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DAN "WATERMAN" LEVINSON AND
AL "UNCLE ALSCI" SIMMONS
present

THE FABULOUS FIVES
AND OTHER ASSORTED JAZZ PREHISTORY
in SIX (COUNT 'EM) VOLUMES!


THE LOUISIANA FIVE (F5-1)
Volume One
c. December 1918
1. Heart-Sickness Blues
Emerson 9150 mx 3439-1
2. Heart-Sickness Blues
Emerson 9150 mx 3439-2
3. Laughing Blues
Emerson 9158 mx 3440-2
4. A Good Man is Hard to Find
Emerson TEST mx 3441-1
5. A Good Man is Hard to Find
Emerson 9158 mx 3441-2

c. January 1919
6. Orange Blossom Rag
Emerson 9150 mx 3473-1
7. Orange Blossom Rag
Emerson 9150 mx 3473-2
8. That Shanghai Melody
Emerson 9165 mx 3474-2

c. March 1919
9. Yama Yama Blues
Emerson 9179 mx 3601-2
10. Rainy Day Blues
Emerson 9178 mx 3602-2
11. Church Street Sobbin' Blues
Emerson 9179 mx 3603-2

April 1, 1919
12. Just Another Good Man Gone Wrong
Columbia A2742 mx 78376
13. Yelping Hound Blues
Columbia A2742 mx 78377-1
14. Yelping Hound Blues
Columbia A2742 mx 78377-2 (unlisted take)

April 14, 1919
15. Foot Warmer
Edison 50569-L mx 6720-C
16. Be-Hap-E
Edison 50569-R mx 6721-?

c. May 1919
17. Dixie Blues
Emerson 1026 mx 4193-2
18. Thunderbolt
Emerson 1026 mx 4194-1
19. Thunderbolt
Emerson 1026 mx 4194-2
20. After All
OKeh 1200 mx 650-B

June 23, 1919
21. I Ain't-en Got-en No Time to Have the Blues
Columbia A2775 mx 78522-1
22. I Ain't-en Got-en No Time to Have the Blues
Col.C3L 30 ("The Sound of N.O.") mx 78522-2
23. The Alcoholic Blues
Columbia A2768 mx 78523-1

THE LOUISIANA FIVE (F5-2)
Volume Two
c. July 1919
1. Virginia Blues
Emerson 1076 mx 4366-1
2. Virginia Blues
Emerson 1076 mx 4366-2
3. Lead Me to It
Emerson 1076 mx 4367-1
4. Lead Me to It
Emerson 1076 mx 4367-3
5. Summer Days
Emerson 1078 mx 4368-1
6. Summer Days
Emerson 1078 mx 4368-27. Golden Rod
Emerson 1078 mx 4369-1
8. Golden Rod
Emerson 1078 mx 4369-2

c. September 1919
9. Yelping Hound Blues
Emerson 501 mx 503-2 (12")
10. Yelping Hound Blues
Emerson 501 mx 503-3 (12")
11. High Brown Babies' Ball
Emerson 501 mx 504-1 (12")
12. Ringtail Blues
Emerson 1083 mx 4486-2

13. Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me)
Emerson 1083 mx 4487-1

September 12, 1919
14. Clarinet Squawk
Edison 50609/Amb 3896 mx 6928-B
15. Clarinet Squawk
Edison 50609/Amb 3896 mx 6928-C

October 30, 1919
16. You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't
Any Love Columbia A2857 mx 78774-1
17. You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't
Any Love Columbia A2857 mx 78774-2

November 1919
18. Down Where the Rajahs Dwell
Emerson 10116 mx 4696-1
19. Down Where the Rajahs Dwell
Emerson 10116 mx 4696-2
20. Big Fat Ma
Medallion 8173 (Emerson master) mx 4697-1
21. B-Hap-E
Emerson 10229 mx 4698-1?
22. B-Hap-E
Emerson 10229 mx 4698-223. B-Hap-E
Emerson 10229 mx 4698-3
24. Town Topic Rag
Emerson 10241 mx 4699-2

THE LOUISIANA FIVE --Volume Three (F5-3)
plus WILBUR SWEATMAN -- Misc. Sides
plus MISC. EARLY JAZZ BANDS
THE LOUISIANA FIVE -- Volume Three
December 1919
1. Sunshine Girl
Emerson 10229 mx 4735-1
2. Sunshine Girl (late start--record damaged)
Emerson 10229 mx 4735-2
3. I'll Get Him Yet
Emerson 10241 mx 4736-1
4. Weeping Willow Blues
Emerson 10172 mx 4737-2
5. Weary Blues
Emerson 10116 mx 4738-1
6. Weary Blues
Emerson 10116 mx 4738-2
December 16, 1919 cornet added
7. Slow and Easy
Columbia A2949 mx 78863-2
8. Slow and Easy
Columbia A2949 mx 78863-3
9. Hello, Hello
Little Wonder 1234 mx 1234-?

