Album: The Mills Brothers Golden Favorites Vol. 2
Release Date: 1973
Record Label: Decca Records
Audio Source: Vinyl Record
Sound Type: Simulated Stereo
Speed: 33 1/3 RPM
Record Number: DL 75174

Producer: Milt Gabler

Tracks:
Side 1
1. The Jones Boy - (AS) - (Vic Mizzy/Mann Curtis) - Sy Oliver Orch.
2. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) - (BMI) - (Jimmie Hodges)
3. One Dozen Roses - (AS) - (W. Donovan/D. Jurgens/R. Lewis/C. Washburn) - Sy Oliver Orch.
4. She Was Five And He Was Ten - (AS) - (Mike Di Napoli/June Burnette/Sherm Feller) - Sy Oliver Orch.
5. Daddy's Little Girl - (BMI) - (Bobby Burke/Horace Gerlach)
6. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - (AS) - (Russ Morgan/Larry Stock/James Cavanaugh) - Sy Oliver Orch.

Side 2
1. Say Si Si - (BMI) - (Ernesto Lecuona/Al Stillman/Francia Luban) - Sonny Burke Orch.
2. Honeysuckle Rose - (AS) -(Thomas Waller/Andy Razaf) - Sy Oliver Orch.
3. How Blue? - (BMI) - (Chuck Sweeney/Moose Charlap) - Sy Oliver Orch.
4. If I Had My Way - (AS) - (James Kendis/Lou Klein)
5. Lazy River - (AS) - (Sidney Arodin/Hoagy Carmichael)

Description: The Mills Brothers hold the unique distinction of being "a group's group," having earned the highest form of flattery from others in their profession: imitation. For with the exception of the Ink Spots and the Andrew Sisters, the Mills Brothers have exerted the greatest influence on the style of group singers for the past three decades. Unlike the Ink Spots and Andrew Sisters, however (each group boasting only one "lead" singer), all of the Mills Brothers have sung the lead at one time or another.

For the Mills Brothers, "sound" has been an important concept for a long, long time. Under the influence of their father, John, Sr., a barber who had been a concert singer, the original quartet of brothers - John, Jr., Herbert, Harry and Donals - started harmonizing as young boys.

By 1930, they were the hottest act on radio, reaching the peak of their career in 1935. The death of the eldest brother John in that year was an intensely painful blow to the Mills family. Shocked and bereaved, the boys almost quit the entertainment world. But John, Sr., decisively stepped in to fill the place of his late son, keeping the quartet intact.

The level of their performance remained at that 1935 pinnacle, not slipping one iota in all the years that followed.

Apart from musical skills - innate and cultivated - the mellifluousness of their harmony derives from their familial relationship. In the likeness of their vocal quality, each voice is enhanced, complemented, and reinforced by the others - blending to create a truly magnificent sound.

Their rhythms have reflected every beat of every generation, bridging every gap ever encountered - though they have always been the style and pace setters - never the followers or imitators.

While other groups attribute their success to one or another particular element, the Mills Brothers can lay claim to every conceivable factor that makes for success: a beautiful sound, exciting beat, innovative arrangements, the "right" songs at the "right" time, a repertoire of current hits as well as old favorites!

And they are still making hit records, for they hold some magic common denominator to great group singing.

So... the Mills Brothers, still... the Mills Brothers, forever... No fleeting fancy, no frivolous fad, not a relic... but a treasure - rare, enduring.

A truly golden favorite.

Final Note: Decca Records, A Division of MCA Inc., New York, N.Y., USA

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