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Count Basie & His Orchestra

Songs

(Once I Had A) Secret Love

(That) Rhythm Man

(You Know It All) Smarty

[introduction by John Hammond]

12th Street Rag

16 Men Swinging

5 O'Clock in the Morning

7th Avenue Express

88 Basie Street

9-20 Special (alternate take)

A Ghost of a Chance

A Hard Day's Night

A Little Tempo Please

A Night at El Morocco

A Square at the Roundtable

A Study in Brown

After You've Gone

After You've Gone (Creamer - Layton)

Ain't But The One

Ain't It the Truth

Ain't Misbehavin'

Ain't That Right

Ain't the Truth?

Air Mail Special

Alexander's Ragtime Band

All or Nothing at All

Allright, OK, You Win

Almost Like Being in Love

Alright, Okay You Win

Am I Asking Too Much?

And The Angels Sing

April in Paris (alternate take)

As Log as I Live

As Long As I Live

At Long Last Love

Aunt Hagar's Country Home

Baby All the Time

Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me

Baby, Don't Tell on Me

Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?

Back to the Apple

Backstage At Stuff's

Backstage Blues

Backwater Blues

Basie - Straight Ahead

Basie Goes Wess

Basie Strides Again

Basie's Basement

Basie's Jingle Bells

Beaver Junction

Beaver Junction (Edison)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Blame It on My Last Affair

Blame It on My Last Affair (alt. take - B)

Blee Blop Blues

Blee Blop Blues (Normania)

Blue & Sentimental

Blue and Sentimental

Blue Shadows and White Gardenias

Blues (I Still Think of Her)

Blues Backstage

Blues for Daddy-O

Blues for Royalty

Blues for the Count and Oscar

Blues for the Count and Oscar (alternate take)

Blues in Frankie's Flat

Blues in Hoss' Flat

Blues in My Heart

Blues in the Dark

Blues With Lips

Bolero At The Savoy

Bolero at the Savoy (-C)

Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)

Boogie Woogie Blues

Bootsie (alternate take)

Brand New Wagon

Brotherly Shove

Call Me Darling

Can't Buy Me Love

Can't Leave That Woman Alone

Can't We Be Friends

Cash Box (alternate take)

Cherokee (Parts 1 & 2)

Cherokee (Pt. 1)

Cherokee (Pt. 2)

Cherokee, Part 1

Cherokee, Part 2

Cherokee, Parts I & II

Circus In Rhythm

Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!

Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! (Meyer - Rose - McDonald)

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

Claps Hand, Here Comes Charlie

Closing Announcement And Sign-Off (Kansas City Stride)

Closing Theme (One O'Clock Jump)

Come Fly With Me

Come Rain or Come Shine

Coming-Out Party

Confessin' the Blues

Contractor's Blues

Corner Pocket (alternate take)

Counting the Blues

Dance of the Gremlins

Darktown Strutters Ball

Darn That Dream

Deep in the Blues

Dickie's Dream (Basie - Young)

Did You Ever See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball

Did You Ever See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?

Did You Ever See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? (Johnson)

Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?

Diggin' for Dex

Digging for Dex

Dinner with Friends

Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

Do You Wanna Jump, Children!

Do You Want to Know a Secret

Doin' Basie's Thing

Don't Ever Let Me Be Yours

Don't Miss Your Baby

Don't Push, Don't Pull

Don't Worry About Me

Don't Worry 'Bout Me

Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Unissued Take)

Don't You Miss Your Baby?

Don't You Want A Man Like Me

Down for Double

Down, Down, Down

Dr No's Fantasy

Dr. No's Fantasy (original)

Every Tub (C. Basie)

Everyday I Have the Blues

Exactly Like You

Fair and Warmer

Fancy Meeting You

Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well

Fawncy Meetin' You

Feather Merchant

Feedin' the Bean

Feedin' the Bean (Alt Tk-2)

Feedin' the Bean (alternate take)

Five O'Clock in the Morning

Five O'Clock Whistele

Five O'Clock Whistle

Five O'Clock Whistle - 1

Five O'Clock Whistle - 2

Five O'Clock Whistle - 3

Flat Foot Floogee

Flat Foot Floogie

Flight of the Foo Bird

Flight of the Foo Birds

Fly Me to the Moon

For Lena and Lennie

For the Good of Your Country

Four, Five, Six

Frankie And Johnny

From Russia With Love

From Russia With Love (Foxtrot, 29mpm)

