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Brooklyn born Art Mooney was leader of one of Americas most popular dance bands from the mid 1930s up until the 1960s. He achieved his greatest success with happy sing along remakes of 1920s standards, sometimes with the addition of a banjo, and scored a number one hit in 1948 with Im Looking Over a Four leaf Clover, a chart topper for 5 weeks that sold over a million copies. Other Top Ten hits include Baby Face, Bluebird of Happiness, Again and Honey babe. The unstoppable Art Mooney occupied the best selling charts for most of 1949 with various singles: Beautiful Eyes two months; Again over four months; Twenty Four Hours Of Sunshine two months and in the years that followed the band continued to produce major hits. Their first 18 hits have been incorporated into this 25 track Sepia collection and almost all are appearing on CD for the fist time. Included too is the bands signature tune Sunset to Sunrise. Art Mooney continued to reap the benefits of his hit status by continuing to lead various bands in the sixties and seventies, long after the big band era had passed its peak. He toured the nation with a nostalgia package show The American Big Band Cavalcade and for a period in the eighties fronted The Guy Lombardo Orchestra. |
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 I'm Looking For A Four-Leaf Clover
The Big Brass Band From Brazil (a)
Baby Face
Bluebird Of Happiness (b)
Sunset To Sunrise
Beautiful Eyes
Doo De Doo On An Old Kazoo
Again (c)
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue
Merry-Go-Round Waltz
Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunshine
Hop Scotch Polka
Toot, Toot, Tootsie
I Never See Maggie Alone (d)
If I Knew You Were Comin Id've Baked A Cake (e)
Silver Dollar (f)
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I (g)
Lazy River (h)
Heartbreaker
Honey-Babe
No Regrets (i)
Daydreams (i)
Giant
Rock And Roll Tumbleweed
The Girl I Left Behind Me |
Vocalists: a- The Galli Sisters; b- Bud Bress And The Galli Sisters; c- Johnny Martin, Madelyn Russell; d- Tex Fletcher; e- Betty Harris; f- Betty Harris And Johnny Martin; g- Allan Brooks And The Four Clovers; h- Cathy Ryan And The Cloverleafs; i- The Cloverleafs |
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