Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer Explained

Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer
Type:	studio
Artist:	Buddy Rich
Cover:	buddymercer.jpg
Released:	1956
Recorded:	January 4–6, 1956
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Length:	40:53
Label:	Verve
Producer:	Norman Granz
Prev Title:	The Lionel Hampton Art Tatum Buddy Rich Trio
Prev Year:	1956
Next Title:	This One's for Basie
Next Year:	1956

Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer is a 1956 studio album by Buddy Rich, of the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, arranged by Buddy Bregman. This was the first of three vocal albums that Rich recorded.

Track listing

LP side A

1. "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck)
2. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen)
3. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael)
4. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen)
5. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen)
6. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Bloom)

LP side B

1. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom)
2. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen)
3. "Trav'lin' Light" (Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young)
4. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting)
5. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen)
6. "Dream" (Johnny Mercer)

All lyrics by Johnny Mercer, composers indicated.

Personnel

• Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
• Ted Nash – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Rowles – piano
• Buddy Rich – vocals, drums
• Alvin Stoller – drums
• Buddy Bregman – arranger, orchestra conductor

References

• Verve MGV 2009
• Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer (Verve MGV 2009) at jazzdisco.org