Erroll Garner Plays Misty

 

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Erroll Garner

Plays Misty

Mercury Records MG 206622

1961

From the back cover: In his nightclub appearances in Hollywood's Crescendo or New York's Basin Street East, in a sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall, Erroll Garner has only to play the first few bars of Misty when the crowds burst out in applause. That sensitive ballad, written by Garner and performed in his usual personal style, has become as typically Garner as anything the best-selling pianist has ever done, and understandably it serves as the title tune of his latest Mercury album. Through the years, Misty has turned out to be his most requested number, not only by his millions of admirers but also of his scores of friends in show business. It has been recorded by dozens of other instrumentalists and singers, but never so poignantly as in this session.

If Misty isn't enough to keep the Garner legions happy, little (5 feet, six inches) Erroll has perched himself on the Manhattan Classified telephone directory (as essential to a Garner performance as the in-tune piano) and brewed up nine other delightful numbers to put the luster on a top notch album.

Misty

Exactly Like You

You Are My Sunshine

What Is This Thing Called Love

Frantenality

Again

Where Or When

Love In Bloom

Through A Long And Sleepless Night

That Old Feeling