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The Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: A Handful of Keys | 
 enlarge | Artist: Fats Waller
Label: Jsp Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $28.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 92094
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.8 x 1.7
UPC: 788065902827
EAN: 0788065902827
ASIN: B000H3K546
Release Date: October 10, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Handful of Keys | | • | The Minor Drag | | • | Harlem Fuss | | • | Numb Fumblin' | | • | Ain't Misbehavin' | | • | Sweet Savannah Sue | | • | I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling | | • | Love Me or Leave Me | | • | Gladyse | | • | Valentine Stomp | | • | Waiting at the End of the Road | | • | Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? | | • | Tanglefoot | | • | That's All | | • | Waitin' at the End of the Road | | • | Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? | | • | Goin' About | | • | My Feelin's Are Hurt | | • | That's How I Feel Today | | • | Six or Seven Times | | • | Smashing Thirds | | • | Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad | | • | I Need Someone Like You | | • | Big Business, Pt. 1 | | • | Big Business, Pt. 2 |
Disc 2
| • | Plain Dirt | | • | Gee, Ain't I Good to You? | | • | I'd Love It | | • | The Way I Feel Today | | • | Miss Hannah | | • | Peggy | | • | Wherever There's a Will, Baby | | • | You Don't Understand | | • | You've Got to Be Modernistic | | • | My Fate Is in Your Hands | | • | My Fate Is in Your Hands | | • | Turn on the Heat | | • | Lookin' for Another Sweetie | | • | Ridin' But Walkin' | | • | Won't You Get off It, Please? | | • | When I'm Alone | | • | St Louis Blues | | • | After You've Gone | | • | Girls Like You Were Meant for Boys Like Me | | • | Arkansas Blues | | • | Egyptian-Ella | | • | I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby | | • | Dallas Blues | | • | Royal Garden Blues | | • | I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby |
Disc 3
| • | Draggin' My Heart Around | | • | You Rascal You | | • | That's What I Like About You | | • | Chances Are | | • | I Got the Ritz from the One I Love | | • | China Boy | | • | Lies | | • | I'm Sorry Dear | | • | Tiger Rag | | • | I Would Do Anything for You | | • | Mean Old Bed Bug Blues | | • | Yellow Dog Blues | | • | Yes Suh! | | • | A Shine on Your Shoes/Louisiana Hayride | | • | A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid | | • | I Wish I Were Twins | | • | Armful O' Sweetness | | • | Do Me a Favor | | • | Georgia May | | • | Then I'll Be Tired of You | | • | Don't Let It Bother You | | • | Have a Little Dream on Me | | • | Serenade for a Wealthy Widow | | • | How Can You Face Me? | | • | Sweetie Pie |
Disc 4
| • | Mandy | | • | Let's Pretend There's a Moon | | • | You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew | | • | Honeysuckle Rose | | • | Believe It, Beloved | | • | Dream Man | | • | I'm Growing Fonder of You | | • | If It Isn't Love | | • | Breakin' the Ice | | • | I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling | | • | I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling | | • | Love Me or Leave Me | | • | Gladyse | | • | Valentine Stomp | | • | Waiting at the End of the Road | | • | Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? | | • | Tanglefoot | | • | Waiting at the End of the Road | | • | Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? | | • | Goin' About | | • | Where Ever There's a Will | | • | I Would Do Anything for You | | • | Mean Old Bed Bug Blues | | • | Yellow Dog Blues | | • | Yes Suh! | | • | I Wish I Were Twins |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A no - brainer August 30, 2007
If you have any of the BMG sets, you can begin to think about getting rid of them...I haven't heard the latest one, which is supposed to be well put together, but the old ones...
In a way, I'm a bit less passionate about this set than about Vol. 1 because everything here is so well known. There are no "revelations" to be had. Thomas Waller here is now Fats with a capital F, mugging, singing, joyfully striding his way through (short) life. Technically the best pianist of the Big Three (Johnson,Waller,Smith), he has the smallest emotional range. Exuberance and joy are the main colors. Not that there's anything wrong with that...What tracks can I recommend to you? Basically all of them...Right now, I'm very intrigued by Turn On The Heat, which contains one of the rare examples of a Waller chorus which is more a sustained improvisation than a melodic paraphrase or a collection of disparate riffs. But then, there's Handful of Keys (a touchstone of Stride style), Valentine Stomp, The Minor Drag...you get the idea.
 3.5 stars actually February 7, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There is good and bad about this set being 'the complete recorded works'. The 'bad' being that the producers of this set have decided to include sessions where Fats was a sideman, and in many ocassions, he is just the piano player barely audible in the back. All in all, I'd say 50% of this box include tracks where Fats is featured, the rest are just tracks where Fats played on, but you cant really appreciate him. Since I bought this set because I wanted to hear great Fats Waller, I found myself skipping through most of discs 2 & 3.
Ted Kendall mastered this set. Ted is one of the apprentices of the great late John RT Davis. Ted, if you are reading this, take it easy on the noise reduction button. I dont understand why he is using it when Mr Davis was not very keen on it. Anyway Im not that impressed with the sonics of this set, there is some clear NR, not heavily used, but I dont think it was necessary. I wasnt impressed either with Ted Kendall's Bird box for the same reason.
This is just for completists. Others should seek the 3CD box 'If you have to ask, you aint got it'.
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