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- Artist: Ruth Etting
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- Release Date: 1926 04 14-1930 09 29
- Total Time: 61:06
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
This English import has 20 recordings featuring the early jazz-influenced pop singer Ruth Etting. Although the music is not programmed in chronological order (and there is no personnel listing given), many of Etting's greatest performances are here: the emotional "Ten Cents a Dance," "Button Up Your Overcoat," "Mean to Me," "Sam, the Old Accordion Man," "You're the Cream in My Coffee," and "Love Me or Leave Me." This CD gives one a definitive look into Ruth Etting's talents during her prime period and is easily recommended as a fine example of superior pop singing of the 1920s. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ten Cents a Dance | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Ruth Etting | (3:14) |
| Button up Your Overcoat | Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson | Ruth Etting | (2:47) |
| Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do | Little Jack Little | Ruth Etting | (3:04) |
| But I Do, You Know I Do! | Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn | Ruth Etting | (2:37) |
| Mean to Me | Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk | Ruth Etting | (3:25) |
| I'm Yours | Johnny Green, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg | Ruth Etting | (3:22) |
| If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) | Henry Creamer, Turner Layton | Ruth Etting | (2:57) |
| Don't Tell Him What Happened to Me | Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson | Ruth Etting | (3:19) |
| Body and Soul | Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton | Ruth Etting | (3:20) |
| Sam, the Old Accordion Man | Walter Donaldson | Ruth Etting | (3:11) |
| Dancing With Tears in My Eyes | Al Dubin, Joe Burke | Ruth Etting | (2:42) |
| Hello, Baby! | Ruth Etting | (2:42) | |
| What Wouldn't I Do for That Man | E.Y. "Yip" Harburg | Ruth Etting | (3:17) |
| Could I? I Certainly Could! | Milton Ager, Jack Yellen | Ruth Etting | (2:38) |
| The Kiss Waltz | Al Dubin, Joe Burke | Ruth Etting | (2:54) |
| Shaking the Blues Away | Irving Berlin | Ruth Etting | (3:09) |
| You're the Cream in My Coffee | Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson | Ruth Etting | (3:05) |
| Lonesome and Sorry | Con Conrad, Benny Davis | Ruth Etting | (3:10) |
| Laughing at Life | Ruth Etting | (2:51) | |
| Love Me or Leave Me | Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn | Ruth Etting | (3:22) |
