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1. Georgia On My Mind 3:24
2. Old Man Harlem 2:53
3. Take A Chance On Love 3:07
4. Cabin In The Sky 3:18
5. Love Turned The Light Out 2:54
6. Honey In The Honeycomb 2:49
7. Dinah 2:45
8. Man Wanted 3:04
9. Honey In A Hurry 2:55
10. Am I Blue 2:47
11. I Shoulda Quit When I Was Ahead 2:44
12. You Took My Man 2:48
13. Paper Moon 2:14
14. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe 3:08
15. Can't Help Lovin' That Man 2:29
16. Summertime 3:03
17. St. Louis Blues 2:20
18. Suppertime 3:14
19. Trav'lin' All Alone 2:53
20. A Hundred Years From Today 2:58
21. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 3:12
22. Little Black Boy 3:15
23. The Crucifixion 3:10
24. Throw The Dirt 2:21
25. Memories Of You 2:42
26. Partners With God 2:56
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Title:
The
Favourite
Songs
Of
Ethel
Waters
Artist:
Ethel
Waters
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1079
Barcode:
5055122110798
Release
Date:
4
September
2006
The
daughter
of
a
thirteen-year-old
who'd
been
raped,
Ethel
Waters
was
brought
up
in
poverty
in
a
Philadelphia
slum
by
her
Grandmother
and
was
herself
married
for
the
first
time
by
the
time
she
was
twelve.
To
support
herself,
she
took
on
domestic
work
and,
moving
to
New
York,
began
working
in
a
Harlem
club
"Edmond's
Cellar"
in
1919.
She
was
soon
recording
and
toured
with
Fletcher
Henderson.
During
the
first
decade
of
her
recording
career
she
appeared
with
both
black
and
white
star-studded
bands
-
her
name
ALWAYS
above
that
of
the
band
accompanying.
She
popularised
classics
like
"St
Louis
Blues",
"Dinah"
and
"Am
I
Blue".
Broadway
beckoned,
in
the
shape
of
the
all-black
musical
"Africana",
in
1927,
followed
by
"Blackbirds
Of
1930"
and
"Rhapsody
In
Black".
Irving
Berlin
wrote
three
songs
for
her
to
sing
in
"As
Thousands
Cheer"
and,
for
the
first
time
on
Broadway,
a
female
black
artist
was
given
equal
billing
with
her
white
co-stars.
In
1940
Ethel
secured
the
part
of
Petunia
in
"Cabin
In
The
Sky"
–
a
stage
musical
which
gave
her
three
great
songs,
heard
here
with
the
orchestra
directed
by
Max
Meth,
the
show's
MD,
as
well
as
a
fourth,
"Love
Turned
The
Light
Out",
which
may
be
less
familiar,
as
it
was
dropped
from
the
movie
score
but
the
movie
version
gave
her
one
new
song
–
"Happiness
Is
A
Thing
Called
Joe".
Ethel
returned
to
the
recording
studio
a
few
times,
notably
with
a
backing
group
assembled
under
drummer
J.
C.
Heard's
name.
Six
of
the
eight
tracks
cut
that
April
day
in
1946
are
included
here:
Ethel
reprises
"Am
I
Blue"
and
"Dinah"
in
versions
that
still
hark
back
to
her
first
performances
of
these
songs,
and
four
Leonard
Feather
originals.
A
further
session
the
following
year
with
just
pianist
Reggie
Beane
as
accompanist
provided
Ethel
with
the
opportunity
to
revisit
more
of
her
old
repertoire
including
a
superior
"Summertime"
and
a
song
she'd
first
recorded
in
1933
with
Benny
Goodman:
"A
Hundred
Years
From
Today".
Perhaps
the
stand-out
from
this
date
is
Ethel's
return
to
Berlin's
"Supper
Time",
by
now
a
major
dramatic
interpretation
that
might
be
mawkish
were
it
not
for
the
genuine
conviction
she
brings
to
the
performance.
Two
tracks
with
the
Bob
Davis
Singers
conclude
our
programme;
"Memories
Of
You"
was
one
that
Ethel
had
first
recorded
on
a
1930
date,
while
"Partners
With
God"
was
more
typical
of
her
material
at
this
end
of
her
career,
when
she
was
a
member
of
the
organisation
that
accompanied
evangelist
preacher
Billy
Graham
and
very
typical
of
how
this
strongly
principled,
highly
talented
lady
viewed
her
relationship
with
The
Almighty!
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