Mercury Records Collection: MG-20826: Original Golden Hits Of The Great Blues Singers

MG-20826: Original Golden Hits Of The Great Blues Singers / Various Artists

Label Type :	green Mercury promotional C
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 20826A M1 1D FF
	SIDE-B	MG 20826B M1 1 FF

Comments

promotional copy (for broadcast) with green Mercury label.

Inside The Groove

Songs by Mercury's blues-taste singers, plus other famous blues tunes on such labels as Fury, Fire, Wand et al.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

I don't know why famous blues tunes by artists of other labels are included here... Mercury bought such labels? Or Mercury signed a certain agreement? I don't know...

Anyway, as the title says, all of them are real nice classics, even though some of them are not “Blues” tunes in our current ears. On the other hand, the album itself is now “collectable”.

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

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	Kiddio (Brook Benton - Clyde Otis)	Brook Benton	2:35
A-2	Lover's Question (Brook Benton - Jimmy Williams)	Clyde McPhatter	2:32
A-3	Fannie-May (Andy Gibson - Hary James)	Buster Brown	2:43
A-4	Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey - Morgan Robinson)	Lee Dorsey	2:21
A-5	Any Day Now (Bob Hilliard - Bert Bacharach)	Chuck Jackson	3:26
A-6	Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Frankie Lyman - George Goldman)	Frankie Lyman	2:16
SIDE-B
B-1	I'll Drown In My Own Tears (Glover)	Ray Charles	3:17
B-2	What Am I Living For (Fred Jay - Art Harris)	Chuck Willis	2:25
B-3	Mojo Hand (Morgan Robinson - L. Hopkins)	Lightning Hopkins	2:55
B-4	Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)	Ivory Joe Hunter	2:41
B-5	Let The Little Girl Dance (Spencer - Glover)	Billy Bland	2:17
B-6	The Sky Is Crying (Bennie Carter - Paul Herrick)	Elmore James	2:41