The Mills Brothers- Cab Driver

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Album: Memories Nice And Easy
Release Date: 1979
Record Label: Reader's Digest
Audio Source: Vinyl Record
Sound Type: Stereo
Speed: 33 1/3 RPM
Record Number: RDA 2371A

Tracks:
Record 1
Side 1: The Mills Brothers' Greatest Hits
1. Paper Doll - (Black)
2. Lazy River - (Carmichael/Arodin)
3. Till Then - (Seiler/Marcus/Wood)
4. You Always Hurt the One You Love - (Roberts/Fisher)
5. Basin Street Blues - (Williams)
6. The Glow-Worm - (Lincke/Mercer/Robinson)

Side 2: The Mills Brothers' Greatest Hits
1. Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) - (Kalmar/Ruby)
2. Daddy's Little Girl - (Burke/Gerlach)
3. Across the Alley from the Alamo - (Greene)
4. Rockin' Chair - (Carmichael)
5. Be My Life's Companion - (Hilliard/De Lugg)
6. Cab Driver - (Parks)

Description: Musical fads come and go, but the Mills Brothers, blending two of America's all-time favorite styles-close harmony and swing-have now been turning out hits for more than 50 years. Originally, the four teen-aged brothers-John, Herbert, Harry, and Donald-built a regional reputation singing on WLW, Cincinnati, from 1925 to 1929. A year later, they moved to New York, where they played the legendary Palace Theater for 14 weeks, and became legends themselves. When John, the oldest brother, died suddenly in 1935, the others considered breaking up the group-until their father, John Sr., a barber who had once been a concert singer, volunteered to take his son's place. Since their father's retirement in 1956 the three remaining brothers have carried on by themselves-Donald normally singing lead, Herbert tenor and Harry baritone. They often switch roles, even in the course of a song, however-a tactic that is as much a trademark of the Mills Brothers as is their superb vocal imitation of musical instruments.

Cab Driver: The amazing longevity of the Mills Brothers as pop hit makers is underlined by the fact that although they made their first hit record, "Nobody's Sweetheart," in 1930, they were still creating new hits almost four decades later. They took "Cab Driver" to the top of the hit charts in 1968. To this day, the Mills Brothers know nothing about Carson Parks, who wrote the song. "We never met him," Harry Mills says. "We found the song on a demo record, and I told Sy Oliver, 'We're going to record this.'" Oliver and Harry Mills put the arrangement together (this one was more Mills Brothers than Sy Oliver), and the result was one of the major hits of the major hits of the late '60s.

Final Note: Manufactured Especially For Readers Digest By RCA Records, New York, N.Y. - Under license from ABC Records, Inc.