Joe Williams Discography & Songs

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1955 THE GREATEST!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards

1 Thou Swell
2 There Will Never Be Another You
3 Our Love Is Here to Stay
4 'S Wonderful
5 My Baby Just Cares for Me
6 Nevertheless
7 Singin' in the Rain
8 I'm Beginning to See the Light
9 A Fine Romance
10 Come Rain or Come Shine
11 I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
12 This Can't Be Love

1958 Sing Along With Basie

1 Jumpin' at the Woodside
2 Going to Chicago Blues
3 Tickle Toe
4 Let Me See
5 Every Tub
6 Shorty George
7 Rusty Dusty Blues
8 The King
9 Swingin' the Blues
10 Li'l Darlin'

1959 Everyday I Have the Blues

1 Everyday
2 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
3 Going to Chicago Blues
4 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
5 It's a Low Down Dirty Shame
6 Shake Rattle and Roll
7 Just a Dream
8 Cherry Red
9 Good Mornin' Blues
10 Ain't No Use

1968 Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis: The Jazz Orchestra

1 Get Out of My Life Woman
2 Woman's Got Soul
3 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
4 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
5 How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)
6 Keep Your Hand on Your Heart
7 Evil Man Blues
8 Come Sunday
9 Smack Dab in the Middle
10 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
11 Hallelujah, I Love Her So
12 Night Time Is the Right Time

1970 Worth Waiting For...

1985 A Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry

1985 I Just Want to Sing

1 Until I Met You
2 After You've Gone
3 Fat and Forty
4 War No More
5 It's Not Easy Being White
6 Dimples
7 Young and Foolish
8 I Was a Fool
9 I Got It Bad
10 What a Difference a Day Makes
11 Sawmill Blues
12 Later Than You Think
13 All the Things You Are

1988 The Overwhelming Joe Williams

1 Every Day
2 Come Back Baby
3 Medley: All God's Chillun Got Rhythm / Do You Wanna Jump Children
4 April in Paris
5 In the Evenin' (When the Sun Goes Down)
6 Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
7 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
8 Jump for Joy
9 Every Night
10 Rocks in My Bed
11 Early in the Morning
12 Kansas City
13 Prelude to a Kiss
14 On the Sunny Side of the Street

1989 In Good Company

1 Just Friends
2 Baby You Got What It Takes
3 How Deep Is the Ocean
4 Love Without Money
5 Ain’t Got Nothing but the Blues
6 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
7 Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby
8 Too Good to Be True
9 Embraceable You
10 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone

1990 That Holiday Feelin'

1 Christmas Rainbows
2 Winter Wonderland
3 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4 What Are You Doing New Years Eve
5 Kissing by the Mistletoe
6 Silent Night
7 Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
8 Silver Bells
9 Christmas Waltz
10 The Christmas Song
11 A Child Is Born

1990 Joe Williams With Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra

1 Young Man on the Way Up
2 Hurry on Down
3 When I Take My Sugar to Tea
4 Honeysuckle Rose
5 Did I Really Live
6 Loneliness, Sorrow and Grief
7 Imagination
8 One More for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
9 Everyone Wants to Be Loved (By Someone)
10 Everybody Loves My Baby
11 If I Were a Bell
12 Hallelujah I Love Her So
13 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
14 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
15 Evil Man Blues

1992 Ballad and Blues Master

1 You Showed Me the Way
2 Everyday (I'll Fall in Love)
3 You Can Depend on Me
4 A Hundred Years From Today/Tomorrow Night
5 Ain't No Use
6 I've Only Myself to Blame
7 When Sunny Gets Blue
8 Who She Do
9 I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues
10 Dinner for One Please, James
11 You've Got Me Crying Again
12 Blues Medley: Cherry Red / Tell Me Where to Scratch / Person to Person

1992 Joe Williams Sings Everyday

1 It's Raining Again
2 Detour Ahead
3 Every Day
4 They Didn't Believe Me
5 Blow Mr. Low
6 Time for Moving
7 When the Sun Goes Down
8 Kansas City Blues
9 Always on the Blue Side
10 Safe Sane and Single

1993 Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings

1 Every Day I Have the Blues
2 The Comeback
3 All Right, OK, You Win
4 In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
5 Roll ’Em Pete
6 Teach Me Tonight
7 My Baby Upsets Me
8 Please Send Me Someone to Love
9 Ev’ry Day (I Fall in Love)
10 As I Love You
11 Stop! Don’t!
12 Too Close for Comfort (take 1)

1994 Joe Williams & Friends

1 Work Song
2 Blues In My Heart
3 Just The Way You Are
4 It Don't Mean A Thing
5 Them There Eyes
6 Body And Soul
7 'Tis Autumn
8 Bye Bye Blackbird
9 End Of Beautiful Friendship
10 Jungle Trap
11 Far Jammers

