Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

“Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”

Song by Joe Zawinul
Album	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
Released	1966
Recorded	Capitol Records (Los Angeles) October 20, 1966
Genre	Soul jazz
Length	5:10
Label	EMI
Writer	Joe Zawinul
Producer	David Axelrod

"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" is a song written by Joe Zawinul in 1966 for Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and his album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'. The song is the title track of the album and became a surprise hit, reaching #11 on the Billboard charts, and has been re-recorded numerous times (usually with lyrics added), perhaps most successfully by The Buckinghams in 1967.

It has now become a jazz standard that nearly every jazz musician, even beginner, plays.

The theme of the song is performed by Joe Zawinul himself playing it on a Rhodes piano that he got used from Ray Charles.^[1]

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