''In the Land of Hi-Fi'' was a

Patti Page Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known professionally as Patti Page, was an American singer and actress. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female ar ...

album issued by

Mercury Records Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is ...

on its

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown ...

label. Musical accompaniment was by

Pete Rugolo Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer. Life and career Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settle ...

and his Orchestra.
The catalog number of the monaural version, first released in

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

, was MG-36074, and of the stereophonic version, released in

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

, it was SR-80000. It was later reissued as Mercury MG-20516 (mono) and SR-60192 (stereo), titled ''Patti Page With The Pete Rugolo All Stars''. The album was Page's first release on the EmArcy label, generally used by Mercury as a label for

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

albums. There are time differences between the mono and stereo editions of the album, with several of the tracks edited for space in the stereo version.

Track listing

Releases

* In the Land of Hi Fi, Verve / Emarcy 1999 * In the Land of Hi Fi, Verve / Emarcy 1999 * In the Land of Hi Fi, Universal Distribution 2007 * In the Land of Hi Fi, Universal Distribution 2007 * Patti Page with Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra, Fresh Sound Records 2009

References

External links

In the Land of Hi Fi
Mercury Records albums Patti Page albums 1956 albums EmArcy Records albums Albums produced by Bob Shad {{1950s-pop-album-stub