Capitol Collectors Series

Johnny Mercer - Capitol Collectors Series

Capitol Collectors Series
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Artist: Johnny Mercer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-07-26
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Strip Polka - Johnny Mercer
  2. I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City - Johnny Mercer, Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
  3. G.I. Jive - Johnny Mercer, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  4. Blues in the Night - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  5. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  6. Candy - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  7. I'm Gonna See My Baby - Johnny Mercer, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  8. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  9. Surprise Party - Johnny Mercer, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  10. Personality - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  11. My Sugar Is So Refined - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  12. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - Johnny Mercer, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  13. Zip a Dee Doo Dah - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  14. Gal in Calico - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  15. Winter Wonderland - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  16. Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Johnny Mercer
  17. Sugar Blues - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  18. Save the Bones for Henry Jones - Nat King Cole, King Cole Trio, Johnny Mercer
  19. Glow Worm - Johnny Mercer, Alvino Rey, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  20. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Johnny Mercer, Paul Weston & His Orchestra, Margaret Whiting

Music reviews of Capitol Collectors Series

Music Review: SIMPLY SHINES AND SHIMMERS!!
Rating: 5 Stars

Funny, after reading the thoughtful warning "surface noise from original discs is audible at times", printed clearly on the back cover, I was surprised at the absolute shimmering quality of this great work of musical art! In fact, not only could I not detect any noise whatsoever (perhaps partly being so entranced in the music), but the inside jacket points out that this was remastered from the original lacquer discs by Capitol, which ensures the absolute finest quality on Earth, for such a vintage recording!
To make my case even more convincing,(though I truly enjoy the British Proper label box sets), I was amazed at the difference clarity once I compared the very pretty "Candy", from Jo Stafford's gorgeous 4-disc Proper box set to the same take on this disc! This is the absolute same take, same no., date, and everything, but quite the difference! The Jo Stafford box set version sounds just fine, but on the Mercer album, we get to hear more of how this stuff must have sounded like when they listened back to it in the studio! I challenge anyone to find anything else this clear from back then,(and then I'll thank them!), since this is one obvious example of how clean and clear all that great stuff from the late '30s to the late '40s must have "originally" sounded.
There are probably already several reviews about the songs, so I won't go into that. If you like Johnny's great stuff from that particular era of his amazing career, you might want to try out "The Best of Tex Beneke", "The Complete Modernaires, Vol. 1", the Proper box set of "The Artie Shaw Story", Proper's Jo Stafford ("Yes Indeed"), etc., etc. They're all great, but it would be even better if they had the "high fidelity" of this disc! But what the hell! We're lucky just to have access to such wonderful music, period!

Description of Capitol Collectors Series

Johnny Mercer was one of the founders of Capitol Records, so it's fitting that this entry in the label's Collectors Series is such a well-compiled and -designed package. Comprised of 20 key sides made between 1942 and 1949, it captures the Savannah-born singer/songwriter's lazy, bluesy delivery on both his own tunes ("Blues in the Night," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "One for My Baby") and others' (Frank Loesser's "Baby It's Cold Outside," which Mercer and Margaret Whiting made into a No. 1 hit). Mercer was a major figure in American popular music; this CD makes clear that he was also a highly entertaining performer. --Rickey Wright

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