Cool Christy is a 2002 double-CD compilation of recordings by jazz vocalist June Christy

June Christy

June Christy , born Shirley Luster, was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool...

 from 1945 to 1951.

Disc One

1. "Tampico
   Tampico (song)
   "Tampico" is a popular song, written in 1945 by Gene Roland and produced by Stan Kenton. The song gave June Christy a top-ten hit in 1945, peaking at #6 on the Billboard charts...
   
   " (Gene Roland
   Gene Roland
   Gene M. Roland was a jazz composer and musician who played many instruments during his career but was most significant as an arranger/composer and for his association with Stan Kenton...
   
   )
2. "It's Been a Long, Long Time
   It's Been A Long, Long Time
   "It's Been A Long, Long Time" is a 1945 popular song that became a major hit at the end of World War II. The lyrics are written from the perspective of a person welcoming home his or her spouse or lover at the end of the war....
   
   " (Jule Styne
   Jule Styne
   Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
   
   , Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
   
   )
3. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin
   George Gershwin
   George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
   
   , Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
   
   )
4. "How High the Moon
   How High the Moon
   "How High the Moon" is a jazz standard with lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis. It was first featured in the 1940 Broadway revue Two for the Show, where it was sung by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock....
   
   " (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis
   Morgan Lewis (songwriter)
   Morgan 'Buddy' Lewis was a writer of jazz songs, some of which were also recorded in the pop music genre.-External links:...
   
   )
5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
   Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
   "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" is a popular song written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, published in 1931.The original 1931 popular hit recording was made by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, but the song has become a standard, recorded by many other artists...
   
   " (Harry Barris
   Harry Barris
   Harry Barris was an American popular singer and songwriter.Born in New York City, he was a member of the Rhythm Boys, a late 1920s singing trio which included Al Rinker and Bing Crosby, and was Crosby's entry into show business...
   
   , Ted Koehler
   Ted Koehler
   Ted L. Koehler was an American lyricist.-Life and career:Koehler was born in Washington, D.C. He started out as a photo-engraver but was attracted to the music business, where he started out as a theater pianist for silent films. He moved on to write for vaudeville shows and Broadway, and he also...
   
   , Billy Moll)
6. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me" (Jimmy McHugh
   Jimmy McHugh
   James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...
   
   , Clarence Gaskill)
7. "Hay Lawdy Papa" (Gene Roland)
8. "Stompin' at the Savoy
   Stompin' at the Savoy
   "Stompin' at the Savoy" is a 1934 jazz standard composed by Edgar Sampson. It is named after the Savoy Ballroom.Although the song is credited to Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, and Edgar Sampson, and the lyrics by Andy Razaf, in reality the music was written and arranged for Chick Webb's band by...
   
   " (Edgar Sampson
   Edgar Sampson
   Edgar Melvin Sampson was a composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist...
   
   , Andy Razaf, Benny Goodman
   Benny Goodman
   Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
   
   , Chick Webb
   Chick Webb
   William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.-Biography:...
   
   )
9. "Get Happy
   Get Happy (song)
   "Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930....
   
   " (Harold Arlen
   Harold Arlen
   Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
   
   , Ted Koehler)
10. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
    
    , Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
    
    )
11. "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom
    Rube Bloom
    Reuben Bloom was a Jewish American multi-faceted entertainer, and in addition to being a songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and writer .During his career, he worked with many well-known performers, including Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Ruth Etting,...
    
    , Ted Koehler)
12. "Mean to Me" (Roy Turk
    Roy Turk
    Roy Kenneth Turk was an American songwriter. A lyricist, he frequently collaborated with composer Fred E. Ahlert – their popular 1928 song "Mean to Me" has become a jazz standard. He worked with many other composers, including for film lyrics...
    
    , Fred E. Ahlert
    Fred E. Ahlert
    Frederick Emil Ahlert was an American composer and songwriter. He received a degree from Fordham Law School, but instead of pursuing a legal career he began work as an arranger, initially for Irving Aaronson and his Commanders and then for composer and band-leader Fred Waring...
    
    )
13. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez
    Ram Ramirez
    Roger J. Ramirez was a Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer. He was a co-writer of the song "Lover Man ".-Discography :* Ram Ramirez: Live in Harlem...
    
    , James Sherman)
14. "September in the Rain
    September in the Rain
    "September in the Rain" is a popular song by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, published in 1937. The song was introduced by James Melton in the film Melody for Two...
    
