One of the rarest of the Ben Bagley series and one of the highest priced of the OOP CDs, were thrilled to bring back DeSylva, Brown & Henderson Revisited. B.G. Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson were a hugely successful songwriting team, serving up such delectable and hummable hits as “You’re the Cream in My Coffee,” “The Varsity Drag,” “Button Up Your Overcoat,” “(I’m a Dreamer) Aren’t We All,” “Birth of the Blues,” “The Thrill Is Gone,” and many, many others. All three had successful and fascinating careers on their own. DeSylva, along with Johnny Mercer and Glen Wallichs, created Capitol Records.

Bagley assembled a great cast for the album, including Dorothy Loudon, Cab Calloway, Gloria DeHaven, Blossom Dearie, Margaret Whiting, Sandy Stewart and others, with musical direction and arrangements by the wonderful Norman Paris. There are some really fun rarities here and this is one of Bagley’s most fun albums. There are many bonus tracks, too. The lyrics are sublime, and the tunes are brilliant.

As always, we’ve spruced up the sound, and we of course give you the great Harvey Schmidt artwork that were so much a glorious part of this series of albums. -KRITZERLAND

1. Broadway - Charles Rydell and Company
2. There I Go Dreaming Again - Blossom Dearie
3. I’ve Got to Get Hot - Dorothy Loudon
4. You Could Make My Life a Bed of Roses - Blossom Dearie, Charles Rydell
5. Without Love - Dorothy Loudon
6. My Song - Ken Parks
7. Heel Beat - Dorothy Loudon, Cab Calloway, and Boys
8. When Love Comes Swinging Along - Charles Rydell and Company
9. Tweet, Tweet - Blossom Dearie
10. Isn’t It June? - Gloria DeHaven
11. I Want to Be Bad - Blossom Dearie
12. One More Time - Cab Calloway
13. Thank Your Father - Blossom Dearie, Charles Rydell
14. My Bluebird’s Home Again - Dorothy Loudon, Cab Calloway, Company
15. Just a Memory - Sandy Stewart
16. Wishing - Margaret Whiting
17. If You Haven’t Got Love - Marcus Neville and the Girls
18. My Lucky Star - Ann Hampton, Cab Callaway
19. Picking Petals Off of Daisies - Sandy Stewart
20. I’d Like to Dunk You in My Coffee - Arthur Siegel, Dorothy Loudon
21. Nothing but Love - Ann Hampton Cab Callaway
22. Title Songs Medley - Sandy Stewart, Arthur Siegel
23. Together - Dorothy Loudon
24. Never Swat a Fly - Marcus Neville, Ken Parks, Tanya Moberly, Patti Wyss

Musical Direction and Arrangements by Norman Paris