Mercury Records Collection: SR-60089: America's Dance Favorites

SR-60089: America's Dance Favorites / Clyde Otis And His Orchestra

Label Type :	black Mercury type C (large oval)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR-60089-A FR1 A2 I
	SIDE-B	SR-60089-B FR1 A1 I

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury MG-20413 (mono).

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

When I obtained this copy back in 2002, it was “sealed” - unlike ordinary “factory seal over the entire cover”, the factory inner sleeve had a sticker over the opening edge. Of course I opened it and played it - the disc looked virtually new. Please note that the scanned images of the factory inner sleeve (shown far below) is not the exact one which came with this album.

Inside The Groove

Nice, swingy and danceable sounds by Clyde Otis, a Mercury records's Recording Engineer, a songwriter, and also an arranger.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

It may be categorized under “Easy-Listening”, but it really swings with dynamic sounds. It's really much better than I expected (before I bought this album).

Sound quality and pressing quality is great (an FR press).

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	PB1420 (16926)	Charleston (Cecil Mack & Jimmy Johnson)	1:59
A-2	PB1417 (16923)	Secret Love (Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster)	3:15
A-3	PB1412 (16918)	That Old Feeling (Sammy Fain & Lew Brown)	3:45
A-4	PB1413 (16919)	Rat Tat Tat (Belford Hendricks)	2:22
A-5	PB1409 (16915)	Idaho (Jesse A. Stone)	2:46
A-6	PB1416 (16922)	Mister Sandman (Pat Ballard)	2:22
SIDE-B
B-1	PB1419 (16925)	Boogie Woogie (Clarence Pine Top Smith)	2:06
B-2	PB1410 (16916)	Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coastes & Jack Lawrence)	2:58
B-3	PB1415 (16921)	Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer)	2:35
B-4	PB1411 (16917)	For You For Me Forever More (George & Ira Gershwin)	2:47
B-5	PB1414 (16920)	Blackberry Blue And Rose Blossom Pink (Larry Douglas & Fred Norman)	2:17
B-6	PB1418 (16924)	Mariquita (Eliseo Grenet)	3:25

Personnel

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

Clyde Otis and his Orchestra, featuring Ann Leslie (vo on B-4).

Recorded at Fine Recording Studios, New York City, maybe in 1958.