist and flamboyant original hipster made his mark in the mid-1940's and was banned from the radio back then for singing about drugs. Finally, in the 1980's, he made his second coming. This is a fantastic CD with rocking boogie, rocking ragtime, rocking jazz, and funny lyrics, of the 1980's sessions. Harry Gibson was a genius.

    5 out of 5 stars Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine.......2006-03-16

    The CD met my expectations very well -- I used it in my Jazz Appreciation class at Coastal Carolina University as an example of the extensions of Jazz in the 40's. Mr. Gibson was extremely talented in many ways (jazz, scat, contemporary and classical included) and I hope to add his music to my collection in the future.

    4 out of 5 stars Nothing but fun!.......1998-11-08

    1930 to 1950 style Jazz that is almost gone today. Harry the hipster is nothing but fun. You can hear in his music that the man loved to jam. Harry was the consummate Jazz Party musician. I would describe his sound as Dixie Land meets Big Band. He plays lose keys around fun lyrics. Harry tosses in the standard Jazz "man" and "yea" into songs as James Brown tosses around vocal sounds that aren't quite lyrics (e.g. the sound just prior to "I feel good"). In either case the song isn't the same without it. I had the pleasure I knowing Harry briefly because I lived near his home in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of years before he died. This album captures Harry as he should always be remembered and a style of music that is almost forgotten. Thanks Harry
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    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Great Fun
    		 Mrs. Vache's Boys
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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Great Fun.......2000-07-23

    I love this album! It cuts through every cliche burdening contemporary jazz, breaking through the hegemony of both potboiler hard bop neo-classicism and the anarchy of so-called free jazz. This CD is comprised of six guys having fun, mining the jazz tradition and expressing it in their individual voices. Warren Vache's cornet playing is marked by a warm tone, melodic invention, and great technique. Irresistible. Perhaps the unsung hero of the group is veteran pianist Eddie Higgins. His playing is so bright and on-time that it buoys the entire band. This is such a fun CD, I think only the grimmest and most dogmatic of the jazz hierarchy could fail to find something to enjoy. Highly recommended. Kudos to Nagel-Heyer.

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