Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer
{{Infobox album
| name = Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer
| type = studio
| artist = Buddy Rich
| cover = buddymercer.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1956
| recorded = January 4–6, 1956
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Vocal jazz
| length = 40:53
| label = Verve
| producer = Norman Granz
| prev_title = The Lionel Hampton Art Tatum Buddy Rich Trio
| prev_year = 1956
| next_title = This One's for Basie
| next_year = 1956
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r146259|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
}}
Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer is a 1956 studio album by Buddy Rich, of the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, arranged by Buddy Bregman.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r146259|label=Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer}} This was the first of three vocal albums that Rich recorded.
Track listing
LP side A
- "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck)
- "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen)
- "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael)
- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen)
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen)
- "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Bloom)
LP side B
- "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom)
- "Blues in the Night" (Arlen)
- "Trav'lin' Light" (Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young)
- "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting)
- "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen)
- "Dream" (Johnny Mercer)
All lyrics by Johnny Mercer, composers indicated.
Personnel
References
{{Reflist}}
- Verve MGV 2009
- Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer (Verve MGV 2009) at [http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/catalog-popular-2000-series/#mgv-2009 jazzdisco.org]
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Category:Albums arranged by Buddy Bregman
Category:Albums produced by Norman Granz