Futile Frustration

G.I. Stomp (Red Bank Boogie)

Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You

Get Me to the Church on Time

Give Me the Simple Life

Goin' to Chicago

Goin' to Chicago Blues

Going to Chicago

Going To Chicago Blues

Goldfinger (Foxtrot, 29mpm)

Gone An' Git It Y'all

Gone With 'What' Wind

Good Mornin' Blues

Good Morning Blues

Good Morning Blues (alt. take)

Good Morning Blues (I Want to See Santa Claus)

Good Time Blues

Good Times Blues

Guest In A Nest

H.R.H. (Her Royal Highness)

Half Moon Street

Hallelujah, I Love Her So

Has Anyone Here Seen Basie?

Have A Nice Day

Have You Met Miss Jones

Haven't Changed a Thing

He Aint' Got Rhythm

Here, There and Everywhere

Hey, Jealous Lover

Hey, Jealous Lover (alternate take)

Hey, Pretty Baby

High Tide (I Ain't Mad At You )

Hob Nail Boogie

Honeysuckle Rose

Honeysuckle Rose (alt. take)

House Rent Boogie

How Am I to Know

How High the Moon

How Long, How Long Blues

Humerous Patter

I Ain't Mad at You

I Ain't Mad at You (You Ain't Mad at Me)

I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me

I Can't Get Started

I Can't Stop Loving You

I Can't Stop Loving You (fades out)

I Didn't Know About You

I Didn't Know What Time It Was

I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You

I Feel Like A New Man

I Found a New Baby

I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)

I Got Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes

I Keep Remembering

I Keep Remembering (Someone I Should Forget)

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

I Need to Be Bee'd With

I Needs to Be Bee'd With

I Never Knew (G. Kahn - Fiorito)

I Struck a Match in the Dark

I Thought About You

I Wanna Be Your Man

I Want a Little Girl

I Want to See Santa Claus

I Want to See Santa Claus (Good Morning' Blues)

If I Could Be With You

If I Could Be With You One Hour

If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight

If I Didn't Care

If I Were a Bell

If You See My Baby

I'll Always Be in Love With You

I'll Never Smile Again

I'm Coming Virginia

I'm Drowning in Your Deep Blue Eyes

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town

I'm Shoutin' Again

I'm Shouting Again

I'm Tired of Waiting for You

In a Mellow Tone

In Other Words (Fly Me to the Moon)

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Indiana (#2) (Incomplete)

Introduction and Theme (Lullabye of Birdland)

It Could Happen To You

It Had to Be You

It Won't Be Long

It's a Low Down Dirty Shame

It's a Pity to Say Goodnight

It's About That Time

It's About Time

It's Awf'ly Nice to Be With You

It's Monday Every Day

It's Oh, So Nice

It's Only A Paper Moon

It's Sand, Man!

It's Square but It Rocks

It's the Same Old South

I've Found a New Baby

I've Got a Date With a Dream

I've Got the World on a String

I've Only Myself to Blame

Jack and Jill (alternate take)

Jackson County Jubilee

Jammin' On A V-Disc

Jimmy's Boogie Woogie

Jimmy's Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)

Jive at Five (H. Edison)

Jivin' Joe Jackson

John's Idea (Incomplete)

Jump for Johnny

Jump the Blues Away

Jumpin' at the Woodside

Jumpin' At The Woodside (C. Basie)

Jumping at the Woodside

Just An Old Manuscript

Just an Old Manuscript (Redman - Razaf)

Kansas City Shout

Kansas City Stride

Kansas City Wrinkles

Katy (Wilson - Basie)

Keep Your Hand on Your Heart

Key to the Highway

Kid from Red Bank

King Joe, Part 1

King Joe, Part 2

King Joe, Parts 1 & 2

King Porter Stomp

Kingston Calypso

La Mer (Beyond the Sea) (Foxtrot, 29mpm)

Lazy Lady Blues

Lester Leaps In

Lester Leaps In (L. Young)

Let's Have a Taste

Let's Make Hey While the Moon Shines

Let's Make Hey While The Moon Shines [take 1 - Master]

Let's Make Hey While The Moon Shines [take 2]

