Ray Anthony - Collection 1949-62 (CD)

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.

Track List:

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

Disc: 2

1. These Things I Offer You
2. Vilia
3. My Truly, Truly Fair
4. The Fox
5. Deep Night
6. Undecided
7. Brother Fats
8. The Honeydripper
9. At Last
10. Bermuda
11. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
12. I Hear a Rhapsody
13. Moonlight Saving Time
14. There Are Such Things
15. You're Driving Me Crazy
16. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
17. As Time Goes By
18. Scatterbrain
19. Marilyn
20. Idaho
21. Street Scene
22. On the Trail
23. Wild Horses
24. True Blue Lou
25. The Bunny Hop
26. The Hokey Pokey
27. Thunderbird

Disc: 3

1. That's My Weakness Now
2. Dragnet
3. Dancing in the Dark
4. Another Dawn, Another Day
5. Sound Off
6. Oh Mein Papa
7. Secret Love
8. Tuxedo Junction
9. Dance, My Heart
10. Skokiaan
11. Heat Wave
12. Something's Gotta Give
13. Learnin' the Blues
14. Pete Kelly's Blues
15. Flip Flop
16. Rockin' Through Dixie
17. Calypso Dance
18. The Incredible Shrinking Man
19. The Lonely Trumpet
20. Peter Gunn
21. Walkin' to Mother's
22. 707
23. Stockholm Blues
24. Tres Chic
25. The Gurney Slade Theme
26. Champs Élysées
27. Tequila with a Twist
28. Worried Mind
29. Let Me Entertain You