CDs with: Mercer, Mabel

Alec Wilder.

I'll be around / Mills Brothers -- It's so peaceful in the country / Mildred Bailey with the Delta Rhythm Boys -- All the cats join in / Benny Goodman and His Orchestra featuring Liza Morrow -- Is it always like this? / Lena Horne -- Trouble is a man / Sarah Vaughan -- Where is the one? / Frank Sinatra -- I'll wait / Dinah Washington -- Give me time / Jeri Southern -- Summer is a-comin' in / Nat "King" Cole -- Crazy in the heart / Peggy Lee -- Love among the young / Rosemary Clooney -- Ain'tcha-cha comin' out t-tonght? / Jo Stafford -- Heart to call my own / Lisa Kirk -- Who can I turn to? / Lee Wiley -- Soft as spring / Helen Merrill -- In the spring of the year / Mabel Mercer -- Winter of my discontent / Elaine Delmar -- Sounds around the house / Dick Haymes -- Be a child / Eileen Farrell -- Mimosa and me / Jackie and Roy -- Photographs / Weslia Whitfield -- While we're young / Marlene Ver Planck.

CD 1869

Cole Porter.

Anything goes (Cole Porter) (3:09) -- I get a kick out of you (Ethel Merman) (3:08) -- Night and day (Fred Astaire) (3:25) -- Miss Otis regrets (Ethel Waters) (3:03) -- Begin the beguine (Artie Shaw and his orchestra) (3:14) -- My heart belongs to Daddy (Mary Martin) (2:31) -- Let's do it (Billie Holiday) (2:56) -- Easy to love (Lee Wiley) (3:08) -- Don't fence me in (Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters) (3:04) -- Ev'ry time we say goodbye (Benny Goodman Quintet featuring Peggy Mann) (3:27) -- Be a clown (Judy Garland and Gene Kelly) (2:35) -- It's all right with me (2:20) ; I've got you under my skin (Peggy Lee) (2:29) -- Love for sale (Billie Holiday) (2:57) -- It's de-lovely (Mabel Mercer) (3:38) -- Just one of those things (Lena Horne) (2:01) -- What is this thing called love? (Ella Fitzgerald) (2:02) -- Always true to you in my fashion (Lisa Kirk) (3:46) -- Which? (Jeri Southern) (2:41) -- In the still of the night (Eileen Farrell) (3:13) -- At long last love (Bobby Short) (4:17) -- The laziest gal in town (Marlene Dietrich) (2:47) -- You're the top (Eileen Rodgers and Hal Linden) (3:30).

CD 1860

Dorothy Fields.

I can't give you anything but love (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) (2:55) -- Diga diga do (The Mills Brothers) (3:06) -- Baby! (Adelaide Hall) (3:08) -- I'm in the mood for love (Frances Langford) (2:43) -- Never gonna dance (Fred Astaire) (3:12) -- I must have that man (Billie Holiday) (2:56) -- A lady needs a change (Ethel Merman) (2:32) -- Close as pages in a book (Bing Crosby) (3:06) -- Don't blame me (Nat "King" Cole Trio) (3:25) -- There must be something better than love (Pearl Bailey) (2:40) -- He had refinement (Shirley Booth) (3:55) -- Happy habit (Mae Barnes) (3:27) -- On the sunny side of the street (Joe Williams) (2:50) -- I feel a song coming on (Judy Garland) (2:08) -- You couldn't be cuter (Margaret Whiting) (2:01) -- Growing pains (Tony Bennett) (3:35) -- I feel merely marvelous (Mabel Mercer) (1:55) -- Make the man love me (Maureen McGovern) (3:24) -- Today I love everybody (Aretha Franklin) (3:25) -- Big spender (Peggy Lee) (2:03) -- Pink taffeta sample size 10 (Sylvia Syms) (4:15) -- If my friends could see me now (Gwen Verdon) (3:27).

CD 1852

George Gershwin / [Ira Gershwin, principal lyricist].

Swanee (Al Jolson) -- I'll build a stairway to paradise (Paul Whiteman and his orchestra) -- Do, do, do (Gertrude Lawrence and Harold French) -- The man I love (Lee Wiley) -- Embraceable you (Nat "King" Cole) -- But not for me (Judy Garland) -- Changing my tune (Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones) -- Bidin' my time (Mary Martin) -- How long has this been going on? (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Fascinating rhythm ; They can't take that away from me (Fred Astaire) -- A foggy day (in London town) (Chris Connor) -- My cousin in Milwaukee (Nancy Walker) -- Soon (Kaye Ballard) -- 'S wonderful ; My man's gone now (Sarah Vaughan) -- Nice work if you can get it (Mel Tormé) -- Isn't it a pity? (Mabel Mercer) -- It ain't necessarily so (Cab Calloway) -- Hang on to me (Travis Hudson and Ronny Whyte) -- Love walked in (Bobby Short) -- Someone to watch over me (Lena Horne) -- Our love is here to stay (Michael Feinstein) -- Somebody loves me (Maureen McGovern).

