Chick Webb

Aliases: Chick Webb and His Little Chicks
Chick Webb and His Orchestra
Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
The Jungle Band [Chick Webb]
Real name: William Henry Webb
Born: February 10, 1905
Died: June 16, 1939
Country: United States
IPI: 00032595779 2 works
Comments: Jazz drummer and bandleader. Webb suffered from spinal tuberculosis from childhood, and he eventually died from the disease.
Sources dispute his year of birth, ranging from 1902 to 1909.
Related: Ella Fitzgerald Band vocals (1935-1939)

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Releases

Singles

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
A Little Bit Later On	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	June 1936	Decca
A-Tisket A-Tasket	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	June 1938	Decca
Darktown Strutters Ball	Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra	1934	Columbia [EMI]
Dog Bottom	The Jungle Band [Chick Webb]	August 1929	Brunswick
Don't Be That Way	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	June 1935	Decca
Everybody Step	Chick Webb and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Ella Fitzgerald	June 1938	Decca
F.D.R. Jones	Chick Webb and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Ella Fitzgerald	October 1938	Decca
I Can't Dance, I Got Ants in My Pants	Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra	June 1934	Columbia [US]
If Dreams Come True	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	1938	Decca
(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	November 1936	Decca
I Got the Spring Fever Blues	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	1936	Decca
I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	December 1935	Decca
I'm Left with the Blues in My Heart – Moanin'	Chick Webb and His Orchestra – Blue Rhythm Boys	August 1931	Brunswick
In a Little Spanish Town	Chick Webb and His Little Chicks	November 1937	Decca
I Never Knew - On the Sunny Side of the Street	The Chocolate Dandies - Chick Webb's Savoy Orch.	January 1934	Columbia [US]
I Want to Be Happy	Chick Webb and His Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald and The Little Chicks	1937	Decca
Little White Lies	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	July 1939	Decca
Love Is the Thing So They Say	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	1937	Decca
My Heart Belongs to Daddy	Chick Webb and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Ella Fitzgerald	February 1939	Decca
Oh Yes? Take Another Guess	Chick Webb and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Ella Fitzgerald	February 1937	Decca
Rhythm and Romance	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	November 1935	Decca
Rhythm Man	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	October 1934	Decca
Rock It for Me	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	December 1937	Decca
Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)	Chick Webb & His Orchestra	June 1936	Decca
Stairway to the Stars	Ella Fitzgerald and The Chick Webb Orchestra	July 1939	Decca
Stomping at the Savoy	Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra	June 1934	Columbia [US]
Sweet Sue - Just You	Chick Webb and His Little Chicks	April 1938	Decca
Swinging on the Reservation	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	December 1936	Decca
'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	February 1939	Decca
The Dipsy Doodle	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	January 1938	Decca
True	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	1934	OKeh
Undecided	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	March 1939	Decca
Wacky Dust	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	September 1938	Decca
When Dreams Come True	Chick Webb's Savoy Orch.	February 1934	Columbia [US]
You Showed Me the Way	Chick Webb and His Orchestra	April 1937	Decca