Fats Waller with Scotsmen at unknown location and date. I am told the car is a 1940 Chevrolet Master Deluxe 2-door Sedan, but perhaps someone can confirm. Photo collection of the author.

I recently acquired a batch of seven RCA-Victor Fats Waller vinyl test pressings. Here's one if them -- "What A Pretty Miss" from 1939. Fats composed the tune with Spencer Williams while he was

While Fats Waller was in the UK on his second tour, he recorded a number of new tunes at the Billy Higgs recording studio on 2 April 1939, including his "London Suite" of six compositions, which

Although Fats Waller recorded "Anita" commercially for Victor (see previous post), he recorded the tune privately at the HMV Studios, Abbey Road, in London on 12 June 1939, before he returned

The two previous photos I posted of Fats Waller and Anita returning to New York from England on 14 June 1939 are probably from his return from England a year ealier on the same Ile de France ocean liner,

Further to my last post, here's another photo of Fats Waller and Anita leaving England on 14 June 1939 onboard the Ile de France ocean liner, which arrived back in New York on 20 June 1939. Although Anita

In 1939, Fats Waller and his companion Anita Rutherford toured the UK and Europe, and as the war storm clouds gathered they returned to New York on 14 June 1939 onboard the Ile de France ocean liner. Here's

I mentioned before in my previous post that Fats Waller made hundreds of recordings, but nearly all were issued from the first "take" although subsequent takes were always of a high quality and

I've just managed to list my Fats Waller CD on Amazon at the following link: I had trouble listing before since the CD does not have a bar code or other types of ID required by Amazon. But I've now discovered