Lucy Ann Polk - Forgotten Starlet

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 97:55
Size: 226,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:29)  1. Don'cha Go 'Way Mad
(2:39)  2. Easy Living
(1:47)  3. How About You
(3:55)  4. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
(2:39)  5. Looking At You
(2:54)  6. Makin' Whoopee
(2:44)  7. Memphis In June
(3:25)  8. Sittin' And Rockin'
(2:54)  9. Sitting In The Sun
(2:52) 10. Squeeze Me
(2:19) 11. Time After Time
(3:07) 12. When The Sun Comes Out
(1:56) 13. What's Happened To Joe?
(3:00) 14. Back In Your Own Backyard
(3:26) 15. I've Got The World On A String
(3:03) 16. Sometimes I'm Happy
(3:26) 17. Them There Eyes
(3:02) 18. Rock Me To Sleep
(1:36) 19. It's Too Soon To Know
(2:10) 20. Honeysuckle Rose
(2:01) 21. Where Are You
(2:18) 22. Crazy He Calls Me
(2:11) 23. Pretty Baby
(2:36) 24. You're Different
(2:53) 25. Waitin' At The Station
(1:58) 26. September Song
(2:41) 27. Black Coffee
(2:01) 28. Again
(3:21) 29. Squeeze Me (Alt. Version)
(2:46) 30. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
(2:19) 31. But Beautiful
(2:36) 32. Swingin' On A Star
(2:31) 33. It's Always You
(2:12) 34. Aren't You Glad You're You
(2:20) 35. It Could Happen To You
(2:49) 36. Darn That Dream
(2:42) 37. Imagination

Lucy Ann Polk (May 16, 1927 – October 10, 2011) was an American jazz singer who performed with Les Brown's orchestra in the 1950s. She also sang and recorded with Bob Crosby, Kay Kyser, Tommy Dorsey, and Dave Pell. Polk began her music career with her sister and brothers in a quartet named the Four Polks, which was eventually changed to the Town Criers. They performed with big bands led by Les Brown, Lionel Hampton, and Kay Kyser until they disbanded in 1948. Polk became the lead vocalist with the Les Brown Orchestra. From 1952–1954, she was named Best Girl Singer with Band by Down Beat magazine. She began her solo career with the album Lucy Ann Polk with the Dave Pell Octet (Trend, 1954), followed by Lucky Lucy Ann (Mode, 1957; reissued by Interlude under the name Easy Livin in 1959). The latter album featured arrangements by Marty Paich. On both albums, she sang jazz and traditional pop songs by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, and Jimmy Van Heusen. She released no more albums and ended her career in 1960. In 1946, Polk married Dick Noel, who played trombone with Les Brown's orchestra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Ann_Polk

Forgotten Starlet

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Lucy Ann Polk - Lucky Lucy Ann

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:04
Size: 78.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1957/1985
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. Sitting In The Sun
[1:46] 2. How About You
[3:54] 3. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
[2:52] 4. Squeeze Me
[3:03] 5. When The Sun Comes Out
[2:54] 6. Makin' Whoopee
[2:29] 7. Don Cha Go Way Mad
[3:20] 8. Sittin' And A'rockin'
[2:37] 9. Memphis In June
[2:16] 10. Time After Time
[3:21] 11. Easy Living
[2:38] 12. Looking At You

Bass – Buddy Clark; Drums – Mel Lewis; Guitar – Tony Rizzi; Piano – Marty Paich; Tenor Saxophone – Bob Hardaway; Valve Trombone – Dick Noel. Recorded on July 1957, Hollywood, California.

Lucy Ann Polk's lone Mode/VSOP session pairs the singer with a sextet led by pianist and arranger Marty Paich, whose nuanced, spacious orchestrations perfectly complement Polk's sultry yet supremely controlled style. The strength of Lucky Lucy Ann is its subtlety -- not a note is wasted or extraneous, and for all the modernist elements converging in Paich's arrangements, he never obscures the clarity of perennials like "Makin' Whoopee" and "Time After Time." Polk likewise shades the universal themes of the lyrics with a style and fierce intelligence all her own -- for all the power of her voice, it's her restraint that rings loudest and clearest. ~Jason Ankeny

Lucky Lucy Ann                

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Lucy Ann Polk - Lucy Ann Polk With The Les Brown Orchestra

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:32
Size: 175.2 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[2:34] 1. Swingin' At The Met
[3:00] 2. Sometimes I'm Happy
[2:53] 3. Boptized
[2:50] 4. Waitin' At The Station
[2:04] 5. Sabre Dance
[2:01] 6. Where Are You
[3:26] 7. How High The Moon
[2:33] 8. You're Different
[2:21] 9. Rosetta
[2:15] 10. Crazy He Calls Me
[3:23] 11. Them There Eyes
[1:55] 12. What's Happened To Joe
[2:59] 13. Moon Of Manakoora
[1:34] 14. It's Too Soon To Know
[3:16] 15. Bopple Sauce
[2:39] 16. Black Coffee
[2:08] 17. Pretty Baby
[3:19] 18. Squeeze Me
[2:41] 19. I May Be Wrong
[1:57] 20. Again
[2:08] 21. Honeysuckle Rose
[1:56] 22. September Song
[3:36] 23. Pell Mell
[2:59] 24. Rock Me To Sleep
[2:44] 25. Harlem Nocturne
[2:56] 26. Back In Your Own Backyard
[2:11] 27. Laura
[3:26] 28. I've Got The World On A String
[2:32] 29. The Song Is Ended

Lucy Ann Polk (May 16, 1927 – October 10, 2011) was an American jazz singer who performed with Les Brown's orchestra in the 1950s. Polk began her music career with her sister and brothers in a quartet named the Four Polks, which was eventually changed to the Town Criers. They performed with big bands led by Les Brown, Lionel Hampton, and Kay Kyser until they disbanded in 1948. Polk became the lead vocalist with the Les Brown Orchestra. From 1952–1954, she was named Best Girl Singer with Band by Down Beat magazine.

She began her solo career with the album Lucy Ann Polk with the Dave Pell Octet (Trend, 1954), followed by Lucky Lucy Ann (Mode, 1957; reissued by Interlude under the name Easy Livin in 1959). The latter album featured arrangements by Marty Paich. On both albums, she sang jazz and traditional pop songs by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, and Jimmy Van Heusen. She released no more albums and ended her career in 1960.

Lucy Ann Polk with the Les Brown Orchestra 

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