Anita Ellis - Look To The Rainbow

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:56
Size: 164.7 MB
Styles: Cabaret, Vocal
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[2:32] 1. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
[3:29] 2. Moments Like This
[3:48] 3. Anyone Can Whistle
[2:57] 4. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
[3:17] 5. Hury! It's Lovely Up Here!
[4:55] 6. But Beautiful
[2:26] 7. Swinging On A Star
[2:12] 8. Like Someone In Love
[3:51] 9. Poor Loulie Jean
[2:30] 10. Everywhere I Look (There Are You)
[3:00] 11. Birthday Candles
[2:42] 12. Sunday, Monday Or Always
[2:52] 13. Don't Let It Get You Down
[2:42] 14. Suddenly It's Spring
[2:57] 15. All Of Us In It Together
[3:53] 16. Who Can I Turn To
[3:49] 17. Too Late Now
[3:52] 18. The World Is In My Arms
[3:14] 19. Look To The Rainbow
[2:52] 20. It's Anybody's Spring
[2:29] 21. Here's To My Lady
[2:53] 22. Melinda
[2:32] 23. Wht Did I Have That I Don't Have

A superior cabaret singer whose stage fright kept her from appearing in public that often, Anita Ellis was 57 when she taped two of Alec Wilder's radio shows in 1977. It is from those programs that these previously unreleased performances are drawn. Ellis is particularly wonderful on ballads and her voice is strong, quite expressive and very appealing. Many of the songs are by Burton Lane or the team of Van Heusen and Burke with a few other favorites tossed in. The accompaniment by pianist Loonis McGlohon's rhythm section is tasteful and very sympathetic, and Anita Ellis sings quite beautifully throughout the extended set, doing great justice to the lyrics. ~Scott Yanow

Look To The Rainbow

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Anita Ellis - Out In Front

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 60:52

Size: 139.3 MB

Styles: Traditional pop

Year: 2004

Art: Front

[2:24] 1. They Can't Take That Away From Me

[2:08] 2. More Than You Know

[1:43] 3. Put The Blame On Mame

[3:10] 4. The Mony Song

[2:56] 5. My Darling, My Darling

[2:51] 6. Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys

[2:16] 7. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

[2:12] 8. Oh, But I Do!

[2:12] 9. I Don't Know Why

[2:34] 10. For You, For Me, For Evermore

[2:18] 11. The Whole World Is Singing My Song

[2:20] 12. A Sunday Kind Of Love

[2:29] 13. In Love In Vain

[2:11] 14. Atlanta, Ga

[2:39] 15. I'll Close My Eyes

[2:11] 16. Amado Mio

[2:31] 17. Come Rain Or Come Shine

[2:53] 18. I Can't Begin To Tell You

[2:42] 19. A Garden In The Rain

[2:59] 20. Someone To Watch Over Me

[2:36] 21. If I Were The Only Girl

[3:14] 22. Stardust

[2:48] 23. Somewhere In The Night

[2:22] 24. You Can't See The Sun When You're Cryin'

Anita Ellis achieved fame "ghost singing" for Rita Hayworth on the silver screen, but severe stage fright prevented her from becoming better known than she is. In the early '50s, years before her Epic and Elektra albums, she recorded transcriptions for the Standard Transcription service, two dozen of which are resurrected on Out in Front. The material consists mostly of standards and show tunes, along with remakes of the songs Ellis dubbed for Hayworth in the film Gilda. No information exists pertaining to the musicians and arrangers on these recordings, but the performances are exemplary of the near-perfection of Ellis' vocal technique, which garnered ecstatic critical accolades but produced no hit records. Ellis was a classic pop vocalist who came of age in the decade of rock & roll, and that, coupled with her discomfort as a stage performer, has made her more of a cult legend than a top-rank artist in the eyes of history, despite her prodigious talent. ~Greg Adams

Out In Front

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