Mercury Records Collection: SR-60626: Guitar's Greatest Hits

SR-60626: Guitar's Greatest Hits / Tom and Jerry

Label Type :	black Mercury type C
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	o SR 60626-A- M1 SI
	SIDE-B	o SR 60626-B-MS2 SBH I

Comments

Inside The Groove

Nice popular instrumentals by many guitarists.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Tom and Jerry. Of cource NOT pre-”Simon&Garfankel”. Anyway Tom (= Tommy Tomlinson, best known as Johnny Horton's sideman) and Jerry (= Jerry Kennedy), both rather known Country guitarlist, plays very well on this album.

Tom and Jerry, along with Hank Garland, Harold Bradley and Kenny Harston, plays the hits of that time. The arrangements are not so hard and swingy, but their guitar plays are inevitable. Very fine.

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	PB4715/PS501 (20274)	The Third Man Theme (Anton Karas)	2:35
A-2	PB4709/PS495 (20268)	Rebel-Rouser (Lee Hazelwood & Duane Eddy)	1:45
A-3	PB4718/PS504 (20277)	Sugarfoot Rag (Garland)	1:41
A-4	PB4710/PS496 (20269)	Honky-Tonk (Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, Billy Butler & Shep Shepard)	2:22
A-5	PB4719/PS505 (20278)	Sentimental Journey (Les Brown, Ben Homer & Bud Green)	2:05
A-6	PB4716/PS502 (20275)	Caravan (Irving Mills, Juan Tizol & Duke Ellington)	1:53
SIDE-B
B-1	PB4720/PS506 (20279)	Golden Wildwood Flower (Terry Kennedy & Tomlinson)	2:08
B-2	?	Guitar Boogie (Arthur Smith)	1:50
B-3	PB4712/PS498 (20271)	Walk, Don't Run (J. Smith)	2:05
B-4	PB4711/PS497 (20270)	Raunchy (William E. Justis, Jr. & Sidney Manker)	1:57
B-5	PB4713/PS499 (20272)	Rumble (Link Wray & Milt Grant)	2:14
B-6	PB4714/PS500 (20273)	South (Bennie Moten & T. Hayes)	2:32

Personnel

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

Tom and Jerry - Tom Tomlinson (g) and Jerry Kennedy(g) with:
Hank Garland (g), Harold Bradley (g), Kelso Herston (g),
Boots Randolph (sax),
Floyd Crammer (p), Bob Moore (b), Buddy Herman (ds).

Recorded at Owen Bradley Studio, Nashville, TN on October 29, 1960.

(the liner notes say “This album was recorded one week before Tommy Tomlinson was in the auto accident which took the life of the famous Johnny Horton.” The day Johnny Horton suffered car accident was November 5, 1960.)