Name: The Queen of Big Band Swing [Living Era]
Brand: ASV/Living Era
SKU: 923520
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The Queen of Big Band Swing [Living Era]

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Album: The Queen of Big Band Swing [Living Era]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Moon
2)	I Was Lucky
3)	Night Wind
4)	Dixieland Band, The
5)	Restless
6)	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
7)	Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
8)	It's Been So Long
9)	Goody Goody
10)	Mutiny in the Parlour
11)	You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes
12)	Glory of Love, The
13)	These Foolish Things
14)	There's a Small Hotel
15)	You Turned the Tables on Me
16)	Here's Love in Your Eye
17)	You Came to My Rescue
18)	Smoke Dreams
19)	How Am I to Know?
20)	Feelin' High and Happy
21)	Day in Day Out
22)	I Cover the Waterfront
23)	I've Got a Crush on You
24)	But Not For Me
25)	Don't Cry Baby

Album: The Queen of Big Band Swing [Living Era]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Moon
2)	I Was Lucky
3)	Night Wind
4)	Dixieland Band, The
5)	Restless
6)	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
7)	Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
8)	It's Been So Long
9)	Goody Goody
10)	Mutiny in the Parlour
11)	You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes
12)	Glory of Love, The
13)	These Foolish Things
14)	There's a Small Hotel
15)	You Turned the Tables on Me
16)	Here's Love in Your Eye
17)	You Came to My Rescue
18)	Smoke Dreams
19)	How Am I to Know?
20)	Feelin' High and Happy
21)	Day in Day Out
22)	I Cover the Waterfront
23)	I've Got a Crush on You
24)	But Not For Me
25)	Don't Cry Baby

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Helen Ward (vocals); Benny Goodman & His Orchestra; Gene Krupa & His Orchestra; Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra; The Bob Crosby Orchestra; Joe Sullivan & His Cafe Society Orchestra; Harry James & His Music Makers.
Recorded between 1935 & 1943.
Personnel: Benny Heller, George Van Eps, Eddie Gibbs, Allan Reuss, Nappy Lamare (guitar); Jack Gootkin, John DeVoogdt, Bill Spear, Leo Zorn, Sam Caplan (violin); Victor Stern (viola); Eddie Miller, Danny Polo (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Edmond Hall, Irving Fazola, Jimmy Hamilton, Benny Goodman, Buster Bailey (clarinet); Bill DePew, Joe Kearns , George Siravo, Claude Lakey, Murray Williams, Johnny Hodges, Johnny MacAfee, Nuncio "Toots" Mondello, Bill Stegmeyer, Hymie Schertzer (alto saxophone); Chu Berry, Arthur Rollini, King Guion, Gil Rodin, Dick Clark , Vido Musso (tenor saxophone); Sam Sachelle, George James (baritone saxophone); Chris Griffin , Gordon Griffin, Manny Klein, Nate Kazebier, Ralph Muzillo, Al Cuozzo, Jerry Neary, Harry Geller, Tom Dicarlo, Dave Schultze, Ed Anderson , Harry James, Jimmy Campbell , Pee Wee Erwin, Roy Eldridge, Shorty Sherock, Ziggy Elman, Bill Coleman , Billy Butterfield, Zeke Zarchy, Nick Buono, Bunny Berigan (trumpet); Fred Waldron (flugelhorn); Jack Lacey, Warren Smith , Joe Harris , Ray Heath, Charles McCamish, Jack Teagarden, Bruce Squires, Ray Conniff, Benny Morton, Harry Rodgers, Red Ballard (trombone); Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan , Milt Raskin, Teddy Wilson (piano); Lionel Hampton (vibraphone); Cozy Cole, Gene Krupa, Micky Scrima, Ray Bauduc, Yank Porter (drums).
Audio Remasterer: Martin Haskell.
Liner Note Author: Peter Dempsey.
Recording information: Chicago, IL (01/15/1935-12/23/1943); Hollywood, CA (01/15/1935-12/23/1943); Los Angeles, CA (01/15/1935-12/23/1943); New York, NY (01/15/1935-12/23/1943).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Joe Sullivan & His Cafe Society Orchestra; Harry James & His Musicmakers; Bob Crosby Orchestra; Teddy Wilson; Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra; Benny Goodman & His Orchestra.
Arrangers: Fletcher Henderson; Deane Kincaide; Jimmy Mundy; Spud Murphy ; David Rose.
This British compilation traces Helen Ward's work as female vocalist with the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Bob Crosby, Joe Sullivan, and Harry James between 1936 and 1943. Of course, Ward's most prominent association was with Goodman from 1934 to 1936, a pairing that resulted in the chart-toppers "It's Been So Long," "Goody Goody," "The Glory of Love," "These Foolish Things," and "You Turned the Tables on Me." They show Ward as a strong rhythm singer with a bluesy tone who can also handle ballads, and she is more reminiscent of jazz-oriented contemporaries like Mildred Bailey than such smooth successors as Helen Forrest. A few of her Top Ten hits are missing, and the tracks have been transferred from 78s, so the sound is only adequate, but the breadth of the collection, which features such rarities as her only recordings with Crosby and Sullivan and an airchcheck with James, makes up for its lapses, so that this is the best collection of Ward's recordings as a big band singer yet released. ~ William Ruhlmann