An evocative window onto the popular music of the day.

Marion Harris was one of the most popular and successful female singers in the early era of the recording industry, and she had a concentrated string of hits during those years, often recording the original hit versions of songs which went on to become ubiquitous standards of the Great American Songbook. Born Mary Harrison in Indiana in 1896, she started performing in vaudeville in Chicago around 1914, and made her debut in an Irving Berlin revue on Broadway the following year, which led to a recording contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company. This 45-track 2-CD collection comprises all her 43 US hits on the Victor, Columbia and Brunswick labels, plus selected bonus tracks. It features the No.1s 'After You've Gone', 'St. Louis Blues', 'Look For The Silver Lining' and 'Tea For Two', plus early hit versions of future classics like 'I Ain't Got Nobody', 'I'm Nobody's Baby', 'Beale Street Blues', 'Who's Sorry Now', 'I'll See You In My Dreams', 'The Man I Love' and more. She was a song stylist who was very much of her era, performing not so much in the Roaring Twenties style, but more in the mainstream pop mode which was equally characteristic of the times. It's a fine showcase for her distinctive way with a song, and an evocative window onto the popular music of the day.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• I Ain't Got Nobody Much
• I'm Gonna Make Hay While The Sun Shines In Virginia
• Paradise Blues
• They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me
• Everybody's Crazy 'Bout The Doggone Blues (But I'm Happy)
• There's A Lump Of Sugar Down In Dixie
• When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France
• After You've Gone
• A Good Man Is Hard To Find
• Jazz Baby
• Take Me To The Land Of Jazz
• Left All Alone Again Blues
• The St. Louis Blues
• Oh! Judge (He Treats Me Mean)
• Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting' Mad)
• I'm A Jazz Vampire
• Grieving For You
• Look For The Silver Lining
• I Ain't Got Nobody
• I'm Nobody's Baby
• Beale Street Blues
• Some Sunny Day
• Nobody Lied (When They Said That I Cried Over You)

Disc 2:

• I'm Just Wild About Harry
• Sweet Indiana Home
• Blue (And Broken-Hearted)
• Carolina In The Morning
• Aggravatin' Papa
• Rose Of The Rio Grande
• Runnin' Wild
• Beside A Babbling Brook
• Who's Sorry Now?
• Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!
• It Had To Be You
• How Come You Do Me Like You Do
• Jealous
• There'll Be Some Changes Made
• Somebody Loves Me
• Tea For Two
• I'll See You In My Dreams
• When You And I Were Seventeen
• The Man I Love
• Did You Mean It
• Nobody's Using It Now
• Little White Lies

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 143 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/10/25

UPC: 824046357221