Description
Release Date: 2017
Label: Acrobat Music
Track List
Disc 1
1 Nights When I’m Lonely The Boswell Sisters
2 My Future Just Passed The Three Boswell Sisters
3 Gee, But I’d Like To Make You Happy The Three Boswell Sisters
4 When I Take My Sugar To Tea The Boswell Sisters
5 Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On The Boswell Sisters
6 Shout, Sister, Shout! The Boswell Sisters
7 I Found A Million Dollar Baby Victor Young & His Orch. with The Boswell Sisters
8 It’s The Girl The Boswell Sisters With The Dorsey Bros. Orch
9 I Can’t Write The Words Victor Young & His Orch. with The Boswell Sisters
10 Makin’ Faces At The Man In The Moon Victor Young & His Orch. with The Boswell Sisters
11 Heebie Jeebies The Boswell Sisters
12 Shine On Harvest Moon The Boswell Sisters
13 An Ev’ning In Caroline The Boswell Sisters
14 River, Stay ‘Way From My Door The Boswell Sisters
15 Was That The Human Thing To Do? The Boswell Sisters
16 We’ve Got To Put That Sun Back In The Sky The Boswell Sisters
17 Stop The Sun, Stop The Moon (My Man’s Gone) The Boswell Sisters
18 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea The Boswell Sisters
19 There’ll Be Some Changes Made The Boswell Sisters
20 Got The South In My Soul The Boswell Sisters
21 If It Ain’t Love The Boswell Sisters
22 Hand Me Down My Walkin’ Cane Victor Young & His Orch. with The Boswell Sisters
23 We Just Couldn’t Say Good-Bye The Boswell Sisters
24 Old Yazoo The Boswell Sisters
Disc 2
1 Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia The Boswell Sisters With The Dorsey Bros. Orch
2 Charlie Two Step The Boswell Sisters
3 Down Among The Sheltering Palms The Boswell Sisters
4 It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) The Boswell Sisters With The Dorsey Bros. Orch
5 Minnie The Moocher’s Wedding Day The Boswell Sisters With The Dorsey Bros. Orch
6 Louisiana Hayride The Boswell Sisters
7 Forty Second Street The Boswell Sisters
8 Shuffle Off To Buffalo The Boswell Sisters
9 Sophisticated Lady The Boswell Sisters
10 That’s How Rhythm Was Born The Boswell Sisters
11 Coffee In The Morning (And Kisses In The Night) The Boswell Sisters
12 You Oughta Be In Pictures (My Star Of Stars) The Boswell Sisters
13 Crazy People The Boswell Sisters
14 Don’t Let Your Love Go Wrong The Boswell Sisters
15 Why Don’t You Practise What You Preach The Boswell Sisters
16 If I Had A Million Dollars The Boswell Sisters
17 Rock And Roll The Boswell Sisters
18 The Object Of My Affection Boswell Sisters with The Jimmy Grier Orch.
19 Alexander’s Ragtime Band The Boswell Sisters
20 The Darktown Strutters Ball The Boswell Sisters
21 Dinah The Boswell Sisters
22 Traveling All Alone The Boswell Sisters
23 St Louis Blues The Boswell Sisters
24 Cheek To Cheek The Boswell Sisters
25 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself A Letter The Boswell Sisters
Notes
The Boswell Sisters were arguably the best and most original, influential and innovative vocal group in the annals of popular music. With their upbringing rooted in New Orleans jazz and blues they developed their swinging close harmony sound during the ‘20s alongside the welter of musical innovations that were happening at the time, recording first for Victor and then for Brunswick and Decca through to 1936. Their appreciation of jazz rhythms and blues inflexions combined with their vocal gymnastics to create a unique sound and style, which resulted in huge record sales, regrettably during the pre-record sales chart era, when hit success could not be readily quantified. They were hugely influential, and The Andrews Sisters freely admit to having based their style on the Boswell Sisters techniques, effectively taking over their role when they retired in the mid-30s in favour of family lives. This great-value 49-track collection comprises a significant proportion of the A and B sides of the 78s they released during their active years, and includes the titles which were their biggest sellers and generally regarded as their most typical and important recordings. It comprises solely recordings by the three Boswell Sisters, and does not include any Connee Boswell solo recordings.
