Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Tiger Rag
2. Nobody's Sweetheart (A.K.A. Nobody's Sweetheart Now)
3. Rockin' Chair
4. Dedicated to You - (with Ella Fitzgerald)
5. Flat Foot Floogie - (with Louis Armstrong)
6. You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine
7. Cherry - (with Louis Armstrong)
8. Wish Me Luck Amigo, (I Yi, Yi, Yi)
9. Lazy River
10. I'll Be Around
11. Paper Doll
12. Till Then
13. You Always Hurt the One You Love
14. I Wish
15. Don't Be a Baby, Baby
16. I Don't Know Enough About You
17. I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home
18. Too Many Irons in the Fire
19. Across the Alley From the Alamo
20. You Never Miss the Water til the Well Runs Dry
21. Gloria
22. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? - (with Al Jolson)
23. I Love You So Much It Hurts
24. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
DISC 2:
1. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
2. If I Had My Way
3. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
4. Daddy's Little Girl
5. Nevertheless
6. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - (with Tommy Dorsey)
7. Be My Life's Companion - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
8. Glow Worm, The - (with Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra)
9. Shoulder to Weep On, A - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
10. Say Si Si
11. Pretty Butterfly
12. Jones Boy, The - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
13. She Was Five and He Was Ten - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
14. You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
15. Opus One - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
16. Smack Dab in the Middle - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
17. Standing on the Corner - (with Sonny Burke & His Orchestra)
18. Queen of the Senior Prom - (with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra)
19. When I Lost You
20. Yellow Bird - (with Milton DeLugg & His Orchestra)
21. April in Paris - (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
22. Blue and Sentimental - (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
23. My Shy Violet
24. Cab Driver
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Al Jolson, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver, Tommy Dorsey | | Producer: | Steven Lasker (Compilation) | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Peter Grendysa.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This release tracks the Mills Brothers' prolific 37-year recording career. The first 26 years featured a quartet comprising the four brothers, John, Jr., Herbert, Harry, and Donald. In 1936 John Jr. died and was replaced by the boys' father, John Sr., who performed until retiring in 1957, when the group became a trio.
Their early sound begins distinctively with rousing, jazzy numbers like "Nobody's Sweetheart," their debut release of 1931. The furious scat vocals on this '20s pop tune are unique, sharp, and melodic. The Brothers combine forces with a young Ella Fitzgerald on "Dedicated to You," their harmonies floating behind her bell-toned vocals in a sonic miasma.
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