    " (Harry Warren
    Harry Warren
    Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
    
    , Al Dubin
    Al Dubin
    Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...
    
    )
15. "Sweet Lorraine
    Sweet Lorraine
    "Sweet Lorraine" is a song by the band Uriah Heep, first released on the album The Magician's Birthday. It was written by Mick Box, Gary Thain and David Byron. Sweet Lorraine reached #91 in the US. It is one of the better known songs by the band, famous, in part, for its Moog synthesizer solo,...
    
    " (Cliff Burwell
    Cliff Burwell
    Clifford R. Burwell was an American pianist and songwriter. His composition, "Sweet Lorraine" was popularized in 1928 by Rudy Vallee and made famous by Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole in the 1930s and 1940s.-References:...
    
    , Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...
    
    )
16. "Make Love to Me
    Make Love to Me
    - Mann/Weiss/Gannon song :With music by Paul Mann and Stephan Weiss, and lyrics by Kim Gannon, it was recorded in 1942 by Helen Forrest with the Harry James Orchestra...
    
    " (Paul Mann, Stephen Weiss, Kim Gannon
    Kim Gannon
    James Kimball "Kim" Gannon was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in New Jersey where he attended Montclair High School and was a member of The Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated from St...
    
    )
17. "Supper Time
    Supper Time
    "Supper Time" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer, where it was introduced by Ethel Waters.It is about a wife's reaction to news of her husband's lynching.-Notable recordings:...
    
    " (Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
    
    )
18. "What's New?
    What's New?
    "What's New?" is a 1939 popular song composed by Bob Haggart, with lyrics by Johnny Burke.It was originally an instrumental tune titled "I'm Free" by Haggart in 1938, when Haggart was a member of Bob Crosby and His Orchestra. The tune was written with a trumpet solo, meant to showcase the talents...
    
    " (Bob Haggart
    Bob Haggart
    Robert Sherwood Haggart was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger...
    
    , Johnny Burke
    Johnny Burke (lyricist)
    Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...
    
    )
19. "I've Got a Guy" (Sunshine)
20. "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby
    I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby
    "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields .The song was introduced by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue, which opened on Broadway later that year as the...
    
    " (Jimmy McHugh
    Jimmy McHugh
    James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...
    
    , Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
    
    )
21. "This Is Romance" (Vernon Duke
    Vernon Duke
    Vernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...
    
    , Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.-Biography:...
    
    )
22. "Prelude to a Kiss
    Prelude to a Kiss (song)
    "Prelude to a Kiss" is a 1938 song composed by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills, with lyrics by Irving Gordon.In 1989, saxophonist Nelson Rangell covered the song from his self-titled album.-Notable Recordings:...
    
    " (Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
    
    , Irving Gordon
    Irving Gordon
    Irving Gordon was an American songwriter.-Biography:Irving Gordon was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, he studied violin, and after attending public schools in New York City, went to work in the Catskill Mountains at some of the resort hotels in the area...
    
    , Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
    
    )
23. "I'm Thrilled" (Sidney Lippman
    Sidney Lippman
    Sidney Lippman was a composer and songwriter.He wrote the music for Nat King Cole's 1951 No. 1 hit "Too Young". He died at a nursing home in North Bergen, New Jersey. He was 89 and had lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey....
    
    , Sylvia Dee
    Sylvia Dee
    Sylvia Dee was an American songwriter and novelist best known for penning the lyrics to "Too Young", a hit for Nat King Cole, and "The End of the World", a hit for Skeeter Davis...
    
    )
24. "You're Blasé
    You're Blasé
    "You're Blasé" is a jazz standard written in 1931 by Ord Hamilton and Bruce Sievier and sung by Ella Fitzgerald on her albums Like Someone in Love and Take Love Easy ....
    
    " (Ord Hamilton, Bruce Siever)
25. "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Walter Hirsh, Benny Goodman)

Personnel

Track 1 - recorded Chicago, 4 May 1945

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton
  Stan Kenton
  Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
  
   and his Orchestra
• John Carroll - trumpet
• Buddy Childers
  Buddy Childers
  Marion "Buddy" Childers became famous in 1942 at the age of 16, when Stan Kenton hired him to be the lead trumpet in his band.As Childers later told Steve Voce:...
  
