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Ted Weems
Essential Ted Weems 1923-1930
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (25) - Disc #1
1. Somebody Stole My Gal - Ted Weems, Wood, Leo
2. Nine O'Clock Sal - Ted Weems, Hays, Billy Silas
3. Blue Rose - Ted Weems, Coleman, Arthur
4. I'm All Broken Up Over You - Ted Weems, Burke, Joe
5. Big Boy! - Ted Weems, Ager, Milton
6. Savannah (The Georgianna Blues) - Ted Weems, Fisher, Fred
7. Red Nose Pete - Ted Weems, Freedman, Max
8. Traveling Blues (An Indigo Wail) - Ted Weems, Bergman, Dewey
9. If I Ever Cry (You'll Never Know) - Ted Weems, Clark, Sylvia
10. Siberia - Ted Weems, Ponce, Phil
11. Oh! If I Only Had You - Ted Weems, Friend, Cliff
12. She Belongs to Me - Ted Weems, Denniker, Paul
13. My Cutey's Due at Two To-Two To-Day - Ted Weems, Fletcher, Arnie
14. That's My Girl - Ted Weems, Davis, Benny
15. I'm Going to Park Myself in Your Arms - Ted Weems, Fletcher, Archie
16. Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken (Lay a Little Egg for Me) - Ted Weems, Holt, Fred
17. She's Got "It" - Ted Weems, Akst, Harry
18. Miss Annabelle Lee (Who's Wonderful, Who's Marvellous) - Ted Weems, Clare, Sidney
19. Marvellous - Ted Weems, Breen, May Singhi
20. She'll Never Find a Fellow Like Me [#] - Ted Weems, Archer, Harry
21. From Saturday Night 'Till Monday Morning - Ted Weems, Dubin, Al
22. Cobble Stones - Ted Weems, Clare, Sidney
23. Everybody Loves My Girl - Ted Weems, Abrahams, Maurice
24. He's Tall and Dark and Handsome - Ted Weems, Sherman, Al
25. Nothin' on My Mind (But the Moonlight, And the Starlight and You) - Ted Weems, Kahn, Gus
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
1. Who Wouldn't Be Blue? - Ted Weems, Burke, Joe
2. You're Just a Great Big Baby Doll - Ted Weems, Alexander, Perry
3. If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain) - Ted Weems, Dixon, Mort
4. Come on, Baby! - Ted Weems, Clare, Sidney
5. Found You "Out" When I Found You "In" Somebody Else's Arms - Ted Weems, O'Flynn, Charles
6. You're the Cream in My Coffee - Ted Weems, Brown, Lew
7. Me and the Man in the Room - Ted Weems, Leslie, Edgar
8. My Troubles Are Over - Ted Weems, Leslie, Edgar
9. Sophomore Prom - Ted Weems, Greer, Jesse
10. I Don't Want Your Kisses (If I Can't Have Your Love) - Ted Weems, Broones, Martin
11. Good Morning, Good Evening, Good Night - Ted Weems, Lewis, Al
12. What a Day! - Ted Weems, Woods, Harry
13. Piccolo Pete - Ted Weems, Baxter, Phil
14. Miss Wonderful - Ted Weems, Bryan, Alfred
15. Remarkable Girl - Ted Weems, Creamer, Henry
16. Harmonica Harry - Ted Weems, Baxter, Phil
17. The Man from the South (With a Big Cigar in His Mouth) - Ted Weems, Bloom, Rube
18. Talk of the Town - Ted Weems, Cohn, Chester
19. Collegiate Love - Ted Weems, Doyle, Walter
20. Mysterious Mose - Ted Weems, Doyle, Walter
21. Slappin' the Bass - Ted Weems, DeCosta, Harry
22. Washing My Dishes (With My Sweetie) - Ted Weems, Dixon, Peter [1]
23. Sing (A Happy Little Thing) - Ted Weems, Johnson, Howard
24. You Never Did That Before [#] - Ted Weems, Ahlert, Fred E.
25. A Girl Friend of a Boy Friend of Mine - Ted Weems, Donaldson, Walter

CD Details

All Artists: Ted Weems
Title: Essential Ted Weems 1923-1930
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Challenge
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 5/9/2006
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Swing Jazz, Nostalgia, Dance Pop, Easy Listening, Oldies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 608917903423, 0608917903423

Synopsis

Album Description

"In the 1920s, Ted Weems' orchestra was the definitive dance band, performing everything with a strong jazz flavor and concise solos, yet always being melodic and accessible to a wider audience. This two-CD set expertly sums up Weems' prime jazz period, starting with his 1923 hit version of 'Somebody Stole My Gal' followed by nine songs from 1924-1925. The band really found its sound in 1926, and the second disc covers Weems' peak period of 1928-1930. Along the way are such songs as 'Big Boy,' 'Siberia,' 'She's Got It,' 'Miss Annabelle Lee,' 'What a Day' (a gem), the hit 'Piccolo Pete' [and more]." -ALL MUSIC GUIDE

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CD Reviews

Before They Became Sweet, They Were Hot

Peter A. Greene | Franklin, PA United States | 02/18/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There were many sweet bands of the thirties that had their roots in hot bands of the twenties. Ted Weems, like the Lombardo brothers and Fred Waring, spent the twenties recording the kind of hot kicking psuedo-jazz pop that was typical of the period.

The first disc of this set is solidly in that era. Weems was never as hard-edged as the "real" jazz groups like Jean Goldkette, and never as musically serious as guys like Paul Whiteman. But he had a good ear for nice little tunes with cute lyrics-- how can anyone resist a classic like "My Cutie's Due at Two to Two Today"? Some of the recordings, like "Somebody Stole My Gal" preserve songs that were almost-standards (and still are standards to those of us who love this period).

By the late twenties, bands were starting to head down several different roads. Not everyone heard the siren call of swing, but the hot jazz style was becoming old-fashioned and corny. Weems added some sweetener and kept his pep and reeeeally white vocalists. "Piccolo Pete" captures Weems on his way to what would keep him busy and working in the thirties. More tightly arranged but still jaunty, these are fun tunes to listen to and good pop music of the era-- be warned that many of these will stick in your head for weeks.

This is a generous collection stuffed with many great recordings of danceable roaring twenties fun."