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Helen Merrill With Strings

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Marc Myers
Sep 19, 2018
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Between 1954 and 1957, singer Helen Merrill recorded five albums for Mercury's EmArcy division. Yesterday, while writing, I spent the day listening to all of them as well as a bunch of assorted tracks she recorded for the label. Perhaps the best known album of the bunch is Helen Merrill, which she recorded in December 1954 accompanied by the Clifford Br…

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