   - trumpet
• John Anderson
  John Anderson (jazz trumpeter)
  John Anderson was a jazz trumpeter. He studied at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Westlake College of Music. He did a good deal of work in West Coast jazz with Stan Kenton and others.-Discography:...
  
   - trumpet
• Gene Roland - trumpet, arranger
• Mel Green - trumpet
• Freddie Zito - trombone
• Milt Kabak - trombone
• Marshall Ocker - trombone
• Bart Varsalona - bass trombone
• Bob Lively
  Bob Lively
  Bob Lively, born Bobby Gene Lively February 10, 1923 in Arkansas, was an American jazz saxophonist during the 1940s big band era. He died September 15, 1994 in Los Angeles, California.-Career:...
  
   - alto saxophone
• Boots Mussulli
  Boots Mussulli
  Boots Mussulli was an American jazz saxophonist, based chiefly out of Boston....
  
   - alto saxophone
• Joe Magro - tenor saxophone
• Dave Madden - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Bob Ahern - guitar
• Max Wayne - bass
• Bob Varney - drums

Track 2 - recorded New York, 30 July 1945

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Ray Wetzel
  Ray Wetzel
  Ray Wetzel was an American jazz trumpeter. Critic Scott Yanow described him as "greatly admired by his fellow trumpeters"....
  
   - trumpet
• John Anderson - trumpet
• Russ Burgher - trumpet
• Bob Lymperis - trumpet
• Freddie Zito - trombone
• Milt Kabak - trombone
• Jimmy Simms - trombone
• Bart Varsalona - bass trombone
• Al Anthony - alto saxophone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper
  Bob Cooper
  Bob Cooper may refer to:* Bob Cooper , freelance writer and Runner's World columnist, ultramarathoner* Bob Cooper , American jazz musician* Bob Cooper , politician and activist in Northern Ireland...
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Bill McDougald - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Bob Ahern - guitar
• Eddie Safranski
  Eddie Safranski
  Eddie Safranski was an American jazz double bassist best known for his work with Stan Kenton. He had also worked with Charlie Barnet and Benny Goodman From 1946 to 1953 he won the Down Beat Readers' Poll for bassist.-References:...
  
   - bass
• Bob Varney - drums

Track 3 - recorded Hollywood, 20 December 1945

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Ray Wetzel - trumpet
• John Anderson - trumpet
• Russ Burgher - trumpet
• Bob Lymperis - trumpet
• Freddie Zito - trombone
• Milt Kabak - trombone
• Jimmy Simms - trombone
• Ray Klein - trombone
• Al Anthony - alto saxophone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Bob Ahern - guitar
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone

Tracks 4-17 - recorded Los Angeles, December 1945

• June Christy - vocals
• Ray Wetzel - trumpet
• Gene Roland - valve trombone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Pete Rugolo
  Pete Rugolo
  Pietro "Pete" Rugolo was an Italian-born jazz composer and arranger.-Life and career:Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily, Italy. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California...
  
   - piano
• Dave Barbour - guitar
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone

Tracks 18-25 - recorded Los Angeles, January 1946

• June Christy - vocals
• Ray Wetzel - trumpet
• Kai Winding
  Kai Winding
  Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson.-Biography:...
  
   - trombone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Buddy Cole
  Buddy Cole (musician)
  Edwin LeMar Cole, known as Buddy Cole , was a jazz pianist and orchestra leader. He played behind a number of pop singers, including Rosemary Clooney, Jill Corey, and The Four Lads, who recorded for Columbia Records.-Biography:Buddy Cole was born in Irving, Illinois, and started his musical career...
  
   - piano
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Jimmy Pratt - drums

Disc Two

1. "The One I Love" (Isham Jones
   Isham Jones
   Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...
   
   , Gus Kahn
   Gus Kahn
   Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
   
   )
2. "Moonglow
   Moonglow (song)
   "Moonglow", also known as "Moonglow and Love" is a 1933 popular song with music by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and words by Eddie DeLange.-Musicological Notes:...
   
   " (Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange)
3. "How Long Has This Been Going On?
   How Long Has This Been Going On?
   "How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for the musical "Funny Face" in 1928.Replaced by "He Loves and She Loves" in Funny Face, it was eventually introduced in the musical Rosalie by Bobbe Arnst.-Notable recordings:*Audrey Hepburn in...
   
