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Mills Brothers - Singles Collection Vol. 2 1947-60 [CD]

Mills Brothers - Singles Collection Vol. 2 1947-60 [CD]

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Mills Brothers - The Singles Collection Vol. 2 1947-60 - It's a representative overview of the second era of their career and is a fine showcase for their highly distinctive style of vocal harmonies. - FThe Mills Brothers were a pioneering vocal quartet, who performed in a jazz-flavoured barbershop style and were forerunners of the doowop groups of later years- they broke new ground as the first African-American group to have their own network radio show in the USA. In the course of their long career they made more than 2,000 recordings and had around 60 US chart entries. So prolific were that we have chosen to present their releases on 78s and 45s in two 4-CD sets, of which this is the second (Vol. 1 is ACQCD7185). This 108-track 4-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from their releases on the Decca and Dot labels from 1947 through to 1960, with just about every release represented by at least one side. It features 27 chart hits, including the No. 1 "Glow Worm", and the Top 10 entries "Across The Alley From The Alamo", "I Love You So Much It Hurts", "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm", "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)", "Daddy's Little Girl", "Nevertheless" and "Be My Life's Companion". It features recordings with Al Jolson, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, and with the orchestras of Sy Oliver, Hal McIntyre and Owen Bradley. It's a representative overview of the second era of their career and is a fine showcase for their highly distinctive style of vocal harmonies.

Tracklist:

  1. Across the Alley from the Alamo
  2. Dream, Dream, Dream
  3. What You Don't Know, Won't Hurt You
  4. Oh, My Achin' Heart
  5. You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry
  6. After You
  7. I'm Sorry I Didn't Say I'm Sorry
  8. Manana
  9. Love Is Fun
  10. Confess
  11. Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me
  12. Two Blocks Down and Turn to the Left
  13. Gloria
  14. I Want to Be the Only One
  15. Down Among the Sheltering Palms
  16. Is It True What They Say About Dixie
  17. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  18. I Love You So Much It Hurts
  19. Words (That Are Breaking My Heart)
  20. Single Saddle
  21. Out of Love
  22. Someday
  23. On a Chinese Honeymoon
  24. I Want You to Want Me
  25. Who'll Be the Next One
  26. Sweet Genevieve
  27. If I Had My Way
  28. Honey That I Love So Well
  29. Till We Meet Again
  30. Long, Long Ago
  31. My Christmas Song for You
  32. Fairy Tales
  33. I Gotta Have My Baby Back
  34. Daddy's Little Girl
  35. Open the Gates of Dreamland
  36. Cielito Lindo
  37. The Very Thought of You
  38. Why Fight the Feeling
  39. The Tunnel of Love
  40. I Still Love You
  41. Daddy's Little Boy
  42. Nevertheless
  43. I Get a Funny Feeling (When I See You)
  44. Love Lies
  45. Be My Life's Companion
  46. You're Not Worth My Tears
  47. High and Dry
  48. When You Come Back to Me
  49. Just When We're Falling in Love
  50. Blue and Sentimental
  51. The Glow Worm
  52. After All
  53. Lazy River
  54. Someone Loved Someone
  55. A Shoulder to Weep on
  56. I Want Someone to Care for
  57. Twice As Much
  58. Say "Si Si"
  59. I'm with You
  60. Pretty Butterfly
  61. Don't Let Me Dream
  62. Who Put the Devil in Evelyn's Eyes
  63. Beware
  64. The Jones Boy
  65. She Was Five and He Was Ten
  66. You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me
  67. Go in and Out the Window
  68. A Carnival in Venice
  69. How Blue
  70. Why Do I Keep Lovin' You
  71. It Must Be So
  72. Straight Ahead
  73. Paper Valentine
  74. The Urge
  75. Opus One
  76. Smack Dab in the Middle
  77. Kiss Me and Kill Me with Love
  78. Mi Muchacha
  79. That's All I Ask of You
  80. Gum Drop
  81. Suddenly There's a Valley
  82. I Believe in Santa Claus
  83. I've Changed My Mind a Thousand Times
  84. All the Way 'Round the World
  85. Dream of You
  86. In a Mellow Tone
  87. Standing on the Corner
  88. King Porter Stomp
  89. I'm the Guy
  90. That's Right
  91. Queen of the Senior Prom
  92. My Troubled Mind
  93. Two Minute Tango
  94. The Barbershop Quartet
  95. You Only Told Me Half the Story
  96. Get a Job
  97. I Found a Million Dollar Baby
  98. Me and My Shadow
  99. Music, Maestro, Please
  100. Yellow Bird
  101. Baby Clementine
  102. You Can't Be True Dear
  103. Lullaby in Ragtime
  104. Take Me Along
  105. The Glow Worm
  106. I Miss You So
  107. Highways Are Happy Ways
  108. Ballerina

UPC: 824046718626
Label: ACROBAT
Release Date: 12.6.24
Format: CD

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