Complete HELEN MERRILL on MERCURY 4LP Boxset- Japanese pressing
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This four-LP box set, whose contents have been partly reissued on CD, has all of singer Helen Merrill's output for Mercury; only two selections for the Roost label in 1953 precede these definitive recordings. Merrill, whose warm voice was always both distinctive and flexible, could hold her own with the best jazz musicians of the era. Best known of her recordings are her classic collaborations with Clifford Brown on seven selections arranged by Quincy Jones (including "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and "Falling in Love With Love"), but almost as significant was a notable album on which she employed the little-known Gil Evans as arranger, a year before he teamed up with Miles Davis for Miles Ahead. Other Mercury dates include work with the Johnny Richards Orchestra, arranger Hal Mooney, flutist Bobby Jaspar, and pianist Bill Evans. Highlights include "Glad to Be Unhappy," "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home," "Where Flamingos Fly," and "The Things We Did Last Summer," but all 62 selections are well worth hearing. Highly recommended.
Track Listing - Disc 1
Title/Composer Performer Time
1 Alone Together Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz Helen Merrill
2 Alone Together Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz Helen Merrill
3 Glad to Be Unhappy Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers Helen Merrill
4 This Is My Night to Cry Helen Merrill
5 How's the World Treating You Chet Atkins / Boudleaux Bryant Helen Merrill
6 How's the World Treating You Chet Atkins / Boudleaux Bryant Helen Merrill
7 Don't Explain Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog, Jr. Helen Merrill
8 Born to Be Blue Al Hoffman / Abner Silver Helen Merrill
9 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Cole Porter Helen Merrill
10 'S Wonderful George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin Helen Merrill
11 Yesterdays Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern Helen Merrill
12 Falling in Love With Love Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers Helen Merrill
13 What's New? Johnny Burke / Bob Haggart Helen Merrill
Track Listing - Disc 2
Title/Composer Performer Time
1 You Won't Forget Me Kermit Goell / Fred Spielman Helen Merrill
2 Lilac Wine Chappell / James Alan Shelton Helen Merrill
3 Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year Frank Loesser Helen Merrill
4 Beautiful Love Haven Gillespie / Wayne King / Egbert VanAlstyne / Victor Young Helen Merrill
5 Just You, Just Me Jesse Greer / Raymond Klages Helen Merrill
6 When I Fall in Love Edward Heyman / Victor Young Helen Merrill
7 The End of a Love Affair Edward Redding Helen Merrill
8 Mountain High, Valley Low Bernie Hanighen / Raymond Scott Helen Merrill
9 Anything Goes Cole Porter Helen Merrill
10 Comes Love Lew Brown / Sam H. Stept / Charles Tobias Helen Merrill
11 (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over Herbert Magidson / Allie Wrubel Helen Merrill
12 Wait Till You See Him Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers Helen Merrill
13 He Was Too Good to Me Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers Helen Merrill
14 I've Never Seen Helen Merrill feat: Lorenz Hart
15 I'm a Fool to Want You Joel Herron / Frank Sinatra / Jack Wolf Helen Merrill
16 Troubled Waters Sam Coslow / Arthur Johnston Helen Merrill
Track Listing - Disc 3
Title/Composer Performer Time
1 Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer Helen Merrill
2 Where Flamingos Fly John Benson Brooks / Harold Courlander / El Thea Helen Merrill
3 I'm Just a Lucky So and So Mack David / Duke Ellington Helen Merrill
4 A New Town Is a Blue Town Richard Adler / Jerry Ross Helen Merrill
5 Be Myself Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz Helen Merrill
6 People Will Say We're in Love Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers Helen Merrill
7 You're Lucky to Me Eubie Blake / Andy Razaf Helen Merrill
8 Dream of You Sy Oliver Helen Merrill
9 Blue Guitar Helen Merrill
10 Listen Jean Broussole / Gilbert Bécaud Helen Merrill
11 I'll Be Around Alec Wilder Helen Merrill
12 Soft as Spring Alec Wilder Helen Merrill
13 If I Forget You Irving Caesar Helen Merrill
14 After You Cole Porter Helen Merrill
15 It's a Lazy Afternoon John Latouche / Jerome Moross Helen Merrill
Track Listing - Disc 4
Title/Composer Performer Time
1 If You Go Geoffrey Parsons Helen Merrill
2 If Love Were All Noël Coward Helen Merrill
3 If Love Were All Noël Coward Helen Merrill
4 Easy Come, Easy Go Johnny Green / Edward Heyman Helen Merrill
5 The Things We Did Last Summer Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne Helen Merrill
6 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair Traditional Helen Merrill
7 I See Your Face Before Me Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz Helen Merrill
8 I Remember You Johnny Mercer / Victor Schertzinger Helen Merrill
9 Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise Oscar Hammerstein II / Sigmund Romberg Helen Merrill
10 Bye Bye Blackbird Mort Dixon / Ray Henderson Helen Merrill
11 This Time the Dream's on Me Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer Helen Merrill
12 Dearly Beloved Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer Helen Merrill
13 Summertime George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward Helen Merrill
14 Let Me Love You Harlan Howard Helen Merrill
15 When the Sun Comes Out Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler Helen Merrill
16 All of You Cole Porter Helen Merrill
17 The Nearness of You Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington Helen Merrill
18 Just Imagine Lew Brown / Ray Henderson Helen Merrill
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