    (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
4. "Rika Jika Jack" (Eric Dawson, Maxine Sullivan
   Maxine Sullivan
   Maxine Sullivan , born Marietta Williams, was an American blues and jazz singer.She was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and married jazz musician John Kirby in 1938 , and stride pianist Cliff Jackson in 1956...
   
   , Walter Hagen)
5. "I'd Be Lost Without You" (Sunny Skylar
   Sunny Skylar
   Sunny Skylar was an American composer, singer, lyricist, and music publisher. He was born Selig Shaftel in Brooklyn, New York. As a singer, he appeared with a number of big bands, including those led by Ben Bernie, Paul Whiteman, Abe Lyman, George Hall and Vincent Lopez...
   
   )
6. "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight" (Billy Reid
   Billy Reid
   Billy Reid was a United Kingdom orchestra leader, songwriter and accordionist.When the vocalist Dorothy Squires joined his band, he took it as an opportunity to write songs especially for her, many of them, such as "The Gypsy," "A Tree in the Meadow," and "I'm Walking Behind You," became hits in...
   
   , Mack Gordon
   Mack Gordon
   Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
   
   )
7. "His Feet Too Big for the Bed" (Hernan Brana, Dick Sanford, Sammy Mysels)
8. "Don't Want That Man Around" (Joe Rizzo, Sam Braude, Sam Volk)
9. "Across the Alley from the Alamo" (Joe Greene)
10. "If It Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger
    Ralph Rainger
    Ralph Rainger was an American composer of popular music principally for films.-Biography:Born Ralph Reichenthal in New York City, Rainger embarked on a legal career before escaping to Broadway where he became Clifton Webb's accompanist...
    
    , Leo Robin
    Leo Robin
    Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
    
    )
11. "Skip Rope" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee)
12. "Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin
    Saul Chaplin
    Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley...
    
    , Sammy Cahn)
13. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
    Paul Francis Webster
    Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
    
    )
14. "Curiosity" (Alex Kramer
    Alex Kramer (songwriter)
    Alex J. Kramer was a Canadian songwriter....
    
    , Joan Whitney
    Joan Whitney Kramer
    Joan Whitney Kramer was an American singer and songwriter.She was born as Zoe Parenteau in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Finch College in New York City. In 1934, while playing a showgirl in The Great Waltz on Broadway, she took the stage name Joan Whitney...
    
    , Sam Ward)
15. "He Was a Good Man as Good Men Go" (Teddy Powell
    Teddy Powell
    Teddy Powell was an American jazz guitarist, composer and big band leader...
    
    )
16. "Lonely Woman" (Benny Carter
    Benny Carter
    Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King...
    
    , Zola Sonin)
17. "The Way You Look Tonight
    The Way You Look Tonight
    "The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire's character of John "Lucky" Garnett while Penny was busy...
    
    " (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
    
    , Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
    
    )
18. "Everything Happens to Me
    Everything Happens to Me (song)
    Everything Happens to Me is a classic pop song written by Tom Adair and Matt Dennis in 1940. It was first recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, featuring his then-singer, Frank Sinatra....
    
    " (Matt Dennis
    Matt Dennis
    Matt Dennis was a singer, pianist, bandleader, arranger, and writer of music for popular music songs.He was born in Seattle, Washington. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was early exposed to music. In 1933 he joined Horace Heidt's...
    
    , Tom Adair
    Tom Adair
    Thomas "Tom" Montgomery Adair was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Newton, Kansas, worked at a power company and the Saturday Evening Post, writing numerous poems, while penning the songs in his spare time. In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo...
    
    )
19. "I'll Remember April
    I'll Remember April (song)
    "I'll Remember April" is a popular song. The music for the song was written by Gene de Paul, and the lyrics were written by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye....
    
    " (Gene de Paul
    Gene de Paul
    Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
    
    , Patricia Johnston, Don Raye
    Don Raye
    Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
    
    )
20. "Get Happy
    Get Happy (song)
    "Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930....
    
    " (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
21. "A Mile Down the Highway (There's a Toll Bridge)" (David Mann
    David Mann (songwriter)
    David Mann was an American songwriter of popular songs...
    
    , Bob Hilliard
    Bob Hilliard
    Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs; "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", "Any Day Now", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Our Day Will Come", "My Little Corner of the World", and "Seven Little Girls ".-Career:Born in New York City, New York, and after...
    
