Time: 56:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front
01. Taking A Chance On Love (2:10)
02. It's A Most Unusual Day (1:47)
03. Just You, Just Me (1:22)
04. Don't Take Your Love From Me (2:39)
05. Anything Goes (1:53)
06. Blues In The Night (Take 1) (3:22)
07. But Not For Me (2:38)
08. I Feel A Song Comin' On (1:25)
09. This Can't Be Love (1:38)
10. You Make Me Feel So Young (2:18)
11. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan (2:50)
12. You'll Never Know (2:32)
13. Nice Work If You Can Get It (2:08)
14. In A Little Spanish Town (2:06)
15. Keep It Gay (1:46)
16. Tenderly (2:47)
17. Who Kissed Me Last Night (2:32)
18. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (2:38)
19. Thou Swell (1:37)
20. I Get A Kick Out Of You (2:47)
21. If You Were In My Place (What Would You Do) (2:48)
22. You're In Kentucky Sure As You're Born (2:02)
23. Shangri La (2:59)
24. Tomorrow I'll Have To Dream And Remember (3:14)
Hey, Rosemary Clooney fans—what say you to 24 completely unreleased radio performances from the ‘50s?! Courtesy of the Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby estates, these songs hail from The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, The Ford Road Show, and The Rosemary Clooney Show, and have never been released in any format, not even on that humongous box set of radio transcriptions issued by Mosaic a few years ago. Rosie was in her element singing on the radio; freed from Mitch Miller’s iron hand (and seemingly inexhaustible supply of novelty songs) at Columbia, she was able to tackle material that was a more suitable match for her effortless, floating voice. This collection of rarities includes selections pre-recorded for radio broadcast on tape for outstanding studio quality and features Rosie in both small group and big band settings. Liner notes by Clooney expert Tom Pickles, rare photos and warm remastering by Mike Milchner at SonicVision designed to capture every lilting note make this a keeper for Clooney aficionados.
I Feel A Song Coming On
No singer of American popular song took a longer time to mature into the singer nature designed her to be than Rosemary Clooney. Everyone here know her "Do You Miss New York?" on an album of the same name from 1993 and her "Sweet Kentucky Ham" on the album "Girl Singer" of 1992? If you don't know those two albums, check them out. I listen -- in particular -- to those two songs of heartbreaking uprootedness I mentioned and I'm an inch away from tears. But those were songs of her maturity -- of the last decade before her death in 2002. In those years, she was singing for the handful of people left from café society, or wanting for an evening to experience a latterday simulacrum of café society, in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, and that kind of says it all. The early Rosemary Clooney, of the 1950s, was something else, however, so I downloaded the present album of radio performances not with trepidation exactly -- but not expecting a lot. In the 50s, RC wasted a lot of time goofing around with the likes of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby on dopey TV shows. Back then, her signature songs were the even then embarrassing novelty items "Mambo Italiano," "Botcha me," and "Come on-a My House." I'm not absolutely sure of this, but she may also have been guilty of "If I knew you were coming I'd-a baked a cake." She may even have done the arch-embarrassing "How much is that doggy in the window?" But the present album is actually a very pleasant surprise. It's a mixed bag. My wife Barbara and I were listening to the second cut "It's a Most Unusual Day," and Barbara said,"Sounds like June Allyson." That was not a compliment. In other cuts, though, the first one, "Taking a Chance on Love," for example, you can hear an unmistakable prenúncio of the huskiness of voice that made her last recordings such classics. You hear it on her Shangri-la here, too. And be sure to catch her "You're in Kentucky sure as you were born." RC was born in Kentucky. Kentucky meant something to her. Her "Sweet Kentucky Ham" is infinitely better. But, if you care about the mature Rosemary, you have to know this history.
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