Ann-Margret - Let Me Entertain You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:57
Size: 133,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:11)  1. Bye Bye Birdie - From the Columbia Pictures Production "Bye Bye Birdie"
(2:26)  2. Let Me Entertain You - From the Warner Brothers Movie "Gypsy"
(2:56)  3. Lovin' Spree
(2:09)  4. There'll Be Some Changes Made
(2:53)  5. Something to Think About - From the 20th Century Fox Movie "The Pleasure Seekers"
(2:41)  6. Thirteen Men
(2:36)  7. Romance in the Dark
(2:40)  8. The Good Life (From the Paramount Movie "The Swinger")
(2:05)  9. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
(2:48) 10. What Am I Supposed to Do
(2:45) 11. That's What I Like
(2:08) 12. Slowly
(2:26) 13. Heartbreak Hotel
(3:45) 14. The Lady Loves Me (from the MGM movie soundtrack "Viva Las Vegas")
(3:08) 15. C'est si bon
(2:59) 16. I Wanna Be Loved - Sung in the Paramount Picture "The Swinger"
(2:39) 17. I Just Don't Understand
(3:28) 18. More Than You Know
(3:12) 19. Personality
(2:17) 20. It Do Me So Good
(2:36) 21. As Long as He Needs Me (From "Oliver!")

No one would argue that Ann-Marget's principal entertainment skill was as a vocalist. So it may seem a bit finicky to point out that this well-packaged, 21-track retrospective of recordings from the early and mid-'60s actually is not the best anthology of her music. That honor belongs to The Many Moods of Ann-Margret (on the Australian Raven label), whose selection is considerably more pop/rock-oriented (which is not to say that it rocks very hard). Let Me Entertain You focuses more on her sultry sex-kitten pieces, which lean more toward pop-jazz and standards. Only half a dozen of the selections overlap with The Many Moods of Ann-Margret, though, so fans have the option of picking up two compilations which share the wealth fairly equitably. This (like the Australian import comp) has her two most famous numbers, "Bye Bye Birdie" and her lone Top 20 hit, "I Just Don't Understand." Much of the rest cranks up the floor-show ambience considerably, the saucy version of "C'est Si Bon" being a special highlight. ~ Richie Unterberger https://www.allmusic.com/album/let-me-entertain-you-mw0000185724

Let Me Entertain You

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Al Hirt, Ann-Margret - Beauty And The Beard

Styles: Trumpet And Vocal Jazz
Year: 1964
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:51
Size: 74,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:12)  1. Personality
(2:11)  2. Tain't What You Do
(3:15)  3. Bill Bailey
(2:07)  4. My Baby Just Cares for Me
(2:13)  5. Everbody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me)
(2:12)  6. Little Boy (Little Girl)
(3:11)  7. The Best Man
(2:17)  8. Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me)
(2:39)  9. Mutual Admiration Society
(2:20) 10. Row, Row, Row
(3:29) 11. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Remastered
(2:39) 12. Just Because

Beauty and the Beard is an album by Al Hirt released by RCA Victor in 1964. Ann-Margret was featured on the album. The album was arranged by Marty Paich and produced by Steve Sholes. The album landed on the Billboard 200 chart in 1964, reaching #84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beard

Personnel:   Ann-Margret - vocals;  Al Hirt - trumpet;  Jerry Hirt - trombone;  Pee Wee Spitelera - clarinet;  Eddie Miller - tenor saxophone;  Red Norvo - vibraphone; Fred Crane - piano; Al Hendrickson - guitar;  Lowell Miller - bass;  Jimmy Zitano - drums

Beauty And The Beard

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Ann-Margret - On the Way Up

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1962
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:45
Size: 71,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:36)  1. Oh, Lonesome Me
(2:08)  2. Slowly
(2:52)  3. Fever
(2:32)  4. What Do You Want from Me
(2:26)  5. Heartbreak Hotel
(2:37)  6. I Just Don't Understand
(2:23)  7. His Ring
(2:13)  8. Could It Be
(2:48)  9. What Am I Supposed to Do
(3:00) 10. Let Me Go, Lover!
(2:31) 11. Moon River
(2:36) 12. My Last Date (With You)

