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- Artist: Annette Hanshaw
- Rating:
- Release Date: May 20, 1997
- Total Time: 75:01
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
Annette Hanshaw was one of the finest jazz singers of the late '20s. All of her recordings deserve to be reissued complete and in chronological order. But in lieu of that, this single CD is an excellent introduction to Hanshaw's talents. Covering virtually her entire career, from when she was still 15 up until just two years before her premature retirement at age 26, the disc features Hanshaw in a variety of settings. She accompanies herself on piano on "Falling in Love With You" and is backed by such jazz all-stars as cornetist Red Nichols, trombonist Miff Mole, clarinetist Jimmy Lytell, Tommy Dorsey (on trumpet), clarinetist Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto, the orchestras of Will Osborne and Victor Young, and even Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio. Highlights of the fine sampler include "Black Bottom," "Big City Blues," "Little White Lies," "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," and "Let's Fall in Love," but these 25 numbers are only the tip of the iceberg. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Black Bottom | Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson | Annette Hanshaw | (3:07) |
| Six Feet of Papa | Annette Hanshaw | (3:13) | |
| Falling in Love With You | Danny Kirwan, |
Annette Hanshaw | (3:20) |
| Do Do Do | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin | Annette Hanshaw | (3:09) |
| Ev'rything's Made for Love | Charles Tobias, |
Annette Hanshaw | (2:54) |
| Ain't He Sweet | Milton Ager, Jack Yellen | Annette Hanshaw | (2:21) |
| Here or There | Annette Hanshaw | (2:46) | |
| Nothin' | Roy Turk, Lou Handman | Annette Hanshaw | (2:26) |
| You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You? | Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson | Annette Hanshaw | (2:41) |
| That's You, Baby | Annette Hanshaw | (2:52) | |
| Big City Blues | Annette Hanshaw | (3:05) | |
| Pagan Love Song | Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed | Annette Hanshaw, |
(3:10) |
| Ua No a Like (Sweet Constancy) | Annette Hanshaw, |
(3:17) | |
| Lovable and Sweet (Lyrics) | Oscar Levant, Sidney Clare | Annette Hanshaw | (2:49) |
| The Right Kind of Man | Annette Hanshaw | (3:22) | |
| Telling It to the Daisies | Harry Warren, Joe Young | Annette Hanshaw | (3:14) |
| Little White Lies (Lyrics) | Walter Donaldson | Annette Hanshaw | (2:56) |
| Body and Soul | Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton | Annette Hanshaw | (3:05) |
| Would You Like to Take a Walk? | Harry Warren, Mort Dixon, Billy Rose | Annette Hanshaw | (3:38) |
| Walkin' My Baby Back Home | Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk | Annette Hanshaw | (2:45) |
| Ho Hum! | Edward Heyman, Dana Suesse | Annette Hanshaw | (3:04) |
| Fit as a Fiddle | Arthur Freed, Al Hoffman, |
Annette Hanshaw, |
(3:01) |
| Moon Song | Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow | Annette Hanshaw, |
(2:55) |
| We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye | Harry Woods | Annette Hanshaw, |
(3:01) |
| Let's Fall in Love | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | Annette Hanshaw | (2:50) |
