Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. There's No Two Ways About It
2. 'Cause My Baby Says It's So
3. Flat Foot Floogie - Slim & Slam
4. Chinatown, My Chinatown - Slim & Slam
5. 8, 9 and 10 - Slim & Slam
6. Ferdinand the Bull - Slim & Slam
7. Tutti Frutti - Slim & Slam
8. Look-A-There - Slim & Slam
9. Jump Session - Slim & Slam
10. Laughin' in Rhythm - Slim & Slam
11. Vol Vist du Gaily Star - Slim & Slam
12. Dopey Joe - Slim & Slam
13. Sweet Safronia - Slim & Slam
14. It's Gettin' Kinda Chilly - Slim & Slam
15. Buck Dance Rhythm - Slim & Slam
16. That's a Bringer
17. A-Well-A-Take-Em Joe (Crapshooter's Jive)
18. Chicken Rhythm
19. Swingin' in the Key of C
20. Boot-Ta-La-Za
21. It's You, Only You
22. Beatin' the Board
23. Look Out
24. Matzoh Balls
25. Early in the Morning
26. Chittlin' Switch Blues
27. Huh!, Uh-Huh!

Disc 2:

1. Windy City Hop
2. Baby Be Mine
3. Sploghm
4. Fitzwater Street
5. Don't Let Us Say Goodbye
6. Rhythm Mad
7. Bongo
8. Broadway Jump
9. Put Your Arms Around Me, Baby
10. Lookin' for a Place to Park
11. Hit That Mess
12. Hey! Chef
13. Ah Now
14. Tip on the Numbers
15. Slim Slam Boogie
16. Bassology
17. Bingie-Bingie-Scootie
18. B-19
19. African Jive
20. Palm Springs Jump
21. Ra-Da-Da-Da
22. Groove Juice Special
23. Vout Oreenee
24. Please Wait for Me
25. Sighing Boogie - Slim Gaillard Trio
26. Queen's Boogie - Slim Gaillard Trio
27. Vout Boogie - Slim Gaillard Trio

Disc 3:

1. Slim Gaillard's Boogie
2. Harlem Hunch
3. Tutti Frutti
4. Travelin' Blues
5. Sightseeing Boogie
6. Central Avenue Boogie
7. Slim's Cement Boogie
8. Laguna - Slim Gaillard Quartet
9. Dunkin' Bagel - Slim Gaillard Quartet
10. Boogin' at Berg's - Slim Gaillard Quartet
11. Cement Mixer - Slim Gaillard Trio
12. Novachord Boogie
13. Tee Say Malee
14. Atomic Cocktail
15. Yep Roc Heresay
16. Jumpin' at the Record Shop
17. Drei Six Cents
18. Dizzy Boogie
19. Flat Foot Floogie
20. Popity Pop
21. Slim's Jam
22. Early Mornin' Boogie
23. Riff City
24. Mean Mama Blues
25. Chicken Rhythm
26. Santa Monica Jump

Disc 4:

1. Mean Pretty Mama
2. Schoolkids Hop
3. Opera in Vout, Pt. 1: Introduction - Pianissimo (Softly, Most Softly)
4. Boip! Boip! - Slim Gaillard Trio
5. Bartender's Just Like a Mother - Slim Gaillard Trio
6. Arabian Boogie - Slim Gaillard Trio
7. Tip Light - Slim Gaillard Trio
8. Momma's in the Kitchen - Slim Gaillard Trio
9. Ghost of a Chance - Slim Gaillard Trio
10. Little Red Riding Woods - Slim Gaillard Trio
11. Puerto Vootie - Slim Gaillard Trio
12. Serenade to a Poodle - Slim Gaillard Trio
13. Down by the Station - Slim Gaillard Trio
14. When Banana Skins Are Falling - Slim Gaillard Sextet
15. Bongo City - Slim Gaillard Sextet
16. Sabroso
17. Taxpayers Blues
18. Eatin' With the Boogie
19. Make It Do
20. You Goofed
21. Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me)
22. Potato Chips

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53103 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-18
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
One of the most eccentric vocalists ever to hit the jazz scene, Gaillard became a legendary cult figure thanks to his own privately invented jive dialect, 'Vout'. These 103 jazzy expositions from 1937-1952 are a master class & include all his best loved numbers. Includes 44-page illustrated booklet with authoritative biography/musical critique & full discography details. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipbox. Proper. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Jumpin'!
I'll confess to an ongoing amour with the proper box set. I can't believe something this cheap (let's face it...the price is incredible!) is consistently of such high quality. They look great, feel nice, are beautifully packaged, and include booklets (yes! tiny books) with great info on and pics of their subjects.

So what about Slim? Well this cat is jumpin'. He is high class and hilarious...what a great combination. And there's suprising variety through this invariably rhythmic set. Most tracks are upbeat and you could fill up the CD shuffler and dance to this all night. I just can't believe his name isn't as familiar to us as the likes of Louis Jordan.

I was a bit worried about all this vouting...this guy sounded like he could get really annoying...and he wouldn't be around so you could slap him in the face and tell him to snap out of it. But he only indulges in sporadic vouting binges and they are only occasionally obtrusive.

When I bought this I thought I'd probably select songs and boil it down in to one excellent CD I could love unconditionally. But this cat doesn't let you down...which has made for a least one very happy kitten.

Three Stooges + Bebop = Slim Gaillard
Slim Gaillard is what you get when you combine slapstick humor with bebop jazz. Even Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie couldn't resist playing on his records-they appear on a few tracks on this great 4 CD box set.
Did I mention you get 30 tracks per disc making this the deal of the century? Such a deal! For the low price listed above you get at least 120 tracks of pure Slim brilliance. I have to warn you, though, his sense of humor is very non-PC but also not mean spirited, either. He lampoons every ethnic group under the sun including his own (in "African Jive" he runs down a soul food menu to a tribal African beat).
I also liked his enthusiasm for ethnic food, particularly Jewish delicacies:
Matzo Balls (sung Jimmy Durante style), Dunkin' Bagels ("splash! in the coffee"), and the classic Potato Chips ("crunch crunch I don't want no lunch").
Recommended tracks: Popity Pop, Atomic Cocktail, Dopey Joe, B-19, Palm Springs Jump, Little Red Riding Woods, Tee Say Malee, etc. I could go and on. Dunk some bagels and enjoy!

The original witty Slim
It is incredible how much of his material would even for today be considered original and ahead of its time .
But yet at the same time having this childish and simple humor such as de-ranging known phrases and basically creating his own language out of it.
Slim is a one of a kind and should be remembered amongs the greats of jazz and witty music.