Flanagan,Ralph Hot Toddy: Hits & Selected Singles 1946-56 CD

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.

1. Make Believe 2. Low Gear 3. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 4. St. Louis Blues 5. You're Breaking My Heart 6. My Hero 7. Don't Cry Joe 8. Dear Hearts and Gentle People 9. Rag Mop 10. Joshua 11. Stars and Stripes Forever 12. To Me You're a Song 13. If I Had a Magic Carpet 14. Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 15. Mona Lisa 16. Toreador 17. La Vie en Rose 18. Nevertheless 19. The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got (In the Old Red, White and Blue) 20. Harbor Lights 21. I've Never Been in Love Before 22. Oh Babe 23. Melody of the Breeze 24. I Remember the Cornfields 25. I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time 26. Slow Drive 27. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life 28. Oklahoma 29. You for Me 30. The Blues (American in Paris) 31. Slow Poke 32. Just One More Chance 33. One Alone 34. Baltimore Rag 35. Singing Winds 36. Be Anything 37. I'm Yours 38. Delicado 39. I Should Care 40. Hot Toddy 41. A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E 42. Rub-A-Dub-Dub 43. Stranger in Paradise 44. Reverie in the Rain 45. From the Vine Came the Grape 46. In the Chapel in the Moonlight 47. Little Brown Mambo 48. I Belong to You 49. On the Beat 50. Beep Boop 51. Out Last Night