Plas Johnson

• COLLECTOR'S DIGIPACK SERIES

• LIMITED EDITION 6-PANEL DIGIPACK

• 500 COPIES ONLY!

• 2 ORIGINAL ALBUM ON 1 CD

• INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK

Presented here are two rare quintet albums which he originally issued for contractual reasons under the pseudonym “Johnny Beecher”: Sax 5th Ave. (MGM Records/CRC Charter CLS 102), and On the Scene (MGM Records/CRC Charter CLS 104). The title track of the first album, “Sax 5th Avenue”, was also issued as a single, billed as “Johnny Beecher and His Buckingham Road Quintet” and made its dent on the charts at # 65 Billboard Pop Hot 100. That song was backed on the single with “Jack Sax the City”, from the same sessions, which has been added here as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• PLAS JOHNSON, tenor sax
• EMIL RICHARDS, vibes
• BERT KENDRICKS, organ
• JIMMY BOND, bass
• EARL PALMER or WAYNE ROBINSON, drums

Los Angeles, 1962.

• [1-12]: SAX 5th AVE.(MGM Records/CRC Charter CLS 102)
• [13-24]: ON THE SCENE (MGM Records/CRC Charter CLS 104)

• (*) BONUS TRACK (25): Same personnel and date as above.

TRACKS:

• 01 Stardust
• 02 Flamingo
• 03 Reveries
• 04 Diane
• 05 Lonely Feeling
• 06 Sax 5th Avenue
• 07 Cherokee
• 08 Summit Ridge Drive
• 09 Scrips ‘n’ Scraps
• 10 Johnson’s Bossa Nova
• 11 The Spirited Gim Bulls
• 12 May Cees Blues
• 13 Just Friends
• 14 The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
• 15 She’s Gone Away
• 16 Close Your Eyes
• 17 Don’t Be That Way
• 18 By Candlelight
• 19 I Understand
• 20 Sorrows
• 21 The Mission March
• 22 The Madison Avenue Strut
• 23 Teen Strut
• 24 ‘Round Midnight
• 25 Jack Sax the City (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 73:24 Min.