Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer

Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer
Studio album by Buddy Rich
Released	1956
Recorded	January 4–6, 1956
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	40:53
Label	Verve
Producer	Norman Granz
Buddy Rich chronology
The Lionel Hampton Art Tatum Buddy Rich Trio (1956) Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer (1956) This One's for Basie (1956)

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Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer is a 1956 studio album by Buddy Rich, of the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, arranged by Buddy Bregman.^[2] This was the first of three vocal albums that Rich recorded.

Track listing

LP side A

1. "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck)
2. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen)
3. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael)
4. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen)
5. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen)
6. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Bloom)

LP side B

1. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom)
2. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen)
3. "Trav'lin' Light" (Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young)
4. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting)
5. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen)
6. "Dream" (Johnny Mercer)

All lyrics by Johnny Mercer, composers indicated.

Personnel

• Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
• Ted Nash – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Rowles – piano
• Buddy Rich – vocals, drums
• Alvin Stoller – drums
• Buddy Bregman – arranger, orchestra conductor

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer at AllMusic

• Verve MGV 2009
• Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer (Verve MGV 2009) at jazzdisco.org