The Johnny Mercer Tunes
Download links and information about The Johnny Mercer Tunes by Johnny Mercer. This album was released in 1993 and it belongs to Pop genres. It contains 16 tracks with total duration of 48:10 minutes.
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| Artist: | Johnny Mercer |
| Release date: | 1993 |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Tracks: | 16 |
| Duration: | 48:10 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Jeepers Creepers (featuring Mills Brothers, The) | 2:34 |
| 2. | Trav'lin' Light (featuring Billie Holiday) | 3:16 |
| 3. | Lazybones (featuring Pee Wee Hunt, Louis Armstrong) | 3:16 |
| 4. | Skylark (featuring Anita O'Day) | 3:12 |
| 5. | G. I. Jive (featuring Louis Jordan) | 3:01 |
| 6. | You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (featuring Bing Crosby) | 2:57 |
| 7. | The Tailgate Ramble (featuring Wingy Manone) | 2:57 |
| 8. | When A Woman Loves A Man (featuring Julia Lee) | 2:44 |
| 9. | Dixieland Band (featuring Kay Starr) | 2:12 |
| 10. | It's A Woman Prerogative (featuring Mildred Bailey) | 3:01 |
| 11. | Legalize My Name (featuring Pearl Bailey) | 3:22 |
| 12. | I Thought About You (featuring Nellie Lutcher) | 2:46 |
| 13. | Blues In The Night (featuring Mel Tormé / Mel Torme) | 3:40 |
| 14. | Moon Country (featuring Hoagy Carmichael) | 3:16 |
| 15. | Blues In The Night (featuring Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers) | 3:16 |
| 16. | Bob White (featuring Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell) | 2:40 |
Details
[Edit]Mail-order firm the Good Music Record Company licensed this compilation of Johnny Mercer material from Capitol Records, the company he co-founded, and it presents a good survey of his popular recordings from the 1940s and early 1950s. Among the 22 tracks are all of Mercer's number one hits — "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Candy," "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe," and "Personality" — as well as five of his other seven Top Ten singles (the missing: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," "Huggin' and Chalkin'"), several of his other chart songs, such as "The Glow Worm" (a Mercer copyright that was a bigger hit for the Mills Brothers), and some intriguing performances, including his takes on "One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)" and "Blues in the Night," songs for which he wrote the lyrics to music by Harold Arlen. Employing the better part of the Capitol Records roster, the singer is often accompanied on vocals by the Pied Pipers, twice by Jo Stafford, and once each by Margaret Whiting and Nat "King" Cole, while the Benny Goodman Orchestra plays on two tracks. Mercer is better remembered as a songwriter than a recording artist, but this set confirms his appeal as a performer.