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

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

-- End of a Beautiful Friendship

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 a Beautiful Friendship
10 Jungle Trap
11 Far Jammers

-- 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

-- Something Old, New And Blue

1 A1 Young Man On The Way Up
2 A2 Hurry On Down
3 A3 Everybody Loves My Baby
4 A4 When I Take My Sugar To Tea
5 A5 Did I Really Live
6 A6 Honeysuckle Rose
7 B1 Imagination
8 B2 If I Were A Bell
9 B3 Everybody Wants To Be Loved
10 B4 Loneliness, Sorrow And Grief
11 B5 One For My Baby