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Title: Hot Toddy: Hits & Selected Singles 1946-56
Artist: Ralph Flanagan
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046341428
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2022-03-04
Number of Discs: 2

Ralph Flanagan was a pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader, who worked with the orchestras of Charlie Barnet, Boyd Raeburn, Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Alvino Rey and Blue Barron before launching his own band in the late 1940s, based very much on the sound of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, being signed to RCA by Glenn Miller's former A&R man. Performing a range of straight orchestral and swinging jazz pieces, along with the hot songs of the day sung by his featured vocalist Harry Prime and his vocal group The Singing Winds, he had a string of over twenty hits between 1949 and 1953, including his signature Top 10 composition "Hot Toddy". This great-value 51-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides on the Rainbow, Bluebird and RCA-Victor labels during this era. It features all his 21 career chart entries, including the Top 10 hits "Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go)", Rag Mop", "Nevertheless", "Harbour Lights", "Slow Poke", "I Should Care" and "Hot Toddy". His music was very much of it's era, typifying a particular strand of the pop scene of the post-war decade, and this collection offers an enjoyable selection of his work.

Tracks:
1.1 Make Believe
1.2 Low Gear
1.3 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
1.4 St. Louis Blues
1.5 You're Breaking My Heart
1.6 My Hero
1.7 Don't Cry Joe
1.8 Dear Hearts and Gentle People
1.9 Rag Mop
1.10 Joshua
1.11 Stars and Stripes Forever
1.12 To Me You're a Song
1.13 If I Had a Magic Carpet
1.14 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
1.15 Mona Lisa
1.16 Toreador
1.17 La Vie en Rose
1.18 Nevertheless
1.19 The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got (In the Old Red, White and Blue)
1.20 Harbor Lights
1.21 I've Never Been in Love Before
1.22 Oh Babe
1.23 Melody of the Breeze
1.24 I Remember the Cornfields
1.25 I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time
2.1 Slow Drive
2.2 Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
2.3 Oklahoma
2.4 You for Me
2.5 The Blues (American in Paris)
2.6 Slow Poke
2.7 Just One More Chance
2.8 One Alone
2.9 Baltimore Rag
2.10 Singing Winds
2.11 Be Anything
2.12 I'm Yours
2.13 Delicado
2.14 I Should Care
2.15 Hot Toddy
2.16 A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E
2.17 Rub-A-Dub-Dub
2.18 Stranger in Paradise
2.19 Reverie in the Rain
2.20 From the Vine Came the Grape
2.21 In the Chapel in the Moonlight
2.22 Little Brown Mambo
2.23 I Belong to You
2.24 On the Beat
2.25 Beep Boop
2.26 Out Last Night

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