Vinyl Album - Helen Merrill - American Country Songs - Atco

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Helen Merrill
Title:	American Country Songs
Label:	Atco
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	33-112
Date:	Nov 1959
Format:	Mono LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Helen Merrill	Maybe Tomorrow	Don Everly, Phil Everly	Rate
A2	Helen Merrill	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	Hank Williams	Rate
A3	Helen Merrill	You Don't Know Me	Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold	Rate
A4	Helen Merrill	Condemned Without Trial	Hal Blair, Don Robertson	Rate
A5	Helen Merrill	You Win Again	Hank Williams	Rate
A6	Helen Merrill	I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail	Karl Davis, Harty Taylor	Rate
B1	Helen Merrill	A Heart Full Of Love	Eddi Arnold, Steve Nelson, Ray Soehnel	Rate
B2	Helen Merrill	Cold, Cold Heart	Hank Williams	Rate
B3	Helen Merrill	Devoted To You	Boudleaux Bryant	Rate
B4	Helen Merrill	My Heart Would Know	Hank Williams	Rate
B5	Helen Merrill	Any Time	Herbert Lawson	Rate
B6	Helen Merrill	Half As Much	Curley Williams	Rate

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Jelena (Helen Merrill) Milcetic is a jazz vocalist whose career spans more than six decades. Eight years after Ms. Merill had begun to sing in jazz clubs in the Bronx in 1944, she made her recording debut at which she was requested to sing “A Cigarette For Company” with the Earl Hines band.

In 1954, Ms. Merrill had secured a recording contract with the newly formed Emarcy label, which was a division of Mercury records, and had recorded her eponymous disc of 33.33 rpm, which had featured Clifford Brown and Oscar Pettiford. Besides, a young Quincy Jones had produced and arranged the tunes of this disc. Because of the prosperity of this self-titled disc, Ms. Merrill was asked to sign for an additional four album contract by Mercury records.

Although this is the first and only Atco disc of 33.33 rpm that Ms. Merrill had recorded, she sang renowned country tunes in a jazz-like style through the arrangement and conduction of Chuck Sagle. In fact, the majority of these tunes were popularized by Hank Williams and Eddi Arnold. While this disc of 33.33 did not sell well, another jazz singer named Ray Charles had recorded two prosperously selling discs of which he sang popular country and western songs in a jazzy rock and roll style.

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