America's Sweetheart Of Song
ASV/Living Era
Released: September 25, 2001

1. Life Is a Song, Let's Sing It Together 
2. 'Deed I Do Hirsch/Rose 2:47
3. What Do We Do on a Dew-Dew-Dewy Day? Johnson 2:47
4. Back In Your Own Backyard Dreyer 3:06
5. Happy Days and Lonely Nights Fisher 3:11
6. Beloved Kahn 3:08
7. I'll Get by as Long as I Have You Ahlert 2:38
8. Cryin' for the Carolines Lewis 2:56
9. Just a Little Closer Johnson 3:01
10. Love Is Like That What Can You Do? Crawford 3:27
11. Nevertheless, I'm in Love With You Kalmar 2:45
12. Me! Berlin 2:47
13. A Faded Summer Love Baxter 3:16
14. Cuban Love Song Fields/M/S 2:54
15. It Was So Beautiful Barris/Freed 2:45
16. I'll Never Be The Same Kahn/M/S 3:15
17. Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight Campbell 3:00
18. Close Your Eyes Petkere 2:49
19. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Harbach 2:36
20. Riptide Donaldson 2:51
21. Easy Come, Easy Go Green 2:43
22. You Adamson 2:47
23. It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie Mayhew 2:45
24. There’s A Lull In My Life Gordon/Revel 2:40
25. Goodnight Sweetheart Campbell 3:03 

Ruth Etting - Glorifier of American Song
Recorded: 1931-37
Released: October 26, 1999

1. Were You Sincere? (3:45) 
2. Me! (2:43) 
3. All Of Me (2:56) 
4. Home (2:52) 
5. Without That Gal! (3:03) 
6. Can't We Talk It Over (2:55) 
7. I'm Still Without a Sweetheart-With Summer Coming On (2:50) 
8. Lazy Day (3:09) 
9. I'll Never Have to Dream Again (3:00) 
10. How Can I Go Without You? (2:44) 
11. Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight (3:03) 
12. Hold Me (2:37) 
13. Tomorrow Who Cares? (3:04) 
14. Whose Honey Are You? (1:55) 
15. It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie(2:44) 
16. Holiday Sweetheart (3:04) 
17. There’s Something In The Air (2:55) 
18. On a Little Dream Ranch (2:55)
19. There'll Be Some Changes Made (2:06) 
20. After You've Gone (2:48)

Ten Cents A Dance - Ruth Etting
ASV/Living Era
Producer: Kevin Daly
Released: 1981

Ten Cents A Dance (3:14)
Button Up Your Overcoat (2:47)
Funny Dear What Love Can Do (3:04)
But I Do, You Know I Do! (2:37)
Mean To Me (3:25)
I'm Yours (3:22)
If I Could Be With You One Hour To-Night (2:57)
Don't Tell Him What Happened To Me (3:19)
Body And Soul (3:20)
Sam, the Old Accordion Man (3:11)
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (2:42)
Hello Baby! (2:42)
What Wouldn't I Do For That Man? (3:17)
Could I? I Certainly Could! (2:38)
The Kiss Waltz (2:54)
Shaking the Blues Away (3:09)
You're The Cream in My Coffee (3:05)
Lonesome and Sorry (3:10)
Laughing At Life (2:51)
Love Me Or Leave Me (3:22)

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 Guide

Here are 20 reasons why Doris Day, as good as she was, couldn't quite get the essence of singer Ruth Etting when MGM filmed her life story in 1955 under the title of the song "Love Me Or Leave Me,'' with which she was closely identified. She possessed simple believability in all she sang, represented here in recordings made between 1926-30.
-- Billboard Magazine, Originally reviewed for week ending 2/5/94

