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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: Sepia Recordings
Salesrank: 19134
Released: May 12, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Memories Track Listing:
1. Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E/The Band Played On/The Bowery/On a Saturday Night/W - Ethel Merman, ,
2. Hello My Baby/I've Got Rings on My Fingers/In My Merry Oldsmobile/In th - Ethel Merman, ,
3. Waltz Me Around Again Willie/Sidewalks of New York/A Bicycle Built for - Ethel Merman, ,
4. Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet/M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I - Ethel Merman, ,
5. Listen to the Mocking Bird/You Tell Me Your Dream I'll Tell You Mine/Sc - Ethel Merman, ,
6. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans/Somebody Stole My Gal/Smiles/Row, Row, R - Ethel Merman, ,
7. Take Back Your Gold/Frankie and Johnny - Ethel Merman, ,
8. Bird in a Gilded Cage/Moonlight Bay/By the Light of the Silvery Moon/Sh - Ethel Merman, ,
9. That Old Gang of Mine/Sweet Adeline - Ethel Merman, ,
10. Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!/Dear Little Boy of Mine/Forty-Five Minutes fr - Ethel Merman, ,
11. Dialogue/I Got Rhythm [From Girl Crazy] - Ethel Merman
12. Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy] - Ethel Merman
13. You're an Old Smoothie [From Take A Chance] - Ethel Merman
14. Anything Goes [From Anything Goes] - Ethel Merman
15. Ridin' High [From Red Hot and Blue] - Ethel Merman
16. Way Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor [From Red Hot and Blue] - Ethel Merman
17. This Is It [From Stars in Your Eyes] - Ethel Merman
18. I'll Pay the Check [From Stars in Your Eyes] - Ethel Merman
19. Do I Love You? [From Du Barry Was A Lady] - Ethel Merman
20. Friendship [From Du Barry Was A Lady] - Ethel Merman
21. Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please [From Panama Hattie] - Ethel Merman
22. He's a Right Guy [From Something for the Boys] - Ethel Merman
23. I Got Lost in His Arms [From Annie Get Your Gun] - Ethel Merman
24. Alexander's Ragtime Band [From There's No Business Like Show Business] - Ethel Merman
25. How Deep Is the Ocean - Ethel Merman
Editorial Review:
First time on CD--Broadway icon Ethel Merman's sing-along tribute to the songs she learned when she was a little girl! Popular American songs from the turn of the century recorded at the height of her fame in the 1950s!
Memories Reviews:
Ethel Merman: You're the Top! 
2009-06-23 - One of the most coveted out of print Ethel Merman albums is her Musical Biography which was released in the mid-fifties by Decca Records. Why this album or her LP of old songs have not been released up to now remains a mystery. However, the wait has been worthwhile as the treatment given these recordings is royal. The sound quality of the remastering from the records themselves is incredibly rich and full with Merman at the top of her form. It's obvious that Decca Records was hoping to repeat the success of the huge Bing record set by giving Merman a similar treatment. However, where Bing Crosby's narration is warm and full of humility, Merman's is brash and self confident, much like the image she portrayed on stage and screen. But it's the singing we really want anyway, and Merman delivers in full force. This CD is a winner as it and should be part of anyone's Broadway collection for Ethel Merman certainly was the Queen of musical theatre.
Grand Old Songs Sung As They Should Be Sung
2009-06-12 - If you like Ethel Merman (and I do), you'll love this reissue of "Memories"--songs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Miss Merman is in great voice and sings with her usual gusto. These songs were originally put out on a 12 inch 33 1/3 record and have been remastered and the quality is excellent. Also added are all the items with the Buddy Cole Quartet from the album "A Musical Biography"--also long out of print! Included is a very well done writeup of Merman's recording career and the background of these two albums. Great! Now if someone will just do this for the sound track recording of the movie "Call Me Madam"!
Memeries 
2009-05-13 - This is Ethel in her prime and the George M. Cohen songs are excellent.
You'll also hear her singing counter medley and harmonize with herself.
All that's missing is the ship or riverboat with this one.
