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Helen Merrill

The Complete Helen Merrill On Mercury

• 4 12" LPs 
• Box Set w/ Booklet
• 1985 Nippon/ Mercury / Made in Japan
• Cat No: 826 340-1
• Condition: Used / Mint Minus
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This four-LP box set has all of singer Helen Merrill's output for Mercury; only two selections for the Roost label in 1953 precede these definitive recordings. Merrill, whose warm voice was always both distinctive and flexible, could hold her own with the best jazz musicians of the era. Best known of her recordings are her classic collaborations with Clifford Brown on seven selections arranged by Quincy Jones (including "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and "Falling in Love With Love"), but almost as significant was a notable album on which she employed the little-known Gil Evans as arranger, a year before he teamed up with Miles Davis for Miles Ahead. Other Mercury dates include work with the Johnny Richards Orchestra, arranger Hal Mooney, flutist Bobby Jaspar, and pianist Bill Evans. Highlights include "Glad to Be Unhappy," "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home," "Where Flamingos Fly," and "The Things We Did Last Summer," but all 62 selections are well worth hearing. Highly recommended.

1. Alone Together
2. Alone Together
3. Glad To Be Unhappy
4. This Is My Night To Cry
5. How's The Word Treating You
6. How's The World Treating You
7. Don't Explain
8. Born To Be Blue
9. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
10. 'S Wonderful
11. Yesterdays
12. Falling In Love With Love
13. What's New
14. You Won't Forget Me
15. Lilac Wine
16. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
17. Beautiful Love
18. Just You, Just Me
19. When I Fall In Love
20. End Of A Love Affair
21. Mountain High, Valley Low
22. Anything Goes
23. Comes Love
24. I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
25. Wait Till You See Him
26. He Was Too Good To Me
27. I've Never Seen
28. I'm A Fool To Want You
29. Troubled Waters
30. Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home
31. Where Flamingos Fly
32. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
33. A New Town Is A Blue Town
34. By Myself
35. People Will Say We're In Love
36. You're Lucky To Me
37. Dream Of You
38. Blue Guitar 
39. Listen
40. I'll Be Around
41. Soft As Spring
42. If I Forget You
43. After You
44. It's A Lazy Afternoon
45. If You Go
46. If Love Were All
47. If Love Were All
48. Easy Come, Easy Go
49. The Things We Did Last Summer
50. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
51. I See Your Face Before Me
52. I Remember You
53. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
54. Bye Bye Blackbird
55. This Time The Dream's On Me
56. Dearly Beloved
57. Summertime
58. Let Me Love You
59. When The Sun Comes Out
60. All Of You
61. The Nearness of You
62. Just Imagine

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