Track Listing
1. Oh! Lawdy (Something's Done Got Between Ebecaneezer and Me)
2. Bring Back Those Wonderful Days
3. Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar
4. It's Nobody's Business But My Own
5. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity
6. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Throwing Stones
7. I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It You Could Have It If I Had It Blues
8. Moon Shines on the Moonshine, The
9. Checkers (It's Your Move Now)
10. Somebody
11. Ten Little Bottles
12. Unlucky Blues
13. Lonesome Alimony Blues
14. Get Up
15. Save a Little Dram for Me
16. I Want to Know Where Tosti Went (When He Said Goodbye)
17. You Can't Trust Nobody
18. Eve Cost Adam Just One Bone
19. You'll Never Need a Doctor No More
20. My Last Dollar
21. I'm Gonna Quit Saturday
22. Brother Low Down
23. Unexpectedly
24. Not Lately
| Details | | Distributor: | Albany Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Bert Williams (vocals).
Producers: Richard Martin, Meagan Hennessey.
This is part of Archeophone Records "Pioneers" series
Liner Note Authors: Richard Martin ; Meagan Hennessey.
Recording information: Chicago, IL (02/13/1919-02/24/1922); New York, NY (02/13/1919-02/24/1922).
Archeophone presents a third volume of the complete recordings of Afro-American vaudeville legend Bert Williams, immaculately remastered and arranged in chronological order. The time line represented here extends from February 13, 1919, to February 24, 1922, eight days before his death in Detroit, which occurred one week short of his 47th birthday. Born in the West Indies and raised near Los Angeles, CA, Egbert Williams developed a two-man vaudeville act with Kansas-born comic George Walker beginning in 1893. Starting up in San Francisco and making their way east through Chicago, the duo of Williams and Walker soon enjoyed popular success in New York and London, and were among the first Afro-Americans to make phonograph recordings. After Walker's premature death from syphilis in 1911, Williams established himself as a solo act and soon became a mainstay in the Ziegfeld Follies. By the time the recordings on this compilation were made, Bert Williams was one of the wealthiest entertainers in all of show business. Note that two very popular musicians accessed Bert Williams' material years after he had passed; Phil Harris bolstered his own popularity with songs like "The Darktown Poker Club" and Louis Armstrong re-created both of Williams' "Elder Eatmore" sermons for Decca Records on August 11, 1938. The written and photographic documentation provided by Archeophone is enormously informative; insightful essays, vintage posters, publicity stills, and detailed discography and bibliography listings make this the definitive and indispensable Bert Williams edition. W.C. Fields supplied the best of all elegies for this remarkable entertainer: "Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew." ~ arwulf arwulf
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