Ann-Margret's RCA Victor debut album, And Here She Is..., didn't get much attention in 1961, but she did better with her bluesy single "I Just Don't Understand," which peaked in the Top 20 in September. That set up this, her second solo LP, which featured "I Just Don't Understand," and like it was recorded partially in Nashville under the aegis of Chet Atkins and Dick Pierce. The two naturally brought a slight country feel to some of the tracks, notably the remakes of Don Gibson's 1958 hit "Oh, Lonesome Me" and the 1960-1961 hit "My Last Date (With You)" (aka "Last Date"). But the closest approximation of the sound was the kind of country-inflected pop/rock being pursued by Elvis Presley around the same time, which made a rendition of Presley's first major hit, "Heartbreak Hotel," an appropriate choice. At 20, Ann-Margret was an effective singer, if something of a chameleon, seeming to adopt a different persona for each number. She was at her most seductive singing Otis Blackwell's "Slowly," and she came on like a Latin fireball on "Fever," but was demure on the singles-chart entry "What Am I Supposed to Do" and ingenuously winning on "Moon River." RCA Victor appears to have been hoping it had found a distaff Presley, and it's possible Ann-Margret might have justified such a hope if her film acting career hadn't quickly outpaced her recording career; by the time this album was released, her movie debut, Pocketful of Miracles, had been out for several months and State Fair, which would establish her as a redheaded bombshell, was just getting into theaters. (She was still a mousy brunette on the album cover.) On the Way Up was an appropriate title, but records would soon take a back seat to other career goals. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/on-the-way-up-mw0000477097

On the Way Up

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Ann-Margret - Bachelors' Paradise

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1963
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:31
Size: 80,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:33)  1. Bachelor In Paradise
(2:47)  2. I Wanna Be Loved
(2:30)  3. Something to Remember
(2:09)  4. Paradise
(2:56)  5. Lovin' Spree
(3:02)  6. You Took Advantage of Me
(2:26)  7. Let Me Entertain You - From the Warner Brothers Movie "Gypsy"
(2:45)  8. Never on Sunday - (From the Jules Dassins Motion Picture "Never on Sunday")
(2:36)  9. Romance in the Dark
(2:59) 10. Call Me Darling
(3:14) 11. Hold Me
(4:29) 12. Mr. Wonderful - From "Mr. Wonderful"

On April 9, 1962, 20-year-old Ann-Margret earned a standing ovation for her performance of the Oscar-nominated title song to the Bob Hope comedy Bachelor in Paradise at the annual Academy Awards ceremony, another stepping stone on her way to stardom. Perhaps because it was still promoting her as a pop/rock singer, RCA Victor Records, her record label, which was just releasing its second Ann-Margret LP, On the Way Up, took a while to retool her image as more of a middle-of-the-road traditional pop singer, and it wasn't until her fourth album, released the year following the Oscar show, that a recording intended to capitalize on the "Bachelor in Paradise" triumph appeared. The Ann-Margret of Bachelors' Paradise was very different from the one who had hit the Top 20 with the bluesy "I Just Don't Understand" less than two years earlier. This was no distaff Elvis Presley, with Chet Atkins behind the glass and the Jordanaires on background vocals; this was a nightclub chanteuse working with an orchestra and performing a bunch of pop standards written by the likes of Rodgers & Hart ("You Took Advantage of Me" from the 1928 musical Present Arms) and Styne and Sondheim ("Let Me Entertain You" from the 1959 musical Gypsy and its just-released film version). The point of consistency between the younger Ann-Margret and the mature 21-year-old who made Bachelors' Paradise was her kittenish sexuality, which was even more accentuated by this lush ballad approach. One of the LP's songs was "Lovin' Spree," a 1954 hit for Eartha Kitt, and Ann-Margret displayed Kitt's strong influence, though without the older singer's predatory bite. This new direction might have led to recording success if Ann-Margret had pursued it; instead, she continued to focus on movies, in particular her latest vehicle, the film adaptation of Bye Bye Birdie. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/bachelors-paradise-mw0000468962

Bachelors'Paradise

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