It's a Wonderful World
08/05/2003 | Collectables
Lyrics from It's a Wonderful World
All Music Guide Review
Collectables' three-disc package It's a Wonderful World features five of clarinetist/bandleader Les Brown's albums. Included here are Brown's The Lerner and Loewe Bandbook, The Richard Rodgers Bandbook, Bandland: Great Songs of Great Bands, Revolution in Sound, and The Best of the Rare Les Brown and His Orchestra. The four full albums are representative of his early-'60s big-band charts, which harked back to his popular '40s dance-band sound while updating it for the hi-fi lounge era. However, this best-of disc features rare tracks recorded from 1941 to 1950 and showcases Brown at the height of his career popularity and creativity. This is a quirky mix of the essential and the oddball, but most Brown fanatics should find this package hard to resist.~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide
It's a Wonderful World Track Listing
Credits of It's a Wonderful World
- Roy Main
- Trombone
- Amerigo Marino
- Violin
- Ollie Mitchell
- Trumpet
- Bob Neel
- Drums
- Alexander Neiman
- Viola
- Uan Rasey
- Trumpet
- Dan Rivard
- Compilation Producer
- Phil Stephens
- Tuba
- Butch Stone
- Sax (Baritone), Vocals
- Darrel Terwilliger
- Violin
- Irving Townsend
- Producer, Liner Notes
- Terry Trotter
- Piano, Celeste
- Billy Usselton
- Sax (Tenor), Soloist
- Gerald Vinci
- Violin
- Hubert Anderson
- Percussion
- Eleanor Slatkin
- Cello
- Stanley Harris
- Viola
- Bill Mattson
- Trumpet
- Clyde Brown
- Trombone
- Stumpy Brown
- Trombone, Trombone (Bass), Tuba
- Eileen Wilson
- Vocals
- Ralph Young
- Vocals
- Ken Robertson
- Digital Restoration
- Abe Aaron
- Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
- Betty Jane Bonney
- Vocals
- Frank Emilio Flynn
- Percussion
- Joe Cadena
- Trombone
- Matt Utal
- Saxophone
- Misha Russel
- Violin
- John de Voodgt
- Violin
- Al Fichera
- Liner Notes
- Alvin Aaron
- Saxophone
- Four Hits & A Miss
- Vocals
- James Hill
- Trombone
- Ralph LaPolla
- Saxophone
- Mickey McMahon
- Trumpet
- Jerry Kadowitz
- Trumpet
- Leobardo O. Acosta
- Timbales
- Jules Bertaux
- Bass
- John Wanner
- Trombone
- Floyd Haller
- Saxophone
- John Macek
- A&R
- Clinton McMahan
- Trumpet
- "John" Johnny Newsome
- Sax (Tenor)
- Pat Flaherty
- Vocals
- Fred Haller
- Flute, Sax (Alto)
- Dick Kennedy
- Trombone, Soloist
- Roy Linn
- Trumpet
- Tony Rizzi
- Guitar
- Felix Slatkin
- Violin
- Jack Haskell
- Vocals
- John Audino
- Trumpet
- Bob Clark
- Trumpet
- Frank Comstock
- Arranger
- Donn Trenner
- Piano, Soloist
- Jesse Ehrlich
- Cello
- Gene Estes
- Percussion, Vibraphone, Boobams, Bongos, Marimba
- Jacques Gasselin
- Violin
- James Getzoff
- Violin
- Howard Roberts
- Guitar
- Frank Huggins
- Trumpet
- Ray Kelloff
- Vocals
- Lou Klass
- Violin
- Edward Kleban
- Liner Notes
- Frank Perry
- Sax (Alto)
- Chris Clark
- Bass
- Les Brown
- Main Performer
- Herb Ellis
- Guitar
- Don Bagley
- Bass
- Billy Butterfield
- Trumpet
- Dick Collins
- Trumpet, Soloist














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