Let's Make Hey! While the Sun Shines

Like a Ship at Sea

Limehouse Blues

Listen My Children

Listen My Children (And You Shall Hear)

Little Chicago Fire

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Lonesome Love Blues

Lonesome Miss Pretty

Lose the Blackout Blues

Louisiana (alternate take)

Love Jumped Out

Love Jumped Out (Clayton)

Love of My Life

Lullaby of Birdland

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me

Magic (alternate take 1)

Magic (alternate take 2)

Make Me a Present of You

Mama Don' Wan' No Peas an' Rice an' Coconut Oil

Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Coconut Oil

Mama Don't Want No Peas 'n' Rice 'n' Coconut

Mama Don't Want No Peas 'n' Rice 'n' Coconut Oil

Mama's Talkin Soft

Mama's Talkin' Soft

Me and the Blues

Mean Mistreater

Meet Me At No Special Place

Meet Me at No Special Place (and I'll Be There at No Particular Time)

Midgets (alternate take)

Midnight Freight

Mine, Too (Basie - Price)

Miss Thing 1 & 2

Miss Thing, Part 1

Miss Thing, Part 2

Miss Thing, Part I: + II

Miss Thing, Parts 1 & 2

Mister Roberts' Roost

Misunderstood Blues

Moonlight Serenade

More Than You Know

Mr. Five by Five

Mr. Roberts' Roost

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

My Kind of Town

My Wanderin' Man

My Wondering Man

My! What a Fry!

Nails (Harding)

New Basie Blues

New Basie Blues (45 take)

Night in Tunesia

Night in Tunisia

Night Time Is the Right Time (When the Sun Goes Down)

No Name (78 take)

Nobody Knows (take 1)

Normania (Atkinson - Basie)

Normania (Blee Blop Blues)

Not Now, I'll Tell You When

Now Will You Be Good

Now Will You Be Good?

Oh Soul Mio [sic]

Oh! Lady Be Good (I. & G. Gershwin)

Oh, Lady Be Good

Oh. Pretty Woman

On the Road to Mandalay

On the Sunny Side of the Street

One O' Clock Jump (C. Basie)

One O' Clock Jump (fades out)

One O'Clock Boogie

One O'Clock Jump

One O'Clock Jump (Closing Theme)

One O'Clock Jump (intro)

One O'Clock Jump (Opening Theme)

One- Two- Three O'Lairy

One-Two-Three-O'Leary

Only the Lonely

Open the Door, Richard!

Opening Announcements And Theme (One O'Clock Jump)

Orange Sherbert

Our Love Was Meant to Be

Paradise Squat (take 2)

Paradise Squat (take 3)

Paseo Promenade

Patience and Fortitude

Pennies From Heaven

Peppermint Pipes

Person to Person

Plain Brown Wrapper

Playhouse No 2 Stomp

Playhouse No. 2 Stomp (Variations On I Got Rhythm)

Pleasingly Plump

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Put It Right Here

Rat Race (Basie)

Ready, Set, Go!

Red Bank Boogie

Red Bank Boogie (G.I. Stomp) (B. Clayton)

Red Roses for a Blue Lady

Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes

Riff (interlude)

Right On, Right On

Rock-A-Bye Basie

Rockin' the Blues

Rocky Mountain Blues

Rocky Mountain Blues (Williams - Stansel)

Romin' and Rollin'

Rompin' At The Reno

Roseland Shuffel

Roseland Shuffle

Royal Garden Blues

Rusty Dusty Blues

Saint Louis Boogie

Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week

Secret Love (Foxtrot, 29mpm)

Sent for You Yesterday

Sent for You Yesterday (and Here You Come Today)

Seventh Avenue Express

Shake, Rattle and Roll

She Calls Me Baby

She's a Wine-O (Russell - Cowan)

She's Just My Size

Shine On Harvest Moon

Shiny Stockings

Shout and Feel It

Shout and Feel It (Quickstep, 50mpm)

Shoutin' Blues (Basie - Price)

Silks and Satins

Sing for Your Supper

Sixteen Men Swinging

Ska-Di-De-Dee-Do

Ska-Di-Dle-Dee-Bee-Doo

Skippin' With Skitch

Sleepwalker's Serenade

Sleepwalker's Serenade (alternate take)

Slides 'n Hides

Smack Dab in the Middle

Smarty (You Know It All)

