Centenary issue - 23 original mono recordings 1933-1941.
Featuring piano and accordion solos, also with his Six Swingers, his Orchestra, his Accordion Quartet, The Bohemians, The Masqueraders, The London Piano Accordeon Band and The International Novelty Orchestra. Singers include Al Bowlly, Sam Browne, Esther Coleman, Cavan O'Connor, Sam Costa.
Musicians include Freddy Gardner and Ted Heath….
Tracklist:
1. Hot pie: Bugle call rag / Some of these days / After you've gone / St. Louis blues / Dinah / Poor butterfly / Nobody's
Sweetheart / Avalon / Chinatown, My Chinatown
2. Can't we meet again?
3. Stormy weather
4. Piano pie: Bon bijou / Tell me tonight / Dinah / Mean to me / Someday I'll find you
5. Shadow waltz
6. Chicken reel
7. This is romance
8. Hot pie-second helping: It had to be you / Tea for two / Sleepy / Time gal
9. Shy serenade
10. Coffee in the morning and kisses in the night
11. Rhythm is our business
12. Shadows on the pavement
13. Darktown Strutter's ball
14. Somewhere in the blue ridge mountains
15. Hot pie-third helping: Japanese sandman / I ain't got nobody / Birth of the blues
16. The continental
17. Evergreens of jazz: Avalon / I can't give you anything but love / Baby / Nagasaki
18. Stars of Devon
19. When a lady meets a gentleman down south
20. In a little gypsy tea-room
21. Stop beatin' around the mulberry bush
22. South Sea island magic
23. Hot pie-fourth feeling: The sheik fo Araby / Fascinating rhythm / Bye bye, blackbird
Released 2003.