McKinney's Cotton Pickers

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
Do Something 00:00 Tools
Milenberg joys 00:00 Tools
Four or Five Times 00:00 Tools
Selling that stuff 00:00 Tools
Put It There 00:00 Tools
Stop kidding 00:00 Tools
It's tight like that 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
I Found A New Baby 00:00 Tools
Plain dirt 00:00 Tools
Talk to Me (Remastered 1998) 00:00 Tools
Zonky 00:00 Tools
Cherry 00:00 Tools
Crying And Sighing 00:00 Tools
Save It, Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble 00:00 Tools
Some Sweet Day 00:00 Tools
Don't Be Like That 00:00 Tools
It's A Precious Little Thing Called Love 00:00 Tools
Wherever There'S A Will There'S A Way My Baby (Eng 7 Nov 1929 New York) 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel Today 00:00 Tools
My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now 00:00 Tools
Forgetting You 00:00 Tools
I want a little girl 00:00 Tools
Miss hannah 00:00 Tools
I'd love it 00:00 Tools
Birmingham Bertha 00:00 Tools
If i could be with you one hour tonight 00:00 Tools
Peggy 00:00 Tools
I've found a new baby 00:00 Tools
There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder 00:00 Tools
Will You, Won't You Be My Baby? 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will, Baby 00:00 Tools
Never Swat a Fly 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Rocky road 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
There's A Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Cotton picker's scat 00:00 Tools
Blues sure have got me 00:00 Tools
Talk to Me 00:00 Tools
Put It There (Shag Nasty) 00:00 Tools
It's A Precious Little Thing 00:00 Tools
I Miss a Little Miss 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour To-night 00:00 Tools
Just a Shade of Corn 00:00 Tools
Hullabaloo 00:00 Tools
Paducah 00:00 Tools
Then Someone's In Love 00:00 Tools
Hello! 00:00 Tools
Wherever there's a will there's a way 00:00 Tools
Birmingham Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Do You Believe In Love At Sight? 00:00 Tools
I'll Make Fun For You 00:00 Tools
Beedle-Um-Bum 00:00 Tools
Will You, Won't You Be My Babe? 00:00 Tools
After All, You're All I'm After 00:00 Tools
Laughing at Life 00:00 Tools
Stop Kidding (Neckbones And Sauerkraut) 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
Words Can't Express The Way I Feel 00:00 Tools
Come a Little Closer 00:00 Tools
Okay Baby 00:00 Tools
Some Sweet Day (07-12-28) 00:00 Tools
Do You Believe In Love At First Sight 00:00 Tools
Sellin' That Stuff 00:00 Tools
Trav'lin' all alone 00:00 Tools
Okay, Baby 00:00 Tools
I Want Your Love 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You 00:00 Tools
Will You, Won't You, Be My Babe 00:00 Tools
Hello 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) 00:00 Tools
Will You, Won't You Be My Babe 00:00 Tools
She's My Secret Passion 00:00 Tools
Will you won't you be my babe 00:00 Tools
Four Or Five Times (07-11-28) 00:00 Tools
Just A Shade Corn 00:00 Tools
I've Found A New Baby (04-08-29) 00:00 Tools
For or five times 00:00 Tools
There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder 00:00 Tools
Gee ain't i good to you 00:00 Tools
It's a Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around) 00:00 Tools
Gee, Ain’t I Good To You? 00:00 Tools
Shim me sha wabble 00:00 Tools
Wherever There Is A Will 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel Today (11-06-29) 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle (Rose) 00:00 Tools
Wherever -3 00:00 Tools
To Whom It May Concern 00:00 Tools
Travelin`All Alone 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 00:00 Tools
Save it pretty mama 00:00 Tools
I Want Your Love.... 00:00 Tools
Cotton Picker's Scat (07-31-30) 00:00 Tools
Just A Shade Corn (07-28-30) 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Tho Whom It May Concern 00:00 Tools
