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Recorded in New York, New York in 1955. Originally released on Atlantic (1244). Includes liner notes by Victor Lownes III.
Recorded in New York, New York in 1956. Originally released on Atlantic (1301). Includes liner notes by Roger Whitaker.
Probably the greatest cabaret artist of them all, Mabel Mercer can take some getting used to. Her queenly diction and comic Margaret Dumont-like delivery can be off-putting to listeners brought up on jazz. Unlike her great contemporary Lee Wiley, Mercer is not that personal a singer, either. Like an old-school psychoanalyst, the emotion she expresses through her unparalleled mastery of lyrics is that of her audience reflected back to itself.
The 1955 Atlantic LP MIDNIGHT AT MABEL MERCER'S is representative of the set she performed nightly in various rooms in post-war New York throughout the late '40s and' 50s, where her fans included Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner as well as Atlantic producer Ahmet Ertegun. While the psychologically deeper MABEL MERCER SINGS COLE PORTER remains the essential Mercer album, MIDNIGHT has the more varied set list and includes such highlights as the Comden-Green-Bernstein classics "Lucky To be Me" and "Some Other Time." ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (1956) offers a somewhat more obscure set of tunes though it does boast Mercer's classic rendition of "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" as well as Noel Coward's "If Love Was All."
Once In A Blue Moon
2 LPS on 2 CDs: MIDNIGHT AT MABEL MERCER'S (1955)/ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (1956).
MIDNIGHT AT MABEL MERCER'S:
Personnel includes: Mabel Mercer (vocals); George Cory (arranger, piano); Sam Hamilton (piano); Milt Hinton (bass).
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON:
Personnel includes: Mabel Mercer (vocals); George Cory (arranger, conductor, piano). Midnight At Mabel Mercer's/Once In A Blue Moon Music Midnight At Mabel Mercer's/Once In A Blue Moon Songs | | Midnight At Mabel Mercer's/Once In A Blue Moon CD DISC 1: MIDNIGHT AT MABEL MERCER'S: |
| 1. | Just Once Around the Clock | $0.99 | |
| 2. | Poor Pierrot | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Young and Foolish | $0.99 | |
| 4. | It's a Lie, It's a Fake! | $0.99 | |
| 5. | Walk-Up | $0.99 | |
| 6. | Is It Always Like This? | $0.99 | |
| 7. | Blame It on My Youth | $0.99 | |
| 8. | Wait Till You See Her | |
| 9. | He Was Too Good to Me | $0.99 | |
| 10. | Wouldn't It Be Loverly? | |
| 11. | Lazy Afternoon | $0.99 | |
| 12. | Mandy, Make up Your Mind | $0.99 | |
| 13. | Lonely Little Boy | $0.99 | |
| 14. | Sonnet | $0.99 | |
| 15. | Lucky to Be Me | $0.99 | |
| 16. | Some Other Time | $0.99 | |
| | Midnight At Mabel Mercer's/Once In A Blue Moon Songs DISC 2: ONCE IN A BLUE MOON: |
| 1. | Once in a Blue Moon | $0.99 | |
| 2. | In the Spring of the Year | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Look at 'Im | $0.99 | |
| 4. | Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer) | |
| 5. | I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore | $0.99 | |
| 6. | My Shining Hour | $0.99 | |
| 7. | Twelve Days of Christmas, The | |
| 8. | Whenever Winds Blow | $0.99 | |
| 9. | Isn't He Adorable? | |
| 10. | Isn't It a Pity? | |
| 11. | If You Leave Paris | $0.99 | |
| 12. | Sunday in New York | $0.99 | |
| 13. | If Love Were All | $0.99 | |
| 14. | Sail Away | $0.99 | |
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Midnight At Mabel Mercer's/Once In A Blue Moon Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Great Cabaret Song with Great Arrangements
This one's a great value: 2 CD's in one jewel case. Mabel Mercer is for lovers of all ages, who believe that life experience counts for something. There is nothing disposable, nothing flashy, nothing larger-than-real here. This is one quiet lady, sitting to sing, looking you in the eye because you're only a few feet away. I would invite young people to sample Mabel. She's a world away from all the glitz we all live in through TV and movies and huge rock shows with thousands of thousands in the crowd and video screens that show the band 90 feet tall. That whole fantasy world is a great escape. But you and I don't live there, all our dreams of stardom aside, and our lovers are not from the Hollywood A team. Mabel sings a real song about real love to real people who love other real people, we who hurt and laugh and cry and screw up. That's the world she sings to us about. And in these two discs we hear Mabel with a bit more than the usual solo piano accompaniments. Here we have two pianos and bass on one and a chamber orchestra on the other. Beautiful arrangements which make the songs special in a fresh instrumental way.
Submitted by epmusic (Elberta, AL, USA) 
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