Complete Columbia Recordings

Merv Griffin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00013WVMG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,084 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'll Be There - With Percy Faith & His Orchestra

2. I Kiss Your Hand, Madame - With Percy Faith & His Orchestra

3. All The Livelong Day - With Paul Weston & His Orchestra

4. Hey, Garcon! - With Orchestra & Chorus Directed by Norman Luboff

5. Frou-Frou - With Mitch Miller & His Orchestra & Chorus

6. Sail! Sail! Sail! - With Mitch Miller & His Orchestra & Chorus

7. Much Too Young To Die - With Mitch Miller & His Orchestra

8. A Girl With A Figure Like An Hour-Glass - With Mitch Miller & His Orchestra

9. The Story Of Tina - With Percy Faith & His Orchestra

10. Do You Remember Me? - With Percy Faith & His Orchestra

11. Five Cups Of Coffee (Five Cups Of Tea) - With Orchestra & Chorus Directed by Jimmy Carroll

12. Hot-Cha-Cha - With Orchestra & Chorus Directed by Jimmy Carroll

13. I Never Has Seen Snow - With Orchestra & Chorus Directed by Jimmy Carroll

14. You'll Get Yours, Baby (Previously Unreleased)

15. That's Hot-Cha-Cha With Me! - With Xavier Cugat

16. Sweet And Gentle (Me Lo Dijo Adela) - With Xavier Cugat

17. (I Couldn't Get The Hang Of) The Merengue - With Ray Conniff & His Orchestra

18. Handful Of Dreams (Theme From "Man With The Gun") - With Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra & Chorus

19. Call Out The Engines - With Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra & Chorus

20. Ginny - With Percy Faith & His Orchestra

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

All 22 sides-plus an unreleased track-that Merv Griffin recorded for Columbia! Of course, fate had other things in store for Merv than being a pop singer, but this captures a pretty fair crooner on such songs as A Handful of Dreams; I'll Be There; The Story of Tina , and more.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Listen for my Aunt Rita's duet with Mel., June 14, 2011

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Allan "a. scribe" (Boca Raton, FL, United States) - See all my reviews
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My Aunt Rita - known as Rita Farrell in her days as a top dancer and singer - has two duets with Mel on this album. They are just great. She and Mel were friends for many, many years, and she made many appearances on his show - as did her daughter, and my cousin - the late Mary Schour.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superior sides, superior singing, January 11, 2011

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Lee Hartsfeld (Central Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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I still can't believe Merv's Columbia sides are actually on CD, but I'm certainly not complaining. Some lovely pop ballads, some over the top novelties (as novelties SHOULD be), and some numbers that fall someplace in between. Columbia's pop vocal productions of the Fifties were the best of the era, and Griffin--who, don't forget, was an outstanding vocalist--never sounded better. "Ginny" and "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" are alone worth the price of the CD and demonstrate the absurdity of Merv's "golden throat" reputation.