Put It There (Shag Nasty) (07-11-28) 00:00 Tools
I’ve Found A New Baby 00:00 Tools
TRAVELLING ALL ALONE 00:00 Tools
Words Can't Express (So Much Happiness) 00:00 Tools
Beadle-Um-Bum 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
Crying And Sighing (07-11-28) 00:00 Tools
IŇ‘ll Make Fun For You 00:00 Tools
Words Canґt Express The Way I Feel 00:00 Tools
Paducha 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will, Baby (11-07-29) 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Sweetheart (07-12-28) 00:00 Tools
Reefer Man 00:00 Tools
Zonky - Original 00:00 Tools
Stop Kidding (Neckbones And Sauerkraut) (07-12-28) 00:00 Tools
Baby Wonґt You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Travellin' All Alone 00:00 Tools
Chant Of The Weed 00:00 Tools
I Heard 00:00 Tools
Words Can'T Express 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight (01-31-30) 00:00 Tools
I'd Love It (11-06-29) 00:00 Tools
Four or fives times 00:00 Tools
Milenberg Joys (07-11-28) 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will There's A Way (My Baby) 00:00 Tools
Star Dust (10-13-28) 00:00 Tools
Cotton Pickers Scat 00:00 Tools
Got the South in My Soul 00:00 Tools
Peggy (11-07-29) 00:00 Tools
Will You, Won't You Be My Babe? (04-08-29) 00:00 Tools
Paducah (10-13-28) 00:00 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble (07-12-28) 00:00 Tools
Birmingham Breakdown (10-13-28) 00:00 Tools
It's Tight Like That (11-23-28) 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) 00:00 Tools
Plain Dirt (11-05-29) 00:00 Tools
Gee, Ain't I Good To You (11-05-29) 00:00 Tools
It's A Precious Little Thing Called Love (04-08-29) 00:00 Tools
Cherry (07-12-28) 00:00 Tools
Four Or Five Times (10-13-28) 00:00 Tools
I'll Make Fun of You 00:00 Tools
After All You're All I'm After 00:00 Tools
I Want A Little Girl (07-30-30) 00:00 Tools
There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (11-23-28) 00:00 Tools
Beadle-Um-Bum [1929-04-09] 00:00 Tools
I'll Make Fun For You (01-31-30) 00:00 Tools
Sellin' That Stuff (04-09-29) 00:00 Tools
Beedle-Um-Bum (04-09-29) 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will There's A Way (My Baby) - (Unissued on 78) 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight - (Unissued Take) 00:00 Tools
Stardust (1928) 00:00 Tools
It's Tight Like That (3) 00:00 Tools
Then Someone's In Love (01-31-30) 00:00 Tools
About Rip Van Winkle 00:00 Tools
Save It, Pretty Mama (04-08-29) 00:00 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble - Original 00:00 Tools
Four Or Five Times - Eng 11 Juil 1928 Chicago 00:00 Tools
Chew-Chew-Chew (Your Bubble Gum) 00:00 Tools
Chant Of The Weed - Original 00:00 Tools
Laughing At Life [1930] 00:00 Tools
Land Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
'Round My Shoulder 00:00 Tools
Zonky (02-03-30) 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road (11-03-30) 00:00 Tools
Blues Sure Have Got Me (07-29-30) 00:00 Tools
Hullabaloo (07-30-30) 00:00 Tools
You Ain't Nowhere 00:00 Tools
Ain't I Good To You? 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? (07-28-30) 00:00 Tools
Rhapsody In Blue 00:00 Tools
Do Something (04-09-29) 00:00 Tools
Laughing At Life (11-04-30) 00:00 Tools
Miss Hannah (11-06-29) 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me (11-03-30) 00:00 Tools
Do You Believe In Love At First Sight? 00:00 Tools
Blue Rose 00:00 Tools
Beedle Um Bum - Eng 9 Avril 1929 New York 00:00 Tools
Igloo 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will, Baby - Alt Tk-3 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight 1930 00:00 Tools
Crying and Sighing - Original 00:00 Tools
Trav'lin All Alone 00:00 Tools
Peggy 1929 00:00 Tools
Some Sweet Day (1928) 00:00 Tools
Birmingham Breakdown - Original 00:00 Tools
Miss Hannah - Live 00:00 Tools
It's A Precious Little Thing Called Love (1929) 00:00 Tools
