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Released July 11, 1938 - July 13, 1938

The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra was in decline in 1938 and its breakup would come the following year. However, despite its eventual commercial failure, it was still a first-class swing band at this late point with fine soloists in trumpeter Emmett Berry, trombonist Ed Cuffee, tenor Elmer Williams and clarinetist Eddie Barefield. The two formerly unknown radio broadcasts included on this CD took place a few months after the band's final studio recordings and are generally excellent. Fletcher Henderson was definitely in Benny Goodman's shadow by this time (even if the announcer calls Henderson "the King of Swing") but, as such numbers as "Down South Camp Meeting," "Bugle Blues" and "Panama" show, there was still plenty of life left in this veteran band. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Christopher Columbus
2. Down South Camp Meeting
3. You Go to My Head
4. Don't Be That Way
5. This Time It's Real
6. Cathedral in the Pines
7. Saving Myself for You
8. Unidentified Selection
9. Moon Looks Down and Laughs
10. The Little Things That Count
11. Rosie the Redskin
12. Bugle Blues (Bugle Call Rag)
13. Christopher Columbus
14. Christopher Columbus
15. Beale Street Blues
16. This Time It's Real
17. The Little Things That Count
18. You Go to My Head
19. Music, Maestro, Please!
20. When They Played the Polka
21. You Taught Me to Love Again
22. Panama
23. Will You Remember Tonight Tomorrow?
24. Don't Wake up My Heart
25. There's Honey on the Moon Tonight
26. Christopher Columbus

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