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The Complete Johnny Mercer Songbook | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
List Price: $35.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 29139
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
UPC: 731455753929
EAN: 0731455753929
ASIN: B00000DLUK
Release Date: November 3, 1998
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Disc 1
| • | Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Louis Armstrong | | • | I Thought About You - Billie Holiday | | • | Come Rain Or Come Shine - Anita O'day | | • | Hit The Road To Dreamland - Mel Torme | | • | Dearly Beloved - Margaret Whiting | | • | Goody Goody - Buddy Rich | | • | Skylark - Ella Fitzgerald | | • | Laura - Billy Eckstine | | • | Day In-Day Out - Sarak Vaughan | | • | Early Autumn - Woody Herman | | • | I Remember You - Dinah Washington | | • | Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Helen Merril/Gil Evans | | • | Too Marvelous For Words - Joe Williams | | • | Autumn Leaves - Dee Dee Bridgewater | | • | One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Billie Holiday | | • | Jeepers Creepers - Bing Crosby/Buddy Bregman's Orchestra |
Disc 2
| • | Something's Gotta Give - Ella Fitzgerald | | • | That Old Black Magic - Shirley Horn | | • | P.S. I Love You - Billie Holiday | | • | Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Buddy Rich | | • | I'm Old Fashioned - Margaret Whiting | | • | Midnight Sun - Ella Fitzgerald | | • | Dream - Dinah Washington | | • | On The Atchison, Topeka, And The Santa Fe - Jack Teagarden | | • | Trav'lin' Light - Billie Holiday | | • | Moon River - Sarah Vaughan | | • | Once Upon A Summertime - Astrud Gilberto | | • | Too Marvelous For Words - Oscar Peterson | | • | When The World Was Young - Anita O'Day/Three Sounds | | • | A Kiss From You - Billy Eckstine, Benny Carter | | • | Hit The Road To Dreamland - Cleo Laine | | • | Out Of This World - Helen Merrill |
Disc 3
| • | I Remember You - Charlie Parker | | • | Out Of This World - Gerry Mulligan/Concert Jazz Band | | • | Too Marvelous For Words - Lester Young | | • | Come Rain Or Come Shine - Bill Evans | | • | Mandy Is Two - Stan Getz | | • | Jeepers Creepers - Benny Carter | | • | Satin Doll - Johnny Hodges | | • | That Old Black Magic - Erroll Garner | | • | Tangerine - Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster | | • | Charade - Quincy Jones | | • | Laura - Don Byas | | • | I'm Old Fashioned - Oscar Peterson | | • | Skylark - Paul Motian | | • | Day In-Day Out - Terry Gibbs Big Band | | • | When The World Was Young - Stan Getz | | • | Days Of Wine And Roses - Joe Henderson/Wynton Kelly Trio |
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| Customer Reviews:
Mercer??? July 12, 2008
george daicoff (st petersburg, fl USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
All three discs are great, but the third (instrumental and jazzy)is outstanding. Old enough to be exposed to the popular Mercer tunes and understandingly biased regarding the commercialization of his stuff, I was thrilled to hear these renditions by the great artists selected for this disc. Worth the price for just the last disc-so consider the other two as bonuses.
Great! September 26, 2007
Doc Holliday
What's not to like? Incredible songs that became vocal standards by great jazz and pop vocalists and great jazz musicians! A wonderful gift for friends who prefer the classic jazz sound over fusion.
Listen and dream November 10, 2006
Hermann Hrdlicka (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
An excellent album. The best of Mercer performed by the best musicians and singers. The instrumental album is magnific, with names like Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz performing songs that sensibilize our reflections. An invitation for a dream.
If you have the music, he has the words June 6, 2006
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Among Johnny Mercer's greatest songs are: "P.S. I Love You" (1934, Gordon Jenkins), "Goody Goody" (1936, Matt Melneck), "I'm An Old Cowhand" (1936, words and music), "Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)" (1937, Bernie Hanighen), "Too Marvelous For Words" (1937, Richard Whiting), "Jeepers Creepers" (1938, Harry Warren), "Hooray For Hollywood" (1938, Richard Whiting), "Day In--Day Out" (1939, Rube Bloom), "I Thought About You" (1939, Jimmy Van Heusen), "Fools Rush In" (1940, Rube Bloom), "Blues In The Night" (1941, Harold Arlen), "Skylark" (1941, Hoagy Carmichael), "I Remember You" (1942, Victor Schertzinger), "I'm Old Fashioned" (1942, Jerome Kern), "That Old Black Magic"(1942, Harold Arlen), "Hit The Road To Dreamland" (1942, Harold Arlen), "My Shining Hour" (1943, Harold Arlen), "One For My Baby" (1943, Harold Arlen), "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" (1944, Harold Arlen), "Let's Take The Long Way Home"(1944, Harold Arlen), "G.I. Jive" (1944, words and music), "Laura" (1945, David Raskin), "Out Of This World" (1945, Harold Arlen), "Early Autumn" (1949, Woody Herman and Ralph Burns), "Autumn Leaves" (1950, English version of a French song, music by Joseph Kozma), "Here's To My Lady" (1951, Rube Bloom), "Something's Gotta Give" (1955, words and music), "Satin Doll" (1958, Duke Ellington), "Charade" (1963, Henry Mancini), "Summer Wind" (1965, Henry Mayer), and "How Do You Say Aug Wiedersehn?" (1967, Tony Scibetta).
This collection does not include them all but contains enough to show why he is considered one of the greatest lyricists popular American song ever produced.
One oddity with Mercer is that many of his greatest hits came from melodies, music which had been pre- produced and which he was asked to write the words for. So for instance the beautiful haunting 'Autumn Leaves' was given lyrics after it had come to America from France.
Mercer is also the only lyric writer to have been honored by an 'Ella Fitzergald Songbook' collection.
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