WILBUR SWEATMAN -- Misc. Sides
c. December 1916
10. Down Home Rag
Emerson 7161 mx 2377-1
April 1917
11. Joe Turner Blues
Pathe 20167 mx 66033
12. A Bag of Rags
Pathe 20167 mx 66037
Probably March 29, 1918
13. Regretful Blues Little Wonder 852 (take 2)
14. Everybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone
Blues, But I'm Happy
Little Wonder 851
Probably February 6, 1919
15. Lonesome Road
Little Wonder 1092 (take 2)
16. A Good Man is Hard to Find
Little Wonder 1091 (take 1)
October 10, 1924
17. Battleship Kate
Edison 51438 mx 9781
c. March 1926
18. Get it Now (often mislabed "Powder Puff")
Radiex 1402 (Grey Gull) mx 3847-A

THE INDIANA SYNCOPATORS
c. January 1923
19. Bees Knees
Oly/Maj/LaB 1418, Jazum 28 (LP) mx 472
20. Sweet Lovin' Mama
Oly/Maj/LaB 1418, Jazum 28 (LP) mx 473

THE ORIGINAL GEORGIA FIVE
c. April 1923
21. Down Among the Sleepy Hills of
Ten-Ten-Tennessee
Olympic 1434
22. Wild Papa
Olympic 1445/Triangle 11284
c. July 1923
23. Maggie! -- "Yes, Ma'am?"
Olympic 1519
24. Yes! We Have No Bananas
Olympic 1519

THE SAINT LOUIS RHYTHM KINGS
April 4, 1925
25. She's My Sheba, I'm Her Sheik
Columbia 349-D mx 140494-?
TIM BRYMN AND HIS BLACK DEVIL ORCH.
March 1921
26. Wang Wang Blues
OKeh 4310 mx 7816-C
April-May 1921
27. Don't Tell Your Monkey Man
OKeh 8003 mx 7865-C
May 1921
28. Boll Weevil Blues
OKeh 8005 mx 7898-B
29. The Jazz Me Blues
OKeh 8005 mx 7899-B

WILBUR SWEATMAN (F5-4)
The Complete Columbias
March 29, 1918
1. Regretful Blues
Columbia A-2548 mx 77740-1
2. Regretful Blues
Columbia A-2548 mx 77740-2
3. Everybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone
Blues, But I'm Happy
Columbia A-2548 mx 77741-1 (-3 not issued)

May 31, 1918
4. The Darktown Strutters' Ball
(Intro. "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry")
Columbia A-2596 mx 77856-3
5. Goodbye Alexander (Goodbye Honey
Boy) (Intro. "Oh! Frenchy")
Columbia A-2596 mx 77857-3

June 15, 1918
6. Indianola (Intro. "Those Draftin' Blues")
Columbia A-2611 mx 77889-3

June 25, 1918
7. Oh! You La! La!
(Intro. "I Want Him Back Again")
Columbia A-2611 mx 77924-3
August 17, 1918
8. Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
Columbia A-2645 mx 78000-1
9. Those Draftin' Blues
(Intro. Somebody's Done Me Wrong")
Columbia A-2645 mx 78001-1

August 22, 1918
10. Has Anybody Seen My Corinne (Intro. "Down
On Bull Frog's Isle"/"Livery Stable Blues")
Columbia A-2663 mx 78016-3

October 7, 1918
11. Dallas Blues (Intro. "At the Funny Page
Ball"/"Lovin' (I Can't Live without It)")
Columbia A-2663 mx 78096-1

December 5, 1918
12. Ringtail Blues
Columbia A-2682 mx 78191-2
13. Bluin' the Blues
Columbia A-2682 mx 78092-1

January 18, 1919
14. Rainy Day Blues
Columbia A-2707 mx 78255-2

February 6, 1919
15. Ja-Ja (Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing)
Columbia A-2707 mx 78256-4
16. A Good Man is Hard to Find
Columbia A-2721 mx 78292-3 (-2 not issued)

February 10, 1919
17. That's Got 'Em
Columbia A-2721 mx 78294-1

March 24, 1919
18. Kansas City Blues
Columbia A-2768 mx 78366-2
19. Slide, Kelly, Slide Columbia A-2775 mx 78367-2

March 31, 1919
20. I'll Say She Does (Intro. " 'n' Everything")
Columbia A-2752 mx 78373-2
21. Lucille
Columbia A-2752 mx 78374-2

September 24, 1919
22. Hello, Hello!
Columbia A-2818 mx mx 78588-?
23. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This
Jellroll (sic) (Intro. "Just Leave It to Me")
Columbia A-2818 mx 78692-3

