Memories

Ethel Merman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: SEPIA RECORDINGS
• ASIN: B001YV50S6
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,277 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E/The Band Played On/The Bowery/On a Saturday Night/W

2. Hello My Baby/I've Got Rings on My Fingers/In My Merry Oldsmobile/In th

3. Waltz Me Around Again Willie/Sidewalks of New York/A Bicycle Built for

4. Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet/M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

5. Listen to the Mocking Bird/You Tell Me Your Dream I'll Tell You Mine/Sc

6. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans/Somebody Stole My Gal/Smiles/Row, Row, R

7. Take Back Your Gold/Frankie and Johnny

8. A Bird in a Gilded Cage/Moonlight Bay/By the Light of the Silvery Moon/Sh

9. That Old Gang of Mine/Sweet Adeline

10. Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!/Dear Little Boy of Mine/Forty-Five Minutes fr

11. Dialogue/I Got Rhythm [From Girl Crazy]

12. Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy]

13. You're an Old Smoothie [From Take A Chance]

14. Anything Goes [From Anything Goes]

15. Ridin' High [From Red Hot and Blue]

16. Way Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor [From Red Hot and Blue]

17. This Is It [From Stars in Your Eyes]

18. I'll Pay the Check [From Stars in Your Eyes]

19. Do I Love You? [From Du Barry Was A Lady]

20. Friendship [From Du Barry Was A Lady]

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

First time on CD--Broadway icon Ethel Merman's sing-along tribute to the songs she learned when she was a little girl! Popular American songs from the turn of the century recorded at the height of her fame in the 1950s!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memeries, May 13, 2009

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Michael gaery "La O" (new york) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Memories (Audio CD)

This is Ethel in her prime and the George M. Cohen songs are excellent.
You'll also hear her singing counter medley and harmonize with herself.
All that's missing is the ship or riverboat with this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ethel Merman: You're the Top!, June 22, 2009

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Bruce K. Hanson "Bruce K. Hanson" (Petersburg, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memories (Audio CD)

One of the most coveted out of print Ethel Merman albums is her Musical Biography which was released in the mid-fifties by Decca Records. Why this album or her LP of old songs have not been released up to now remains a mystery. However, the wait has been worthwhile as the treatment given these recordings is royal. The sound quality of the remastering from the records themselves is incredibly rich and full with Merman at the top of her form. It's obvious that Decca Records was hoping to repeat the success of the huge Bing record set by giving Merman a similar treatment. However, where Bing Crosby's narration is warm and full of humility, Merman's is brash and self confident, much like the image she portrayed on stage and screen. But it's the singing we really want anyway, and Merman delivers in full force. This CD is a winner as it and should be part of anyone's Broadway collection for Ethel Merman certainly was the Queen of musical theatre.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grand Old Songs Sung As They Should Be Sung, June 12, 2009

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John J. (Reading, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Memories (Audio CD)

If you like Ethel Merman (and I do), you'll love this reissue of "Memories"--songs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Miss Merman is in great voice and sings with her usual gusto. These songs were originally put out on a 12 inch 33 1/3 record and have been remastered and the quality is excellent. Also added are all the items with the Buddy Cole Quartet from the album "A Musical Biography"--also long out of print! Included is a very well done writeup of Merman's recording career and the background of these two albums. Great! Now if someone will just do this for the sound track recording of the movie "Call Me Madam"!