Mercury Records Collection: MG-20546: Like Swung

MG-20546: Like Swung / The Modernaires

Label Type :	black Mercury type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MS 20546A MS1 FF
	SIDE-B	MG 20546B MS1 FF

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-60220 (stereo).

with RCA Victor's inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

A famous Jazzy chorus group's nice album on Mercury.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The Modernaires are very famous for their recordings with Glenn Miller Orchestra of the early 1940s (all of them are now classics).

In this album, maybe backed up with Pete Rugolo family, some arrangements are done by the Modernaires themselves. Still the arrangements are rather neat, but not so bad.

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	19354 (PB2711)	If Dreams Come True (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson & Irving Mills)	2:55
A-2	18990 (PB2362)	Don't Dream Of Anybody But Me (Neal Hefti & Bart Howard)	3:05
A-3	19356 (PB2713)	Shiny Stockings (Frank Foster)	3:05
A-4	19310 (PB2667)	What A Diff'rence A Day Made (Maria Grever & Stanley Adams)	2:33
A-5	19311 (PB2668)	Ja-Da (Cha Cha Cha) (Bob Carleton)	2:20
A-6	18991 (PB2363)	Now And Then (The Four Lanians, The Modernaires & Jack Green)	2:30
SIDE-B
B-1	19309 (PB2666)	Everything's Coming Up Roses (Stephen Sondheim & Jule Styne)	2:09
B-2	18989 (PB2361)	Like Young (André Previn & Paul Francis Webster)	2:43
B-3	18992 (PB2364)	The Rockin' Ghost (Steve Allen & Ira Lee)	2:21
B-4	19312 (PB2669)	Romantique (Morty Corb & Hal Dickinson)	2:25
B-5	19355 (PB2712)	The Girl With The Long Black Hair (Pete Rugolo & Steve Allen)	2:29
B-6	19357 (PB2714)	Sweeter Than The Sweetest (Neil Lawrence & Willie “The Lion” Smith)	3:58

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 Modernaires: Paula Kelly (vo), Hal Dickinson (vo), Alan Copeland (vo), Vernon Polk (vo, g), Chuck Kelly (vo).

A-4, A-5, B-1, B-4:
The Modernaires with Pete Rugolo Orchestra, including:
Conte Candoli (tp), Frank Rosolino (tb), Bud Shank (fl),
Morty Corb (b), Jack Sperling (ds),
others unknown.
Recorded in Hollywood, CA, 1959.

A-1, A-3, B-5, B-6:
The Modernaires with Pete Rugolo Orchestra, including:
Tommy Reeves (tp), Bud Shank (fl), Jack Sperling (ds),
others unknown.
Recorded in Hollywood, CA, 1959.

A-2, A-6, B-2, B-3:
The Modernaires with Pete Rugolo Orchestra (personnel unknown).
Recorded in New York City, probably 1960.

A-1, A-2, A-5 arranged by the Modernaires.
A-3, A-4, B-1, B-2 arranged by Alan Copeland.
A-6 arranged by Manny Albam.
B-3 arranged by Ralph Sharon.
B-4 arranged by Morty Corb.
B-5 arranged by Pete Rugolo.
B-6 arranged by Tommy Reeves.