Film Music Site - The Great American Composers: Johnny Mercer Soundtrack (Various Artists, Johnny Mercer)

CD 1
CD 2

#	Track	Artist/Composer	Duration
1.	I'm Building Up To An Awful Letdown	Fred Astaire	3:06
2.	Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight)	Johnny Mercer	3:06
3.	Say It With A Kiss	Billie Holiday	2:36
4.	I Ain't Hep To That Step But I'll) Dig It	Fred Astaire	2:23
5.	And So To Bed	Dinah Shore	2:56
6.	Jamboree Jones	Johnny Mercer	2:50
7.	Too Marvelous For Words	Doris Day with Harry James and His Orchestra	3:15
8.	In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening	Rosemary Clooney with Harry James and His Orchestra	3:03
9.	If You Were Mine	Frankie Laine with Buck Clayton	4:32
10.	If I Had My Druthers	Peter Palmer, Marc Breaux & Ralph Linn	3:18
11.	Love In The Afternoon	Jerry Vale	2:45
12.	Hooray For Hollywood	Doris Day	2:34
13.	Fools Rush In	Tony Bennett	2:07
14.	I'm An Old Cowhand	Johnnie Ray	1:53
15.	Moon River	Andy Williams	2:48
16.	Trav' Lin Light	Carmen McRae	2:24
17.	It Had Better Be Tonight	Buddy Greene	2:03
18.	I'm Way Ahead Of The Game	Tony Bennett	3:16
19.	Once Upon A Summertime	Robert Goulet	2:24
20.	When The World Was Young	Aretha Franklin	4:45
21.	Blues In The Night	Harold Arlen	3:56
			62:00

#	Track	Artist/Composer	Duration
1.	The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands	Peter Palmer & Stubby Kaye	5:19
2.	Murder Of J.B. Markham	Johnny Mercer	2:57
3.	When A Woman Loves A Man	Billie Holiday	2:26
4.	Poor Mr. Chisholm	Fred Astaire	2:46
5.	Oh, Happy Day!	Stanley Simmonds, George Reeder, Ralph Linn & Marc Breaux	3:34
6.	Baby Doll	Doris Day	2:54
7.	On The Atchison, Topeka And The Sante Fe	Rosemary Clooney	2:38
8.	Sentimental And Melancholy	Billie Holiday	2:40
9.	Jubilation T. Cornpone	Stubby Kaye, Ensemble	4:17
10.	Day In, Day Out	Buddy Greco	1:33
11.	Charade	Andy Williams	2:35
12.	Something's Gotta Give	Robert Goulet	3:30
13.	I Wanna Be Around	Tony Bennett	2:12
14.	P.S. I Love You	Mel Torm�	2:51
15.	You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby	George Maharis	1:50
16.	Emily	Andy Williams	2:25
17.	I'll Remember You	Doris Day	3:37
18.	Summer Winds	Jane Morgan	2:34
19.	My Inamorata	Tony Bennett	3:42
20.	Here's To My Lady	Andy Williams	2:57
21.	Laura	Robert Goulet	3:03
			62:19

Considering that many of the best performances of Johnny Mercer's music derived from Capitol Records, of which Mercer was a founding partner, this double-CD set fares amazingly well. Fred Astaire's version of 'I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown' makes for a delightful opening number, and Columbia does possess Mercer's own recordings of 'Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight),' 'Jamboree Jones,' and 'Murder of J.B. Markham.' Astaire, Billie Holiday ('Say It With a Kiss,' 'When a Woman Loves a Man'), Tony Bennett, Mel Torm�, Doris Day ('Just Too Marvelous for Words,' with Harry James and His Orchestra), Dinah Shore, Aretha Franklin, and Rosemary Clooney ('On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe'), are among the top performers on this 42-song collection, which covers a multitude of styles and periods from the 1930s to the 1960s. We're also treated to Stubby Kaye's rendition of 'Jubilation T. Cornpone' from Li'l Abner, and Harold Arlen's own version of 'Blues in the Night,' perhaps the best-known of Mercer's songs from the swing era. The sound is okay, but nothing too special, just clean and clear.