Mercury Records Collection: MG-20422: The River Boat Five Take The Train

MG-20422: The River Boat Five Take The Train / The River Boat Five

Label Type :	black Mercury type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 20422A MS1 FF
	SIDE-B	MG 20422B MS1 FF

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-60094 (stereo).

two small tears on back cover.

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

River Boat Five's third LP on Mercury - a very happy Dixieland session.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The rivival of Traditional Jazz, or Dixieland Jazz, would be more common in the 1940s - 1950s. There were so many Dixie-style albums left in the era. This is maybe one of them.

Sometimes I don't come to think which band, which album is “artistically” or “technically” superior ... it doesn't mean anything to me when talking about at least about Dixie. As the jacket cover design shows, it's full of happy moods. Actually on this album, The River Boat Five, although they are not a quintet but a septet, plays so fine. Everybody who listen to this album will get very happy feelings and walk in the line along the music. That's enough.

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	18237 (PB1693)	Wabash Cannonball	2:23
A-2	18238 (PB1694)	Sentimental Journey	3:33
A-3	18233 (PB1691)	Farewell Blues	3:18
A-4	18242 (PB1698)	On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe	2:23
A-5	18232 (PB1690)	Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye	2:53
SIDE-B
B-1	18240 (PB1696)	Alabamy Bound	2:01
B-2	18239 (PB1695)	Take The “A” Train	2:33
B-3	18243 (PB1699)	Casey Jones	2:50
B-4	18241 (PB1697)	I've Been Workin' On The Railroad	3:35
B-5	18234 (PB1692)	Night Train	3:16

Personnel

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

The River Boat Five (actually a septet) :
Ted Butterman (tp), Wray Thomas (tb), unknown (tuba), Ed Reed (cl, ts),
Keller Merck (p), Milt Fitch (banjo), Jim Lunsford (ds).
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in 1959.