Julie London - Collection 1955-62 (CD)

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.

Track List:

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