McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Volume 2 (1928-1929) / RCA Black & White Series Vol. 87 - 741.088

McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Volume 2 (1928-1929) / RCA Black & White Series Vol. 87 - 741.088

SIDE 1

1. DON'T BE LIKE THAT (Cottier - Tobias - Pinkard) (a)

2. DON'T BE LIKE THAT (Gottier - Tobias - Pinkard) (a)

3. IT'S TIGHT LIKE THAT (Dorsey - Whittager) vGT/DW/CA (b)

4. THERE'S A RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER (Jolson - Rose - Dreyer) vDW (b)

5. IT'S A PRECIOUS LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE (Davis - Coots) (c)

6. SAVE IT PRETTY MAMA (Don Redman) vDR (c)

7. I FOUND A NEW BABY (Spencer Williams) vDW (c)

8. WILL YOU? WONT YOU, BE MY BABE? (Nesbitt - H. Quicksall) (c)

SIDE 2

9. BEEDLE UM BUM (Th. Dorsey) vGT/DW/DR/CJ (d)

10. DO SOMETHING (B. Green - S. Stept) (d)

11. SELLING THAT STUFF (Th. Dorsey) vGT/CA (d)

12. BIRMINGHAM BERTHA'(Clarke-Akst) (e)

13. PLAIN DIRT (C. Standon) (f)

14. GEE, AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU? (Don Redman) vDR (f)

15. I'D LOVE IT (Redman - Hudson) (f)

PERSONNEL AND DATES

(a) JEAN GOLDKETTE'S ORCHESTRA: an aggregate of uncertain size and composition (between 10 and 1 7 players and singers) but including probably John NESBITT, Sterling. BOSE (tp); Pee Wee HUNT (tb); Volly De FAUT (cl); Don REDMAN (cl, as, arr); Caroll HUXLEY (p); Dave WILBORN (bj); Cuba AUSTIN (dr); Harold STOKES (vcl). Chicago, November 23, 1928.

(b) McKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS: John NESBITT, Langston CURL (tp); Claude JONES (tb); Don REDMAN (cl, as, vcl, arr); James HOXLEY or Jimmy DUDLEY .(cl, as); George THOMAS (cl, ts, vcl); Prince ROBINSON (cl, ts);-Todd RHODES (p); Dave WILBORN (bj, vcl); Ralph ESCUDERO (bbs); Cuba AUSTIN (dr, vcl). Chicago, November 23, 1928.

(c) Same as for (b). Camden, April 8, 1929.

(d) Same as for (b). Claude JONES (vcl) added; New York, April 9, 1929.

(e) JEAN GOLDKETTE AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Same as for (b) but unknown 2nd tb, Harold STOKES (accordion); Kay PALMER (vcl) added. HOXLEY (or DUDLEY) and ROBINSON out. Chicago, July 27, 1929.

(f)   McKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS: Joe SMITH, Leonard DAVIS, Sydney DE PARIS (tp); Claude JONES (tb); Don REDMAN (as, vcl, arr); Benny CARTER (as); Coleman -HAWKINS, Ted McCord (cl, ts); Thomas 'Fats' WALLER (p); possibly Charlie ALEXANDER (2nd p, eel); Dave WILBORN (bj); Billy TAYLOR (bbs); Kaiser MARSHALL (dr). New-York November 5, 1929.