Mandolino

Original music with Italian lyrics by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini

English language lyrics by Al Stillman and Alex Kramer 

M. W. Tmark & Sons ASCAP

 

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Produced by Charles Grean

 

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Time 2:28

 

Recorded  December 28th, 1959    ~   Matrix No. K2PB-6436 Take 5  

 

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SESSION MUSICIANS & CHOIR

 

Orchestra Session

MORNING 9:00AM TO 1:30 PM 

 

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

 

Sax ~ Harry Terrill, Bernard Kaufman, Stanley Webb, Jack Fulton

Cello ~ Maurice Brown, Lucien Schmit, Alan Shulman, Harvey Shapiro 

Viola ~ Isadore Zir, Howard Kay, George Brown, Leon Frengut

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman, Jack Zayde, Marc Brown, Tosha Samaroff,

Mac Ceppos, Max Hollander, Felix Orlewitz, Julius Schacter,

Harry Melnikoff, Leo Kruczek, Harry Urbont, Maurice Wilk,

Emanuel Green, Samuel Rand, Fred Baron, Charles Fleischmann 

French Horn ~ Anthony Miranda, Fred Klein

Accordion ~ Nicholas Perito 

Piano  Henry Rowland

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola, Dick Dia 

Harp ~ Myor Rosen 

Drums ~ Terry Snyder, Ted Sommer

Bass ~ Arnold Fishkin 

 

Choir ~ Susan Terry, Marie Crittenden, Trudy Packer, Pat Benton, Peggy Kopper, Jinx Liebinger,

Barbara Nelson, James Daugherty, Jerry Duane, Tom Kampman, Alan Sokoloff, Marc Pressel,

Edwin Lindstrom, Bruce Baggett, Eugene Lowell, Lois Winter, Sara Jane Tallman, Stephen Steck,

Lou Angel, William Elliott, Art Lang, Kenneth Bridges, Robert Eaton, Eric Carlson,

Charles Magruder and Ray Charles ~ contractor

Perry often recorded songs between Christmas and New Year's Day

and December, 1959, was no exception. This song was recorded on the

same day as a song which turned out to be one of Perry's most novel hits,

a song punning the names of American "states" which turned out to be more

popular in England than anywhere else. Along with "Delaware", he recorded the flip side

of the single, "I Know What God Is", and two other songs which were never released,

"Mandolino" (above) and a song titled "I Can't Remember".

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