Boswell Sisters - Collection 1925-36 (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Nights When I'm Lonely
2. My Future Just Passed
3. Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy
4. When I Take My Sugar to Tea
5. Roll on, Mississippi, Roll on
6. Shout, Sister, Shout!
7. I Found a Million Dollar Baby - the Boswell Sisters/Victory Young and His Orchestra
8. It's the Girl - the Boswell Sisters/The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
9. I Can't Write the Words - the Boswell Sisters/Victory Young and His Orchestra
10. Makin' Faces at the Man in the Moon - the Boswell Sisters/Victory Young and His Orchestra
11. Heebie Jeebies
12. Shine on Harvest Moon
13. An Ev'ning in Caroline
14. River, Stay 'Way from My Door
15. Was That the Human Thing to Do?
16. We've Got to Put That Sun Back in the Sky
17. Stop the Sun, Stop the Moon (My Man's Gone)
18. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
19. There'll Be Some Changes Made
20. Got the South in My Soul
21. If It Ain't Love
22. Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane - the Boswell Sisters/Victory Young and His Orchestra
23. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
24. Old Yazoo

Disc: 2

1. Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia - the Boswell Sisters/The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
2. Charlie Two-Step
3. Down Among the Sheltering Palms
4. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - the Boswell Sisters/The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
5. Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day - the Boswell Sisters/The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
6. Louisiana Hayride
7. 42nd Street
8. Shuffle Off to Buffalo
9. Sophisticated Lady
10. That's How Rhythm Was Born
11. Coffee in the Morning (And Kisses in the Night)
12. You Oughta Be in Pictures (My Star of Stars)
13. Crazy People
14. Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong
15. Why Don't You Practice What You Preach?
16. If I Had a Million Dollars
17. Rock and Roll
18. The Object of My Affection - the Boswell Sisters/Jimmy Grier ; His Orchestra
19. Alexander's Ragtime Band
20. The Darktown Strutters Ball
21. Dinah
22. Traveling All Alone
23. St Louis Blues
24. Cheek to Cheek
25. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down ; Write Myself a Letter