    )
22. "Do It Again
    Do It Again (George Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva song)
    "Do It Again" is an American popular song by composer George Gershwin and lyricist Buddy DeSylva. The song premiered in the 1922 Broadway show The French Doll, as performed by actress Irène Bordoni.-Background:...
    
    " (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva)
23. "He Can Come Back Anytime He Wants To" (Johnny Lehman)
24. "Easy Street" (Alan Rankin Jones)

Personnel

Tracks 1-3 - recorded Los Angeles, January 1946

• June Christy - vocals
• Ray Wetzel - trumpet
• Kai Winding - trombone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Buddy Cole - piano
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Jimmy Pratt – drums

Track 4 - recorded Hollywood, 4 June 1946

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Ray Wetzel – trumpet
• Chico Alvarez - trumpet
• John Anderson - trumpet
• Ken Hanna
  Ken Hanna
  Kenneth L. Hanna was an American jazz trumpeter, arranger, composer and bandleader best known for his work with Stan Kenton. Hanna played in the trumpet section of the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the early 1940s and arranged many of Kenton's significant charts.-References:*Eugene Chadbourne, ,...
  
   – trumpet
• Kai Winding - trombone
• Miff Sines – trombone
• Milt Kabak - trombone
• Bart Varsalona - bass trombone
• Al Anthony - alto saxophone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Vido Musso
  Vido Musso
  Vido William Musso was an Italian-born jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader born in Carini, Sicily, best-known for his many contributions to the big bands of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman.His family moved to the United States in...
  
   – tenor saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Bob Ahern - guitar
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Shelly Manne
  Shelly Manne
  Shelly Manne , born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde jazz and fusion, as well as contributing...
  
   - drums

Track 5 - recorded Hollywood, 19 July 1946

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• same personnel as Track 4

Track 6 - recorded Hollywood, 25 July 1946

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• same personnel as Track 4, but Harry Forbes (trombone) replaces Milt Kabak

Track 8 - recorded Hollywood, 13 February 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Ray Wetzel – trumpet
• Chico Alvarez - trumpet
• John Anderson - trumpet
• Ken Hanna – trumpet
• Kai Winding - trombone
• Skip Layton - trombone
• Milt Bernhart
  Milt Bernhart
  Milt Bernhart was a West Coast jazz trombonist who worked with Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra, and others...
  
   - trombone
• Harry Forbes - trombone
• Bart Varsalona - bass trombone
• Eddie Meyers- also saxophone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Vido Musso - tenor saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Bob Ahern - guitar
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Shelly Manne - drums

Track 7 - recorded New York, 2 January 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Ray Wetzel – trumpet
• Chico Alvarez - trumpet
• John Anderson - trumpet
• Ken Hanna – trumpet
• Kai Winding - trombone
• Skip Layton - trombone
• Harry Forbes - trombone
• Bart Varsalona - bass trombone
• Eddie Meyers- also saxophone
• Boots Mussulli - alto saxophone
• Red Dorris – tenor saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Bob Ahern - guitar
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Shelly Manne - drums
• José Mangual - bongos
• Pedro Allendo - maracas
• The Pastels * Margaret Dale * Dave Lambert * Wayne Howard * Jerry Packer * Jerry Duane

Track 9 - recorded Hollywood, 28 February 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• same personnel as Track 7, but The Pastels out.

Track 10 - recorded Los Angeles, 3 March 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Frank De Vol
  Frank De Vol
  Frank Denny De Vol, also known simply as De Vol was an American arranger, composer and actor.-Early life and career:...
  
  ’s Orchestra
• Ray Linn
  Ray Linn
  Ray Linn was an American jazz trumpeter.Linn's first major engagements came in the late 1930s, playing with Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman . He would return to play with Herman again several times, in 1945, 1947, and 1955-59...
  
   - trumpet
• Juan Tizol
  Juan Tizol
  Juan Tizol was a Puerto Rican trombonist and composer.He was born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Music was a large part of his life from an early age. His first instrument was the violin, but he soon switched to valve trombone, the instrument he would play throughout his career...
  
   – valve trombone
• Richard Perissi – French horn
• Vincent DeRosa
  Vincent DeRosa
  Vincent DeRosa is a Los Angeles studio musician who played horn for Hollywood soundtracks and other recordings from 1935-2008.-Early Life and Training:...
  
   – French horn
• Evan Vail – French horn
• Vincent De Robertis – French horn
• Skeets Herfurt
  Skeets Herfurt
  Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist....
  