June 10, 1920
24. But
Columbia A-2994 mx 79257-2

June 23, 1920
25. Think of Me, Little Daddy (Intro. "I'm
Going Back to My Used to Be")
Columbia A-2994 mx 79277-4


(F5-5)
THE FRISCO JAZZ BAND and
EARL FULLER'S FAMOUS JAZZ BAND
Complete Recordings
THE FRISCO JAZZ BAND
May 10, 1917
1. Canary Cottage (Earl Carroll)
Edison 50440-R/Amberol 3241 mx 5552-C-5-153
2. Johnson "Jass" Blues* (E. Arnold Johnson)
Edison 50470-L/Amberol 3254 mx 5553-C-2-11

June 4, 1917
3. Pozzo (Vincent Rose)
Edison 50464-L/Amberol 3303 mx 5601-C-2-115
4. Night Time in Little Italy (McCarthy-Fisher)
Edison 50515-L/Amberol mx 5602-C-7-99

July 26, 19175. Yah-De-Dah (Mel B. Kaufman)
Edison 51081-R/Amberol 3337 mx 5710-C-1-1

August 2, 1917
6. Umbrellas to Mend (Mel B. Kaufman)
Edison 50470-R/Amberol 3485 mx 5723-C-2-29
7. Cute Little Wigglin' Dance* (Creamer-Layton)
Amberol 3364 (no disc issued) mx 5724
8. All I Need is Just a Girl Like You* (Abe Olman)
Edison 51081-L/Amberol 3390 mx 5725-A-2-1

October 19, 1917
9. That's It (Creamer-Layton)
Amberol 3428 (Edison 50950-R not issued)
mx 5852

EARL FULLER'S FAMOUS JAZZ BAND
June 4, 1917
10. Slippery Hank
Victor 18321 mx 20062-2
11. Yah-De-Dah
Victor 18321 mx 20063-2

August 13, 1917
12. The Old Grey Mare
Victor 18369 mx 20504-1
13. Beale Street Blues
Victor 18369 mx 20505-2

September 10, 1917
14. A Coon Band Contest
Victor 18394 mx 20503-4
15. Li'l Liza Jane
Victor 18394 mx 20549-3
March 1918
16. Jazz De Luxe
Emerson 952 mx 3182-2
17. Jazzbo Jazz
Emerson 952 mx 3183-1

June 4, 191818. I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
Edison 50521 mx 6198-C
19. Jazzbo Jazz One-Step
Edison 50505-R mx 6199-C

June 13, 1918
20. Jazz De Luxe
Edison 50542-R mx 6224-C

c. December 1919
21. Jazzorient
Arto 9009(a) mx 31001
22. Jazzology
Arto 9009(b) mx 31002-2

THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND (F5-6)
c. February 12, 1924
1. Tin Roof Blues
Banner 1318 mx 5422-1

c. February 1924
2. Mindin' My Business
Domino 306 mx 10030-1
3. Hula Lou
Domino 306 mx 10032-?

c. March 1924
4. 31st Street Blues
Domino 328 mx 10059-2
5. My Papa Doesn't Two-Time No Time
Domino 335 mx 10060-2

c. April 1924
6. Limehouse Blues
Domino 338 mx 10083-2
7. It Had to Be You
Domino 335, CJM 88501 (LP) mx 10084-1
8. Down Where the South Begins
Domino 338 mx 10085-1

c. September 10, 19249. Dixie Flyer Sam
Banner 1428 mx 5623-3
10 I'm Gonna Get Acquainted in a
Quaint Old-Fashioned Town
Banner 1428 mx 5424-1
11. I'm Gonna Get Acquainted in a
Quaint Old-Fashioned Town
Banner 1428 mx 5424-2
12. How Could You Leave Me Now?
Domino 387 mx 5625-1
c. October 23, 1924
13. Honey, Don't You Shake Me Down
Oriole 291 mx 5677-1
14. My Lovey Lee
Oriole 269 mx 5679-1
15. Copenhagen
Regal 9739 mx 5680-1
16. Copenhagen
Domino 416 mx 5680-2

May 6, 1925
17. Some of These Days
Regal 9839 mx 6006-1
18. My Sweet Louise
Regal 9852 mx 6007-1
19. My Sweet Louise
Banner 1556 mx 6007-2

June 12, 1925
20. Right or Wrong
Oriole 445 mx 6046-2
21. Red Hot Henry Brown
Starr 10062 mx 6047-1
22. Red Hot Henry Brown
Breeda 112 mx 6047-2

October 8, 1925
23. The Camel Walk
Apex 8429 mx 6216-1
24. The Camel Walk
Banner 1618 mx 6216-325. Melancholy Lou
Oriole 497 mx 6218-2

Sidney Arodin, clarinet on tracks 1-16
Brad Gowans, clarinet on 17-25-----





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