Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. At the Woodchopper's Ball
2. Big Wig in the Wigwam
3. Dallas Blues
4. Blues Upstairs
5. Blues Downstairs
6. Casbah Blues
7. Blue Prelude
8. Golden Wedding
9. Blue Flame
10. Bishop's Blues
11. Woodsheddin' with Woody
12. Blues in the Night
13. 'Tis Autumn
14. Amen
15. Four or Five Times
16. Down Under
17. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
18. Basie's Basement
19. Who Dat Up Dere?
20. Noah
21. I've Got You Under My Skin
22. I Get a Kick out of You
23. Cryin' Sands

Disc 2:

1. Cherry
2. Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet
3. Irresistible You
4. It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)
5. Goin' Home
6. Ingie Speaks
7. Perdido
8. As Long as I Live
9. I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues
10. Laura
11. Apple Honey
12. I Wonder
13. Yeah Man (Amen)
14. Caldonia
15. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
16. Goosey Gander
17. Northwest Passage
18. I've Got the World on a String
19. Good Earth
20. Put That Ring on My Finger
21. Bijou
22. Gee, It's Good to Hold You
23. Your Father's Moustache

Disc 3:

1. Wildroot
2. Blowin' Up a Storm
3. Atlanta, GA
4. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
5. Welcome to My Dreams
6. Panacea
7. Steps
8. Igor
9. Fan It
10. Nero's Conception
11. Lost Weekend
12. Pam
13. Sidewalks of Cuba
14. Lady McGowan's Dream, Pts. 1 & 2
15. Romance in the Dark
16. Summer Sequence, Pts. 1- 4
17. Everywhere
18. With Someone New
19. Non-Alcoholic
20. I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out
21. Cherokee Canyon

Disc 4:

1. I've Got News for You
2. Keen and Peachy
3. Goof and I
4. Lazy Lullaby
5. Four Brothers
6. P.S. I Love You
7. That's Right
8. Lemon Drop
9. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
10. I Ain't Gettin' Any Younger
11. Early Autumn
12. Keeper of the Flame
13. Crickets
14. More Moon
15. Detour Ahead
16. Jamaica Rhumba
17. Not Really the Blues
18. Great Lie
19. More Than You Know
20. Tenderly
21. Lollipop
22. You Rascal You
23. Rhapsody in Wood
24. In the Beginning

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #143742 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-28
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
92 slices of prime Woody Herman focusing on the decade 1939-49 with recordings by The First and Second Herds, two of his most successful bands. Included is a 52 page booklet with extensive biographical notes, discography and rare photos. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed together in a deluxe slipcase.

Customer Reviews

91 tracks on 4 cds, for less than 25 bucks!
If you never have bought a Proper boxed set, this one will probably get you on the road to buying many more! All proper box sets come with booklets that are more like mini books, 40-50 pages, many photos, and info you haven't read every single time you have read about the band before. The audio on this set is very good(The best audio is on the blownin' Up a Storm 2 cd set from Columbia, but there are many alternate takes, and the cost is about the same as this set) Proper also has great sets that are on the History of Drums, Guitarists, and Western Swing....check them out, you won't be sorry, except to see your credit card bills rise.

Another golden opportunity missed
Here we go again! As with the Blowing Up A Storm CD some of the sample tracks I listened to are not the definitive versions we are all familiar with.The Woodchoppers Ball is not the same version which is on the flip side of the Sidewalks of Cuba 78, nor is The Good Earth on the flip side of the Panacea 78.Wild Root and Blue Prelude are similarly flawed. Thankfully, for all connoisseurs of Woody Herman these annoyances have been rectified, albeit on several different CDs'

Pretty whimpy for the "Thundering Herds"
I'm no expert on Herman's bands, but I have several other collections and this is far and away the whimpiest. Well over half the songs are sentimental ballads or comic novelty numbers. If you like those kinds of songs, this is your collection. But if you're looking for the up-tempo, full-tilt, straight ahead swing that (I thought) Herman was best known for, this is a big disappointment.