A Handful of Keys is an album of live performances by jazz pianist Fats Waller & His Rhythm, the only authorized live performances of the musician. It features previously unreleased live radio transcriptions originally broadcast in 1938.
Track listing "Ain't Misbehavin' (Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf) – 1:06 "The Joint is Jumpin' (Waller, J. C. Johnson, Razaf) – 3:00 "Inside" (a.k.a. "Inside This Heart of Mine") (Waller) – 3:01 "I Had To Do It" (Waller, Razaf) – 2:15 "E Flat Blues" (Clarence Williams, Thomas Morris) – 2:48 "Hold My Hand" (Waller, Johnson) – 2:28 "Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush" (Clay Boland, Bickley Reichner) – 2:54 "What's The Matter With You" (Jimmy Webb, Stan Levey) – 2:31 "Hallelujah" (Vincent Youmans, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey) – 1:34 "What's Your Name" (Fats Waller, Johnson) – 3:26 "I Simply Adore You" (Paul Mann, Ned Weaver) – 2:37 "My Best Wishes" (Samuel Pokrass, Ted Koehler) – 2:29 "Handful of Keys" (Waller) – 1:57 "The Sheik of Araby" (Ted Snyder, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler) – 3:16 "The Flat Foot Floogie" (Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, Bud Green) – 4:00 "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 1:57 "Pent Up In a Penthouse" (Williams, Tommie Connor) – 3:34 "Honeysuckle Rose" (Waller, Razaf) – 3:40 "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:36 "Some of These Days" (Shelton Brooks) – 2:12 "After You've Gone" (Turner Layton, Henry Creamer) – 2:01 "The Yacht Club Swing" (Waller, Johnson, Herman Autrey) – 3:11
Recorded live at NBC Studios and The Yacht Club, New York, in 1938
Personnel Musicians Fats Waller – piano and vocals Herman Autrey – trumpet Gene Sedric – clarinet and tenor saxophone Al Casey – guitar Cedric Wallace – bass Slick Jones – drums Production Mike Ragogna, Glenn Korman – producer Will Friedwald – producer, liner notes
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