Peg O' My Heart
Peg O’ My Heart
Harmonica Boogie
Peggy O’neil
September Song
Valse Bluette
Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue
Harmonicats Blues
It Must Be True
Harmonicats Boogie
Willow, Weep For Me
The Galloping Comedians
Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
Lezghinka
Harbour Lights
The Sardar March
At Sundown
Roman Guitar
Dynaflow Drive (Fantaisie-Impromptu)
Flapperette
Charmaine
Sissy
Blues
Hootin’ Blues
Night Train
Till I Waltz Again With You
Malagueña
Little Red Monkey
The Harmonica Player
The Story Of Three Loves
Just One More Chance
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom Whith
Mack The Knife

Jerry Murad & His Harmonicats

Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats, playing “mouth organs” of various shapes and sizes, became one of the longest running acts in show-business. The basic trio – of Armenian, Polish and Italian origins – consisted of Jerry Murad (1919-1996) on lead chromatic harmonica, Don Les (1914-1994) on bass harmonica and Al Fiore (1922-1996) on chord harmonica. Together they created an utterly distinctive sound that is pure 1940s and 50s nostalgia. The haunting million-seller Peg O’ My Heart was the Harmonicats’ key to fame and fortune (it was the first major hit to use an echo chamber creatively), and it’s the title of Retrospective’s survey of the very best of their unique recorded output from 1947 to 1960. The range is remarkable, from speciality numbers like Harmonica Boogie, to the original treatment of standards such as Bewitched, to the amazing transformations they wrought with such classical pieces as Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu (“Dynaflow Drive”) or Kabalevsky’s The Galloping Comedians. And if there is a more exciting instrumental version of Mack The Knife, we don’t know it. Just listen to the legendary magic of Jerry Murad and his fabulous Harmonicats – you won’t have heard anything like it!