Marvelous Marterie Explained

Marvelous Marterie
Type:	Album
Artist:	Ralph Marterie and the Marlboro Men
Cover:	MarvelousMarterie.jpg
Released:	May 1959^[1]
Recorded:	Universal Recorders, Chicago, IL, 1956–1959^[2]
Genre:	Big band
Label:	Wing

Marvelous Marterie is a studio album released by Ralph Marterie and his Marlboro Men in 1959 on Wing LP record MGW 12154 (mono) and SRW 12511 (stereo).

Background

This album was in Mercury’s budget Wing line. It was recorded between December 1956 and April 1959. Most of the individual recordings were never otherwise released by Mercury,^{[3] [4] [5]} although “When My Sugar Walks Down the Street” was also released on Mercury 45rpm #71488,^[6] and “Trombone Blues” was also released under the title “Private Eyeball” on the full-priced LP Music For A Private Eye (Mercury MG 20437, SR 60109)

Track listing

1. Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin – DeSylva – Macdonald)
2. Can't We Be Friends? (Swift - James)
3. Deep Purple (Peter DeRose)
4. Lonely Winter (arr. George Stone)
5. Trombone Blues (S. Allen – R. Marterie)
6. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (Irving Mills – Jimmy McHugh – Gene Austin)
7. Rain (Eugene Ford)
8. Stars Fell on Alabama (Frank Perkins – Mitchell Parish)
9. Sentimental Journey (Les Brown – Ben Homer – Bud Green)
10. I’ll Be Around (Alec Wilder)
11. Love Song from “Houseboat” (J. Livingston – Ray Evans)

Notes and References

1. Schwann record & tape guide (1964). Page 218.
2. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/catalog-wing-12100-series/ Mercury Records Catalog: Wing 12100 series
3. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/discography-1956/ Mercury Records Discography: 1956 session index
4. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/discography-1957/ Mercury Records Discography: 1957 session index
5. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/discography-1958/ Mercury Records Discography: 1958 session index
6. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/discography-1959/ Mercury Records Discography: 1959 session index