MGJ-2-100: The East Side - The West Side / Patti Page

	Label Type :	blue EmArcy type C
	Matrix Number :	DISC 1 SIDE-A	MG-36116A-1    M1    MSI    C
		DISC 1 SIDE-B	MG-36116B-1    M1    MSI    F
		DISC 2 SIDE-A	MG-36136R A-1    M1    MSI    C
		DISC 2 SIDE-B	MG-36116R B-1    M    MSI    B

Comments

Gatefold cover.

with original EmArcy inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

A nice double album - coupling of “The East Side” (EmArcy MG-36116) and “The West Side” (EmArcy MG-36136).

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The East Side of New York - (according to the liner-notes) where all clubs are described as “intimate” where they be large or small and all singers spend a good deal of their off-time hunting for offbeat songs about unrequired love.

The West Side of New York - (again, according to the liner-notes) is unhesitatingly identified with a jazz atmosphere, and it's where you find Birdland and the Composer and the Hickory House and the swinging sounds.

On this double album, Patti Page sings the contrasts of East Side (ballad side) and West Side (jazzy and swingy side) with the help of Pete Rugolo Orchestra. An excellent album capturing Patti Page as a Jazz vocalist, as well as her another great album “Patti Page In The Land Of Hi-Fi” (MG-36074 / SR-80000).

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

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, B-2, B-3, B-4:
Patti Page (vo) with Pete Rugolo (arr, cond) and his Orchestra, personnel unknown.
Recorded in New York City on April 19, 1957.

A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5:
same personnel as B-1,
Recorded in New York City on April 25, 1957.

C-1, C-3, C-4, C-6, D-1, D-2, D-6:
Patti Page (vo) with Pete Rugolo (arr, cond) and his Orchestra, personnel including:
Pete Candoli (tp), Don Fagerquist (tp),
Larry Bunker (vib), Red Mitchell (b), Alvin Stoller (ds), Jack Costanza (bongo).
other personnels unknown.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on November 29, 1957.

C-2, C-5, D-3, D-4, D-5:
Patti Page (vo) with Pete Rugolo (arr, cond) and his Orchestra, personnel unknown.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on January 21, 1958.

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