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Kritzerland Ain't Misbehavin' With Complete, Expanded "Stormy Weather"

February 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Stormy WeatherDon’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky…

Well, the sun has come up, and the reason’s clear: Kritzerland has a new 2-CD complete edition of the soundtrack to Stormy Weather, Twentieth Century Fox’s 1943 musical extravaganza starring Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Dooley Wilson, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, The Nicholas Brothers and many more.  Loosely based on Robinson’s life, the film is short on plot but long on song-and-dance, with musical figuring into over 70 of its 78 minutes!  Kritzerland’s upcoming reissue of its soundtrack, currently available for pre-order, is being released in conjunction with Twilight Time’s new deluxe Blu-ray presentation of the movie.

This groundbreaking film, with musical direction by Emil Newman and songs from Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, and many more, offered a showcase for African-American performers at a time when such showcases were truly a rarity.  It also offers Lena Horne in one of her few non-MGM film performances.  As Kritzerland’s Bruce Kimmel writes, “Horne’s ethereal, gorgeous voice lends an unforgettable purity to her renditions of ‘There’s No Two Ways About Love’ and the title song, ‘Stormy Weather.’  The inimitable ‘Fats’ Waller delivers the definitive ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’ and a superb duet with Ada Brown called ‘That Ain’t Right.’ Cab Calloway sashays and cavorts through ‘Geechy Joe’ and ‘Jumpin’ Jive.’ Bill Robinson bends the mind with his agility at age 65, and Mae Johnson does a great ‘I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City.’”  And that’s not all!

Stormy Weather was originally released on CD in 1993 from Arista Records.  Though that long-out-of-print presentation was incomplete, it did contain bonus material.  For this new, definitive release, Kritzerland has the full-length soundtrack recordings of all the songs (many were edited in the film), all the incidental music (save for one seven-second bit of scoring for which an overlay couldn’t be found), and four outtakes that were recorded for but not used in the film.  The first disc of this deluxe edition contains the complete film soundtrack of around seventy-eight minutes’ length.  CD 2 features all the bonus material.  All tracks are in beautifully restored mono sound compliments the Kritzerland team including restoration expert Mike Matessino.

Stormy Weather is a limited edition of 1,000 units, and though it’s a 2-CD set, it’s available from Kritzerland at the same standard $19.98 plus shipping as the label’s single-disc releases.   It’s due by the second week of April, but pre-orders placed directly through Kritzerland typically arrive two to four weeks early.  You can pre-order this landmark soundtrack release from the Golden Age of Hollywood – and hear sound samples – at the link below!

Stormy Weather: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kritzerland, 2015)

CD 1

  1. Stormy Weather – Main Title
  2. Rang Tang Tang/My, My, Ain’t That Somethin’
  3. Memories/Victory March (including Over There/Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Bugle March/ Mademoiselle from Armentieres)/Memories II/The Darktown Strutter’s Ball
  4. Margie/There’s No Two Ways About Love
  5. Ja-Da
  6. “Walkin’ the Dog” (vocal – Bill “Bojangles” Robinson)
  7. Bright Eyes
  8. “There’s No Two Ways About Love” (vocal – Lena Horne)
  9. There’s No Two Ways About Love (piano intro)
  10. “The Cakewalk” (including At a Georgia Camp Meeting/De Camptown Races)
  11. “Linda Brown” (vocal – The Tramp Band)
  12. “Moppin’ and Boppin’”
  13. “That Ain’t Right” (vocal – “Fats” Waller & Ada Brown)
  14. “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (vocal – “Fats” Waller)
  15. Memories III
  16. “Diga Diga Do” (vocal – Lena Horne)
  17. “African Dance”
  18. Memories IV/Dah, Dat, Dah
  19. “I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City” (vocal – Mae Johnson)
  20. Nobody’s Sweetheart
  21. I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City/My, My Ain’t That Somethin’/Dark Blues
  22. Nobody’s Sweetheart II
  23. “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (vocal – Lena Horne & Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
  24. Memories V
  25. “Geechy Joe” (vocal – Cab Calloway)
  26. There’s No Two Ways About Love (Instrumental)
  27. Stormy Weather (extended sequence) (vocal – Lena Horne)
  28. “There’s No Two Ways About Love” (Reprise) (vocal – Cab Calloway, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson & Lena Horne)
  29. “My, My, Ain’t That Somethin’” (vocal – Bill “Bojangles” Robinson)
  30. “The Jumpin’ Jive” (vocal – Cab Calloway)
  31. “My, My, Ain’t That Somethin’/“Stormy Weather” (Reprise and Finale) (vocal – Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Cab Calloway & Lena Horne)

CD 2 (Bonus Tracks)

  1. Body and Soul
  2. “Good for Nothin’ Joe” (vocal – Lena Horne)
  3. “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (alternate)
  4. (vocal – “Fats” Waller)
  5. “I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City” (alternate)
  6. (vocal – Mae Johnson)
  7. “Alfred the Moocher” (vocal – Cab Calloway)
  8. “My, My, Ain’t That Somethin’” (Reprise – song version)(vocal – Lena Horne)
  9. “Stormy Weather” (Song Version)
  10. “Nearer to You” (vocal – Cab Calloway)
  11. “Nobody”
  12. “Sunday in Savannah” (vocal – Cab Calloway)
  13. “Shadrack” (vocal – Bill “Bojangles” Robinson)

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Lena Horne

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Lawrence Schulman says

    February 25, 2015 at 10:27 am

    Thanks for the heads-up, Joe. My set is already ordered, and I will be reviewing it for the Fall 2015 ARSC Journal. By the way, my review of Kritzerland's CD of Centennial Summer will be published in the forthcoming Spring 2015 ARSC Journal.

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    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      February 25, 2015 at 1:03 pm

      Looking forward to reading both!

      Reply
  2. Lamar says

    February 27, 2015 at 10:26 am

    Ordered. Very happy to see "Sunday in Savannah" included. It was included on a bootleg l.p. of the soundtrack and is one of my favorite Cab Calloway songs and impossible to find in a decent sounding version. Nice work Kritzerland.

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