Love Me Or Leave Me - Ruth Etting
Pearl Flapper
Released: March 19, 1996

1. Hello Baby! 2:57 
2. Nothing Else to Do 3:09 
3. It All Depends On You 3:03 
4. Sam, the Old Accordion Man 3:13 
5. 'Deed I Do 2:51 
6. I'm Nobody's Baby 2:58 
7. Wistful and Blue 2:49 
8. The Varsity Drag 2:38 
9. Keep Sweeping The Cob Webs Off The Moon 3:02 
10. Back In Your Own Backyard 3:08 
11. Love Me Or Leave Me 3:24 
12. I'm Bringing a Red Red Rose 3:09 
13. When You're With Somebody Else 2:56 
14. Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now 2:42 
15. Deep Night 3:27 
16. At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home) 2:59 
17. Cryin' for the Carolines 2:53 
18. I'll Get by (As Long as I Have You) 2:39 
19. Glad Rag Doll 3:23 
20. You're The Cream in My Coffee 3:08 
21. Mean To Me 3:33 
22. Button Up Your Overcoat 2:54 
23. What Wouldn't I Do For That Man? 3:27 
24. It Happened in Monterey 3:18 
25. Ten Cents A Dance 3:18

America's Greatest Songstress - Ruth Etting
Claremont (SAF)
Released: November 25, 1997

1. Nothing Else to Do
2. I'm Nobody's Baby
3. After You've Gone
4. Keep Sweeping The Cob Webs Off The Moon
5. Love Me Or Leave Me
6. My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now
7. A Place to Call Home
8. Ain't Misbehavin'
9. Cryin' for the Carolines
10. More Than You Know
11. Button Up Your Overcoat
12. I'll Get by (As Long as I Have You)
13. Mean To Me
14. I'll Be Blue
15. Ten Cents A Dance
16. Just a Little Closer
17. If I Could Be With You (One Hour To-Night)
18. All Of Me
19. Guilty
20. Hey Young Fella
21. Were Your Ears Burning Baby?
22. It’s Been So Long
23. Take My Heart
24. There’s A Lull In My Life

More Than You Know - Ruth Etting & Helen Morgan
Encore Productions
Recorded: 1929-1937
Released: August 21, 1996

1. Great Day: More Than You Know - Ruth Etting
2. I've Got an Invitation to a Dance - Ruth Etting
3. Things Might Have Been So Different - Ruth Etting
4. March Winds and April Showers - Ruth Etting
5. Lost - Ruth Etting
6. The Great Ziegfeld: It’s Been So Long - Ruth Etting
7. The Great Ziegfeld: You - Ruth Etting
8. It's Love Again: It's Love Again - Ruth Etting
9. In the Chapel in the Moonlight - Ruth Etting
10. Banjo On My Knee: There’s Something In The Air - Ruth Etting
11. Head Over Heels: May I Have the Next Romance with You? - Ruth Etting
12. On a Little Dream Ranch - Ruth Etting
13. Wake Up And Live: There’s A Lull In My Life - Ruth Etting
14. A Day At The Races: A Message from the Man in the Moon - Ruth Etting
15. Great Day: More Than You Know - Helen Morgan
16. Midnight Frolic: Who Cares What You Have Been? - Helen Morgan
17. Mean To Me - Helen Morgan
18. Sweet Adeline: Why Was I Born? - Helen Morgan
19. Sweet Adeline: Don't Ever Leave Me - Helen Morgan
20. Three's A Crowd: Body And Soul - Helen Morgan
21. Frankie And Johnny: Give Me A Heart To Sing To - Helen Morgan
22. Marie Galante: It's Home - Helen Morgan
23. Marie Galante: Song Of A Dreamer - Helen Morgan
24. Sweet Music: I See Two Lovers - Helen Morgan
25. Go Into Your Dance: The Little Things You Used To Do - Helen Morgan
26. Dizzy Dames: I Was Taken By Storm - Helen Morgan

