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JOHNNY MERCER OTHER VOCALISTS ALBUMS
Lorez Alexandria:
-Volume One. sings the songs of Johnny Mercer with the Mike Wofford Quartet.1981.Trend
Records. DS 826.Discovery Records. "I Remember You", "Early Autumn",
"I Thought About You", "My Shining Hour", "Travelin' Light",
"The Days of Wine and Roses","Dearly Beloved", "When a Woman
Loves a Man", "Fools Rush In".
-Volume Two. sings the songs of Johnny Mercer with the Gildo Mahones Quartet.
"Harlem Butterfly".-DS-905. Discovery. Trend Records.1984. "Lazy
Mood(Love's Got Me In A)", "This Times The Dream's on Me","Mandy is
Two","Come Rain or Come Shine","Harlem Butterfly",
"Skylark", "P.S. I Love You", "Too Marvelous for Words".
-Volume Three. sings the songs of Johnny Mercer. with the Gildo Mahones Quartet.
"TANGERINE". Trend Records. TR-538.1985.Discovery/Trend Records.
"Tangerine", "Bittersweet", "I'm Old Fashioned", "When
the World Was Young(Ah, The Apple Trees)", "Any Place I Hang My Hat is
Home", "That Old Black Magic", "Namely You", "Midnight
Sun", "I'm Building Up to An Awful Letdown", "Day In- Day Out".
***(one of the best) Anita Ellis. Echoes. Michael's Pub
#EPM2-151627, Anita Ellis and Lerry Kert sing. Arranges by Dick Haymes.
Musicians: Dick Hyman/Robby Rosengarded/Dick Sudhalter/Urbie Green/Tony Mattola/George
Duvivier/Victor Feldman. "Pleasure of Your Company", "Dance of
Life", "Drinking Again", "Big Red Apple",
"Echoes", "Ta Luv", "Early Autumn", "Guitar
Country", "If Someday Ever Comes", "Anywhere I Hang My Hat
is Home", "Good Companions".
Fitzgerald,Ella. The Harold Arlen Songbook. Verve. LP. p.c. 1984. Includes these
Mercer pieces in addition to other Arlen collaborations: "Come Rain or Come
Shine", "One for My Baby", "Out of this World", "This Time
the Dream's on Me", "That Old Black Magic", "Ac-Cent-Tchu Ate the
Positive", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "My Shining
Hour", "Blues in the Night".
Hendersron,Bill. A Tribute To Johnny Mercer.Discovery/Trend. LP 1981. Includes
these 9 Mercer Pieces: "Something's Gotta Give", "My Shining Hour",
"I Thought About You", "Blues in the Night", "Out of this
World", I'm An Old Cowhand", "Hooray for Hollwyood", "I Remember
You", "On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe", "Something's Gotta
Give".
Susannah McCorkle. The Songs of Johnny Mercer. Inner City #1101. "At the
Jazz Band Hall", "Fools Rush In", "I'm Old Fashioned",
"Blues in the Night", "My New Celebrity is You", "Skylark",
"Anyplace I Hang My Hat is Home", "Talk to Me Baby", "This Time
The Dream's on Me - & Dream", "How Little We Know", "Harlem
Butterfly", "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurray", "Love's Got
Me in a Lazy Mood", "One for My Baby (And One More For the Road)".
Frank Sinatra. Sings the Select Johnny Mercer Capitol #DW1984. "Something's
Gotta Give", "Day In-Day Out", "Jeepers Creepers", "Fools
Rush In", "P.S. I Love You", "When the World Was Young",
"Blues in the Night", "Too Marvelous For Words", "Laura",
"I Thought About You", "Dream", "Autumn Leaves".
Helen Shapiro. The Quality of Mercer Caligraph# CLGLP 014. 1987.
"Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You", "Goody,Goody",
"I Thought About You", "I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown,
"Midnight Sun", "Jubilation T Cornpone", "When a Woman
Loves a Man", "Fools Rush In", "I'm Old Fashioned",
"G.I. Jive", "Tangerine", "Laura", "Jeepers
Creepers", "Satin Doll", "Autumn Leaves", "I Wanna
Be Around", "Skylark", "Cinderella", "You Go Your
Way", "Medley: Lazybones, Glow-Worm, Too Marvelous for Words,
"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "That Old Black
Magic", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Accentchuate the
Positive", "I Remember You", "Hooray for Hollywood",
"Dearly Beloved", "Dream", "Spring, Spring, Spring,
"Blues in the Night", "Moon River", "Charade",
"The Days of Wine and Roses", "Something's Gotta Give",
"Day In Day Out"
***Phyllis Taylor Sparks...I Remember You Harpist, an instrumental
tribute to Johnny Mercer. Voyager Records, 1997. #3801. "Satin Doll",
"Fools Rush In", "Tangerine", "Skylark","Dream",
"Goody ,Goody", "Too Marvelous for Words", "I Remember
You", "Charade", "In the Cool,Cool,Cool of the
Evening", "Moon River"
Val Teare. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Roland Shaw Orchestra and Chorus. London#SP
44283. c.p. London Records/The Decca Record Co. "Blue's in the Night",
"That Old Black Magic", "Skylark",
"Goody-Goody","Charade", "Come Rain or Come Shine",
"Satin Doll", "Day in- Day Out", "Laura", "You Must
Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Autumn Leaves", "Something's Gotta
Give".
Bobby Troup. Sings Johnny Mercer.Bethlehem High Fidelity. Re-Issued by Fresh
Sound Records. Barcelona,Spain. BCP.19.& FSR-2008(Re-issue) "Jamboree
Jones","Midnight Sun","Come Rain or Come Shine",
"Laura", "That Old Black Magic", "One for my Baby",
"Cuckoo in the Clock", "Day In-Day Out", "Jeepers Creepers",
"Lazy Mood(Love's Got Me In A),"Skylark", "I'm With You".
Marlene VerPlanck. Loves Johnny Mercer. Audiophile. AP 138.1979. Also on
CD."I Remember You", "That Old Black Magic","Early Autumn",
"Hit the Road to Dreamland","Skylark","Any Place I Hang My Hat Is
Home","Fools Rush In","Day In-Day Out","Let's Take the Long
Way Home","I'm Old Fashioned", "Jeepers Creepers","Midnight
Sun","Somethings Gotta Give","I Thought About You","Out of
This World","P.S. I Love You".
Margaret Whiting. Too Marvelous For Words. A Tribute to Johnny Mercer and Richard
Whiting.Audiophile. 152. 1980 Also on CD. "Too Marvelous For Words",
"Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks","Any Place I Hang My Hat is
Home", "You Grow Sweeter As the Years Go By", "Have You Got Any
Castles Baby?", "You Go Your Way", "Somethings Gotta Give",
MEDLEY "One For My Baby(And One More For the Road)/Blues in the Night","Day
In - Day Out", "I Remember You". Also these by Richard Whiting(no
Mercer)..............."On the Good Ship Lollipop", "My Future Just
Passed", "Sleepy Time Gal", "She's Funny That
Way","Guilty","My Ideal".
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