5-CD box (LP-size) with 40-page book, 134 tracks. Playing time approx. 346 mns

Ella Mae Morse was one of the most exciting vocalists of the 1940s and 50s, a hard-to-classify, Texas-born white singer who knocked everyone out with her hip, black-inflected vocals from the moment she hit the scene as a seventeen-year-old with boogie pianist Freddie Slack's Orchestra in 1942. Her vocal that year on the huge hit Cow Cow Boogie, quickly established her as a name, and dozens of hits followed, both with Slack and under her own name. Sides like the Buzz Me, The House Of Blue Lights, Pig Foot Pete, The Blacksmith Blues remain classics, and The House Of Blue Lights, in particular, has been hailed as one of the seminal recordings in rock and roll history. Uncommonly versatile, Ella Mae Morse could handle anything, from jazz to country, from R&B to lush pop. As she herself has said, 'Cliffie Stone said, 'You're a country singer.' And Benny Carter said, 'You're a jazz singer.' T-Bone Walker said, 'You're a rock and roll-blues singer'.

She was all of the above and then some: an instinctive, insouciant, sexy stylist with an innate feel for the blues that colored and characterized virtually everything she sang. Ella Mae Morse's entire output over her fifteen year tenure with Capitol Records (1942-1957), a label she helped put on the map, is here, including the hits mentioned above and dozens of others - well over a hundred sides on five CDs, including over twenty songs never before released, all beautifully, digitally re-mastered from the original masters. With orchestras and combos led by Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Dave Cavanaugh and others, among the incredible, stellar cast of jazz, blues and country stalwarts accompanying her are, in addition to Freddie Slack: Benny Carter, Barney Kessel, Gerald Wiggins, Pete Johnson, Jimmy Rowles, Red Callender, Al Hendrickson, Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West, Alvin Stoller, and countless others.

Track Listing

• He's My Guy (& FREDDIE SLACK)
• Mister Five By Five (& FREDDIE SLACK)
• The Thrill Is Gone (& FREDDIE SLACK)
• Old Rob Roy (& FREDDIE SLACK)
• Get On Board, Little Chillun(& FREDDIE SLACK)
• Shoo Shoo Baby
• No Love, No Nothin'
• Solid Potato Salad
• Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet
• Why Shouldn't I
• Boogie Blues
• Tess's Torch Song (I Had A Man)
• Invitation To The Blues
• The Patty Cake Man
• Hello Suzanne
• Take Care Of You For Me
• Ya' Betcha
• Captain Kidd
• Jumpin' Jack
• Rip Van Winkle
• Buzz Me
• The House Of Blue Lights
• Hey, Mr. Postman

• Your Conscience Tells Me So
• Pig Foot Pete
• That's My Home
• Mister Fine
• The Merry Ha-Ha
• Pine Top Schwartz
• Hoodle Addle
• Get Off It And Go
• Old Shank's Mare
• A Little Further Down The Road A Piece
• Early In The Morning
• Bombo B. Bailey
• On The Sunny Side Of The Street
• Tennessee Saturday Night
• Sensational
• Love Ya Like Mad
• Old Spider Fingers
• Love Me Or Leave Me
• The Blacksmith Blues
• Am I In Love
• Okie Boogie
• Organ Grinder's Swing
• It's So Exciting
• A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed

• I'm Hog Tied Over You(& TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD)
• False Hearted Girl (& TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD)
• Here Comes The Blues
• Male Call
• The Song Is For You
• You've Taken An Unfair Advantage Of Me
• Greyhound
• Jump Back Honey
• Bouncin' Ball
• Find A Man For Me Mama
• Good
• You For Me
• The Guy Who Invented Kissin'
• I'm A Rich Woman
• Big Mamou (intro)
• Big Mamou
• Big Mamou (outtro)
• T'Ain't Whatcha Do
• Carioca
• Is It Any Wonder
• Forty Cups Of Coffee
• Oh You Crazy Moon
• It Ain't Necessarily So
• Have Mercy Baby
• Money Honey
• Rock Me All Night Long
• Daddy Daddy

• I Love You, Yes I Do
• 5-10-15 Hours
• How Can You Leave A Man Like This
• It's Raining Tears From My Eyes
• It's You I Love
• Happy Habit
• Dedicated To You
• Lovey Dovey
• Goodnight Sweetheart
• (We've Reached) The Point Of No Return
• Give A Little Time To Your Lover
• Bring Back My Baby
• All I Need Is You
• Livin' Livin' Livin'
• Won't You Listen To Me Baby
• Smack Dab In The Middle
• Afraid
• Heart Full Of Hope
• Yes, Yes I Do
• Razzle Dazzle
• Ain't That A Shame
• Piddily Patter Patter
• Seventeen
• Birmingham
• An Occasional Man
• Singing-ing-ing
• When Boy Kiss Girl (It's Love)
• Give Me Love
• Once You've Been Lovers

• What Good'll It Do Me
• Down In Mexico
• I'm Gonna Walk
• Rock And Roll Wedding
• Coffee Date
• Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey
• You Ought To Be Mine
• Mister Memory Maker
• A Long Time Ago
• Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself ...
• My Funny Valentine
• Baby Won't You Please Come Home
• Rockin' And Rollin'
• Sway Me
• I'm Hog Tied Over You
• I'm Gone
• Jersey Bounce
• Heart And Soul
• When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
• I Can't Get Started
• Music, Maestro Please
• Day In, Day Out
• You Go To My Head
• Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 346 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127161178