The Ultimate Melly

Name: The Ultimate Melly
Brand: George Melly
SKU: CCD79843
Price: 10.99 GBP
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Release Date: 23 January 2006

Label: Candid

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 708857984329

Genres: Jazz

Description
George Melly, the author, television personality, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, composer and musician, now in his eightieth year, has set up home at Candid Records for his latest release The Ultimate Melly.
With a stellar cast list joining the irrepressible Mr Melly, including Van Morrison (both for a rocking "Midnight Cannonball" and a poignant "Back Water Blues"), Jacqui Dankworth (sassy and sexy on "The Big Butter And Egg Man"), Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen, The Swingle Singers (who added a sensational re-make of "Straighten Up And Fly Right") and some exquisite trumpet playing courtesy of George's musical partner of the past thirty years, John Chilton.
"Melly continues to delight.
These days George has honed his larger-than-life stage persona into that of an avuncular and Rabelaisian figure, with his substantial repertoire of jazz and standards topped off with his trademark risqu? jokes on the themes of physical and mental decline." - Keith Howell
Tracklisting
1. Midnight Cannonball
2. Kitchen Man
3. Everybody Loves My Baby
4. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
5. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
6. Mr Gallagher And Mr Shean
7. God Bless The Child
8. Georgia On My Mind
9. T'Ain't No Sin
10. Back Water Blues
11. Goody Goody
12. Gone Fishin'
13. The Big Butter And Egg Man
14. Winin' Boy Blues
15. Straighten Up And Fly Right
16. Roll 'Em Pete
17. As Times Goes By
18. The Trudge