Lola Albright - Best Of Lola Albright

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:35
Size: 161,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:26)  1. Dreamsville
(2:56)  2. Straight To Baby
(3:14)  3. Two Sleepy People
(1:55)  4. All Of You
(2:43)  5. Soft Sounds
(2:28)  6. Goodbye My Lover
(2:43)  7. I've Got A Crush On You
(2:36)  8. Slow And Easy
(2:50)  9. You're Driving Me Crazy
(2:36) 10. Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did
(2:19) 11. Put Your Arms Around Me
(3:23) 12. Brief And Breezy
(2:22) 13. How High the Moon
(2:06) 14. Candy
(2:31) 15. Do What You Gotta Do
(2:51) 16. He's My Guy
(2:27) 17. Think Of Me
(3:57) 18. It's Always You
(3:08) 19. Just You, Just Me
(2:44) 20. A Man, A Man, A Man
(3:00) 21. Sorta Blue
(2:45) 22. There's A Man In My Life
(2:20) 23. Here 'Tis
(2:48) 24. They Didn't Believe Me
(3:12) 25. We Kiss In A Shadow

Lola Albright is much better known as an actress than a vocalist. She enjoyed her greatest fame in the late-'50s and early-'60s television series Peter Gunn, playing Edie, the private detective's on-again, off-again love interest. Albright also appeared briefly in the '60s primetime soap opera Peyton Place, temporarily replacing the lead star Dorothy Malone for a few months when Malone became ill in the fall of 1965. Though Albright portrayed a nightclub singer on Peter Gunn, she was never a notable vocalist. Her delivery and style were in the "torch" and light pop mode, somewhat similiar to Julie London though not as effective. Her commercial appeal was directly linked to the popularity of Peter Gunn. ~ Ron Wynn https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lola-albright-mn0000829086

Best Of Lola Albright

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Lola Albright - Dreamsville

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:37
Size: 84,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:11)  1. Two Sleepy People
(3:23)  2. Dreamsville
(3:09)  3. We Kiss In A Shadow
(3:19)  4. Brief And Breezy
(2:47)  5. You're Driving Me Crazy !
(2:42)  6. They Didn't Believe Me
(2:39)  7. Soft Sounds
(2:33)  8. Slow And Easy
(3:53)  9. It's Always You
(2:51) 10. Straight To Baby
(3:06) 11. Just You, Just Me
(2:58) 12. Sorta Blue

Fans of Peter Gunn know Lola Albright as nightclub singer Edie Hart on that classic Blake Edwards TV series. This crossover album shows that Albright's considerable charm and talent were strong enough to merit her (sadly short-lived) recording career. Albright has a sexy, breathy, and jazz-inflected vocal style that is comparable to Peggy Lee and Julie London, and Henry Mancini's cool West Coast-style charts complement her low-key voice perfectly. One of the real pleasures of this album is hearing the vocal versions to so many of the songs from Mancini's hugely successful Peter Gunn instrumental album mixed in with the usual supper-club suspects. With the noted exception of the title track, none of these Mancini vocal versions went on to become widely recorded, which is probably explained by their beatnik eccentricity (molded to fit the black-turtleneck, bongos, and espresso style of Mancini's music). The most eccentric of these is saved for last, as Sammy Cahn's lyric for "Sorta Blue" casts Albright as a depressive cooing about how her melancholia is so deep that even booze and drugs can't lift her dashed spirits. This album is a time capsule for sure, but it's a great one and it deserves to be reissued on CD, just as Lola Albright's acting career merits a second look. ~ Nick Dedina  http://www.allmusic.com/album/dreamsville-mw0000897077

Dreamsville

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Lola Albright - Lola Wants You

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 29:28

Size: 67.5 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 2004/2013

Art: Front

[2:42] 1. A Man, A Man, A Man

[2:04] 2. Candy

[2:17] 3. Put Your Arms Around Me

[2:27] 4. Goodbye My Lover

[2:34] 5. Aren't You Knida Glad We Did

[2:40] 6. I Got A Crush On You

[2:19] 7. Here 'tis

[1:55] 8. All Of You

[2:45] 9. There's A Man In My Life

[2:25] 10. Think Of Me

[2:28] 11. Do What You Gotta Do

[2:47] 12. He's My Guy

Prior to her starmaking turn as a nightclub singer on the television classic Peter Gunn, Lola Albright recorded this slight but alluring session for Roost. From its cheesecake cover photo to Dean Elliott's lush, melodramatic arrangements, Lola Wants You is above all a tribute to the perennial salability of sex, and an engaging one at that. Albright's kittenish vocals are undeniably effective within their narrow range, and songs like "A Man, a Man, a Man" and "There's a Man in My Life" play nicely to her strengths. ~Jason Ankeny

Lola Wants You

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