Recording: Ballin' the Jack

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Performed by

Georgia Gibbs - Orchestra Conducted by Glenn Osser

Recording date

June 1947

First release

On Audio single You Do (1947)

Comments

This same performance was also later released on Mercury single 5269.

Rating

Song info

Song

Ballin' the Jack

Music written by

Chris Smith [1]

Lyrics written by

Jim Burris

First recording

Ballin' the Jack by Prince's Band (July 1914)

First release

Ballin' the Jack by Prince's Band on audio single Ballin' the Jack (1914)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Ballin' the Jack	Prince's Band	1914
2	Ballin' the Jack	Victor Military Band	1914
3	Ballin' the Jack	Chicago Footwarmers	1928
4	Ballin' the Jack	Louisiana Rhythm Kings	1929
5	Ballin' the Jack	Jelly Roll Morton Jazzmen	1940
6	Ballin' the Jack	Eddie Condon and His Band	1940
7	Ballin' the Jack	Sidney DeParis	1944
8	Ballin' the Jack	Kid Ory	1945
9	Ballin' the Jack	Art Hodes	1946
10	Ballin' the Jack	Georgia Gibbs - Orchestra Conducted by Glenn Osser	1947
11	Ballin' the Jack	Bob Scobey and His Alexander's Jazz Band	1948
12	Ballin' the Jack	The Chordettes	1950
13	Ballin' the Jack	Sidney Bechet	1952
14	Ballin' the Jack	Wally Rose and Clancy Hayes	1955
15	Ballin the Jack	Lizzie Miles	1956
16	Ballin' the Jack	Matty Matlock & His Dixie Men	1957
17	Ballin' the Jack	The Buck Clayton Septet	1957
18	Ballin' the Jack	Pearl Bailey	1957
19	Ballin' the Jack	Bobby Henderson	1958
20	Ballin' the Jack	Luckey Roberts	1958
21	Ballin' the Jack	Jonah Jones	1958
22	Ballin' the Jack	Brenda Lee	August 3, 1959
23	Ballin' the Jack	Jad Paul's Banjo Magic	1959
24	Ballin' the Jack	Kid Thomas and His Creole Jazz Band	1960
25	Ballin' the Jack	Firehouse Five Plus Two	1960
26	Ballin' the Jack	The Dave Pell Octet	1961
27	Ballin' the Jack	Singleton Palmer and His Dixieland Band	1961
28	Ballin' the Jack	Ken Colyer's Jazzmen	1961
29	Ballin' the Jack	Teddy Buckner and His Trad. Jazz Band	1962
30	Ballin' the Jack	Otto Brandenburg	1962
31	Ballin' the Jack	Pete Fountain and Other All-Star Dixielanders	1962
32	Ballin' the Jack	Leonard Gaskin	1962
33	Ballin' the Jack	Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband	1963
34	Ballin' the Jack	Sammy Davis, Jr.	1964
35	Ballin' the Jack	Billy Butterfield	1964
36	Ballin' the Jack	Booker Pittman	1965
37	Ballin' the Jack	Fats Domino	1965
38	Ballin' the Jack	Tony Parenti and His Downtown Boys	1965
39	Ballin' the Jack	Tony Fougerat and His Kings of Poverty	1974
40	Ballin' the Jack	New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra	1974
41	Ballin' the Jack	The Osmonds	1974
42	Ballin' the Jack	Max Collie Rhythm Aces	1974
43	Ballin' the Jack	Eddy Howard and His Orchestra	1978
44	Ballin' the Jack	Kenny Davern	1979
45	Ballin' the Jack	Ben Sidran	1979
46	Ballin' the Jack	Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein	1980
47	Ballin' the Jack	James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band	1983
48	Ballin' the Jack	Down Home Jazz Band	1988
49	Ballin' the Jack	Hal Smith, Keith Ingham, Bobby Gordon	1993
50	Ballin' the Jack	The Tremble Kids	1994
51	Ballin' the Jack	Pat Yankee with Her Gentlemen of Jazz	2006