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MG-36125: Olay! / Ruth Olay

[Front Cover] Label Type : blue EmArcy type C
Matrix Number : SIDE-A MG 36125A-1    M    A    MSI
SIDE-B MG 36125B-1    M    B    MSI



Comments

Later reissued as Mercury MG-20547 (mono) and Mercury SR-60085 (stereo).

Inside The Groove

A charming high-tone vocal backed up with nice musicians.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Ruth Olay, an unique stylist of female vocal, already sang as a vocalist with Benny Carter's band in her 1940s (under another name Rachel Davis). In her early 1950s she sang at various local clubs, when Mercury's A&R Pete Rugolo got interested in her.

On this album, Ruth Olay was backed up with famous West-Coast musicians and arranged by Pete Rugolo. Her one-and-only vocal style sounds very different from ordinary female jazz singing, but this is very impressive.

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

7 out of 10




Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1 16097 (JB126/JS66) Singin' In The Rain (Brown - Freed) 2:30
A-2 16259 (JB146/JS55) Slow But Sure (Carter - Hanson) 1:53
A-3 16098 (JB127/JS67) Lover Man (J. Davis - R. Ramirez - J. Sherman) 3:00
A-4 16095 (JB124/JS64) When The Sun Comes Out (Arlen - Koehler) 3:03
A-5 16256 (JB143/JS59) Lucky Day (DeSylva - Brown - Henderson) 2:23
A-6 16096 (JB125/JS65) It Never Entered My My Mind (Rodgers - Hart) 3:52
SIDE-B
B-1 16260 (JB140/JS57) You Make Me Feel So Young (Myrow - Gordon) 3:20
B-2 16261 (JB141/JS57) I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Ellington - Nemo - Mills - Redmond) 2:51
B-3 16257 (JB144/JS60) Love For Sale (Cole Porter) 3:12
B-4 16093 (JB122/JS61) I'm Glad There Is You (Nadeira - Dorsey) 4:05
B-5 16258 (JB145/JS58) After You've Gone (Creamer - T. Layton) 1:28
B-6 16094 (JB123/JS62) I Wanna Be Loved (Green - Rose - Heyman) 3:15

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-1, A-3, A-4, A-6, B-4, B-6:
Ruth Olay (vo) with:
three violins, one viola, Ed Lustgarten (cello),
Milt Bernhart (tb), George Roberts (tb), unknown (tb), Sy Zentner (b-tb), Bud Shank (alto flute),
Bud Motsinger (p), Howard Roberts (g), Red Mitchell (b), Larry Bunker (ds).
Recorded probably in Los Angeles, CA on January 30, 1958.

A-2, A-5, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-5:
Ruth Olay (vo) with:
Don Fagerquist (tp), Red Norvo (vib), Bud Motsigner (p),
Howard Roberts (g), Red Mitchell (b), Shelly Manne (ds).
Recorded probably in Los Angeles, CA, 1957.

The Artist Also Appears on...

Ruth Olay (vo) :
  • EmArcy MG-36125 : Olay!
  • Mercury MG-20390 / SR-60069 : Easy Living
  • Mercury MG-20547 / SR-60085 : Olay! (reissue of MG-36125)



Jackets

Front Back
[MG-36125 FRONT] [MG-36125 BACK]



Labels

Side A Side B
[MG-36125 A] [MG-36125 B]



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