Mercury Records Collection: MG-20062: Shall We Dance

MG-20062: Shall We Dance / Buddy Morrow

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