I recently acquired a batch of seven RCA-Victor Fats Waller vinyl test pressings. Here's one if them -- "What A Pretty Miss" from 1939. Fats composed the tune with Spencer Williams while he was

Recorded in September 2017 in Harare.

Although Fats Waller recorded "Anita" commercially for Victor (see previous post), he recorded the tune privately at the HMV Studios, Abbey Road, in London on 12 June 1939, before he returned

The two previous photos I posted of Fats Waller and Anita returning to New York from England on 14 June 1939 are probably from his return from England a year ealier on the same Ile de France ocean liner,

I mentioned before in my previous post that Fats Waller made hundreds of recordings, but nearly all were issued from the first "take" although subsequent takes were always of a high quality and

I've just managed to list my Fats Waller CD on Amazon at the following link: I had trouble listing before since the CD does not have a bar code or other types of ID required by Amazon. But I've now discovered

( Fats Waller's first recording session with his Rhythm group was on 16 May 1934. Over the next eight years up to 1942 they would record literally hundreds of tunes making him one of the most popular