Johnny Mercer - Sings Just for Fun - Music & Performance - CD
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| Management number | 254558483 | Release Date | 2026/11/07 | List Price | US$4.25 | Model Number | 254558483 | ||
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On this 29 track album you will hear songs, some well- known and some rare gems, performed by Oscar-winning lyricist and founder of Capitol Records, Johnny Mercer, sung in his inimitable and genial style, recorded over four decades from the 1940s to the 1970s. From the 1940s are five fun songs appearing on CD for the first time and from the 1950s are songs Mercer recorded with the Paul Smith Trio, and appearing in stereo for the first time. Also included are nine demo songs Mercer composed with Hoagy Carmichael for an aborted film project, "The Keystone Girl" to star Betty Hutton. These demos with Mercer performing and Carmichael accompanying on piano are appearing on CD for the first time and include the first ever recorded version of the Oscar-winning "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening". The final four tracks are demos from the Mercer/Andre Previn West End stage musical "The Good Companions" starring Judi Dench. One of the four tracks, "Little Lost Dream" got rejected from the final production and how wonderful to hear it being sung here by the lyricist with piano accompaniment by the composer Andre Previn.
- SINGS JUST FOR FUN
- Music & Performance
- Sepia Recordings
| Performer | Johnny Mercer |
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| Music genre | Opera / Vocal |
| Music release type | Album |
| Media format | CD |
| Original release date | 2012-07-10 |
| Number of tracks | 29 |
| Has parental advisory label | N |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Awards won | Oscar |
| Track listing | Blues in the Night, Love Is Just Around the Corner, Old Ninety-Seven, Spring, Spring, Spring, Them There Eyes, Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell, St. Louis Blues, Accentuate the Positive, Java Jive, Hear Them Bells, The New Ashmolean, Take Me Back to Little Rock, The First Baseball Game, Lora-Belle Lee, My Gal Is Mone Once More [From Inside U.S.A.], Jamboree Jones [From the Rosemary Clooney TV Show], In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, Queenie, the Quick-Change Artist, I Guessed It Was You All the Time, Don't Care for the Heck of It, I'm All Tied Up, But They Better Not Wait Too Long, When I Get You in the Back of My Cadillac, At the Party, Any Similarity Is Just Co-Incidental, Little Lost Dream, Slippin' Around the Corner, The Pleasure of Your Company, I'll Tell the World |
| Record label | Sepia Recordings |
| Composer | Johnny Mercer |
| Songwriter | Johnny Mercer |
| Track name | Blues in the Night, Love Is Just Around the Corner, Old Ninety-Seven, Spring, Them There Eyes, Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell, St. Louis Blues, Accentuate the Positive, Java Jive, Hear Them Bells, The New Ashmolean, Take Me Back to Little Rock, The First Baseball Game, Lora-Belle Lee, My Gal Is Mine Once More, Jamboree Jones, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, Queenie, the Quick-Change Artist, I Guessed It Was You All the Time, Don't Care for the Heck of It, I'm All Tied Up, But They Better Not Wait Too Long, When I Get You in the Back of My Cadillac, At the Party, Any Similarity Is Just Co-Incidental, Little Lost Dream, Slippin' Around the Corner, The Pleasure of Your Company, I'll Tell the World |
| Digital audio file format | CD |
| Music media format | CD |
| Is edited | N |
| Is enhanced | N |
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