Jo Stafford - Autumn In New York And Other Classics

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:37
Size: 153,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:42)  1. Autumn In New York
(2:47)  2. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(2:57)  3. If I Loved You
(2:58)  4. Almost Like Being In Love
(2:27)  5. Make Believe
(2:39)  6. Through The Years
(3:10)  7. Sometimes I'm Happy
(2:48)  8. In The Still Of The Night
(3:12)  9. Some Enchanted Evening
(2:25) 10. The Best Things In Life Are Free
(2:42) 11. Just One Of Those Things
(2:46) 12. Haunted Heart
(2:54) 13. Alice Blue Gown
(2:33) 14. Tell Me Why
(2:40) 15. Let The Rest Of The World Go By
(2:44) 16. Gee, It's Good To Hold You
(2:35) 17. The Wish That I Wish Tonight
(2:51) 18. As Long As I Know You're Somewhere
(3:03) 19. Rockin' Chair
(3:02) 20. Georgia On My Mind
(2:49) 21. Dream - Edit
(3:13) 22. Jamboree Jones
(3:29) 23. Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) - 1949 Version

An early LP for Jo Stafford (and the LP format itself), 1950's Autumn in New York assembled a dozen standards set at ballad tempo and arranged with crying strings by Stafford's primary arranger (and husband), Paul Weston. Most of them were show tunes, some dating back to the '20s, and all seemed tailor-made for Stafford's sweet, pure tone and way with a lovelorn lyric. The title song and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" earned pride of place, but there simply wasn't a deficient tune in the bunch "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Just One of Those Things" and Stafford treated them all with the reverence and devotion they deserve. The LP was released in several formats, including a collection of 78-rpm EPs, while a 2009 reissue by DRG boasted 11 bonus tracks, including a few previously unreleased songs as well as a pair of big hits: "Jamboree Jones" (featuring Johnny Mercer) and "Tim-Tayshun (Temptation)" (Stafford's cornpone sendup of the Bing Crosby standard). ~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/album/autumn-in-new-york-mw0000814176

Autumn In New York And Other Classics

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Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:48
Size: 97,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. Chuck E's in Love
(2:31)  2. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
(3:18)  3. Night Train
(4:03)  4. Young Blood
(3:19)  5. Easy Money
(4:05)  6. The Last Chance Texaco
(4:06)  7. Danny's All-Star Joint
(3:48)  8. Coolsville
(5:59)  9. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
(4:52) 10. Company
(2:13) 11. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Midnight)

With her expressive soprano voice employing sudden alterations of volume and force, and her lyrical focus on Los Angeles street life, Rickie Lee Jones comes on like the love child of Laura Nyro and Tom Waits on her self-titled debut album. Given the population of colorful characters who may or may not be real people that populate her songs Chuck E., Bragger, Kid Sinister, and others she also might have had Bruce Springsteen in her bloodline (that is, the Springsteen of his first two albums), and her jazzbo sensibility suggests Mose Allison as a grandfather. Producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, who know all about assisting quirky singer/songwriters with their visions, have brought in a studio full of master session musicians, many of them with jazz credentials, and apparently instructed them to follow Jones' stop-and-start, loud-and-soft vocalizing, then overdubbed string parts here and there. The music thus has a sprung rhythmic feel that follows the contours of Jones' impressionistic stories about scuffling people on the streets and in the bars. There is an undertow of melancholy that becomes more overt toward the end, as the narrator's friends and lovers clear out, leaving her "Standing on the corner/All alone," as she sings in the final song, "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)." It's a long way, if only 40 minutes or so, from the frolicsome opener, "Chuck E.'s in Love," which had concluded that he was smitten by "the little girl who's singin' this song." But then, the romance of the street is easily replaced by its loneliness. Rickie Lee Jones is an astounding debut album that simultaneously sounds like a synthesis of many familiar styles and like nothing that anybody's ever done before, and it heralds the beginning of a potentially important career. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/rickie-lee-jones-mw0000190561

Rickie Lee Jones

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