Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36069: Erroll Garner

MG-36069: Erroll Garner

Label Type :	blue EmArcy type B
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 36069A MS2 MSII A1 I
	SIDE-B	MG 36069B MF2 MSII B1 I

Comments

There are two different version of this MG-36069 - first version (this disc) with 11388 “Sleep”; and second version whose 11388 replaced with 10841 “Imagination”.

Front jacket's coating in foggy wear (common in Mercury/EmArcy releases in 1956-1957).

Inside The Groove

Erroll Garner's third 12-inch LP album on EmArcy - compilation from 1954 trio session with conga, and 1955 solo session.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	11382	Who (Hammerstein - Kern - Harbach)	6:01
A-2	10846	Sweet And Lovely (Arnheim - Daniels - Tobias)	3:52
A-3	11396	Salud Segovia (Garner)	6:08
A-4	10842	Oh Lady Be Good (G. Gershwin)	2:33
SIDE-B
B-1	11388	Sleep (Lebieg)	5:40
B-2	11389	When A Gypsy Makes His Violin Cry (Deutch)	5:05
B-3	11381	Yesterdays (Kern - Harbach)	7:13

Personnel

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

B-1 “Sleep”, which is originally available on 1st edition of MG-36069, is also available on Mercury 40th Anniversary V.S.O.P. Album 4LP box). 2nd edition of MG-36069 contains “Imagination” in place of “Sleep”.

A-4:
Erroll Garner (p), Wyatt Ruther (b), Eugene “Fats” Heard (ds).
Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, New York City in July 1954.

A-2:
same personnel as A-4, except add Candido Camero (conga).
Recorded at Universal Sound Studios, Chicago, IL on July 27, 1954.

A-1, A-3, B-2, B-3:
Erroll Garner (p).
Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, New York City on March 14, 1955.

B-1:
same personnel/date/place as A-1, except Erroll Garner (p, celeste).

The Artist Also Appears on...

Erroll Garner (Errol Garner) (p) :

EmArcy MG-26016 10-inch : Garnering
EmArcy MG-26042 10-inch : Gone With Garner
EmArcy MG-36001 : Contrasts
EmArcy MG-36026 : Garnering
EmArcy MG-36069 : Erroll Garner (In The Land Of Hi-Fi)
Mercury MG-20009 : Errol Garner At The Piano
Mercury MG-20055 : Mambo Moves Garner
Mercury MG-20063 : Solitaire
Mercury MG-20090 : Afternoon Of An Elf
Mercury MG-20662 / SR-60662 : Plays Misty
Mercury MG-20803 / SR-60803 : Best Of Garner
Mercury MG-20859 / SR-60859 : Music From The Paramount Motion Picture “A New Kind Of Love”
Mercury SR-61308 : Feeling Is Believing

EmArcy MG-36087 : Bargain Day! / Various Artists
Mercury MG-20133 : Swinging For The King / Various Artists