Mercury Records Collection: MG-20152: Banjo On My Knee

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MG-20152: Banjo On My Knee / John Cali

Label Type :	black Mercury type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG-20152A MS1 F-S INJ
	SIDE-B	MG-20152B-MS3 F-S INJ

Comments

Inside The Groove

First solo album by John Cali on Mercury, a famous jazz banjo player and a maestro of banjo.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

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

5 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	12201	Turkey In The Straw Medley (Arr. George Stone)	2:05
A-2	12203	Waiting Fo The Robert E. Lee (Muir - Gilbert)	2:10
A-3	12208	Kentucky Babe (Geibel - Buck)	1:55
A-4	12204	Medley: Honeysuckle, Down South (Arr. George Stone)	2:19
A-5	12209	Medley: Old Rebel, River Song (Arr. George Stone)	2:10
A-6	12206	Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Creamer - Layton)	1:42
SIDE-B
B-1	12207	Southland Medley (Arr. George Stone)	4:25
B-2	12202	Alabamy Bound (DeSylva - Green - Henderson)	1:46
B-3	12212	Mandy (Irving Berlin)	1:47
B-4	12210	Old Man River (Jerome Kern)	1:57
B-5	12205	Rock A-Bye Your Baby (Schwartz - Lewis - Young)	2:06
B-6	12211	Yellow Rose Of Texas (Arr. George Stone)	1:40

Personnel

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

John Cali (banjo), with Richard Hayman and his Orchestra.
Recorded in New York City in 1955.

The Artist Also Appears on...

John Cali (banjo) :

Mercury MG-20152 : Banjo On My Knee
Mercury MG-20357 : The Banjo Minstrel Man
Mercury MG-20469 / SR-60151 : Honky Tonk Piano And A Hot Banjo / Lou Stein & John Cali