Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers

It's Got To Be Love 

Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers
Shorty Rogers and His Giants
RCA Victor LPM-1428
1957

From the back cover: It was inevitable that Shorty Rogers, a dean of modern West Coast jazz musicians, should get around to doing an album of the songs of Richard Rodgers. For Shorty has long appreciated the good things in life, just as he has always shown a marked preference for the tasteful and artistic. Mr. Rodgers' songs not only are generally better than good, but they also show their composer to be an artist and a man of genuine taste. Hence the inevitable...

Because Rodgers' superb melodies are so varied, Shorty Rogers, who naturally does all of his own arranging, did not choose to present all of the songs in the same manner. Mountain Greenery, On A Desert Island With Thee, I've Got Five Dollars and I Could Write A Book are performed by a large band including trumpeters Conte Candoli and Pete Candoli; trombonists Milt Bernhart and Frank Rosolino; Sam Rice on tuba; saxophonists Jack Montrose, Pepper Adams and Bill Holman; Red Mitchell on bass; Pete Jolly on piano, and Stan Levey on drums. The other numbers Shorty felt were more suitable to the ninetet, especially when such musicians as Pepper Adams, Bill Holman, Pete Jolly, Stan Levy and Conte Candoli were available for the music making.

I've Got Five Dollars
Ten Cents A Dance
Mountain Greenery
Ship Without A Sail
Mimi
It's Got To Be Love
I Could Write A Book
The Girl Friend
On A Desert Island With Thee
Thou Swell