CDs with: Mercer, Johnny

Anita O'Day sings the winners.

Take the "A" train / Billy Strayhorn (2:48) -- Tenderly / Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross (2:38) -- Interlude : (A night in Tunisia) / Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli (2:35) -- Four / Miles Davis, Bill Loughbrough (2:48) -- Early autumn / Woody Herman, Johnny Mercer, Ralph Burns (3:08) -- Four brothers / Jimmy Giuffre, Jon Hendricks (2:23) -- Sing, sing, sing (with a swing) / Louis Prima (3:29) -- My funny valentine / Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart (3:34) -- Frenesi / Alberto Dominguez, Leonard Whitcup (3:01) -- Body and soul / Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton (3:20) -- What's your story, morning glory / Mary Lou Williams, Jack Lawrence, Paul Francis Webster (3:47) -- Peanut vendor (El manisero) / Moises Simons, Marion Sunshine, L. Wolfe Gilbert (2:38) -- Whisper not / Benny Golson, Leonard Feather (2:57) -- Blue champagne / Taps Miller (2:35) -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb (3:17) -- Hershey bar / Johnny Mandel (2:05) -- Don't be that way / Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson (2:31) -- Peel me a grape / Dave Frishberg (3:03) -- Star eyes / Gene De Paul, Don Raye (2:50).

CD 3009

Hoagy Carmichael.

Star dust (Frank Sinatra) -- Rockin' chair (Mildred Bailey) -- Small fry (Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer) -- Little old lady (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Georgia on my mind (Ethel Waters) -- Blue orchids (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Jack Leonard) -- Lazy river (Mills Brothers) -- Skylark (Billy Eckstine) -- The lamplighter's serenade (Glenn Miller Orchestra featuring Ray Eberle) -- Ivy (Dick Haymes) -- The nearness of you (Sarah Vaughan) -- My resistance is low (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Memphis in June (Johnny Mercer) -- When love goes wrong (Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell) -- New Orleans (Teddi King) -- Heart and soul (Four Aces with Al Alberts) -- Baltimore oriole (Barbara Lea) -- Winter moon (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Judy (Tony Bennett) -- I get along without you very well (Rosemary Clooney).

CD 1850

Never make your move too soon / Ernestine Anderson.

Never make your move too soon / Stix Hooper, Will Jennings (3:26) -- What a diff'rence a day made / Stanley Adams, Maria Grever (4:42) -- As long as I live / Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler (4:35) -- Old folks / Dedette Hill, Willard Robison (7:13) -- Just one more chance / Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston (5:25) -- My shining hour / Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen (3:29) -- Why did I choose you? / Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin (4:17) -- Poor butterfly / Raymond Hubbell, John Golden (5:34).

CD 3013

Somethin' else / Cannonball Adderley.

Autumn leaves / Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer (10:55) -- Love for sale / Cole Porter (7:01) -- Somthin' [sic] else / Miles Davis (8:11) -- One for daddy-o / Nat Adderley (8:21) -- Dancing in the dark / Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz (4:03) -- Bangoon / Hank Jones (5:05).

CD 1818

Something else

Autumn leaves / Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer (10:55) -- Love for sale / Cole Porter (7:01) -- Somthin' [sic] else / Miles Davis (8:11) -- One for daddy-o / Nat Adderley (8:21) -- Dancing in the dark / Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz (4:03) -- Bangoon / Hank Jones (5:05).

CD 1818

Songs. Selections

Star dust (Frank Sinatra) -- Rockin' chair (Mildred Bailey) -- Small fry (Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer) -- Little old lady (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Georgia on my mind (Ethel Waters) -- Blue orchids (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Jack Leonard) -- Lazy river (Mills Brothers) -- Skylark (Billy Eckstine) -- The lamplighter's serenade (Glenn Miller Orchestra featuring Ray Eberle) -- Ivy (Dick Haymes) -- The nearness of you (Sarah Vaughan) -- My resistance is low (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Memphis in June (Johnny Mercer) -- When love goes wrong (Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell) -- New Orleans (Teddi King) -- Heart and soul (Four Aces with Al Alberts) -- Baltimore oriole (Barbara Lea) -- Winter moon (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Judy (Tony Bennett) -- I get along without you very well (Rosemary Clooney).

CD 1850

The quintessential Billie Holiday. Volume VI, 1938 / Billie Holiday.

You go to my head / Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots (2:52) -- The moon looks down and laughs / Burt Kalmar, Sid Silvers, Harry Ruby (2:54) -- If I were you / Buddy Bernier, Bob Emmerich (2:34) -- Forget if you can / Jack Manus, Ken Upham, Leonard Joy (2:49) -- Having myself a time / Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger (2:29) -- Says my heart / Frank Loesser, Burt Lane (2:49) -- I wish I had you / Bud Green, Al Stillman, Claude Thornhill (2:47) -- I'm gonna lock my heart (and throw away the key) / Jim Eaton, Terry Shand (2:07) -- The very thought of you / Ray Noble (2:44) -- I can't get started / Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke (2:46) -- I've got a date with a dream / Mack Gordon, Harry Revel (2:42) -- You can't be mine (and someone else's too) / J.C. Johnson, Chick Webb (2:20) -- Everybody's laughing / Sammy Lerner, Ben Oakland (3:02) -- Here it is tomorrow again / Patrick Gibbons, Roy Ringwald (2:44) -- Say it with a kiss / Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren (2:33) -- April in my heart / Helen Meinardi, Hoagy Carmichael (3:05) -- I'll never fail you / Irv Taylor, Victor Mizzy (2:58) -- They say / Edward Heyman, Paul Mann, Stephen Weiss (3:10).

CD 1530

Way out west / Sonny Rollins.

I'm an old cowhand / Johnny Mercer (5:40) -- I'm an old cowhand (alternate take) / Johnny Mercer (10:06) -- Solitude / Duke Ellington, Eddie De Lange, Irving Mills (7:49) -- Come, gone / Sonny Rollins (7:50) -- Come, gone (alternate take) / Sonny Rollins (10:27) -- Wagon wheels / Peter De Rose, Billy Hill (10:09) -- There is no greater love / Isham Jones, Marty Symes (5:14) -- Way out west / Sonny Rollins (6:28) -- Way out west (alternate take) / Sonny Rollins (6:36).

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