Artist: Julie London
Title: Collection 1955-62
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Format: CD
Release Date: 2017
Label: Acrobat
UPC: 824046320621
Genre: Jazz
Album Tracks DISC 1: 1. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 2. A Foggy Day 3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me 4. You're Blasé 5. Cry Me a River 6. S'wonderful 7. Baby, Baby, All the Time 8. Shadow Woman 9. September in the Rain 10. Lonely Girl 11. Tall Boy 12. Now, Baby, Now 13. The Meaning of the Blues 14. Boy on a Dolphin 15. It Had to Be You 16. Dark 17. I'd Like You for Christmas 18. Saddle the Wind 19. Tell Me You're Mine 20. The Freshman 21. It's Easy 22. Voice in the Mirror 23. Blue Moon 24. Man of the West 25. My Strange Affair 26. Come On-A My House 27. Must Be Catchin' 28. Something I Dreamed Last Night DISC 2: 1. Comin' Through the Rye 2. Makin' Whoopee 3. It's a Blue World 4. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 5. Time for Lovers 6. Send for Me 7. Evenin' 8. Sanctuary 9. Every Chance I Get 10. My Darling, My Darling 11. My Love, My Love 12. (Slightly Out of Tune) Desafinado 13. Where Did the Gentleman Go? 14. Laura 15. How Deep Is the Ocean 16. June in January 17. Bye, Bye Blues 18. If I Could Be with You 19. Daddy 20. I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan 21. Mad About the Boy 22. Cuddle Up a Little Closer 23. When I Fall in Love 24. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to 25. Around Midnight 26. Yes Indeed 27. Why Don't You Do Right 28. Sophisticated Lady 29. Love Letters 30. Love on the Rocks
Best-known for her classic 1955 Top 10 hit "Cry Me A River", Julie London was a fine sultry-voiced jazz and pop singer, who enjoyed her greatest popularity during the "cool" era of the late '50s and early '60s - Billboard magazine named her as the most popular female vocalist of 1955, '56 and '57. Although she sang as a child with her parents' vaudeville act on radio, the first decade of her career from 1945 was as a Hollywood movie actress, becoming a popular pin-up girl of GIs, and appearing with the likes of Gary Cooper. Beginning her recording career in 1955, she scored a hit with her first release for Liberty, "Cry Me A River", and over subsequent years released around twenty singles for the label, as well as having a regular output of concept albums, showcasing her smoky and sensuous vocal style with a mixture of sophisticated pop and mainstream jazz material. This great-value 58-track 2-CD collection comprises her debut recordings on an EP recorded for the Bethlehem label (the tracks were later released as singles by Liberty), and all her A and B sides for Liberty through to 1962, some of which came from her LP releases, plus selected tracks from the seventeen albums she released during those first important years of her recording career. As well as "Cry Me A River", it includes what was one of her best-known recordings, her vocal version of the jazz cha-cha "Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune)" from 1962. "Cry Me A River" has been revived by many high-profile artists over the years. Julie London is an artist who has not received the accolades she deserved as a sophisticated jazz/pop singer to compare with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee, and this collection will help underline her distinctive talent.
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