Best of

Johnny Mercer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 10, 1998)
• Label: EMI Special Products
• ASIN: B000002T7I
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,863 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

2. Candy

3. Personality

4. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

5. G.I. Jive

6. Strip Polka

7. Sugar Blues

8. Baby, It's Cold Outside

9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

10. My Sugar Is So Refined

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars His best? Perhaps., April 18, 2000

By 

Robert Budd (Springfield, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

To me, the most surprising thing about the album is the quality of Johnny's voice. I had no idea, until recently, that Johnny sang! The very convincing duet with Margaret Whiting in "Baby It's Cold Outside" displays Johnny's emotional and expressional range well. His emulation of black voices and speech patterns in his then-popular "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" tells me that he had more than just a good set of pipes, but also an excellent ear for contemporary speech and music. What great lyricist would not? Many of the songs in this album I knew only by their lyrics-- I had never heard them performed to music. In listening to the song "Personality", performed with the Pied Pipers, one gets the feeling that one is listening to a live broadcast, back all those years ago. With 10 selections in all, this is a gem of an album. I only wish that EMI-Capitol Music (Johnny's own label) had included more selections. Perhaps they felt that too much of a good thing is dangerous.