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Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer is a 1956 studio album by Buddy Rich, of the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, arranged by Buddy Bregman.^[2] This was the first of three vocal albums that Rich recorded.

LP side A

1. "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck)
2. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen)
3. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael)
4. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen)
5. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen)
6. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Bloom)

LP side B

1. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom)
2. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen)
3. "Trav'lin' Light" (Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young)
4. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting)
5. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen)
6. "Dream" (Johnny Mercer)

All lyrics by Johnny Mercer, composers indicated.

• Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
• Ted Nash – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Rowles – piano
• Buddy Rich – vocals, drums
• Alvin Stoller – drums
• Buddy Bregman – arranger, orchestra conductor

• Verve MGV 2009
• Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer (Verve MGV 2009) at jazzdisco.org