About Rip Van Winkle - Original 00:00 Tools
After All, You're All I'm After - Original 00:00 Tools
Some Sweet Day 1928 00:00 Tools
Will You? Won't You, Be My Baby? 00:00 Tools
Gee, Ain't I Good To You ? 00:00 Tools
Shoo Shoo Boogie Boo 1929 00:00 Tools
Okay, Baby (07-29-30) 00:00 Tools
Shag Nasty 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road - McKinney's Cotton Pickers 00:00 Tools
After All, You're All I'm After 1930 00:00 Tools
Ain't I Good To You - Original 00:00 Tools
Crying And Sighing (1928) 00:00 Tools
Chew-Chew-Chew (Your Bubble Gum) - Original 00:00 Tools
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home ? - Original 00:00 Tools
Plain Dirt-C Stanton 00:00 Tools
Will You, Won't You Be My Baby_ 00:00 Tools
There's A Rainbow 'Round Your Shoulder 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You? 00:00 Tools
Id Love It 00:00 Tools
Words Can't Express The Way I Feel (01-31-30) 00:00 Tools
Travelin' All Alone (02-03-30) 00:00 Tools
It's A Lonesome Old Town 00:00 Tools
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, BABY 00:00 Tools
Talk to Me - Remastered 1998 00:00 Tools
Milenberg Joys 1928 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Aint I Good to You 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 3-2-1930 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You 00:00 Tools
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McKinney's Cotton Pickers were a United States jazz band founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1926 by Bill McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten pieces. William " Bill" McKinney (September 17, 1895 - October 14, 1969) was an American jazz drummer born in Cynthiana, Kentucky. He worked as a drummer in a circus band, then after serving in the United States Army in World War I settled in Springfield, Ohio where he took over leadership of the Synco Jazz Band. After hiring drummer Cuba Austin, McKinney worked as leader and business manager. After touring the U.S. Midwest, they got a residency at the Arcadia Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. In Detroit they were heard by bandleader and music promoter Jean Goldkette, who arranged a more lucrative home base for the band in Detroit's Greystone Hotel Ballroom. The band was renamed "McKinney's Cotton Pickers" (see also). After the band broke up in 1934 during the Great Depression, McKinney for a time led and played with a dance band in Boston, From 1937 on McKinney managed a Detroit Cafe with a dance floor and live bands who McKinney booked; he also booked bands for other locations on the side. Bill McKinney retired in the 1950s and spent his last years in his childhood hometown of Cynthiana. In 1927 Don Redman left Fletcher Henderson's orchestra to become the Cotton Pickers' musical director, and he assembled a band which rivalled Henderson's and Duke Ellington's. Aiding Redman with arrangements and rehearsals with the band was the talented trumpeter-arranger John Nesbitt. Between 1927 and 1931, they were one of the most popular African-American bands. Many of their records for Victor were best sellers. Among the many jazz greats who recorded with the band were Coleman Hawkins and James P. Johnson. In 1931 Redman left to form his own band and was replaced by Benny Carter. The Cotton Pickers disbanded in 1934, unable to make money during the Depression. Manager of the band was Jean Goldkette. A New McKinney's Cotton Pickers was organized in the early 1970s by David Hutson, using the original Don Redman arrangements. They recorded several albums and featured original banjoist Dave Wilborn, who was believed to have been the only surviving original member at the time. McKinney's Cotton Pickers' performance of "Milenberg Joys" was used as the theme tune of Robert Parker's 1980s radio series "Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.