Mavis Meets Shorty Explained

Mavis Meets Shorty
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Mavis Rivers and Shorty Rogers
Cover:	Mavis Meets Shorty.jpg
Released:	1963
Recorded:	1962
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Reprise R 6074
Producer:	Chuck Sagle
Chronology:	Shorty Rogers
Prev Title:	Jazz Waltz
Prev Year:	1963
Next Title:	Gospel Mission
Next Year:	1963

Mavis Meets Shorty is an album by vocalist Mavis Rivers and trumpeter Shorty Rogers, released on the Reprise label in 1963.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

1. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) – 2:07
2. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 2:59
3. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Jack Segal, Marvin Fischer) – 2:23
4. "Nothing But the Best" (Johnny Rotella) – 2:43
5. "I Feel So Smoochie" (Phil Moore) – 2:34
6. "Im Gonna Live Till I Die" (Al Hoffman, Walter Kent, Manny Curtis) – 3:07
7. "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:33
8. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:02
9. "Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça, Jon Hendricks, Jessie Cavanaugh) – 2:14
10. "My Shining Hour" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 1:48
11. "By Myself" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 1:56
12. "Get Out of Town" (Porter) – 2:08

Personnel

• Mavis Rivers – vocals
• Shorty Rogers – trumpet
• Unidentified orchestra and string section arranged and conducted by Chuck Sagle including:
  • Red Callender – tuba
  • Richard Grove – piano

Notes and References

1. http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/reprise/reprise6000.html Reprise Album Discography, Part 2: R/R9-6001 to R/RS-6199 (1961–1966)