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Released
  
1956

Length
  
40:53

Release date
  
1956

Label
  
VINTAGE MASTERS INC.

Recorded
  
January 4–6, 1956

Artist
  
Buddy Rich

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

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Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer is a 1956 studio album by Buddy Rich, of the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, arranged by Buddy Bregman. This was the first of three vocal albums that Rich recorded.

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck)
  2. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen)
  3. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael)
  4. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen)
  5. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen)
  6. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Bloom)

LP side B

  1. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom)
  2. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen)
  3. "Trav'lin' Light" (Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young)
  4. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting)
  5. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen)
  6. "Dream" (Johnny Mercer)

All lyrics by Johnny Mercer, composers indicated.

Personnel

  • Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
  • Ted Nash – tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Rowles – piano
  • Buddy Rich – vocals, drums
  • Alvin Stoller – drums
  • Buddy Bregman – arranger, orchestra conductor

    • Songs

    1One For My Baby4:18
    2Blues In The Night3:08
    3Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive3:04

    References

    Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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