Name: The Complete Rhythm Makers Sessions 1937-1938, Vol. 2
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The Complete Rhythm Makers Sessions 1937-1938, Vol. 2

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Album: The Complete Rhythm Makers Sessions 1937-1938, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Whispers in the Dark
2)	Don't Ever Change
3)	If I Put My Heart in a Song
4)	Love Is a Merry-Go-Round
5)	Till the Clock Strikes Three
6)	Moon Got in My Eyes, The
7)	All You Want to Do Is Dance
8)	It's the Natural Thing to Do
9)	Folks Who Live on the Hill, The
10)	Can I Forget You?
11)	Things I Want, The
12)	Posin'
13)	If You Should Ever Leave
14)	Loveliness of You, The
15)	Afraid to Dream
16)	All Alone
17)	Because I Love You
18)	If I Had You
19)	Together
20)	Just You, Just Me
1)	Strange Loveliness, A
2)	Have You Met Miss Jones?
3)	I'd Rather Be Right
4)	Everything You Said Came True
5)	Rosalie
6)	You Have Everything
7)	Shindig
8)	I've a Strange New Rhythm in My Heart
9)	Sweet Variety Sue
10)	I Want a New Romance
11)	Shoot the Likker to Me, John Boy
12)	Free Wheeling
13)	S.O.S.
14)	How Dry I Am
15)	Black and Blue
16)	Fee Fi Fo Fum
17)	I'm Yours
18)	Sweet Adeline
19)	Old Black Joe
20)	It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Album: The Complete Rhythm Makers Sessions 1937-1938, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Whispers in the Dark
2)	Don't Ever Change
3)	If I Put My Heart in a Song
4)	Love Is a Merry-Go-Round
5)	Till the Clock Strikes Three
6)	Moon Got in My Eyes, The
7)	All You Want to Do Is Dance
8)	It's the Natural Thing to Do
9)	Folks Who Live on the Hill, The
10)	Can I Forget You?
11)	Things I Want, The
12)	Posin'
13)	If You Should Ever Leave
14)	Loveliness of You, The
15)	Afraid to Dream
16)	All Alone
17)	Because I Love You
18)	If I Had You
19)	Together
20)	Just You, Just Me
1)	Strange Loveliness, A
2)	Have You Met Miss Jones?
3)	I'd Rather Be Right
4)	Everything You Said Came True
5)	Rosalie
6)	You Have Everything
7)	Shindig
8)	I've a Strange New Rhythm in My Heart
9)	Sweet Variety Sue
10)	I Want a New Romance
11)	Shoot the Likker to Me, John Boy
12)	Free Wheeling
13)	S.O.S.
14)	How Dry I Am
15)	Black and Blue
16)	Fee Fi Fo Fum
17)	I'm Yours
18)	Sweet Adeline
19)	Old Black Joe
20)	It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Performer Notes

Personnel: Artie Shaw (clarinet); Artie Shaw; Hank Freeman (alto, alto saxophone); Les Robinson (alto saxophone); Tom Dicarlo, Chuck Peterson, Max Kaminsky, Tom DiCarlo (trumpet); Ben Ginsberg (double bass); Tony Pastor (vocals, tenor saxophone); Dolores O'Neil, Peg LaCentra (vocals); Al Avola (guitar); Fred Petry (tenor saxophone); Malcolm Crain, John McClanian Best Jr. (trumpet); George Arus, Harry Rodgers (trombone); Les Burness (piano); Cliff Leeman (drums).
Liner Note Author: John McDonough .
Recording information: RCA Studios, New York, NY (07/12/1937-10/17/1937).
Unknown Contributor Role: Artie Shaw.
It is confusing that this set is titled the Complete Rhythm Makers Sessions, 1937-1938, Vol. 2. In 2003, Jazzland issued a single disc with the same title that offered 25 tracks. This set is a double disc with 45!! Somebody's lying or stretching an interpretation of the facts to the breaking point. In any case, these sides are Artie Shaw's earliest after leaving the Three T's, a group that was comprised of brothers Charlie and Jack Teagarden, and Frankie Trumbauer. This mob stars Shaw, of course, but also first-chair trumpeter Max Kaminsky, tenor saxophonist and vocalist Tony Pastor, Hank Freeman on alto, guitarist Al Avola (who also played with Georgie Auld and later with Helen Forrest and Buddy Rich), drummer Cliff Leeman, and pianist Les Burness, who had been with Bunny Berigan before, and Shaw and Tony Pastor afterward. All of this material, of course, came before the late-1938 band that featured Auld, Rich, and Forrest, before "Begin the Beguile." Regardless, these sides virtually sing with swing, and tracks like "Shindig," "Whispers in the Dark," "Til the Clock Strikes Three," "The Folks Live on the Hill," and literally dozens of others reveal -- even at this juncture -- what an able and innovative bandleader Shaw was -- not to mention what a tough soloist. The sound is fine and warm, and the liner notes by Vladimir Simosko are informative and appear complete. ~ Thom Jurek