Ray Anthony – Collection 1949-62 Siren Records

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Format: CD

Label: ACROBAT

Rel. Date: 12/11/2020

UPC: 824046910228

DISC: 1

1. Darktown Strutter’s Ball

2. Slider

3. A Dreamer’s Holiday

4. Sitting By the Window

5. Count Every Star

6. Spaghetti Rag

7. Sentimental Me

8. Little Peach from East Orange

9. In the Mood

10. Tenderly

11. Roses

12. Scattered Toys

13. Mama, Teach Me to Do the Charleston

14. Lackawanna Local

15. Young Man with a Horn

16. Stardust

17. Can Anyone Explain?

18. Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You)

19. Harbor Lights

20. Harlem Nocturne

21. Mr Anthony’s Boogie

22. Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes)

23. The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful

24. Be My Love

25. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean

26. Mr Anthony’s Blues

27. These Things I Offer You

28. Vilia

29. My Truly, Truly Fair

30. The Fox

31. Deep Night

32. Undecided

33. Brother Fats

34. The Honeydripper

35. At Last

36. Bermuda

37. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

38. I Hear a Rhapsody

39. Moonlight Saving Time

40. There Are Such Things

41. You’re Driving Me Crazy

42. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

43. As Time Goes By

44. Scatterbrain

45. Marilyn

46. Idaho

47. Street Scene

48. On the Trail

49. Wild Horses

50. True Blue Lou

51. The Bunny Hop

52. The Hokey Pokey

53. Thunderbird

54. That’s My Weakness Now

55. Dragnet

56. Dancing in the Dark

57. Another Dawn, Another Day

58. Sound Off

59. Oh Mein Papa

60. Secret Love

61. Tuxedo Junction

62. Dance, My Heart

63. Skokiaan

64. Heat Wave

65. Something’s Gotta Give

66. Learnin’ the Blues

67. Pete Kelly’s Blues

68. Flip Flop

69. Rockin’ Through Dixie

70. Calypso Dance

71. The Incredible Shrinking Man

72. The Lonely Trumpet

73. Peter Gunn

74. Walkin’ to Mother’s

75. 707

76. Stockholm Blues

77. Tres Chic

78. The Gurney Slade Theme

79. Champs Élysées

80. Tequila with a Twist

81. Worried Mind

82. Let Me Entertain You

More Info: Ray Anthony is a trumpeter, bandleader, composer and film star who led one of the most respected and successful big bands of the 1950s. Starting his career as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early 1940s, he launched his own band after serving in the US Navy in WWII, and had his first hit with “A Dreamer’s Holiday” in 1949, racking up a string of over 25 chart entries through into the 1960s. This great-value 82-Track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his one hundred or so singles on the Capitol label during this era, and features 26 US Billboard and Cash Box chart entries plus his UK hits, including the No. 2 successes “At Last” and “Dragnet”, and his other Top 10 hits “Sentimental Me, “Count Every Star”, “Can Anyone Explain”, “Harbor Lights”, “Nevertheless, As Time Goes By”, and “Peter Gunn”. It includes hit performances by his featured vocalists Dick Noel, Ronnie Deauville, The Skyliners, Tommy Mercer, Gloria Craig, Marcie Miller and Jo Ann Greer, as well as many notable jazz-flavoured instrumentals which provide a fine vehicle for Ray Anthony’s substantial talent as a trumpeter. It’s an entertaining showcase for one of the best and most innovative contemporary big bands of these years.