COTTON CLUB PARADE (1938) (5th Ed.)

Composer: Fred Coots
Lyricists: Benny Davis

Opened: September 28, 1938, Cotton Club, N.Y.C.
Performances: Unknown

Note: This was the 31st edition of the Cotton Club Revue, but the fifth edition at the mid-town Cotton Club location.

A-Tisket A-Tasket (M/L: Al Feldman; Ella Fitzgerald):

I have not attempted to provide discological information for this standard.


The Boogie-Woogie:

1. 78/Vocalion v 4400 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Conqueror c 9091; 78/Okeh 4400; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, CD/Classics 576]


The Congo-Conga:

1.78/Vocalion v 4411 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, CD/Classics 576]


I'm Madly In Love With You:

1. 78/Vocalion 4511 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Conqueror c 9127; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, CD/Classics 576]
2. 78/Bluebird B 7810 (Merle Turner with Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra) [also 78/Regal Zonophone MR 2980]


I've Got A Heart Full Of Rhythm (M: Louis Armstrong; L: Horace Gerlach):

1. 78/Decca 1408 (Louis Armstrong, vocal, with Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra) [also 78/Decca F 6915; reissued on The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46), CD/Mosaic 243]
2. Rudy Vallee's Fleischmann's Yeast Show/Louis' Home-Recorded Tapes, CD/Jazz Society 52914 (Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra)
3. New Orleans Clarinet, CD/Living Era 5586 (Albert Nicholas, clarinet)
4. With A Heart Full Of Rhythm, CD/Sykklven 6230 (Blue Horn Jazzband)


Miss Hallelulujah Brown:

1. 78/Vocalion v 4400 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, CD/Classics 576]
2. 78/Bluebird B 7810 (Merle Turner with Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra) [also 78/Regal Zonophone MR 2980; reissued on The Chronological Erskine Hawkins 1936-1938, CD/Classics 653]
3. 78/Decca 2143 (Don Huston with Henry Busse and His Orchestra)
4. 1938-1939 Old Gold Shows, CD/Jazz Hour 1009 (Artie Shaw and His Orchestra)


Jive (A Lesson In Jive) (M/L: Chu Berry; Cab Calloway; Benny Payne):

1. 78/Vocalion v 4437 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, CD/Classics 576]


Rock Me (M/L: Sister Rosetta Tharpe/traditional):

1. 78/Decca 2243 (Sister Rosetta Tharpe with guitar accompaniment) [also 78/Brunswick 02737; reissued on The Gospel Of Blues, CD/MCA/Decca 000053302 (could be other Decca cut); Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1: 1938-1941, CD/Document 5334]
2. 78/Decca 18353 (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) [reissued on Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1: 1938-1941, CD/Document 5334]
3. Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2: 1942-1944. CD/Document 5335 (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)


Swing Low Sweet Chariot (M/L: Traditional):

I have not attempted to provide discological information for this spiritual.


There's A Sunny Side To Everything:

1. 78/Vocalion v 4411 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, CD/Classics 576]


Unrecorded Material:

The Highland Swing
Picketing The Old Plantation
The Preacher
Scartlett O'Hara From Seventh Avenue
Style
Thanks To You Mr. Handy