1 Every Day I Have The Blues
Featuring [With] – Count Basie And His Orchestra*
Written-By – Peter Chatman, aka "Memphis Slim"*
4:41
2 When Did You Leave Heaven?
Featuring [With] – Jimmy Jones & His Orchestra
Written-By – Whiting*, Bullock*
2:33
3 It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Featuring [With] – The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra*
Written-By – Duke Ellington
3:02
4 Confessin' The Blues
Featuring [With] – Count Basie And His Orchestra*
Written-By – J. McShann*, W. Brown*
3:56
5 If I Could Be With You
Featuring [With] – The Count Basie Quintet*
Written-By – Creamer*, Johnson*
3:10
6 Alright, Okay, You Win
Featuring [With] – The Harry "Sweets" Edison Quintet
Written-By – M. Watts*, S. Wyche*
2:39
7 A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry
Featuring [With] – Jimmy Mundy And His Orchestra*
Written-By – Laine*, Reid*, Gimbel*
3:33
8 Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)
Featuring [With] – Harry "Sweets" Edison And His Orchestra*
Written-By – Wolf*, F. Green*
2:47
9 Cherry
Featuring [With] – Jimmy Jones & His Orchestra
Written-By – Redman*, Gilbert*
3:19
10 If I Were A Bell
Featuring [With] – Count Basie And His Orchestra*, Sarah Vaughan
Written-By – Frank Loesser
2:42
11 Goin' To Chicago
Featuring [With] – Count Basie And His Orchestra*, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Written By [With Additional Lyrics By] – Jon Hendricks
Written-By – C. Basie*, J. Rushing*
4:10
12 I Was Telling Her About You
Featuring [With] – Jimmy Jones & His Orchestra
Written-By – George*, Charlap*
3:51
13 Alone Together
Featuring [With] – The Harry "Sweets" Edison Sextet*
Written-By – H. Dietz; A. Schwartz*
2:32
14 Hurry On Down
Featuring [With] – The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra*
Written-By – Nellie Lutcher
3:13
15 Sometimes I'm Happy
Featuring [With] – Harry "Sweets" Edison And His Orchestra*
Written-By – Vincent Youmans
2:41
16 Lush Life
Featuring [With] – Horace Ott And His Orchestra*
Written-By – Billy Strayhorn
4:03
17 Roll 'Em Pete
Featuring [With] – Count Basie And His Orchestra*
Written-By – J. Turner*, P. Johnson*
2:39
18 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Featuring [With] – Jimmy Jones & His Orchestra
Written-By – Cole-Albert-Porter*
2:43
Record Company – Capitol Records, Inc.
Liner Notes – Will Friedwald
Photography By [Courtesy Of] – Frank Driggs Photo Archive*
Track 1 from 'Every Day I Have The Blues,' Roulette (S)R 52033. Recorded in Chicago, Sept 24, 1959.
Track 2 from 'Joe Williams Sings About It,' Roulette (S)R 52030. Recorded in New York City, July 14, 1959.
Track 3 from 'Presenting Joe Williams, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and The Jazz Orchestra,' Solid State SS 18008. Recorded in New York City, September 30, 1966.
Track 4 from 'Just The Blues,' Roulette (S)R 52054. Recorded in Chicago, August 24, 1960.
Track 5 from 'Memories Ad Lib,' Roulette (S)R 52054 [sic, actually 52021]. Recorded in New York, December 29, 1958.
Track 6 from 'A Swingin' Night At Birdland,' Roulette Jazz/Blue Note CDP 95335. Recorded live at Birdland, New York, June, 1962.
Track 7 from 'A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry,' Roulette (S)R 52005. Recorded in New York City, October 11-12, 1957.
Tracks 8 and 15 from 'Have A Good Time,' Roulette (S)R 52071. Recorded in New York, July, 1961.
Track 9 from 'That Kind Of Woman,' Roulette (S)R 52039.
Track 10 from 'Sarah Vaughan & Count Basie,' Roulette CDP 37241.
Track 11 from 'Sing Along With Basie,' Roulette (S)R 52033. Recorded in New York, May 26, 1958.
Track 12 from 'Joe Williams Sings About You,' Roulette (S)R 52030. Recorded in New York City, July 14, 1959.
Track 13 from 'Joe Williams/Sweets Edison Together.' Recorded at The Cloister, Los Angeles, February 2, 1961.
Track 14 from 'The Great Joe Williams, Something Old, Something New,' Solid State (SM) SS 17015. Recorded in New York, April 22-27, 1966.
Track 16 from 'Worth Waiting For,' Blue Note BST-84355. Recorded in Los Angeles, May 5, 1970.
Track 17 from 'The Complete Roulette Live Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra (1952-1962). Recorded at the Second Annual Disc Jockeys' Convention, Americana Hotel, Miami, Florida, May 31, 1959.
Track 18 from 'Sentimental & Melancholy,' Roulette (S)R 52066. Recorded in New York, December 14 or 23, 1960.