PEARL BAILEY - Ain't She Sweet! (2000) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Jasmine presents a casual overview of selections from Pearl Bailey's first ten years as a recording artist (1945-1955). Picking up where Fats Waller left off, this gorgeous, powerful, and witty woman dismantled all kinds of long-established presentational conventions by half-singing, half-talking her way through every song she ever handled. On this compilation the two best examples of her as a solo act are "I Ain't Talkin'" and "Solid Gold Cadillac." Pearl's collaborations with the Charioteers are fun and her rowdy duets with Hot Lips Page are delightful; "The Hucklebuck" is an intimate riot and "It's a Great Feeling" successfully conveys the optimistic joy of mutual love and affection. "Saturday Night Fish Fry" appears to be a long-lost rehearsal take of the famous Pearl Bailey/Jackie "Moms" Mabley duet of 1949. The inclusion of these wonderful recordings places this little anthology among the best entries in Pearl Bailey's digital discography. by arwulf arwulf  
Tracklist :
1     Saturday Night Fish Fry 2'55
Louis Jordan / Ellis Walsh
2     The Hucklebuck 3'10
Roy Alfred / Andy Gibson
3     Ain't She Sweet? 2'58
Milton Ager / Jack Yellen
4     Who? 2'49
Otto Harbach / Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
5     Don't Ever Leave Me 2'17
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
6     I Ain't Talkin' (Though It's All Over Town) 2'44
7     Legalize My Name 3'20
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
8     Get It Off Your Mind 3'07
Claude Demetrius / Fleecie Moore
9     I Need Ya Like I Need a Hole in the Head 3'09
Al Stillman
10     Fifteen Years (And I'm Still Serving Time) 3'06
Doris Fisher / Allan Roberts
11     It's a Great Feeling 2'21
Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne
12     Row, Row, Row 3'05
William Jerome / James V. Monaco
13     Frankie and Johnny 3'05
Traditional
14     St. Louis Blues 2'12
W.C. Handy
15     That's Good Enough for Me 3'20
Doris Fisher / Allan Roberts
16     It's a Woman's Prerogative 3'11
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
17     Personality 3'14
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
18     He Didn't Ask Me 2'52
Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin
19     Tired 3'20
Doris Fisher / Alan Roberts
20     Here You Come with Love 3'05
Neil Moret (Chas. N. Daniels) / Harry Tobias / Jo Trent
21     Baby, It's Cold Outside 2'58
Frank Loesser
22     Solid Gold Cadillac 3:03
23     Hit the Road to Dreamland 2'37
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer