Fred Waring, Vol. 1: Collegiate Years (2000)

About this title: Years before being established as the definitive mom & apple pie glee club, Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians were a combination sweet-to-hot dance band and vaudevillian variety show with glee club overtones. Nobody has gone through all of the Victor recordings made during the heyday of this funny little band, but the T.O.M. (The Old Masters) label made a heroic effort with two entertaining and insightfully annotated albums of some of their best works in chronological order. Although the Pennsylvanians made their first acoustically recorded sides in 1923, this first volume begins with their ... read more

Tracks:

1. Collegiate [Bonx/Jaffe]
2. Syncopation
3. Mighty Blue
4. Freshie
5. I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me) [Green/Warren]
6. Collegiate Blues
7. Any Ice Today Lady? (A Collegiate Razz-Berry)
8. Bolshevik
9. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go
10. I Love the College Girls
11. My Regular Girl
12. Hello, Swannee, Helllo
13. Wob-A-Ly Walk
14. I Scream, You Scream (We All Scream for Ice Cream) [Johnson/King/Moll]
15. Keep Sweeping the Cobweds off the Moon
16. If I Can't Have You (I Want to Be Lonesome, I Want to Be Blue)
17. The Yale Blues
18. Who's Blue Now?
19. What Did You Say?
20. Lila
21. Farewell Blues
22. (Good Bye Broadway) Hello Montreal!
23. How About Me? [Berlin]
24. Glorianna [Clare/Pollack]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.