Spotify Release Info
Track: I Can't Give You Anything but Love
Artist: Fats Waller
Album: If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
Artist Bio
Name: Fats Waller
Spotify Genres: swing music, ragtime, big band, jazz
Followers: 138,954
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Biography
American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer (born 21 May 1904 in Harlem, New York, USA - died 15 December 1943 in a Santa-Fé-Express near Kansas City, Missouri, USA (bronchial pneumonia). One of the most popular jazz performers of his era. Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded on October 1922 in Race Records when he was 18 years old. He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it. Waller contracted pneumonia and died on a cross country train trip near Kansas City, Missouri on December 15, 1943, after making a final recording session with an interracial group in Detroit that included white trumpeter Don Hirleman. He was on his way back to Hollywood for more film work, after the smash success of "Stormy Weather". Coincidentally, as the train with the body of Waller stopped in Kansas City, so stopped a train with his dear friend Louis Armstrong on board. Thomas "Fats" Waller was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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1.Ain't Misbehavin'If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
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2.Two Sleepy PeopleIf You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
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3.Until the Real Thing Comes AlongAin't Misbehavin
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4.Honeysuckle RoseIf You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
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5.When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful - RemasteredThe Essential Fats Waller
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6.I Can't Give You Anything but LoveIf You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
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7.All That Meat And No PotatoesIf You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
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8.Jitterbug WaltzBioshock 2: The Official Soundtrack - Music From And Inspired By The Game
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9.I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a LetterIf You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
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10.Swingin' Them Jingle BellsSwingin' Christmas Party
Discogs Release Info
Release: Fats Waller & His Rhythm - I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Year: 1958
Genres: Jazz