Not a duet album, but a compilation of 14 tracks by Ruth Etting, followed by 12 from Helen Morgan, this set doesn't claim to present the hits or the best of either singer. Rather, as annotator Bucky Willard notes, it culls music "mostly from their last sessions." All but one of the Etting tracks date from 1934-37. The Morgan selections cover a wider time period, but she made fewer recordings overall, and while her tracks are thus necessarily more representative, they do not include such obvious favorites as "My Bill" or "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man." The two singers were the most celebrated torch singers of their time, which makes the variety of material surprising. Upbeat and up tempo performances are as frequent as the slow, plaintive performances these early divas were known for. While their soprano voices have some similarities, Morgan's is the more forlorn, while Etting has a more buoyant tone that will remind younger listeners of Anna McGarrigle. This is by no means a definitive collection for either lady, but so little of their work is available that it is valuable nevertheless.
-- William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide

Goodnight My Love - Ruth Etting
Take Two Records
Recorded: 1930-1937
Released: November 7, 1994

1. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
2. It Happened in MontereyI
3. Exactly Like You
4. Just a Little Closer
5. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
6. You're the One I Care For
7. I'll Be Blue Just Thinking of You
8. Love Is Like That - What Can You Do
9. Moonlight Saving Time, (There Ought To Be A)
10. Now That You're Gone
11. When Were Alone
12. Guilty
13. The Night When Love was Born
14. Stay As Sweet As You Are
15. Talking to Myself
16. Life Is a Song, Let's Sing It Together
17. Close Your Eyes
18. Were Your Ears Burning Baby
19. It's Swell of You
20. Goodnight My Love

My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now

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Ruth Etting - Radio Favorite
Vintage
Recorded:  1927-1930 - Transfer made from rare disks

After You've Gone
Bluebird, Sing Me a Song
I Must Be Dreaming
Beloved
Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now
You're in Love and I'm in Love
My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now
Love Me Or Leave Me
I'm Bringing a Red Red Rose
To Know You is to Love You
You're The Cream in My Coffee
Mean To Me
Button Up Your Overcoat
The Right Kind of Man
What Wouldn't I Do For That Man?
Exactly Like You
Don't Tell Him What Happened To Me
If I Could Be With You (One Hour To-Night)
Body And Soul

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The Music of Broadway 1930-1936

Mostly original cast recordings from sixteen shows including Simple Simon and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 with Ruth Etting.  Also includes music from Girl Crazy, The New Yonkers, Of Thee I Sing, The DuBarry Roberta, Anything Goes and nine other shows. Featuring over fifty songs on two CDs.

Artists:
Ruth Etting
Bobby Howes
Ethel Merman
Jack Whiting
Grace Moore
Libby Holman

Flappers, Vamps & Sweet Young Things
ASL - ASV Living Era
Released:  6/30/1992

I'm Gonna Meet My Swetie Now - Jane Green
Am I Blue? - Libby Holman
Dangerous Nan McGrew - Helen Kane
Maybe, Who Knows? - Kate Smith
Do Do Do - Gertrude Lawrence
The Blues Have Got Me - Marion Harris
A New Kind Of Man , With A New Kind Of Love For Me - Blossom Seeley
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Mildred Hunt
I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You - Aileen Stanley
Why Am I So Romantic? - Lilian Roth
You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You? - Annette Hanshaw
If Your Kisses Can't Hold The Man You Love - Sophie Tucker
Red Hot Mama - The Bronx Sisters
Moanin' Low - Lee Morse
It All Belongs To Me - Ruth Etting
Blues In My Heart - Greta Keller
Do Something - Zelma O'Neal
You Remind Me Of A Naughty Springtime Cuckoo - Helen Morgan
Red Hot Henry Brown - Margaret Young
Ya Gotta Know How To Love - Margaret Young

A tribute to the irresistible women of the Twenties, be they flappers, vamps or sweet young things. The 20 delightful examples range from the "Boop-boop-a-doop" girl Helen Kane to "red-hot mama" Sophie Tucker, from torch singer Libby Holman to the ultimate musical star, Gertrude Lawrence. Original mono recordings from 1924-1931.

