Mabel Mercer: Previously Unreleased Performances

Mabel Mercer fans unite, because this is very rare! The timeless, lovely and heartbreaking vocal artistry of a cabaret legend is on full display in live performances made for television in the 1960s. Her singular interpretations gave new meaning and dimension to some of the greatest American songs ever written and inspired Frank Sinatra to declare without hesitation, “Mabel Mercer taught me everything I know.” Or as critic Will Friedwald averred, “Like Sinatra, Billie Holiday or Edith Piaf, she is one of the primary colors of 20th-century music. A Mercer performance is like the blues in that everything is distilled to its purest essence – there’s no wasted motion, no unnecessary frills or extravagances: Everything is exactly where it should be.” Part of Harbinger’s Legendary Performers series.

Track List 

1    Everybody's Lookin' (Around for An Angel)
2    Put on a Happy Face
3    After You, Who?
4    Trouble Comes
5    Season's Greetings
6    The Family Is Home
7    Sunday in New York
8    Lazy Afternoon
9    When the World Was Young
10    While We're Young
11    I Feel Pretty
12    Isn't He Adorable?
13    They Were Fun
14    Mira
15    Merely Marvelous
16    From This Moment on
17    Some Fine Day
18    Days Gone By
19    Once Upon a Time
20    If You Leave Paris
21    Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
22    Looking at You
23    More I Cannot Wish You