Bunny Berigan - All The Hits And More 1935-39 Bunny Berigan
2CD edition.
Jazz trumpeter Bunny Berigan, born in Wisconsin in 1908, came to the fore in the late ‘20s as a member of various significant and influential bands, recording as a sideman on hundreds on notable recordings, including Benny Goodman’s pioneering swing hits of the mid-1930s.
He formed his own band around that time to perform and record, and it became one of the most stylish and distinctive ensembles of the swing era, until the stresses of leading a band along with financial troubles drove him to alcoholism and he died tragically young in 1942 at the age of 34.
In the process of making some fine jazz records, he had more than a dozen chart hits, and this 47-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A and B sides of his releases on the Decca, Vocalion, Brunswick & Victor labels from this era. It features all his 13 US career hits, including The Top 10 hits “Honeysuckle Rose”, “Ebb Tide, “I Can’t Get Started”, and “The First Time I Saw You”.
It includes performances with Fats Waller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Joe Bushkin, Dave Tough, George Wettling and others, plus his featured vocalists Chick Bullock, Ford Leary, Gail Reese , Ruth Taylor and Kathleen Lane.
Track List
CD1
1. BLUES Bunny Berigan & His Blue Boys (Decca 18116) 1935
2. CHICKEN AND WAFFLES Bunny Berigan & His Blue Boys (Decca 18117) 1935
3. YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME Bunny Berigan & His Blue Boys (Decca 18117) 1936
4. LET YOURSELF GO Bunny Berigan & His Boys (Vocalion 3178) 1936
5. IT'S BEEN SO LONG Bunny Berigan & His Boys (Vocalion 3179) 1936
6. MELODY FROM THE SKY Bunny Berigan & His Boys (Vocalion 3224) 1936
7. I CAN'T GET STARTED Bunny Berigan & His Boys (Vocalion 3225) 1936
8. IF I HAD MY WAY Bunny Berigan & His Boys (Vocalion 3254) 1936
9. ONE IN A MILLION Bunny Berigan's Boys (Brunswick 7823) 1937
10. BLUE LOU Bunny Berigan's Boys (Brunswick 7832) 1937
11. LET'S DO IT Bunny Berigan & His Boys (Brunswick 7858) 1937
12. BLUES Jam Session At Victor (Victor 25559) 1937
13. HONEYSUCKLE ROSE Jam Session At Victor (Victor 25559) 1937
14. CAUSE MY BABY SAYS IT'S SO Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25562) 1937
15. SWANEE RIVER Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25588) 1937
16. THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25593) 1937
17. LADY FROM FIFTH AVENUE Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25609) 1937
18. LET'S HAVE ANOTHER CIGARETTE Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25613) 1937
19. FRANKIE AND JOHNNY Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25616) 1937
20. MAHOGANY HALL STOMP Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25622) 1937
21. TURN ON THE RED HOT HEAT Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25646) 1937
22. CARAVAN Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25653) 1937
23. STUDY IN BROWN Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25653) 1937
24. EBB TIDE Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25664) 1937
25. MILES APART Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25690) 1937
CD2
1. A STRANGE LONELINESS Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25690) 1937
2. I CAN'T GET STARTED Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25728) 1938
3. PRISONER'S SONG Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25728) 1938
4. OUTSIDE OF PARADISE Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25781) 1938
5. TREES Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25791) 1938
6. BLACK BOTTOM Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25791) 1938
7. I DANCE ALONE Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25820) 1938
8. IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25868) 1938
9. NEVER FELT BETTER, NEVER HAD LESS Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 25858) 1938
10. RUSSIAN LULLABY Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26001) 1938
11. LIVERY STABLE BLUES Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26068) 1938
12. HIGH SOCIETY Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26068) 1938
13. SIMPLE AND SWEET Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26086) 1938
14. JELLY ROLL BLUES Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26113) 1938
15. I CRIED FOR YOU Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26116) 1938
16. SOBBIN' BLUES Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26116) 1938
17. IN A MIST Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26123) 1938
18. WALKIN' THE DOG Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26123) 1938
19. IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26152) 1938
20. THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26244) 1939
21. LITTLE GATE'S SPECIAL Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 26338) 1939
22. NIGHT SONG Bunny Berigan & His Orch. (Victor 27258) 1939