PUT & TAKE
Composer: Spencer
Williams
Lyricist: Spencer Williams
Opened: August 23, 1921, Town Hall, N.Y.C.
Performances: 32
Note: Additional music by Tim Brymn and Perry Bradford.
Crazy
Blues (M/L: Perry Bradford) (not in programs):
1. 78/Okeh 4169 (Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds)
[reissued on Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1, CD/Document
5357]
2. 78/Edison 50754 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake) [also
78/Emerson 10326; reissued on Jazz & Blues On Edison, Vol.
2, CD/Document DOCD 110]
3. 78/Columbia A 3365 (Mary Stafford and Her Jazz Band)
[reissued on Female Blues Singers, Vol. 13: R/S (1921-1931),
CD/Document DOCD 5517]
4. 78/Decca 2050 (Teddy Grace with orchestra) [reissued on
Teddy Grace 1937-1940, CD/Timeless CBC 1016]
5. 78/Decca 4431 (Ginnie Powell with Jerry Wald and His
Orchestra) [reissued on Clarinet High Jinks, Sounds Of Swing
105]
6. 78/Decca 8620 (Erskine Butterfield, vocal, with Erskine
Butterfield and His Blue Boys)
7. 78/Cameo 583 (Salt and Pepper)
8. 78/Banner 33261 (Eva Taylor and Her Boy Friends) [also
78/Melotone M 13228; 78/Perfect 16032]
9. 78/Brunswick 2077 (Bennie Krueger’s Orchestra)
10. 78/Regal 911 (Leonard Graham)
11. 78/Okeh 4250 (Joseph Samuel’s Jazz Band) [reissued on
Early Jazz 1917-1923, CD/Fremeaux 181]
12. 78/Tremont 497 (Cliff and Clyde)
13. 78/Victor 18729 (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) [reissued
on The Complete Original Dixieland Jazz Band, CD/RCA ND 90026]
14. X-Rey Guitar, CD/Hobemian 4661 (Del Rey)
15. Salute To The Jazz Age, CD/Crazy Otto Music 13 (Johnny
Maddux)
16. Listen To That Dixie Band, CD/Stomp Off SOSCD 1321 (John
Gill)
17. Neo Classic Blues, CD/Hot Toddy 1920 (Gaye Adegbalola)
18. Mood Swings, CD/Jungle 6006 (Number Nine)
19. The Chronological Clarence Williams 1934, CD/Classics 891
(Clarence Williams)
Georgia Rose (M: Harry Rosenthal; L: Jimmy Flynn; Alex
Sullivan):
1. 78/Columbia A 3513
(Broadway Quartette with orchestra)
2. 78/Regal 9160 (Golden Gate Orchestra)
3. 78/Edison 50891 (Rudy Wiedoeft’s Californians)
4. 78/Victor 18837 (Sterling Trio)
5. 78/Vocalion 14275 (The Californian Ramblers)
6. 45/Columbia 4-43715 (Tony Bennett and Urbie Green with
orchestra conducted by Ralph Burns) [reissued on The Complete
Collection, CD/Sony 787460]
7. Live At Orchestra Hall, Detroit, CD/Telarc CD 83329 (Joe
Williams with The Count Basie Orchestra directed by Frank
Foster)
8. Alone Again (Naturally), CD/Reel Music 78004 (Esther
Phillips)
Nervous Blues (M/L: Perry Bradford)
(added after opening):
1. 78/Columbia A-3479
(Edith Wilson with Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds) [reissued
on Johnny Dunn & Edith Wilson: Vol. 1 1921-1922, CD/RST
Records 1522]
2. 78/Okeh 8029 (Esther Bigeou with orchestra) [reissued on
Complete Recorded Works 1921-1923, CD/Document DOCD 5489]
3. Carolina Shout, CD/Biograph BCD 105 (James P. Johnson)
Old Time Blues (M: Johnny Dunn; L:
Perry Bradford):
1. 78/Columbia A-3506
(Edith Wilson with Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds) [reissued
on Johnny Dunn & Edith Wilson: Vol. 1 1921-1922, CD/RST
Records 1522]
2. 78/Okeh 4296 (Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds) [reissued on
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1, CD/Document DOCD 5357]
Put And Take:
1. 78/Columbia A-3579
(Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds) [reissued on Johnny Dunn
& Edith Wilson: Vol. 1 1921-1922, CD/RST Records 1522]
Snag ‘Em Blues:
1. Happy Rhythm: New York
Columbia Recordings, Vol. 1, CD/Frog 32 (Cotton Club Orchestra)
Stop And Rest Awhile (M: Tim Brymn; L:
L. Wolfe Gilbert):
1. 78/Okeh 4471 (Mamie
Smith) [reissued on Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1921-1922),
CD/Document DOCD 5358]
Strut Miss Lizzie (M: Turner Layton; L:
Henry Creamer) (originally used in ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF
1921):
1. 78/Regal 942 (Skeeter
Sims with orchestral accompaniment)
2. 78/Jewel L 870 (Al Starita and His Society Orchestra) [also
78/Grey Gull L 1070]
3. 78/Commodore 530 (Eddie Condon and His Band) [reissued on
Ballin’ The Jack, CD/Commodore Records 7015]
4. 78/Columbia A 3418 (Mary Stafford and Her Jazz Band)
[reissued on Female Blues Singers, Vol. 13: R/S (1921-1931),
CD/Document DOCD 5517]
5. 78/Hytone K 69 (Hegamin’s Blue Flame Syncopaters) [reissued
on Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1920-1922), CD/Document
5419]
6. 78/Ampersand 25 (Creame Bell’s Original Four)
7. 78/Art Floral 104 (Evans, coronet; Thompson, trombone; J.
