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Various Artists - The Sky is high and so am I (1949)

Track listing:
  1. Send In The Vipers Mezz Mezzrow & his Orchestra 2:57
  2. Vipers Drag Fats Waller 2:53
  3. When I Get Low I Get High Chick Webb & his Orchestra feat. Ella Fitzgerald 2:26
  4. I'm Gonna Get High Tampa Red & The Chicago Five feat. Blind John Davis 3:06
  5. The Spinach Song (I Didn't Like It The First Time) Julia Lee and her BoyFriends 2:56
  6. Do You Dig My Jive Sam Price and his Texas Bluesicians 3:05
  7. Ol' Man River Cootie Williams and his Rug Cutters feat. Jerry Kruger 2:48
  8. Knockin Myself Out Yack Taylor 3:06
  9. Reefer Man ? Harlan Lattimore and his Connies Inn Orchestra feat. Sidney deParis 3:32
  10. The Man From Harlem Cab Calloway Orchestra 3:09
  11. Here Comes The Man With The Jive Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys 3:03
  12. If You're A Viper Bob Howard and his Boys 2:25
  13. Texas Tea Party Benny Goodman and his Orchestra feat. Gene Krupa & Jack Teegarden 3:22
  14. Light Up Buster Baileys Rhythm Busters 2:45
  15. Jack I'm Mellow Trixie Smith with Sidney Bechet 2:45
  16. Sweet Marijuana Brown Barney Bigard Sextet feat. Joe Thomas & Art Tatim 2:58
  17. Viper Mad Sidney Bechet with Nobie Sissles Swingers feat. ONeil Spencer 3:04
  18. Weed Smokers Dream The Harlem Hamfats feat. Ham Fat Ham 3:20
  19. The 'G' Man Got The 'T' Man Cee Pee Johnson and Band 3:07
  20. All The Jive Is Gone A. Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy feat. Pha Terell 2:38
  21. The Stuff Is Here Georgia White 2:56
  22. Weed Bea Foote 3:03
  23. Knockin' Myself Out Lil Green with Big Bill Broonzy 2:59
  24. If You're A Viper Lorrain Walton 2:54
  25. Save The Roach For Me Buck Washington 1:36

Notes


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[b]Flashbacks - 1920’s-1940’s (8 CD) (MP3@320)[/b]

8 albums, each is based on one theme.

First released on TRANSMITTER at Werner Pieper's MedienXperimente.
Later re-released at Germany’s famous underground-label TRIKONT.
Flashbacks 6 was released in cooperation.

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[b]01. High & Low - DrugSongs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. The Ink Spots - That cat is high
02. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues
03. Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson - Who put the benzedrine in Ms. Murphys ovaltine
04. Blue Lu Barker - Don't you make me high
05. Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Wild about my stuff
06. Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - You'se a viper
07. McKinney Cotton Pickers - Selling that stuff
08. Peter Cleighton with Blind John Davies - Moonshine man blues
09. Florence Desmond - Cigarettes, Cigars
10. Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Minnie the moochers wedding day
11. Cab Colloway - The ghost of Smokey Joe
12. Waring's Pennsylvanians - Let's have another cup of coffee
13. Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson - Dope head blues
14. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb & His Orchestra - Whackey Dust
15. Bukka White - Fixin' to die blues
16. Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine habit blues
16. Baron Lee & the Blue Rhythm Band - Reefer Man
17. Dick Justice - Cocaine
18. Asta Martin - Jake walk papa
19. Louis Armstrong - Kickin' the gong around
20. Rosetta Howard & the Harlem Hamfats - The Candy Man
21. Ray Noble & the New Mayfair Orchestra - Repeal the blues
22. Gene Krupa & his Orchestra - I'm feeling high & happy
23. Jean Brady & Big Bill Broonzy - Knocking myself out
24. Herbert Payne - Smoke Clouds


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[b]02. Geil & Sexy - SexSongs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. Alberta Hunter - You can't tell the difference after dark
02. Oscar's Chicago Swingers - New rubbin' on that darn old thing
03. Sophie Tucker - He hadn't up till yesterday
04. Oscar's Chicago Swingers - I wonder who's boogiein' my
05. The MIssissippi Mud Mashers - Bring it on home to Grandma
06. Harlem Hamfats with Frankie 'halfpint' Jaxon - Wet it
07. Cab Colloway & His Orchestra - Nobody's sweetheart
08. Mary Dixon - Daddy, you've got everything
09. Ethel Waters - My handy man
10. Butterbeans & Suzie - Elevator papa, switchboard mama
11. Lil Johnson & Black Bob - Press my button, ring my bell
12. Bea Foote - Try and get it
13. State Street Singers - Don't tear my clothes
14. Victoria Spivey - Black snake blues
15. Clarence Williams - Street walking blues
16. Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band with Frankie Halfpint Jaxon - My Daddy rocks me with one steady roll
17. The Hokum Boys - Caught us doin' it (making love)
18. Clarence Williams - Organ grinder Blues
19. Unbekanntes Duet - Electric man blues
20. Blind Boy Fuller - Shake it, baby
21. Bob Howe & Frankie Giggs - The hottest stuff in town
22. The Light Crust Dough Boys - Pussy, pussy, pussy
23. Mae West - A guy what takes his time
24. Art Fowler & his Ukelele - No wonder she's a blushing bride
25. Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em dry


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[b]03. Crazy & Funny - NoveltySongs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. The Andrew Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
02. Hossier Hot Shots - I like Bananas because they have no bones
03. Groucho Marx - I'm against it
04. George van Dusen - The yodelling chinaman
05. The Ink Spots - Mama don't allow
06. Lonzo & Oscar - I'm my own grandpa
07. Six Jumping Jacks - I do not chose to run
08. Spike Jones - Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai (Hawai War Chant)
09. Danny Kaye - Tschaikowsky (and other russians)
10. Ross & Sargent - Nellie the nudist queen
11. Kanaui & Lula - Tomi, Tomi
12. Billy Costello - I'm Popeye. the sailor man
13. Warings Pennsylvanians - I scream, you scream
14. Cab Calloway - The Scat Song
15. Jimmy Durante - Inka Dinka Doo
16. Carmen Miranda - I Yi Yi Yi Yi
17. Billy Murray - The little old Ford
18. Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart - Palm Springs Jump
19. De Ford Bailey - Pan American Blues
20. Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy - Bed Strings
21. The 5 Jones Boys - Mr. Ghost goes to town
22. Ronald Frankau & Monte Crick - Everyone's got sex-appal for someone
23. Viennese Seven Singing Sisters - William Tell Overture
24. Memphis Jug Band - Insane Crazy Blues
25. Whit Cunlife - Hock hock der Kaiser
26. Spike Jones - Der Führer's face
27. The Okey Laughing Record


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[b]04. Gospels & Prayers - Spiritual Songs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. Roberta Martin Singers - The old ship of Zion
02. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Golden Gate Gospel Train
03. Bessie Smith - Moan you moaners
04. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange things happen every day
05. Golden Eagle Gospel Singers - Shake mother's hand for me
06. Kings of Harmony - Little David
07. Blind Willie Johnson - Church I'm fully saved today
08. The Charioteers - Ezekiel saw the wheel
09. Georgia Peach - Jesus knows how much we can bear
10. Thomas A. Dorsey - If you see my saviour
11. Georgia Peach & her Gospel Singers - Do Lord send me
12. Golden Gate Quartet - My time done come, (aka 'God told Nicodemus')
13. Heavenly Gospel Singers - The prodigal son
14. Dixie Hummingbirds - Book of seven seals
15. Reverend J.C. Burnett - The gospel train is leaving
16. Edward Clayborn - Then we'll need that true religion
17. Charles Beck - Gabriel
18. Soul Stirrers - I want to rest
19. Sister Mary Nelson, with J.Davis & C. Nelson - The royal telephone
20. Utah Smith - I want two wings
21. Sothers Sons - Lift every voice and sing
22. Mitchell's Christian Singers - Them bones
23. Sister Clara Hudmon - My loved ones are waiting for me


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[b]05. Blue & Lonely - Yearning Songs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. Libby Holman - Am I blue
02. The Ink Spots - Whoa Babe
03. Sister O.M.Terell - The gambling man
04. The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald - I'm making believe
05. Bill 'Jazz' Gillum - Go back to the country
06. Dinah Shore - Blues in the night
07. Boswell Sisters - Lawd, you made the night too long
08. Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - How can you have the blues
09. Bessie Smith - Nobody knows you when you're down & out
10. Mezz Mezzrow - Blues in disguise
11. Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - Moanin' low
12. Edmund Hall Celeste Quartet, feat. C. Christian - Profundly blue
13. O'Neil Spencer - Sweet Patootie
14. Tampa Red - Denver Blues
15. Blind Willie Johnson - If I had my way
16. Bertha 'Chippie' Hill - Some cold rainy day
17. Duke Ellington & his Orchestra - Mood indigo
18. Issie Ringold - Be on your merry way
19. Ma Rainey - Daddy Goodbye Blues
20. Mildrey Bailey - Smoke dreams
21. Benny Goodman's Boys - Blue (& broken hearted)
22. Memphis Jug Band - Oh ambulance man
23. Greta Keller - Blue moon
24. Walter Huston - September Song


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[b]06. Hitler & Hell - American War Songs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. Radio Yesteryear - Lights out
02. The Southern Sons Quartet - Praise the Lord & pass the ammunition
03. The Johnson Sisters - Hillbilly Soldier Joe
04. Teddy Powell & his Orchestra - Rockabye
05. Leadbelly - Mr. Hitler
06. Rev. J.M. Gates - Hitler and Hell
07. Dick Robertson & his Orchestra - Good-bye Dear
08. Teddy Powell & his Orchestra - Goodbye mama, I’m off to Yokohama
09. Ozzie Waters - A rodeo down in Tokyo and a round up in Old Berlin
10. Mildred Bailey & the Treasury Ensemble - Since he traded his Zoot suit
11. Johnny Bond - Der Führer’s Face
12. Tex Grande & his Range Riders - Hitler’s Reply to Mussolini
13. Texas Jim Robertson - The last page of Mein Kampf
14. Luis Oliveira & his Orchestra, feat. Walt Disney & Donald Duck - Yankee Doodle
15. Charlie & his Orchestra - You’re driving me crazy
16. Eddie Cantor - Coming in on a wing & a prayer
17. Intro - Victory Garden
18. The Hoosier Hot Shots - If it helps win the war
19. Ozzie Waters - I’d like to give my dog to Uncle Sam
20. Bing Crosby & the Andrew Sisters - Hot time in the town of Berlin
21. The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Stalin wasn’t stallin’
22. Nat King Cole - D-Day
23. Little Jack Little - I’ve always wanted to dance in Berlin
24. Wesley Tuttle - Smoke on the water
25. Andrew Sisters - There’ll be a jubilee 26. Intro - End of World War
27. Benny Goodman, voc. by Liza Morrow - My guy’s come back
28. Marlene Dietrich & Burgess Meredith (Victory Extra Cas)
29. Rosalie Allen - Hitler Lives
30. Jimmy Carol - Praise the Lord & pass the ammunition


[b]The next two albums were re-released as a Double CD named "Dope & Glory"[/b]

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[b]07. The Sky Is High And So Am I, vol. 1 - Marihuana Songs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. Mezz Mezzrow & his Orch. - Sendin’ the Vipers
02. Fats Waller - Vipers Drag
03. Chick Webb & his Orch. - When I get low I get high
04. Tampa Red & the Chicago Five - I’m gonna get high
05. Julia Lee & her BoyFriends - The Spinach Song
06. Sam Price & his Texas Bluesicians - Do you dig my jive
07. Cootie Williams & his Rug Cutters - Ol’ man river
08. Yack Taylor - Knockin’ myself out
09. Harlan Lattimore & his Connie’s Inn Orch. - Reefer man
10. Cab Calloway Orch. - The man from Harlem
11. Stuff Smith & his Onyx Club Boys - Here comes the man with the jive
12. Bob Howard & his Boys - If you’re a viper
13. Benny Goodman & his Orch. - Texas Tea Party
14. Buster Bailey’s Rhythm Busters - Light up
15. Trixie Smith - Jack I’m mellow
16. Barney Bigard Sextet - Sweet Marijuana Brown
17. Sidney Bechet with Nobie Sissie’s Swingers - Viper mad
18. Harlem Hamfats - Weed Smokers Dream
19. Cee Pee Johnson & Band - The ‘G’ Man got the ‘T’ Man
20. A.Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy - All the jive is gone
21. Georgia White - The stuff is here
22. Bea Foote - Weed
23. Lil Green - Knockin’ myself out
24. Lorrain Walton - If you’re a viper
25 - Buck Washington - Save the roach for me


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[b]08. The Sky Is High And So Am I, vol. 2 - Marihuana Songs[/b]

[b]Tracklist:[/b]

01. The Cats & the Fiddle - Killin' Jive
02. The Meltone Boys - Mary Jane
03. Nat King Cole Trio - Hit that Jive Jack
04. Sam Price - All teeed up
05. Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Golden Leaf Strut
06. Jazz Gillum & his Jazz Boys - Reefer Head Woman
07. Richard Jones & his Jazz Wizards - Blue Reefer Blues
08. Mezz Mezzrow and his Swing Band - I'se a-Muggin' Part 1
09. Mezz Mezzrow and his Swing Band - I'se a-Muggin' Part 2
10. Frankie Jaxon - Jive Man Blues
11. Big Bill Broonzy & Jean Brady - Knocking Myself out
12. Richard Jones & his Jazz Wizards - Muggin' The Blues
13. Lil Johnson - Mellow Stuff
14. Tommy Dorsey - Minor Goes A Muggin'
15. Cab Calloway - Reefer Man
16. Oscar’s Chicago Swingers - Try some of that
17. Slim & Slam - Dopey Joe
18. Cleo Brown, The stuff is here
19. Cedar Creek Sheik - Don’t credit my stuff
20. Willie Bryant & Orchestra - A Vipers Moan
21. Don Redman & Orchestra - Chant of the Weed
22. Larry Adler - Smoking Reefers
23. Louis Armstrong & Orchestra - Muggles
24. Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon - Willie the Weeper
25. Gertrude Michael - Marahuana

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First released on TRANSMITTER at Werner Pieper's MedienXperimente.
Later re-released at Germany’s famous underground-label TRIKONT.

01. High & Low - Drug Songs
02. Geil & Sexy - Sex Songs
03. Crazy & Funny - Novelty Songs[
04. Gospels & Prayers - Spiritual Songs
05. Blue & Lonely - Yearning Songs[
06. Hitler & Hell - American War Songs
07. The Sky Is High And So Am I, vol. 1 - Marihuana Songs
08. The Sky Is High And So Am I, vol. 2 - Marihuana Songs[