CD 1854

Harold Arlen.

Over the rainbow (Judy Garland) -- I gotta right to sing the blues (Benny Goodman and his orchestra) -- You're a builder upper (Ethel Merman) -- Stormy weather (Lena Horne) -- It's only a paper moon (Nat Cole) -- That old black magic (Margaret Whiting) -- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive (Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters) -- Happiness is just a thing called Joe (Frances Wayne) -- Get happy ; The man that got away (Judy Garland) -- Don't like goodbyes (Pearl Bailey) -- A sleepin' bee (Diahann Carroll) -- Lydia, the tattooed lady (Bobby Short) -- Come rain or shine (Joe Williams) -- My shining hour (Mabel Mercer) -- One for my baby (and one more for the road) (Fred Astaire) -- Blues in the night (Ella Fitzgerald) -- I've got the world on a string ; Last night when we were young (Tony Bennett) -- Between the devil and the deep blue sea (Oscar Peterson Trio) -- Right as rain (Maureen McGovern) -- When the sun comes out (Mel Torme).

CD 1848

Jerome Kern.

The song is you (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra ; with Frank Sinatra) -- Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) -- Bill (Helen Morgan) -- Yesterdays (Billie Holiday) -- The last time I saw Paris (Kate Smith) -- In love in vain (Margaret Whiting) -- Long ago and far away (Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest) -- Look for the silver lining (Judy Garland) -- Can't help lovin' that man (Lena Horne) -- I won't dance (Jack Cassidy and Kaye Ballard) -- Poor Pierrot (Mabel Mercer) -- Nobody else but me (Bobby Short) -- The way you look tonight (Teddi King) -- Smoke gets in your eyes (Sarah Vaughan) -- Why was I born? (Gogi Grant) -- A sure thing (David Allyn) -- All the things you are (Gordon MacRae) -- A fine romance (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Lovely to look at (Oscar Peterson Trio) -- I'm old fashioned (Eileen Farrell) -- Pick yourself up (Nat "King" Cole).

CD 1857

Oscar Hammerstein II.

People will say we're in love (Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts) -- Soliloquy (John Raitt) -- Lover, come back to me (Billie Holiday) -- It might as well be spring (Margaret Whiting) -- It's a grand night for singing (Dick Haymes) -- Who? (Judy Garland) -- If I loved you (Jo Stafford) -- The gentleman is a dope (Lisa Kirk) -- Some enchanted evening (Ezio Pinza) -- I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair (Mary Martin) -- A kiss to build a dream on (Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars) -- No other love (Perry Como) -- Everybody's got a home but me (Judy Tyler) -- When I grow too old to dream (Teddi King) -- I've told every little star (David Allyn) -- I'm one of God's children (Judy Holliday) -- All in fun (Mabel Mercer) -- Love, look away (Marilyn Horne) -- Hello, young lovers (Barbara Cook) -- The folks who live on the hill (Mel Tormé) -- The sound of music (Julie Andrews).

CD 1855

Songs. Selections

The song is you (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra ; with Frank Sinatra) -- Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) -- Bill (Helen Morgan) -- Yesterdays (Billie Holiday) -- The last time I saw Paris (Kate Smith) -- In love in vain (Margaret Whiting) -- Long ago and far away (Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest) -- Look for the silver lining (Judy Garland) -- Can't help lovin' that man (Lena Horne) -- I won't dance (Jack Cassidy and Kaye Ballard) -- Poor Pierrot (Mabel Mercer) -- Nobody else but me (Bobby Short) -- The way you look tonight (Teddi King) -- Smoke gets in your eyes (Sarah Vaughan) -- Why was I born? (Gogi Grant) -- A sure thing (David Allyn) -- All the things you are (Gordon MacRae) -- A fine romance (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Lovely to look at (Oscar Peterson Trio) -- I'm old fashioned (Eileen Farrell) -- Pick yourself up (Nat "King" Cole).

CD 1857

Songs. Selections

Over the rainbow (Judy Garland) -- I gotta right to sing the blues (Benny Goodman and his orchestra) -- You're a builder upper (Ethel Merman) -- Stormy weather (Lena Horne) -- It's only a paper moon (Nat Cole) -- That old black magic (Margaret Whiting) -- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive (Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters) -- Happiness is just a thing called Joe (Frances Wayne) -- Get happy ; The man that got away (Judy Garland) -- Don't like goodbyes (Pearl Bailey) -- A sleepin' bee (Diahann Carroll) -- Lydia, the tattooed lady (Bobby Short) -- Come rain or shine (Joe Williams) -- My shining hour (Mabel Mercer) -- One for my baby (and one more for the road) (Fred Astaire) -- Blues in the night (Ella Fitzgerald) -- I've got the world on a string ; Last night when we were young (Tony Bennett) -- Between the devil and the deep blue sea (Oscar Peterson Trio) -- Right as rain (Maureen McGovern) -- When the sun comes out (Mel Torme).

CD 1848