Accent / GNP Crescendo Records Sealed New
A fantastic multi-tracking guitarist in a league with Billy Mure. He started playing guitar with his father's country and western band, Les Merrill and the Rhythm Acess in Utah in the early 1950s. He was largely self-taught on guitar, arranging, and composing. Merrill worked with a variety of bands before he joined Lawrence Welk's orchestra in 1959. Always willing to put business before musical tastes, Welk wanted to get a piece of the new "rock and roll" audience and hired Merrill to play "Rock Around the Clock." Although he remained as a featured player until he left the group in 1977, Merrill was considered something of an outsider among the conservative Welk family of performers.
Side 1.
1. The Carioca
2. Galveston
3. Let's Turn On Love
4. Alabamy Bound
5. Anna
6. Bluesette
Side 2.
1. Perfidia
2. Windmills Of Your Mind
3. Wabash Blues
4. Swingin' Blues
5. Peanut Vendor
6. Hava Nagila
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