[ Jazz Giants Play / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 12 October 2005
Any list of America's ten greatest songwriters would include the name of Johnny Mercer (1909-1976). Most authorities rank him as the greatest lyricist the nation has produced. His career constitutes by itself a graphic history spanning the four momentous decades from the Great Depression to the Space Age. Here are 25 tracks by such fine names as Ella Fitzgerald & Marty Paich, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra & Nelson Riddle, Nat King Cole, Billy Holiday & Tony Scott, Johnny Hartman, Mel Tormé and many more.
1 Blues in the Night
2 Spring, Spring, Spring
3 Autumn Leaves
4 Laura
5 That Old Black Magic
6 Moon River
7 Come Rain or Come Shine
8 And The Angels Sing
9 On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
10 Charade
11 If You Were Mine
12 Goody Goody
13 Jeepers Creepers
14 Day In - Day Out
15 Trav'lin Light
16 Laura
17 Too Marvelous For Words
18 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
19 Ridin' on the Moon
20 One For My Baby
21 P.S. I Love You
22. I Thought About You
23. I'm Old Fashioned
24. Sonething's Gotta Give
25. Blues in the Night