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Julie London Format: Audio CD
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Why Don't You Do Right?
2 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
3 Hard Hearted Hannah
4 Do It Again
5 Take Back Your Mink
6 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
7 Daddy
8 An Occasional Man
9 Love for Sale
10 Always True to You in My Fashion
11 There'll Be Some Changes Made
12 Tired
13 Basin Street Blues
14 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
15 A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues
16 Get Set for the Blues
17 Invitation to the Blues
18 Bye Bye Blues
19 Meaning of the Blues
20 About the Blues
21 Sunday Blues
22 The Blues Is All I Ever Had
23 Blues in the Night
24 Bouquet of Blues
25 Baby, Baby, All the Time
26 Shadow Woman
27 Meaning of the Blues
28 Dark

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 4.92 x 0.43 inches; 3.53 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Fine and Mellow.
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2016
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2016
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Fine and Mellow.
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N3R3IK2
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ Spain
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings

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Ronaldo
5.0 out of 5 stars Music
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2019
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014
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I love it.
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A photographer
3.0 out of 5 stars Great album, docked a couple of stars due to poor sound quality (MP3 now the preferred format over CD)
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2012
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I'm not sure what happened here with the sound. The previous reviewers indicated re-channelling of an original mono recording or producing the CD from an original LP. I don't hear the surface noise mentioned in one of the reviews. What I hear is a sound something like that found on recordings from the 1930s--distant and lacking in dynamic range. It does sound like mono, not stereo. By turning the volume up a few notches, it's listenable but not really enjoyable. And that's sad because this is a very good concept album that showcases Julie London's seductive voice to great strength. I'm a big Julie London fan. I remember those great album covers from the mid-50s as much as that silk and satin voice.

The Julie London album "Send For Me" was also mentioned by one of the reviewers. I also have this album as released by Hallmark. Rather than have the flat, distant sound like "Whatever Julie Wants", the "Send For Me" album is recorded extremely forward and bright. Neither of the records sound good at all. I'm hoping to locate better quality recordings of them someday.

EDIT 06/2013: That better quality recording is here. Oddly enough, in the form of the 2012 Capitol MP3 issue. I've just bought it here on Amazon and it sounds exceptional, especially in contrast to the Hallmark/Pickwick CD. I also note Capitol has a current MP3 issue of the "Send For Me" recording with samples that also sounds splendid and puts the Hallmark/Pickwick CD to shame. I've burned a CD of the MP3 and played it on the home system--Rotel player, NAD amp, B&W speakers...all high quality components but not top of the line--and the MP3 CD is excellent in comparison to the dreadful redbook CD. The sound is so much better, I've removed the original CD from the case and replaced it with my own "roll your own" copy.

I notice Capitol has released a number of MP3s of the Julie London recordings that I've had trouble finding on CD. If they all measure up to the quality of this one, they are a viable alternative to the rare CDs. They are rather pricey, however.

I'll let my original assessment of the Hallmark CD sold here stand. The MP3 is the preferred format for this recording as of today. Five stars for the MP3.
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Choi JinYong
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2014
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Wonderful.....
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Cody Robert at Spokane
5.0 out of 5 stars REDISCOVERED GOLDDIGGER ALBUM, BIG BONUS ON 2016 CD, WHATEVER
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2018
The album: In 1961 the contented Encino hausfrau and mommy Julie London posed, in her sultry way, with some PR hoopla for this iconic cover sitting. Her props included endangered furs, jewelry baubles, transferable stock certificates and a cool $750K in real, negotiable USD (armed guards warily attended and supervised this glamour shoot). As usual, as Julie joked with Jack Benny, orchestrating Liberty’s calculated cover shoots took infinitely longer than actually laying down the music. This cinematic system of albummaking prodigiously sustained Liberty and Julie London over fully 32 original-concept projects made during her peak years 1955-69.

The music: Previously Julie was produced by Bobby Troup, singing jazzily to bands led by Russ Garcia, Jimmy Rowles or Pete King; and later Julie would languidly sing pop-chart covers, produced by hotshot Snuff Garrett and conducted by Ernie Freeman. This album was her stylistic transitional fulcrum, produced, arranged and conducted by classicist Felix Slatkin (1915-63, and legendary founder of the Hollywood String Quartet and Concert Arts Orchestra). His non-classical, Billy May-inspired, charts for this production are really sensational: crisp, swinging and deluxe. The concept is an unrepentant, but tarnished, golddigger slinkily impersonated by shy Julie, cocooned in luxury goods and four suggestive songs by Porter or Gershwin, this sizzling “Love for sale” being outstanding in Slatkin’s depraved chart. Julie’s insinuating “filler” covers of “Why don’t you do right?,” “Hard hearted Hannah,” “Daddy” (a rare instance of Julie rerecording and perfecting a Troup song) and “An occasional man” are similarly special keepers. Compilers systematically scavenged some of these sides for Julie compilations, but the full tongue-in-cheek album—an astonishingly great one—went missing for some 50+ years.

