Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

1938

RELEASE
1991
LABEL
Classics
GENRES
Jazz, Big Band, Swing

Album Review

Andy Kirk's Orchestra was at the height of its popularity during the late 1930s, still riding high from their hit "Until the Real Thing Comes Along." The star of that record, singer Pha Terrell, is on the majority of the songs on this CD (the fourth in Classics' complete reissuance of the master takes of all Andy Kirk recordings from the swing era), but there are some hotter tunes too, most notably "Mess-A-Stomp," "Jump Jack Jump," "Dunkin' a Doughnut" and "Mary's Idea." However, Terrell's dominance of many titles may make many swing fans opt for the GRP/Decca single-disc Andy Kirk sampler instead.
Scott Yanow, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Bless You My Dear
  2. How Can We Be Wrong?
  3. Mess-A-Stomp
  4. Toadie Toddle
  5. I Won't Tell a Soul (I Love You)
  6. What Would People Say
  7. How Much Do You Mean to Me?
  8. Jump Jack Jump
  9. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
  10. Ghost of Love
  11. What a Life! (Trying to Live Without You)
  12. Sittin' Around and Dreamin'
  13. What's Your Story, Morning Glory?
  14. Honey
  15. September in the Rain
  16. Clouds
  17. Julius Caesar
  18. Dunkin' a Doughnut
  19. Goodbye
  20. Mary's Idea
  21. But It Didn't Mean a Thing
  22. (I Don't Believe It But) Say It Again