Album: Memories Nice And Easy
Release Date: 1979
Record Label: Reader's Digest
Audio Source: Vinyl Record
Sound Type: Stereo
Speed: 33 1/3 RPM
Record Number: RDA 2371A
Tracks:
Record 5
Side 1: In a Hawaiian Mood
1. Blue Hawaii - (Robin/Rainger)
2. Songs of the Islands - (King)
3. Beyond the Reef - (Pitman)
4. Sweet Leilani - (Owens)
5. Hawaiian Paradise - (Owens)
6. The Hawaiian Wedding Song - (Hoffman/Manning/King)
Side 2: In Person
1. Opus One - (Oliver/Garris)
2. Don't Blame Me - (McHugh/Fields)
3. You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You - (Morgan/Stock/Cavanaugh)
4. Caravan - (Mills/Ellington/Tizol)
5. How Blue - (Charlap/Sweeney)
6. Bye Bye Blackbird - (Henderson/Dixon)
Description: Musical fads come and go, but the Mills Brothers, blending two of America's all-time favorite styles-close harmony and swing-have now been turning out hits for more than 50 years. Originally, the four teen-aged brothers-John, Herbert, Harry, and Donald-built a regional reputation singing on WLW, Cincinnati, from 1925 to 1929. A year later, they moved to New York, where they played the legendary Palace Theater for 14 weeks, and became legends themselves. When John, the oldest brother, died suddenly in 1935, the others considered breaking up the group-until their father, John Sr., a barber who had once been a concert singer, volunteered to take his son's place. Since their father's retirement in 1956 the three remaining brothers have carried on by themselves-Donald normally singing lead, Herbert tenor and Harry baritone. They often switch roles, even in the course of a song, however-a tactic that is as much a trademark of the Mills Brothers as is their superb vocal imitation of musical instruments.
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You: Russ Morgan, the wah-wah trombonist, was a popular bandleader and successful songwriter (he had written "Does Your Heart Beat for Me?" and "Someone Else Is Taking My Place") when he composed "You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You" in 1944. But even though he played it persistently with his own band, relatively little attention was paid to the song until 1956 when columnist Walter Winchell heard a middle-aged woman named Roberta Sherwood singing it in a nightclub in Miami. Winchell's response was so enthusiastic that Miss Sherwood was boosted to stardom in Las Vegas, and the song went on to fame with her. But earlier in the '50s, the Mills Brothers, while they were appearing with Russ Morgan in Pittsburgh, made the first recording of the song, with Morgan's band.
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