McDonald, clarinet and tenor sax; Joyce McDonald, piano;
Cernardo, drums)
8. 78/Brunswick 2084 (Al Bernard with Carl Fenton’s Orchestra)
[also 78/Okeh 4371]
9. 78/Brunswick 4983 (Irving Mills and His Hotsy Totsy Gang)
[also 78/Brunswick 500091; reissued on Irving Mills, Vol. 2,
CD/Sensation 25]
10. 78/Okeh 8007 (Norfolk Jazz Male Quartette) [reissued on
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1923-1926), CD/Document 5381]
11. 78/Black Swan 2005 (Lula Whidby with Henderson’s Novelty
Orchestra) [reissued on Fletcher Henderson With The Blues
Singers, Vol. 1 (1921-1923), CD/Document 5342]
12. 78/Path 22497 (Ernest Hare with orchestra) [also 78/Lyric
5235]
13. 78/Victor 18799 (America Quartet with orchestra)
14. Art Hodes All-Star Stompers, CD/Jazzology 20 (Art Hodes
All-Star Stompers)
15. Dixieland Blues, CD/Crazy Otto Music 010 (Johnny Maddox and
The Rhythmasters)
16. Black Manhattan, CD/New World Records 80611 (Rick Benjamin
with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
17. Jazz Heritage, CD/Jazzology JCD 85 (Doc Evans)
18. Live At The Jug Club, CD/Delmark DE 219 (Paul Lingle)
19. The Jazz Banjo Of Cynthia Sayer, Vol. 1/More Jazz Banjo ,
Vol. 2, CD/New York Jazz (Cynthia Sayer)
20. Duke Heitger’s Big Four, CD/Stomp Off 1367 (Duke Heitger)
21. The Big Swing Dance: The Music Of Sid Phillips, CD/EMI
5263442 (Sid Philips & His Band)
22. Battle Of Trombones, CD/Membran/New Style 222690 (Brad
Gowans)
23. Take Us To The Land Of Jazz, CD/Diamond Stack DSCD 011809
(Yerba Buena Stompers)
24. Live And Incredible, CD/GHB Records 497 (The Original Salty
Dogs)
25. Feeling Good, CD/Lake LACD 99 (Laurie Chescoe)
26. Absolutely!, Vol. 3, CD/Triangle Jazz T 120CD (Hal Smith’s
Roadrunners)
27. Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band: 1948,
CD/Harlequin Records HQCD 158 (Graeme Bell & His Australian
Jazz Band)
28. C’est MAGNAfique, CD/Jazzology 6279 (Brian White’s Magna
Jazz Band)
29. B.G. & Big Tea In NYC, CD/GRP GRD-609 (Benny Goodman and
Jack Teagarden)
30. On Revival Day, CD/Jazzology 260 (Marty Grosz and His Sugar
Daddies
31. The Classic Jazz Quartet, CD/Jazzology JCD 138/39 (Classic
Jazz Quartet)
32. Strut Miss Lizzie, CD/Stomp Off 1264 (Down Home Five)
33. California, Here I Come, CD/Jazzology 182 (Hal Smith’s
Rhythm Masters)
34. Live At Hambone Kelly’s, Vol. 2, CD/GHB Records BCD97 (Lu
Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band)
35. Echoes From The Snowball Club, CD/Ragtime (Adam Swanson,
piano)
36. Firecracker Jazz Band Explodes, CD/Euphonian (Firecracker
Jazz Band)
Vampin’ Liza Jane (not in programs):
1. 78/Columbia A-3479)
(Edith Wilson with Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds) [reissued
on
2. Johnny Dunn & Edith Wilson: Vol. 1 1921-1922, CD/RST
Records 1522]
3. James P. Johnson, Sounds 1204 (James P. Johnson, piano roll)
Unrecorded Material: