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Track Listing
1. Paper Doll
2. Across the Alley From the Alamo
3. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
4. Be My Life's Companion
5. Lazy River
6. Glow Worm
7. You Always Hurt the One You Love
8. Window Washer Man, The
9. Daddy's Little Girl
10. Jones Boy, The
11. Till Then
12. In a Mellow Tone
13. You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine
14. Opus One
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
These Mills Brothers' recordings might be new and unfamiliar sounds to younger ears; there are few acts in the music business that sound remotely like them. The quartet of singing siblings delivers these melodies in a crisp, colorful, and dynamic way.
A rhythmic confidence and slick warmth pervade songs like "Lazy River" and "Across the Alley from the Alamo." The sheer goofiness of "Alamo" is almost lost in the bouncy tempo, but the Mills's spirited vocals swing and are filled with suitable good humor. "You Always Hurt the One You Love" and "Someday" make it plain that the group, whose core here comprises the three brothers and their father, have the heart and soul to make these songs sentimental and blue. "Till Then," from 1944, predates the acapella and doo-wop styles that would gain popularity 10 years later.
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