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The Songs of Johnny Mercer

Susannah McCorkle | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (29 April 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Jazz Alliance
  • ASIN: B000005HJX
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 119,260 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. At The Jazz Band Ball 2:51£0.69
Listen  2. Fools Rush In 4:47£0.69
Listen  3. I'm Old Fashioned 3:54£0.69
Listen  4. Blues In The Night 3:22£0.69
Listen  5. My New Celebrity Is You 4:29£0.69
Listen  6. Skylark 3:32£0.69
Listen  7. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home 4:20£0.69
Listen  8. Talk To Me Baby 3:23£0.69
Listen  9. This Time The Dream's On Me / Dream 4:54£0.69
Listen10. How Little We Know 3:40£0.69
Listen11. Harlem Butterfly 3:46£0.69
Listen12. Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry 3:11£0.69
Listen13. Love's Got Me In A Lazy Mood 3:54£0.69
Listen14. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 4:12£0.69

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
An early masterpiece 17 Jan 2004
By Peter Durward Harris #1 HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Susannah recorded this album while she was living in London in 1977. Although Susannah enjoyed life in the UK, it was made clear to her that this type of music was more popular in her native America, so she returned home soon afterwards. This was the right decision although another American singer of the Great American Songbook, Stacey Kent, has more recently become very successful using London as a base.

Susannah has recorded several albums featuring songs by particular composers. Johnny Mercer wrote many great songs for some of the best names in the business. Dinah Shore (Skylark, Blues in the night), Frank Sinatra (Talk to me baby, One for my baby) and Blossom Dearie (My new celebrity is you) were among the singers who were the first to record the songs that Susannah chose for this album. Other famous songs here are I'm old fashioned and Fools rush in.

Many famous songs that could have been included weren't because Susannah always liked to include less obvious but still great songs. I particularly like At the jazz band ball (based on an old Dixieland jazz tune) and Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry – these upbeat songs provide a contrast with the ballads that dominate this album.

Perhaps this is not the best album that Susannah recorded, but it set an extremely high standard early in her career.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
A real gem - don't miss it 12 Jun 2000
By EAK - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
While Ella fitzgerald's outstanding songbooks recordings is generally regarded as the first choice (George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and hart, Harold Arlen), it is not so with her Johnny Mercer songbook. This is where Susannah McCorkle's excellent collection enters and revives these lush standards. Don't hesitate with this CD which presents Mercer at his very best and is a consequence of gems. Both the choice of the songs and the preformance are impeccable.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Another Great Collection 10 Oct 2001
By Don A. Frascinella - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Again, Susannah McCorkle proved her ability to do justice to the works of the great composers and her tribute to Johnny Mercer shine with the best of them.

My reviews are always filled with my love and admiration of Susannah and I was broken hearted by her untimely death. But comfort is found in the songs she left us and in what she might have been telling us. I find it ironic that "One for My Baby" is the ast song on this CD and perhaps foretells that this was it. "Anyplace I Hang my Hat is Home" has always been a song for those who were lonely and longing for some sense of being.

My other favorites on this were "Blues in the Night", "Fools Rush In" and "I'm Old Fashioned" - songs we have heard many times but Susannah's original and unique interpretations of these songs makes them feel new.

Tribute CDs such as this one are wonderful ways to learn about an artist or composer and beome familiar with their work. Susannah's work always inspires me to learn more about a composer and when I compare performances of these great songs, her renditions stand with the best of them.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
The Courage To Sing The Great Music Yields A Triumph 12 Jun 2001
By Daniel J. McGarigle - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Susannah McCorkle's courage to sing the great songs of Johnny Mercer was evident when she originally released this album on the now defunct Inner City label. And it is because the songs on this album are among the greatest American popular songs that most singers avoid them. These Johnny Mercer songs have been sung again and again by all the great singers. So any singer takes a great risk in presenting any of these songs. Yet Susannah brings so much intelligence to each song that she makes each and every one stand up in a new light to open new vistas and insights into Mercer's songs. McCorkle uses the strengths, and the weaknesses, of her voice to present views of these songs that stand with the best of our other great singers. For example, when Blossom Dearie sang "I'm Old Fashioned" she predictably gave us that unmistakable Dearie innocence. McCorkle also presents that same innocence, and then she adds a large twinge of experience to paint the picture of a woman who is evolving, and a woman who has the courage to expose that growing for all to see. McCorkle brings that indomitable courage to each of her interpretations of each song, because it is through that courage that each song is given it's own life. Such personal sacrifice for the art of the song is the rarest of all endeavors. From Susannah's courage for the music, each of these songs comes into a new life of it's own.
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