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Welcome back to The Leopard Lounge… This time we have packaged Volumes 1, 2 and All Night Long together for this very special release.
This acclaimed series of swinging lounge tunes from thee Warner and Atlantic vaults blends jazz, blues, R&B (as it was meant to be) bossa nova, exotica, mambo and loungecore, all made by artists who pioneered the genre from the 1940s to the 1970s: Mel Torme, Sammy Davis Jr., Esquivel, Esther Phillips, Ella Fitzgerald, to name just a few...
So fix yourself your drink of choice, charge your glasses, and join us on a journey…
CD1)
1 Comin' Home Baby - Mel Torme,
2 The Sound Of Silence - Carmen McRae,
3 Jumpin' Jack Flash - Ananda Shankar,
4 Harlem Nocturne - Herbie Mann,
5 Teach Me Tiger - April Stevens,
6 A Taste Of Honey - Les Baxter Orchestra,
7 Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Ray Charles,
8 And I Love Him - Esther Phillips,
9 Sunny - Dave Pike,
10 Summertime - Barney Kessel,
11 I Wonder Why - Ella Fitzgerald,
12 Call Me - Nat Adderley,
13 Jive Samba - Jon Hendricks,
14 Night In Tunisia - Ada Lee,
15 Too Close For Comfort - Sammy Davis Jr,
16 I Get A Kick Out Of You - Esquivel,
17 Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin,
18 Papa-Ooh-MauMau - Harold Betters,
CD2)
1 Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin,
2 It Ain't Necessarily So - Barney Kessel Plus Big Band,
3 42nd Street - Mel Torme,
4 On Broadway - Nino Tempo & Eddie Cano,
5 Bye Bye Blackbird - Sammy Davis Jr,
6 You Make Me Feel So Young - Chris Connor,
7 On A Slow Boat To China - Jackie Paris,
8 Round Midnight - Betty Carter,
9 One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Esquivel,
10 Black Coffee - Ella Fitzgerald,
11 Makin' Whoopee - Esther Phillips,
12 Monday Monday - Sergio Mendes,
13 A Man And A Woman - Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones,
14 Daktari - Shelly Manne,
15 Surfboard - Antonio Carlos Jobim,
16 Alfie - Dionne Warwick,
CD3)
1 Right Now - Mel Torme,
2 The Sidewinder - Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones,
3 Your Red Wagon - Mose Allison,
4 Hurry Up And Love Me - Antonio Carlos Jobim,
5 Light My Fire - Ananda Shankar,
6 Sunny - Ella Fitzgerald,
7 Out On A Limb - Shelly Manne,
8 The Girl From Ipanema - Esther Phillips,
9 Let There Be Love - Sammy Davis Jr,
10 Moonbow - Duke Ellington,
11 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Ann Richards,
12 On Broadway - Eddie Cano & Nino Tempo,
13 You Came A Long Way From St Louis - Barney Kessel,
14 It Ain't Necessarily So - Bobby Darin,
15 I Get A Kick Out Of You - Chris Connor,
16 Caper At The Coffee House - Warren Barker,
17 You're The Boss - Lavern Baker & Jimmy Ricks,
18 Peking Tiger - Les Baxter,
19 Trav'lin' Light - Al Hibbler,
20 Summertime - Marty Paich,
CD4)
1 77 Sunset Strip - Warren Barker,
2 Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Ann Richards,
3 Face Behind The Fire - Don Ralke,
4 Our Mann Flint - Herbie Mann,
5 Mas Que Nada - Ella Fitzgerald,
6 Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba,
7 Coffee Beans & Calabash Annie - Les Baxter,
8 Dat Dere - Mel Torme,
9 The Cat - Marty Paich,
10 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Lavern Baker,
11 Everytime We Say Goodbye - Esther Phillips,
12 Moon River - Duke Ellington,
13 Doodlin' - Ray Charles,
14 I Wish You Love - Ada Lee,
15 Romance In The Dark - Carol Stevens,
16 Aqua De Beber - Antonio Carlos Jobim,
17 Something For Cat - Barney Kessel,
18 They All Laughed - Chris Connor,
19 That's All - Bobby Darin,
20 Peter Gunn - Shelly Manne,
CD5)
1 All Night Long - Bobby Darin,
2 Blow, Gabriel, Blow - Chris Connor,
3 Lullaby Of Birdland - Mel Tormé,
4 I Git It Bad and That Ain't Good - Carmen McRae,
5 As Long As She Needs Me - Austin Cromer,
6 I Wish You Love - Esther Phillips,
7 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Mavis Rivers,
8 Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Bobby Scott,
9 Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) - Ella Fitzgerald,
10 Roll 'Em Pete - George Melly,
11 Around The World In 80 Days - Chiles & Pettiford,
12 The Masquerade Is Over - Ann Richards,
13 Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound - Ada Lee,
14 We'll Be Together Again - Lurlean Hunter,
15 The Good Life - Betty Carter,
