The Mell-O-Tones Song Book
Four sensational albums from Australia's top swing band.
Hollywood Swings - Hit Songs from the Movie Musicals' features the classic melodies of Hollywood in original dance-band arrangements, including favourites I've Got You Under My Skin, Isn't It Romantic, Cheek to Cheek and Night and Day.
Swinging Down Broadway - Hit Songs from the Broadway Musicals' is a mix of the great names of Broadway musicals - Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart - in an album of toe-tapping rhythms and unforgettable melodies.
I Dreamed About You - Songs of Love and Longing from World War II' is a deeply moving tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, featuring the special songs that captured the hopes, dreams and precious memories of lovers in a world at war. Includes We'll Meet Again, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive and Don't Sit under the Apple Tree.
Non-Stop Flight - Great Music of the Swing Era' features Jazz great Don Burrows as he joins the Mell-o-Tones on this album of dance-hall favourites. The irresistible rhythms and stylish vocals of the 30s and 40s come alive in timeless tracks including Honeysuckle Rose, All or Nothing at All and Let's Take the Long Way Home.
Track Listing
CD 1
- If I Had A Talking Picture of You (1929). Film "Sunny Side Up".
- Isn't It Romantic (1932). Film "Love me Tonight"
- Buttons and Bows (1947). Film "The Paleface."
- Change Partners (1938). Astaire-Rodgers film "Carefree"
- Happy-Go-Lucky (1943). Film of the same name.
- Night and Day (1934). Film "The Gay Divorcee"
- I've Got You Under My Skin (1936). Film "Born to Dance"
- It Might as Well be Spring (1945). Film "State Fair"
- 42nd Street (1933). Film of the same name.
- Mona (1929). Film "Happy Days"
- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (1937). Film "Shall We Dance"
- I Had the Craziest Dream (1942). Film "Springtime in the Rockies"
- The Free and Easy (1930). Film of the same name
- I Remember You (1942). Film "The Fleet's In"
- A Gal in Calico (1946). Film "The Time, The Place and the Girl"
- Down Argentine Way (1940). Film "Down Argentina Way"
- Personality (1946). Film "The Road to Utopia"
- Here Comes Emily Brown (1930). Film "Fox Movietone Follies of 1930"
- Cheek to Cheek (1935). Film "Top Hat"
- On the Atcheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe (1946). Film "The Harvey Girls"
- Breakaway (1929). Film "Fox Movietone Follies of 1929."
CD 2
- BERLIN - I Got The Sun In The Morning
- WEILL - Speak Low
- PORTER - I'm In Love Again
- DONALDSON - Makin' Whoopee
- LANE - Old Devil Moon
- RODGERS - The Lady Is A Tramp
- MCHUGH - South American Way
- BERLIN - Shaking The Blues Away
- KERN - Yesterdays - instrumental
- PORTER - You're the Top (Cha-Cha) - instrumental
- PORTER - Anything Goes
- YOUMANS - Sometimes I'm Happy
- WARREN - The More I See You
- RODGERS - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
- PORTER - Were Thine That Special Face
- HENDERSON - The Varsity Drag
- SCHWARTZ - I See Your Face Before
- BROWN - Good Morning
- SULLIVAN - I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)
- JORDAN - Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't, Ma' Baby?
CD 3
- Don't Sit under The Apple Tree
- We'll Meet Again
- Amor
- It's Been a Long Long Time
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
- I'll Walk Alone
- I Cried For You
- Nightingale
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
- Room 504
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Poinciana
- I'm Beginning to See The Light
- Star Eyes
- I've Heard That Song Before
- Don't Fence Me In
- Frenesi
- Home Town
CD 4
- Let's Get Together
- Non-Stop Flight
- All or Nothing at All
- Don't Be That Way
- At Last
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Moon Glow
- No Love, No Nothin'
- Amapola
- Maria My Own
- Manha de Carnaval (Morning of the Carnival)
- There Goes My Heart
- Jungle Drums
- Autumn Serenade
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- Yours
- I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
- Slap That Bass
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Let's Take the Long Way Home
- At Sundown
Released: 2008
Released: 2008-02-08T13:00:00