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MG-20062: Shall We Dance / Buddy Morrow

[Front Cover] Label Type : black Mercury type A
Matrix Number : SIDE-A MG20062A MF 1    A1    I
SIDE-B MG200602B MF 1    A1    I



Comments

a small tear on front cover.

Inside The Groove

A best mate for dancing at ballrooms in the middle 1950s :)

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

A ballroom dancing - a good-old-days-style entertainment in the U.S. since pre-war decates - the attendance had been dropping in the 1950s. But Buddy Morrow tried to stick with the style - a danceable, listenable ballroom music with his new style.

As a matter of fact, he didn't do any boring styles. Along with the changes of the mainstream of Jazz and dancemate music, he stayed with good-old musical style but with new bleed.

This album, maybe recorded in 1955, contains tunes rather mellower than ordinary Big-Band Jazz music, but some of them here are very swingy and well listenable in our recent ears.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

6 out of 10




Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1 11032 Intermezzo (Provost) -
A-2 11187 Body And Soul (Green - Heyman -Sour) -
A-3 11025 My Melancholy Baby (Burnett - Watson - Norton) -
A-4 11033 Let's Do It (Cole Porter) -
A-5 11489 Something To Remember You By (Schwartz - Dietz) -
A-6 11481 September Song (Weill - Anderson) -
SIDE-B
B-1 11186 The Touch Of Your Lips (Ray Noble) -
B-2 11185 Blue Prelude (Bishop - Jenkins) -
B-3 11480 We'll Be Together Again (Fischer - Laine) -
B-4 11483 I Found A Million Dollar Baby (Warren - Rose - Dixon) -
B-5 11482 That Old Feeling (Faim - Brown) -
B-6 11488 Too Marvelous For Words (Whiting - Mercer) -

Personnel


Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

A-1, A-3, A-4:
Buddy Morrow (tb, leader) and his Orchestra (detailed members unknown)
with Jimmy Mercer (vo on A-4) and Dorothy Kay (vo on A-4).
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in 1954.

A-2, B-1, B-2:
Buddy Morrow (tb, leader) and his Orchestra (detailed members unknown)
with Jerry Mercer (vo).
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in 1955.

A-5, A-6, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6:
Buddy Morrow (tb, leader) and his Orchestra (detailed members unknown).
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in 1955.

The Artist Also Appears on...

Buddy Morrow (tb) :
  • Mercury MG-20062 : Shall We Dance
  • Mercury MG-20204 : A Salute To The Fabulous Dorseys (reissue of MGW-12000)
  • Mercury MG-20210 : Music For Dancing Feet (reissue of MGW-12006)
  • Mercury MG-20221 : Buddy Morrow And His Golden Trombone
  • Mercury MG-20290 : A Tribute To A Sentimental Gentleman (Buddy Morrow Plays Tommy Dorsey)
  • Mercury MG-20372 / SR-60018 : Just We Two / Buddy Morrow & Eddie Layton
  • Mercury MG-20396 / SR-60009 : Night Train
  • Mercury MG-20702 / SR-60702 : Night Train Goes To Hollywood
  • Mercury MG-20764 / SR-60764 : A Collection Of 33 All-Time Dance Favorites / Eddie Layton & Buddy Morrow
  • Wing MGW-12000 : A Salute To The Fabulous Dorseys
  • Wing MGW-12006 : Music For Dancing Feet
  • Wing MGW-12102 : Dance Date!
  • Wing MGW-12105 : Golden Trombone / A Tribute To A Sentimental Gentleman



Jackets

Front Back
[MG-20062 FRONT] [MG-20062 BACK]



Labels

Side A Side B
[MG-20062 A] [MG-20062 B]



MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji <shaolin@rhythmaning.org>
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