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MG-20116: Authentic Ragtime Music / Sammy Spear and his Orchestra

[Front Cover] Label Type : black Mercury type A
Matrix Number : SIDE-A MG 20116A MF1    MSI    A2    I
SIDE-B MG 20116B MF2    MS    A2    Y    I



Comments

Front cover in heavy discolouration.

Inside The Groove

A good easy-listeningable ensemble with Ragtime flavours.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Authentic Ragtime Music? Anyway, we can enjoy on this album a very happy, good-old flavoured ensemble. Few musical stimulation, but a nice easy-listening type music.

Above of all, its recording is rather Hi-Fi around its time. A very good monaural recording.

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

6 out of 10




Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1 9807 Bees Knees -
A-2 9801 King Of The Rags -
A-3 9809 Knockout Drops -
A-4 9808 Tickle The Ivories -
A-5 10299 That Moaning Trombone -
A-6 10300 Chicken Reel -
SIDE-B
B-1 10301 Spaghetti Rag -
B-2 10122 All The Boys Love Mary -
B-3 10296 Melon Time In Dixieland (Vocal) -
B-4 10296 Melon Time In Dixieland -
B-5 10297 Black And White -
B-6 10298 Smokey Mokes -

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-2, A-3, A-4:
Sammy Spear (tp, cond) and his Orchestra.
Recorded in New York City in 1953.

B-2:
Sammy Spear (tp, cond) and his Orchestra.
Recorded in 1953 (recorded place unknown).

A-5, A-6, B-1, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6:
Sammy Spear (tp, cond) and his Orchestra.
Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, NYC in 1954.




Jackets

Front Back
[MG-20116 FRONT] [MG-20116 BACK]



Labels

Side A Side B
[MG-20116 A] [MG-20116 B]



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