Ray Anthony is a trumpeter, bandleader, composer and film star who led one of the most respected and successful big bands of the 1950s. Starting his career as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early 1940s, he launched his own band after serving in the US Navy in WWII, and had his first hit with "A Dreamer's Holiday" in 1949, racking up a string of over 25 chart entries through into the 1960s. This great-value 82-Track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his one hundred or so singles on the Capitol label during this era, and features 26 US Billboard and Cash Box chart entries plus his UK hits, including the No. 2 successes "At Last" and "Dragnet", and his other Top 10 hits "Sentimental Me, "Count Every Star", "Can Anyone Explain", "Harbor Lights", "Nevertheless, As Time Goes By", and "Peter Gunn". It includes hit performances by his featured vocalists Dick Noel, Ronnie Deauville, The Skyliners, Tommy Mercer, Gloria Craig, Marcie Miller and Jo Ann Greer, as well as many notable jazz-flavoured instrumentals which provide a fine vehicle for Ray Anthony's substantial talent as a trumpeter. It's an entertaining showcase for one of the best and most innovative contemporary big bands of these years.

Tracklist:

Darktown Strutter's Ball
Slider
A Dreamer's Holiday
Sitting By the Window
Count Every Star
Spaghetti Rag
Sentimental Me
Little Peach from East Orange
In the Mood
Tenderly
Roses
Scattered Toys
Mama, Teach Me to Do the Charleston
Lackawanna Local
Young Man with a Horn
Stardust
Can Anyone Explain?
Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
Harbor Lights
Harlem Nocturne
Mr Anthony's Boogie
Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes)
The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful
Be My Love
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
Mr Anthony's Blues
These Things I Offer You
Vilia
My Truly, Truly Fair
The Fox
Deep Night
Undecided
Brother Fats
The Honeydripper
At Last
Bermuda
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
I Hear a Rhapsody
Moonlight Saving Time
There Are Such Things
You're Driving Me Crazy
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
As Time Goes By
Scatterbrain
Marilyn
Idaho
Street Scene
On the Trail
Wild Horses
True Blue Lou
The Bunny Hop
The Hokey Pokey
Thunderbird
That's My Weakness Now
Dragnet
Dancing in the Dark
Another Dawn, Another Day
Sound Off
Oh Mein Papa
Secret Love
Tuxedo Junction
Dance, My Heart
Skokiaan
Heat Wave
Something's Gotta Give
Learnin' the Blues
Pete Kelly's Blues
Flip Flop
Rockin' Through Dixie
Calypso Dance
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Lonely Trumpet
Peter Gunn
Walkin' to Mother's
707
Stockholm Blues
Tres Chic
The Gurney Slade Theme
Tequila with a Twist
Worried Mind
Let Me Entertain You

UPC: 824046910228
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 12.11.20
Format: CD

Ray Anthony - Collection 1949-62 (CD)