Mills Brothers - The Singles Collection Vol. 2 1947-60 - It's a representative overview of the second era of their career and is a fine showcase for their highly distinctive style of vocal harmonies. - FThe Mills Brothers were a pioneering vocal quartet, who performed in a jazz-flavoured barbershop style and were forerunners of the doowop groups of later years- they broke new ground as the first African-American group to have their own network radio show in the USA. In the course of their long career they made more than 2,000 recordings and had around 60 US chart entries. So prolific were that we have chosen to present their releases on 78s and 45s in two 4-CD sets, of which this is the second (Vol. 1 is ACQCD7185). This 108-track 4-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from their releases on the Decca and Dot labels from 1947 through to 1960, with just about every release represented by at least one side. It features 27 chart hits, including the No. 1 "Glow Worm", and the Top 10 entries "Across The Alley From The Alamo", "I Love You So Much It Hurts", "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm", "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)", "Daddy's Little Girl", "Nevertheless" and "Be My Life's Companion". It features recordings with Al Jolson, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, and with the orchestras of Sy Oliver, Hal McIntyre and Owen Bradley. It's a representative overview of the second era of their career and is a fine showcase for their highly distinctive style of vocal harmonies.

Tracklist:

Across the Alley from the Alamo
Dream, Dream, Dream
What You Don't Know, Won't Hurt You
Oh, My Achin' Heart
You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry
After You
I'm Sorry I Didn't Say I'm Sorry
Manana
Love Is Fun
Confess
Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me
Two Blocks Down and Turn to the Left
Gloria
I Want to Be the Only One
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Is It True What They Say About Dixie
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
I Love You So Much It Hurts
Words (That Are Breaking My Heart)
Single Saddle
Out of Love
Someday
On a Chinese Honeymoon
I Want You to Want Me
Who'll Be the Next One
Sweet Genevieve
If I Had My Way
Honey That I Love So Well
Till We Meet Again
Long, Long Ago
My Christmas Song for You
Fairy Tales
I Gotta Have My Baby Back
Daddy's Little Girl
Open the Gates of Dreamland
Cielito Lindo
The Very Thought of You
Why Fight the Feeling
The Tunnel of Love
I Still Love You
Daddy's Little Boy
Nevertheless
I Get a Funny Feeling (When I See You)
Love Lies
Be My Life's Companion
You're Not Worth My Tears
High and Dry
When You Come Back to Me
Just When We're Falling in Love
Blue and Sentimental
The Glow Worm
After All
Lazy River
Someone Loved Someone
A Shoulder to Weep on
I Want Someone to Care for
Twice As Much
Say "Si Si"
I'm with You
Pretty Butterfly
Don't Let Me Dream
Who Put the Devil in Evelyn's Eyes
Beware
The Jones Boy
She Was Five and He Was Ten
You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me
Go in and Out the Window
A Carnival in Venice
How Blue
Why Do I Keep Lovin' You
It Must Be So
Straight Ahead
Paper Valentine
The Urge
Opus One
Smack Dab in the Middle
Kiss Me and Kill Me with Love
Mi Muchacha
That's All I Ask of You
Gum Drop
Suddenly There's a Valley
I Believe in Santa Claus
I've Changed My Mind a Thousand Times
All the Way 'Round the World
Dream of You
In a Mellow Tone
Standing on the Corner
King Porter Stomp
I'm the Guy
That's Right
Queen of the Senior Prom
My Troubled Mind
Two Minute Tango
The Barbershop Quartet
You Only Told Me Half the Story
Get a Job
I Found a Million Dollar Baby
Me and My Shadow
Music, Maestro, Please
Yellow Bird
Baby Clementine
You Can't Be True Dear
Lullaby in Ragtime
Take Me Along
The Glow Worm
I Miss You So
Highways Are Happy Ways
Ballerina

UPC: 824046718626
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 12.6.24
Format: CD

Mills Brothers - Singles Collection Vol. 2 1947-60 (CD)