Louis Prima, trumpet, vocals ; Ted Lewis, clarinet, saxophone, vocals ; Joe Venuti, violin, piano ; George Wettling, drums ; other musicians
Previously released material.
Four discs and four program notes in four containers in box.
Compact discs.
Program notes, including discographies, by Charlie Crump, Mark Berresford, Jim Godbolt, and Brian Peerless, respectively, inserted in containers.
Recorded 1928-1935, principally in New York.
CD A: Louis Prima. That's where the South begins ; Jamaica shout ; Long about midnight ; Star dust ; Sing it way down low ; Sing it way down low ; Let's have a jubilee ; I still want you ; (Looks like) I'm breakin' the ice ; Sing it way down low ; Let's have a jubilee ; House rent party day ; It's the rhythm in me ; Worry blues ; Bright eyes ; Put on an old pair of shoes ; Sugar is sweet and so are you ; I'm livin in a great big way ; Swing me with rhythm ; The lady in red ; Chinatown, my Chinatown ; Chasing shadows ; Basin Street blues ; In a little gypsy tea room ; Let's swing it (Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang) -- CD B: Ted Lewis. Start the band ; Oh baby! ; Hello Montreal! ; A good man is hard to find ; I ain't got nobody ; A jazz holiday ; Jungle blues ; Shim-me-sha-wobble ; Clarinet marmalade ; My little dream boat ; She's funny that way ; Allah's holiday ; Limehouse blues ; Glad rag doll ; Roses of Picardy ; Russian lullaby ; I'm the medicine man for the blues ; Maybe, who knows? ; In the land of jazz ; Lewisada blues ; Lewisada blues ; Farewell blues ; Wabash blues -- CD C: Joe Venuti. I must be dreaming ; Tain't so honey, 'tain't so ; Because my baby don't mean maybe now ; Just like a melody out of a sky ; Pickin' cotton ; I'm on the crest of a wave ; Doin' things ; I must have that man ; That's the good old sunny South ; Weary river ; I'm in seventh heaven ; Little pal ; Chant of the jungle ; That wonderful something (is love) ; Promises (take C) ; Dancing with tears in my eyes (take A) ; I'm only human after all ; Out of breath and scared to death of you ; Promises (take B) ; Dancing with tears in my eyes (take C) ; You're my past, present, and future ; I want to ring bells ; Doin' the uptown lowdown ; Gather lip rouge while you may -- CD D: Joe Venuti, George Wettling. Moon glow ; Cheese and crackers ; Wasting my love on you ; My man from Caroline ; I like a little gin like that ; Fiddlesticks (take 1) ; Fiddlesticks (take 2) ; Everybody shuffle ; Moon glow ; Phantom rhapsody (Joe Venuti and his orchestra [tracks 3-10]) ; Sugar ; Hanid ; Blue room ; At sundown ; It ain't the humidity (it's the beat!) ; Body & soul ; Is George really George? ; Over the rainbow ; Long, long ago ; Kettle blues (George Wettling & his Jazz Band)