Happy Hour (Tommy Emmanuel album)
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Happy Hour is an album by Australian musician Tommy Emmanuel
Tommy Emmanuel
William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their...

 and Jim Nichols. It was originally titled Chet Lag and contains two additional tunes.

Track listing

  1. "Happy Hour" (Tommy Emmanuel)
  2. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis
    Merle Travis
    Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...

    )
  3. "Avalon
    Avalon (Al Jolson song)
    "Avalon" is a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose. It was introduced by Jolson and interpolated in the musicals Sinbad and Bombo. Jolson's recording rose to number two on the charts in 1921. The song was possibly written by Rose, but Jolson's popularity as a...

    " (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Vincent Rose
    Vincent Rose
    Vincent Rose was a musician and band leader.Vincent Rose has one of the longest histories as a band leader. He achieved much popularity with his Montmartre Orchestra in the 1920s, and recorded with the group for RCA...

    )
  4. "Who's Sorry Now?
    Who's Sorry Now?
    "Who's Sorry Now?" is a popular song with music written by Ted Snyder and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. It was published in 1923."Who's Sorry Now?" was featured in the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca , directed by Archie Mayo and released by United Artists.The song has been...

    " (Burt Kalmar, Harry Ruby
    Harry Ruby
    Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...

    , Ted Snyder
    Ted Snyder
    Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...

    )
  5. "Trambone" (Chet Atkins
    Chet Atkins
    Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...

    )
  6. "Mom's Rag" (Emmanuel)
  7. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein
    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...

    , Sigmund Romberg
    Sigmund Romberg
    Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...

    )
  8. "Birth of the Blues
    The Birth of the Blues
    "The Birth of the Blues" is a popular song.The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song was published in 1926, and recorded by Cab Calloway in 1943 or 1944...

    " (Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...

    , Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...

    , Buddy DeSylva)
  9. "I'll See You in My Dreams" (Alan Pasqua, Mark Spiro)
  10. "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...

    " (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...

    , Edgar Sampson
    Edgar Sampson
    Edgar Melvin Sampson was a composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist...

    , 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:...

    )
  11. "Sanitarium Shuffle" (Emmanuel)

Personnel

  • Tommy Emmanuel - guitar, engineering, mixing
  • Jim Nichols - guitar
  • Henno Althoff
    Henno Althoff
    Henno Althoff is a German record producer, recording engineer and studio owner, best known for his association with Australian fingerstyle guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.-Biography:...

    - producing, engineering, mixing, mastering
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