Sonny Til, erstwhile lead singer for the Orioles, recorded these solo and duet sides for Jubilee between 1951-1953 and in 1960. The earliest recordings are performed in a recital style with only a piano for accompaniment. The success of the Frankie Laine and Jo Stafford duets inspired Jubilee to pair Til with another vocalist on their roster, Edna McGriff; their six duets are unspectacular but add a little variety to the program. Til left Jubilee but returned in 1960, so there is a leap in chronology from the last of his early solo recordings in 1953 to the half-dozen tracks he made in 1960. The later cuts are completely different, in a mild pop-R&B style similar to Sam Cooke without the constant vocal modulation. The material varies widely from the novelty "Panama Joe" to the dance-oriented "Shimmy Time" to Cole Porter's "Night and Day," which features a vocal performance so sublime that it is easily the anthology's finest cut. Nine of the recordings had never been released outside of Bear Family's complete Orioles box set, The Jubilee Recordings. None of these recordings were hits, and it is hard to imagine a collector with enough interest to want Til's solo sides and unreleased material who wouldn't simply buy The Jubilee Recordings, which has all these recordings and more.