Rediscovery: Like her eccentric 1959 swimsuit album SWING ME AN OLD SONG, WHATEVER JULIE WANTS was overlooked when EMI recompiled their inherited Liberty masters as Julie twofers in the 1990s. Not until 2010 was there a Japanese audiophile CD reissue of WHATEVER, then in 2012 a wretched Hallmark reissue hideously sourced from abused vinyl. As of 2016 the album became newly available in a groovy vinyl replica from WaxTime (suitable for framing as wall art) and on a definitive CD twofer from Fine and Mellow, in spectacular tape-sourced true stereo. Distinguish carefully between the cheap Hallmark reissue (scarred by its tackily overprinted cover) and the deluxe (and fully documented) Fine and Mellow edition, for the latter (although itself a budget reissue) discreetly incorporates a huge bonus.

Expanded edition: After the sparkling stereo of WHATEVER JULIE WANTS Fine and Mellow append, in solid mono as originally intended, the 1957 album ABOUT THE BLUES, expanded with four additional singles tracks from the same sessions (Russ Garcia conducting an 18-piece band that includes Willie Smith, Maynard Ferguson, Barney Kessel and Shelly Manne). The Fine and Mellow edition of ABOUT THE BLUES completely supersedes the “official” EMI transfer ineptly made in 2001 in an unlistenable pseudostereo remix. (Fine and Mellow knowingly have also released a wonderful Julie twofer of LATIN IN A SATIN MOOD with SWING ME AN OLD SONG, only slightly less revelatory than their bounteous WHATEVER JULIE WANTS twofer.)
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Charlie Harper
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018
Great CD
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Tasukihori
2.0 out of 5 stars Can't Hear the Songs Above a Whisper... Even on the Highest Volume Setting on my Computer... :(
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2014
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I only got this CD for the "Why don't you do Right?" song. All the tracks are hard to listen to on your computer speakers, and the one track that I wanted to listen to the most was barely heard over a whisper. If you want to buy Julie London's music, skip over buying this CD and buy "The Best of Julie London". (the one with her on the cover all tied up in ribbons) That one has a better song track. If you want to get the song "Why don't you do Right?" by Julie London, I'd suggest buying just that song by itself on i-Tunes.
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J. R. Spencer
3.0 out of 5 stars "What Julie Wanted was Better Arrangements"
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2014
In Julie's 14th album for Liberty Records, Julie was forced to do a concept album that capitalized on the success of Marilyn Monroe. The album was released in 1961 and was poorly produced by Felix Slatkin stepping in for Julie's 2nd husband Bobby Troup. The album featured mediocre renditions of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" "Take Back Your Mink" from the show Guys and Dolls and "Love For Sale". Compared to Julie's earlier exquisite albums, this is a rather "bored" and only moderately convincing effort. The album is entertaining but not Julie's finest hour.

I'm the author of Lady Liberty: The Definitive Julie London Handbook, for more facts on Julie visit julielondon.org or you may purchase my book here at Amazon.com
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archie
5.0 out of 5 stars Per i vostri momenti lounge
Reviewed in Italy on August 21, 2022
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Una preziosa riedizione di un famoso album del 1961 di Julie London con il bonus di un ulteriore LP in regalo, About The Blues del 57 + tracce extra dello stesso periodo. Perfetta proposta per chi ama l'artista e il genere lounge, il CD è stato rimasterizzato egregiamente con artwork fedele all'originale.
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MARIE
5.0 out of 5 stars Article état neuf et prix très intéressant et livraison rapide
Reviewed in France on March 28, 2019
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J'aimerai que le nombre de chansons soit mentionné pour chaque cd,merci
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りろい
4.0 out of 5 stars リマスターが
Reviewed in Japan on September 30, 2019
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曲もジュリーの歌も素敵です。Love For Saleが聞きたくて買いました。しかし、音質が良くないし音量も小さくてボリュームをけっこう上げないとだめですね。リマスターが下手くそなのかもしれません。
その後、紙ジャケ（日本盤）を中古で買いなおしました。明らかにこちらのほうが輸入盤より音量があり、満足しました。
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Paul Dinnage
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2015
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An excellent example of Julie's work
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nicandro51
5.0 out of 5 stars OTTIMO CD
Reviewed in Italy on August 24, 2014
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Bellissima versione in CD di uno dei più belli long-play della famosa artista americana. Un disco che dovrebbero acquistare tutti i collezionisti della discografia di Julie London. Lo consiglio vivamente anche per l'ottimo prezzo al quale è stato messo in vendita.
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