1994 Here's to Life

1 Here's to Life
2 What a Wonderful World
3 When I Fall in Love
4 I Found a Million Dollar Baby
5 If I Had You
6 Maybe September
7 Save That Time
8 Young and Foolish
9 I Didn't Know About You
10 Little Sir Echo
11 Someone You've Loved
12 A Time for Love
13 Here's to Life (feat. piano: George Shearing)

1996 Having the Blues Under a European Sky

1 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2 Satin Doll
3 Experiment
4 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
5 Early in the Morning
6 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
7 What a Difference a Day Makes
8 Goin' to Chicago
9 Every Day I Have the Blues
10 All Right, OK, You Win
11 Evenin'
12 Roll 'Em Pete
13 One O'Clock Jump

1999 Me and the Blues

1 I'm Sticking With You Baby
2 Me and the Blues
3 Every Night
4 Rocks in My Bed
5 Come on Blues
6 Workin' (Work Song)
7 Soothe Me
8 Early in the Morning
9 Good Morning Heartache
10 Kansas City
11 A Woman
12 Hobo Flats
13 Nice Work If You Can Get It
14 After All I've Been to You
15 April in Paris

1999 One O'Clock Jump

1 Too Close for Comfort
2 Smack Dab in the Middle
3 Amazing Love
4 Only Forever
5 Don't Worry About Me
6 Stop, Pretty Baby, Stop
7 One O'Clock Jump
8 Jamboree
9 I Don't Like You No More
10 From Coast to Coast
11 Too Close for Comfort (alternate take)
12 One O'Clock Jump (EP Version)
13 One O'Clock Jump (alternate take)

2001 Together / Have a Good Time

1 Winter Weather
2 I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)
3 There’s a Small Hotel
4 Out of Nowhere
5 Aren’t You Glad You’re You
6 Remember
7 Together
8 Deep Purple
9 Always
10 Lover, Come Back to Me
11 By the River Sainte Marie
12 Alone Together
13 Have a Good Time
14 Sometimes I’m Happy
15 Old Folks
16 Until I Met You
17 I Won’t Cry Anymore
18 S’Sposin’
19 A Blues Serenade
20 September in the Rain
21 Summertime
22 Moonlight in Vermont
23 Falling in Love With Love

2001 The Heart and Soul of Joe Williams and George Shearing

2002 Blues in My Heart

1 Suivez le chef
2 Work Song
3 Blues in My Heart
4 Just the Way You Are
5 Rock Rhythm
6 It Don't Mean a Thing
7 Them There Eyes
8 Body and Soul
9 Bowling Green
10 't Is Autumn
11 Bye Bye Blackbird
12 Jungle Trap
13 The End of a Beautiful Friendship
14 Backbone
15 For Jammers Only

2015 Memories Ad-Lib

1 Ain't Misbehavin'
2 I'll Always Be in Love With You
3 Sweet Sue, Just You
4 If Could Be With You
5 Dinah
6 Sometimes I'm Happy
7 Baby Won't You Please Come Home
8 Call Me Darling
9 The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
10 Memories of You
11 Honeysuckle Rose
12 All of Me

-- Dave Pell's Prez Conference

1 You Can Depend on Me
2 When You're Smiling
3 I Never Knew
4 Fooling Myself
5 Lester Leaps In
6 Sometimes I'm Happy
7 Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
8 If Dreams Come True
9 Jumpin' at the Woodside
10 Getting Some Fun Out of Life
11 How High the Moon
12 Just You, Just Me
13 If I Could Be With You
14 Jumping With Symphony Sid
15 Lester Leaps Again

-- Feel the Spirit

1 In the Beginning / My Lord
2 Feel the Spirit
3 Go Down Moses / Wade in the Water
4 Great Camp Meeting
5 Were You There?
6 Walk With Me
7 I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
8 In My Heart
9 Little David
10 His Eye Is on the Sparrow
11 Pass It On
12 The Lord's Prayer
13 Doxology

-- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz With Guest Joe Williams

1 Conversation
2 Who She Do
3 Conversation
4 Embraceable You
5 Conversation
6 Twilight World
7 Conversation
8 I'm Confessin' That I Love You
9 Conversation
10 Prelude to a Kiss
11 Conversation
12 Nobody's Heart
13 Conversation
14 Just Friends
15 Conversation
16 I'm Beginning to See the Light
17 Conversation

-- Music for Lovers

-- Nothin but the Blues

1 Who She Do
2 Just a Dream
3 Hold It Right There
4 Please Send Me Someone to Love
5 Going to Chicago Blues
6 Ray Browns in Town
7 In the Evening / Rocks in My Bed
8 Alright, OK You Win
9 Mean Old World
10 The Comeback
11 Tell Me Where to Scratch
12 Sent for You Yesterday