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Joe Franklin Presents - The Roaring Twenties Roar Again
Legacy CDs and Cassettes
Released:  11/25/97

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Good-Bye) - Al Jolson
If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie) - Eddie Cantor
Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Blossom Seeley
Poor Little Rich Girl - Gertrude Lawrence
Some Of These Days - Sophie Tucker with the Ted Lewis Orchestra
After You've Gone - Bessie Smith
Darktown Strutters Ball - Ted Lewis and Orchestra
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - The Dorsey Brothers with Bing Crosby
Basin Street Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Ten Cents A Dance - Ruth Etting
I Must Have That Man - Adelaide Hall and the Duke Ellington Orchestra

Pure Nostalgia: The Greatest Artists (1928-1941)
ASV (Academy Sound & Vision)
Released:  November 18, 1993

1. Falling In Love Again - Marlene Dietrich 
2. Louise - Maurice Chevalier 
3. Sonny Boy - Al Jolson 
4. Ma Curly Headed Babby - Paul Robeson 
5. Rockin' Chair - Hoagy Carmichal 
6. Some Of These Days - Sophie Tucker 
7. Ten Cents A Dance - Ruth Etting 
8. Tiger Rag - The Mills Brothers 
9. When I Take My Sugar To Tea - The Boswell Sisters 
10. Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra 
11. Marta - Arthur Tracy 
12. What'll I Do/All Alone/Bye Bye Blackbird/Always/My Blue Heaven/It Ain't Gonna Rain No More - Layton And Johnstone 
13. Putting On The Ritz - Fred Astaire 
14. Dancing On The Ceiling - Jessie Matthews 
15. Temptation - Bing Crosby 
16. The Very Thought Of You - Al Bowlly 
17. Sally - Gracie Fields 
18. Leaning On A Lamp-Post - George Formby 
19. All The Things You Are - Hutch (Leslie A. Hutchinson) 
20. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - The Andrews Sisters 
21. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland 
22. Java Jive - The Ink Spots 
23. Without A Song - Frank Sinatra 
24. Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller & His Orch 
25. We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn

Sing Me A Swing Song
ASV (Academy Sound & Vision)
Released:  1990

1. Thursday - Helen Humes 
2. Restless - Helen Ward 
3. Don't Try Your Jive On Me - Una Mae Carlisle 
4. Drop In Next Time You're Passing - Elizabeth Welch 
5. I Wish I Were Twins - Valaida 
6. When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Putney Dandridge 
7. Lovable And Sweet - Annette Hanshaw 
8. Dream Man, (Make Me Dream Some More) - Fats Waller 
9. I Just Couldn't Take It Baby - Jack Teagarden 
10. Ten Cents A Dance - Ruth Etting 
11. Sing Me A Swing Song - Ella Fitzgerald 
12. Zaz Zul Zaz - Cab Calloway 
13. Louisiana - Bing Crosby 
14. Three Little Words - The Rhythm Boys 
15. Troubled Waters - Ivie Anderson 
16. I Let A Song Out Of My Heart - Connie Boswell 
17. Wha'd Ja Do To Me - The Boswell Sisters 
18. The Isle Of Capri - Wingie Manone 
19. More Than You Know - Mildred Bailey 
20. Am I Blue? - Ethel Waters 
21. One, Two Button Your Shoe - Billie Holiday 
22. Thanks A Milion - Louis Armstrong

Rambling Rose
Original Soundtrack  
Guest Artist: Louis Armstrong / Ruth Etting  
Producer: Cynthia Millar  
Engineer: Brian Masterson  
Released: September 1991

Hello--I'm Rose
The Family Meets Rose
Father's Reverse Insomnia 
Orphans 
Revelation 
Love 
Dixie (Rose On The Town) - Louis Armstrong And The Dukes Of Dixieland 
That Scruffy Looking Man 
Let The Crazy Creature Out 
Fever 
Safe Home 
Hired, Mired And Fired 
Compassion 
Rose And Buddy 
Goodbyes 
So Long Rose 
Dixie - Louis Armstrong/Dukes Of Dixieland 
If I Could Be With You (One Hour To-Night) - Ruth Etting