Mildred Bailey - Mildred Bailey: The Rockin' Chair Lady - Her 52 Finest 1929-1947

Here is the finest double CD available of one the greatest of all jazz singers. Washingtonian Mildred Rinker (1907-1951) took her first married name to become, as �Mildred Bailey�, the first truly great white jazz singer. In every way she was a big star; she was built on a huge scale, and she outsold all other jazz ladies of the 30s apart from Billie Holiday. Mildred Bailey was known as �The Rockin� Chair Lady� after her great success with Hoagy�s Carmichael�s classic, and that provides the title for Retrospective�s tribute. Here are quite simply the 52 finest recordings she made, spanning from her first-ever disc in 1929 (What Kind O� Man Is You?), through her golden years of the 30s to her full 1947 version of one of her key songs All Of Me.