Mercury Records Collection: Fontana MGF-27525: What The Dickens!

MGF-27525: What The Dickens! / Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra

Label Type :	light blue Fontana
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 27525A F 1 RR II
	SIDE-B	MG 27525B F 1 RR I

Comments

U.S. issue of Fontana [UK] TL/STL-5203.

Equivalent release: Fontana SRF-67525 (stereo).

with original Fontana inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

Impressive big combo session - all of the tracks inspired by Charles Dickens' text, from original English Fontana recording.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

(will be added later)

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

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	1-31378	Prologue To What The Dickens	2:26
A-2	1-31379	Weller Never Did (from Pickwick Papers)	1:58
A-3	1-31380	Little Nell (from The Old Curiosity Shop)	2:51
A-4	1-31381	The Infant Phenomenon (from Nicholas Nickleby)	2:12
A-5	1-31382	Demndest Little Fascinator (from Nicholas Nickleby)	3:09
A-6	1-31384	Dotheboys Hall (from Oliver Twist)	4:24
A-7	1-31385	Ghosts (from A Christmas Carol)	2:223
SIDE-B
B-1	1-31386	David And The Bloaters (from David Copperfield)	2:57
B-2	1-31387	Please Sir, I Want Some More (from Oliver Twist)	2:01
B-3	1-31388	The Artful Dodger (from Oliver Twist)	1:39
B-4	1-31389	Waiting For Something To Turn Up (from David Copperfield)	2:46
B-5	1-31390	Dodson And Fogg (from Pickwick Papers)	1:55
B-6	1-31391	The Pickwick Club (from Pickwick Papers)	3:15
B-7	1-31392	Sergeant Buzfuz (from Pickwick Papers)	2:15
B-8	1-31393	Finale To What The Dickens	2:29

Personnel

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

Leon Calvert (tp,flh), Kenny Wheeler (tp, tenor horn), Dickie Hawdon (tp, tenor horn), Gus Galbraith (tp),
Tony Russell (tb), Eddie Harvey (tb), Roy Snyder or Alf Reece (tuba),
Johnny Dankworth (as, cl), Roy East (as, fl, cl), Vic Ash (ts, cl), Art Ellefson (ts, b-cl),
Alan Dranscombe (p, vib, xyl), Kenny Napper or Spike Heatley (b), Johnny Butts (ds).

Guest Soloists:
Jimmy Deuchar (tp), Tony Coe (ts, cl),
Tubby Hayes (ts), Peter King (ts), Ronny Scott (ts), Bobby Wellins (ts), Dick Morrissey (ts),
Ronnie Ross (bs), Ronnie Stephenson (ds), Roy Webster (perc), David Shell (harp).

Recorded in London, UK on July 29, July 31, August 7 and October 4, 1963.