Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Heebie Jeebies
2. Blues In My Heart
3. Soft And Sweet
4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
5. Darktown Strutters' Ball
6. If Dreams Come True
7. Let's Get Together
8. I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants)
9. Imagination
10. Why Should I Beg For Love?
11. Stompin' At The Savoy
12. Blue Minor
13. True
14. Lonesome Moments
15. If It Ain't Love
16. That Rhythm Man
17. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
18. Lona
19. Blue Minor
20. It's Over Because We're Through
21. Don't Be That Way
22. What A Shuffle
23. Blue Lou
24. I'll Chase The Blues Away
25. Down Home Rag

Disc 2:

1. Are You Here To Stay?
2. Love And Kisses
3. Rhythm And Romance
4. Moonlight And Magnolias
5. I'll Chase The Blues Away
6. I May Be Wrong
7. Facts And Figures
8. Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now
9. King Porter Stomp
10. Crying My Heart Out For You
11. Under The Spell Of The Blues
12. When I Get Low I Get High
13. Go Harlem
14. Sing Me A Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)
15. Love, You're Just A Laugh
16. Devoting My Time To You
17. (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It
18. Swinging On The Reservation
19. I Got The Spring Fever Blues
20. Love Marches On
21. There's Frost On The Moon
22. Gee, But You're Swell
23. Rusty Hinge
24. Wake Up And Live
25. It's Swell Of You

Disc 3:

1. You Showed Me The Way
2. Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley
3. Cryin' Mood
4. Love Is The Thing, So They Say
5. That Naughty Waltz
6. In A Little Spanish Town
7. I Got Rhythm
8. I Ain't Got Nobody
9. Just A Simple Melody
10. I Got A Guy
11. Strictly Jive
12. Holiday In Harlem
13. Sweet Sue, Just You
14. Rock It For Me
15. Squeeze Me
16. Harlem Congo
17. I Want To Be Happy
18. The Dipsy Doodle
19. If Dreams Come True
20. Hallelujah
21. Mignight In A Madhouse
22. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
23. Heart Of Mine
24. I'm Just A Jitterbug
25. Azure

Disc 4:

1. Spinnin' The Webb
2. Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)
3. Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil
4. Mac Pherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing)
5. Everybody Step
6. Ella
7. Wacky Dust
8. Gotta Pebble In My Shoe
9. I Can't Stop Loving You
10. Who Ya Hunchin?
11. I Let A Tear Fall In The River
12. F.D.R. Jones
13. I Love Each Move You Make
14. It's Foxy
15. I Found My Yellow Basket
16. By Heck
17. Undecided
18. 'tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)
19. In The Groove At The Groove
20. One Side Of Me
21. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
22. Chew-Chew-Chew (Your Bubble Gum)
23. Little White Lies
24. Breakin' Em Down

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111573 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-30
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Album Description
Stomping At The Savoy consists of 99 tracks over 4 CDs of digitally remastered music with a 48 page booklet in a new slimline format. Chick Webb and his orchestra was the vehicle that took Ella Fitzgerald from talent show obscurity to international stardom. Proper. 2006.

Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Chick Webb collection
Chick Webb, the King of the Savoy in the 1930s, did more than make great music. He discovered a 17-year old Ella Fitzgerald in 1935. This collection of Chick Webb Orchestra pieces, many with Ella, captures so much of swing music in the Art Deco era. This is an amazingly complete collection, from standards like "Tain't What You Do its the Way that Cha Do It" to the little known, but fabulous, "Gotta Pebble in My Shoe." This is the CD collection that will bring you back to the Harlem dance club days in the 30s, when everyone moved to the music.

Early Death..Enduring Legacy...
Much has been written about this small sickly man who battled Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa and supposedly won at the workouts at the Savoy Ballroom and when you combine his relationship with the then great 16 year old Ella Fitzgerald, ushering her into the world, as well as the overall quality of this orchestra and the influence he had on drummers like Buddy Rich one can't give less than 5 stars to this Proper box whose quality remains utilitarian as always, a sound bargain especially given the 10 or 15 dollars I paid for this with it's handsome colorful packaging,well written informative booklet and sound quality that is pretty good.
OK, I generally prefer the Decca, Columbia,and often JSP remasters as the case goes when arguing the Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman cases as to thir famous projects since the range is indeed compromised on many of these "budget jazz" labels to get the hiss out but when looking at the stellar selection presented here (the entire ASV/Living Series collection is here) as well as the entire Decca's Spinnin' The Web (excluding the first 2 tracks that are found on Classics releases).you can't go wrong.
Chick's output is practically all here, the schmaltz,great stuff and the campy tracks as well.99 tracks in all.
Being rather new to swing since I am still 48, I recommend this collection as well as recordings by Jimmie Lunceford, a close contemporary in style to my ears.
As to the music, it moves, shines,waxes nostalgia and maintains class,this diminutive little man was a giant of music and human spirit(akin to the UK's Ian Dury in the rock/punk world), and the beauty of these swing bands and their leaders, great songwriters and instrumentalists are truly an under appreciated idiom of fine art sorely in need of recognition and comeback in today's music world.

Great collection...
Chick Webb was one of the fathers of this style of swing drumming. This is a great collection, especially if you appreciate the historical context in which the tracks were recorded. The sound is suprisingly good. Check it out!