   - reeds
• Jules Kinsler - reeds
• Ted Romersa - reeds
• Jerome Kasper - reeds
• Ronald Pirozzi - reeds
• Felix Slatkin
  Felix Slatkin
  Felix Slatkin was an American violinist and conductor.-Biography:Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a Jewish family originally named Zlotkin from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. He began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman...
  
   - violin
• Joseph Quadri - violin
• Marshall Sosson - violin
• Joachim Chassman - violin
• Buddy Cole - piano
• Al Hendrickson guitar
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Shelly Manne - drums
• Frank De Vol – arranger, conductor

Track 11 - recorded Los Angeles, 31 March 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Frank De Vol’s Orchestra
• Neal Hefti
  Neal Hefti
  Neal Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s, and for scoring the 1968 film The Odd Couple and the subsequent TV series of the same name.He began arranging...
  
   - trumpet
• Zeke Zarchy
  Zeke Zarchy
  Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy was an American lead trumpet player of the big band and swing eras.He joined the Joe Haymes orchestra in 1934, then played with Benny Goodman in 1936 and Artie Shaw in 1937...
  
   - trumpet
• Dick Cathcart
  Dick Cathcart
  Charles Richard Cathcart was an American Dixieland trumpet player.Born and raised in Michigan City, Indiana; Cathcart was best known as a member of the Lawrence Welk orchestra, in which he appeared on the Maestro's television program from 1962 to 1968...
  
   - trumpet
• Ray Linn - trumpet
• Juan Tizol – valve trombone
• Skeets Herfurt - reeds
• Jules Kinjsler - reeds
• Tede Romersa - reeds
• Jerome Kasper - reeds
• Ronald Pirozzi - reeds
• Buddy Cole piano
• Barney Kessel
  Barney Kessel
  Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. Generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century, he was noted in particular for his vast knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies...
  
   -guitar
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Shelly Manne - drums
• Frank De Vol – arranger, conductor

Tracks 12, 13 - recorded Hollywood, 1 April 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• same personnel as Track 8.

Track 14 - recorded Hollywood, 25 September 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Ray Wetzel - trumpet
• Al Porcino
  Al Porcino
  Al Porcino is an American jazz trumpeter.Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, playing in many big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, and Chubby Jackson. He played with Woody Herman in 1946, 1949-1950, and again...
  
   - trumpet
• Chico Alvarez - trumpet
• Ken Hanna - trumpet
• Milt Bernhart - trombone
• Eddie Burt - trombone
• Harry Betts
  Harry Betts
  Harry Betts is a jazz composer and trombonist.-Background:Born in New York and raised in Fresno, California, he was active as a jazz trombonist and played with Stan Kenton's orchestra in the 1950s, among others...
  
   - trombone
• Harry Forbes - trombone
• Bart Varsalona - bass trombone
• George Weidler - alto saxophone
• Frank Pappalardo - alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Warner Weidler - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - baritone saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Laurindo Almeida
  Laurindo Almeida
  Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitaristand composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres...
  
   - guitar
• Eddie Safranski - bass
• Shelly Manne - drums
• Jack Costanzo
  Jack Costanzo
  Jack Costanzo is an American percussionist.-Biography:A composer, conductor and drummer, Costanzo is best known as a bongo player, and is nicknamed "Mr. Bongo"...
  
   - bongos

Track 15 - recorded Hollywood, 22 October 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• same personnel as Track 14, but Art Pepper
  Art Pepper
  Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an American alto saxophonist and clarinetist.About Pepper, Scott Yanow of All Music stated, "In the 1950s he was one of the few altoists that was able to develop his own sound despite the dominant influence of Charlie Parker" and: "When Art Pepper...
  
   replaces Frank Pappalardo

Track 16 - recorded Hollywood, 6 December 1947

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• same personnel as Track 15

Tracks 17, 18 - recorded Los Angeles, 28 March 1949

• June Christy - vocals
• Bob Cooper’s Orchestra
• Buddy Childers - trumpet
• Johnny Mandel
  Johnny Mandel
  Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
  
   - bass trumpet
• Billy Byers
  Billy Byers
  William Mitchell "Billy" Byers was an American jazz trombonist and arranger.Born in Los Angeles, Byers suffered from arthritis from a young age and was unable to continue his plans of a career as a pianist. He picked up trombone and played with Karl Kiffle before serving in the Army in 1944-45...
  
