Marvelous Marterie

This album was in Mercury’s budget Wing line. It was recorded between December 1956 and April 1959. Most of the individual recordings were never otherwise released by Mercury,^[3][4][5] although “When My Sugar Walks Down the Street” was also released on Mercury 45 rpm #71488,^[6] and “Trombone Blues” was also released under the title “Private Eyeball” on the full-priced LP Music For A Private Eye (Mercury MG 20437, SR 60109)^[6]

1. Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin – DeSylva – Macdonald)
2. Can't We Be Friends? (Swift - James)
3. Deep Purple (Peter DeRose)
4. Lonely Winter (arr. George Stone)
5. Trombone Blues (S. Allen – R. Marterie)
6. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (Irving Mills – Jimmy McHugh – Gene Austin)
7. Rain (Eugene Ford)
8. Stars Fell on Alabama (Frank Perkins – Mitchell Parish)
9. Sentimental Journey (Les Brown – Ben Homer – Bud Green)
10. I’ll Be Around (Alec Wilder)
11. Love Song from “Houseboat” (J. Livingston – Ray Evans)