Mercury Records Collection: Philips PHS 600-186: The Most Unusual Joan Toliver

PHS 600-186: The Most Unusual Joan Toliver / Joan Toliver

Label Type :	gold Philips promotional (“Vendor”)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	PHS600186A- M1 I RR
	SIDE-B	PHS600186B- M1 I RR

Comments

promotional copy (for broadcast) with gold Philips label.

with original Philips inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

A unique popular singing, but backed up with fine Jazz artists :-P

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	2-35215	Trouble In Mind (R. Jones)	2:41
A-2	2-36011	Feeling Good (from The Roar Of The Greasepaint) (L. Bricusse - A. Newley)	3:29
A-3	2-35189	Endlessly (C. Otis - B. Benton)	2:47
A-4	2-35216	A Sunday Kind Of Love (Belle - Leonard - Rhodes - Prima)	2:45
A-5	2-36012	Careless Love (W. C. Handy - Williams - Koenig)	2:10
A-6	2-35218	Squeeze Me (C. Williams - T. Waller)	3:13
SIDE-B
B-1	2-36014	One Room Paradise (J. L. McFarland)	2:34
B-2	2-36013	Rockin' Chair (H. Carmichael)	2:39
B-3	2-35217	In The Name Of Love (E. Levitt- Kenny Rankin)	2:33
B-4	2-35187	Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (D. Ellington - B. Russell)	2:20
B-5	2-36015	Talihi (J. L. McFarland)	2:35
B-6	2-35188	Willow Weep For Me (A. Ronell)	2:55

Personnel

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

Joan Toliver (vo) with Jimmy Jones (arr, cond) Orchestra, including:
Joe Newman (tp), Ernie Royal (tp), Bill Berry (tp),
Jimmy Cleveland (tb),
Phil Woods (as), Charlie Mariano (as),
Jerome Richardson (ts),
Danny Bank (bs), Romeo Penque (bs),
Paul Griffin (p),
Kenny Burrell (g), Wally Richardson (g), Carl Lynch (g),
Milt Hinton (b), Richard Davis (b), Art Davis (b),
Bobby Donaldson (ds), Grady Tate (ds), Osie Johnson (ds),
Dee Dee Warwick (vo), Cissy Houston (vo), Sylvia Shemwell (vo), Estelle Brown (vo).
Recorded maybe in New York City, 1965.

Produced by Fred Weintraub.
Directed by Hal Mooney.