   - trombone
• Art Pepper – alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper – tenor saxophone
• Irv Roth baritone saxophone
• Hal Schaefer - piano
• Joe Mondragon
  Joe Mondragon
  Joe Mondragon is an American jazz bassist.Mondragon was an autodidact on bass, and began working professionally in Los Angeles. He served in the Army during World War II, and then joined Woody Herman's First Herd in 1946...
  
   bass
• Don Lamond
  Don Lamond
  Don Lamond was an American jazz drummer.Lamond attended the Peabody Conservatory in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, and played with Sonny Dunham and Boyd Raeburn at the outset of his career...
  
   - drums
• Luis Miranda – congas (track 17)
• Jasper Hornyak - violin (track 17)
• Cesare Pascarello cello (track 18)
• John Lewis
  John Lewis (pianist)
  John Aaron Lewis was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.- Early life:...
  
   – arranger (track 17)
• Bob Graettinger
  Robert Graettinger
  Robert Frederick Graettinger was an American composer, best known for his work with Stan Kenton.-Early life and work:...
  
   – arranger (track 18)

Tracks 19, 20 - recorded Los Angeles, 29 September 1949

• June Christy - vocals
• Pete Rugolo’s Orchestra
• Alex Gershunoff - flute
• Pete Rugolo piano, arranger
• Laurindo Almeida -guitar
• Don Whittaker - bass
• Jackie Mills drums
• Harry Bluestone - violin
• Dave Klein - violin
• Mishe Russell - violin
• Stan Harris - viola
• Cy Benard – viola

Tracks 21-23 - recorded Los Angeles, 11 September 1950

• June Christy - vocals
• Shorty Rogers
  Shorty Rogers
  Milton “Shorty” Rogers , born Milton Rajonsky in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played both the trumpet and flugelhorn, and was in demand for his skills as an arranger. Rogers worked first as a professional musician with Will Bradley and...
  
   and his Giants
• John Graas
  John Graas
  John Graas was an American jazz French horn player, composer, and arranger. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Graas had a short but busy career on the West Coast, known primarily as one of the first and best French horn players in jazz.Graas had classical training, including attendance at the Tanglewood...
  
   – French horn
• Gene England - tuba
• Art Pepper – also saxophone
• Bud Shank
  Bud Shank
  Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout the decade worked in various small jazz combos. He spent the 1960s as a first...
  
   – tenor saxophone
• Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga – baritone saxophone
• Claude Williamson
  Claude Williamson
  Claude Berkeley Williamson is a jazz pianist.Williamson studied at the New England Conservatory of Music before moving to jazz, influenced mainly by Teddy Wilson, then by Al Haig and Bud Powell...
  
   - piano
• Don Bagley – bass
• Shelly Manne - drums
• Shorty Rogers – conductor, arranger

Track 24 - recorded Hollywood, 20 September 1951

• June Christy - vocals
• Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
• John Howell - trumpet
• Maynard Ferguson
  Maynard Ferguson
  Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957...
  
   - trumpet
• Conte Candoli
  Conte Candoli
  Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show. He played with Gerry Mulligan, and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials...
  
   - trumpet
• Stu Williamson
  Stu Williamson
  Stu Williamson was an American jazz trumpeter.Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, Williamson was the younger brother of jazz pianist Claude Williamson. Williamson relocated to Los Angeles in 1949 and became a regular on the West Coast scene, playing with Stan Kenton , Woody Herman , Billy May, and...
  
   - trumpet
• John Copolla - trumpet
• Dick Kenney - trombone
• Harry Betts - trombone
• Bob Fitzpatrick - trombone
• Bill Russo
  William Russo (musician)
  William Russo, better known as Bill Russo , was an American jazz musician. He is considered one of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers.-History:...
  
  
• George Roberts
  George Roberts (trombonist)
  George Roberts is an American trombonist.Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, George began his career after service in the US Navy with the Ray Robbins Band, and then quit to join Gene Krupa in 1947, where he was in the same section with Urbie Green...
  
  – bass trombone
• Bud Shank – alto saxophone
• Art Pepper – alto saxophone
• Bob Cooper – tenor saxophone
• Bart Caldarell – tenor saxophone
• Bob Gioga - saxophone
• Stan Kenton - piano
• Ralph Blaze - guitar
• Don Bagley - bass
• Shelly Manne - drums