Ernie Fields

I got my one and only Ernie Fields track on a collection of rock and roll instrumentals on K-Tel. Or it might have been Ronco.

I got many songs this way. I’d find TV-advertised LPs in used record stores, often scratched to pieces but what can you do. Many of the songs I got were otherwise very difficult to find. So let’s stop and salute all those LPs of questionable quality and no status, without which my collection would be that much poorer…

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Ernie Fields

• In The Mood – Perhaps the signature tune of the swing era. Fields chops up the beat and renders into some kind of rock and roll, though what kind isn’t clear. Bette Midler had a minor hit with this, a follow-up to Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. From the fall of 1959 and credited to Ernie Fields Orchestra.