Ray Anthony is a trumpeter, bandleader, composer and film star

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.

Cast & Crew

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Track Listing

• 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
• Champs Élysées
• Tequila With A Twist
• Worried Mind
• Let Me Entertain You

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 210 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/11/20

UPC: 824046910228