So Young, So Beautiful

Softly With Feeling

Solid As A Rock

Solid as a Rock (Hilliard - Mann)

Somebody Stole My Gal

Someday Sweetheart

Something to Live For

Song of the Islands

Song of the Islands (version 2)

Song of the Wanderer

Songs of Islands

Sophisticated Swing

South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)

Southland Shuffle

Speaking of Sounds

St. Louis Baby (Basie - Wilson)

St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Boogie

Stampede in G Minor

Step and Fetch It

Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush

Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush

Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush (alt. take - B)

Stop Beating Around The Mulberry Bush

Stormy Monday Blues

Strike Up the Band

Sugar Hill Shuffle

Sunday at the Savoy

Super Chief (Carter - Dorsey - Ellis)

Sweet and Purty

Sweet Georgia Brown

Sweets (Basie - Edison)

Swing Brother, Swing

Swing, Brother, Swing

Swingin' at Newport

Swingin' at the Daisy Chain

Swingin' at the Waldorf

Swingin' Shepherd Blues

Swingin' The Blues

Swingin' The Blues (C. Basie)

Swinging at the Daisy Chain

Swinging at the Waldorf

Swinging The Blues

Take a Little Off the Top

Take Me Back Baby

Tattersfield Stomp

Taxi War Dance (alternate take)

Taxi War-Dance (Unissued Take)

Teach Me Tonight

Tell Me Your Troubles

Texas Shuffle (H. Evans)

Thanks for the Ride

That Warm Feeling

That's the Kind of Love I'm Talking About

The Basie Twist

The Blues Done Come Back

The Blues I Like to Hear

The Blues Machine

The Count Steps In

The Diplomat Speaks

The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozens

The Feather Merchant

The Fool on the Hill

The Glory of Love

The Golden Horn

The Great Debate

The James Bond Theme

The Jungle King

The Kid From Red Bank

The Lady Is a Tramp

The Late, Late Show

The Midnight Sun Never Sets

The Midnite Sun Never Sets

The Moon Fell in the River

The Moon Is Not Green

The More I See You

The Second Time Around

The Slider (Wise - Raeburn - Temple)

The Song Is You

The Spirit Is Willing

The Swingin' Shepherd Blues

The Third Stage

The Touch of Your Lips

The Very Thought of You

The Wiggle Walk

The Wind Machine

The World Is Mad

The World Is Mad, Part 1

The World Is Mad, Part 2

The World Is Mad, Parts 1 & 2

The World Is Mas 1 & 2

The You and Me That Used to Be

Them That's Got

Theme from 'The Apartment'

Theme: Lullaby of Birdland / Why Not?

There Will Never Be Another You

There's a Small Hotel

These Foolish Things

They Can't Take That Away From Me

Things Ain't What They Used to Be

Thinking of You

This Could Be the Start of Something Big

This Love of Mine

Three Little Words

Tickle Toe (L. Young)

Tickle Toe (Quickstep, 50mpm)

Tickle Toe [From Stardust Memories]

Time on My Hands

Tippin' on the Q.T. (alternate take)

Tippin', on the Q.T.

Too Close for Comfort

Topsy (E. Battle - E. Durham)

Trav'lin' Light

Tune Town Shuffle

Twelfth Street Rag

Twelfth Street Rag (Summer - Bowman)

Two for the Blues

Undecided Blues

Underneath The Mango Tree

Vignola Express

Vine Street Rumble

Walk, Don't Run

Walking SLow Behind You

Walking Slow Behind You (Lange - Heath)

What Am I Here For

What Am I Here For? (alternate take)

What Goes Up Must Come Down

What Goes Up Must Come Down (Unissued Take)

What Goes Up Must Go Down

What Kind of Fool Am I?

What's Your Number?

What's Your Number? - 1

What's Your Number? - 2

What's Your Number? - 3

When My Dream-Boat Comes Home

When Sonny Gets Blue

When the Sun Goes Down

Wild Bill's Boogie

With a Little Help From My Friends

Wonderful Thing

Wonderful Thing (Basie - Price)

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

You and Your Love

You Betcha My Life

You Can Count on Me

You Can Count On Me (Unissued Take)

You Can Depend on Me

You Can't Run Around

You Do the Darnedest Things, Baby

You're a Memory

You're Not the Kind