Mercury Records Collection: MG-20317: Oh Yeah!

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MG-20317: Oh Yeah! / Billy Williams

Label Type :	black Mercury type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG-20317A-1 F-S
	SIDE-B	MG-20317B-2 F-S

Comments

sticker on front cover.

Inside The Groove

A nice compilation of Billy Williams' Doo-Wop hits in 1952-1957, released as this album maybe in 1958.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Contains typical middle-tempo Doo-Wop songs. Some of them are very interesting: especially B-5 “Azure-Te” is middle-slow-tempo Doo-Wop song with VERY LOUSY ORGAN CHORDS in every break. Funny and pretty.

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

6 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	10087	I've Got An Invitation To A Dance (Symes - Neiburg - Levinson)	2:26
A-2	9149	It's Best We Say Goodbye (Allen - Roberts)	2:35
A-3	10088	I'll Close My Eyes To The Rest Of The World (Friend)	2:00
A-4	10089	If I Never Get To Heaven (Carson - Botkin Jr.)	2:50
A-5	10090	Ask Me No Questions (B. Newberger)	2:12
A-6	9708	Cattle Call (T. Owens)	2:11
SIDE-B
B-1	9709	A Smile For Suzette (Gallop - Brown - Varys)	2:22
B-2	9706	This Side Of Heaven (E. Browning)	2:05
B-3	9707	You're The One For Me (Reed - Glazer)	1:54
B-4	9146	Who Knows (Skylar - Camarata)	2:08
B-5	9147	Azure-Te (Wolf - Davis)	2:24
B-6	9283	I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) (Turk - Alhert)	2:43

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-2, B-4, B-6:
Billy Williams (vo) with Glenn Osser and his Orchestra.
Recorded in 1952.

B-6:
Billy Williams (vo) with Charles Sanford and his Orchestra.
Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, New York City, maybe in October 1952.

A-6, B-1, B-2, B-3:
Billy Williams (vo) with unknown orchestra.
Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, New York City, maybe in May 1953.

A-1, A-3, A-4, A-5:
Billy Williams (vo) with unknown.
Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, New York City in 1953.

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Side A	Side B

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