Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - We Got Us / Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits

Size: 155,7 MB
Time: 64:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front & Back

01. We Got Us (From We Got Us) (2:32)
02. Side By Side (From We Got Us) (2:33)
03. No Two People (From We Got Us) (2:03)
04. Darn It, Baby, That's Love (From We Got Us) (2:38)
05. Together Wherever We Go (From We Got Us) (2:08)
06. Flattery (From We Got Us) (3:22)
07. This Could Be The Start Of Something (From We Got Us) (2:26)
08. I Remember It Well (From We Got Us) (3:26)
09. Baby, It's Cold Outside (From We Got Us) (2:47)
10. Two Lost Souls (From We Got Us) (2:29)
11. Harmony (From We Got Us) (2:51)
12. Cheek To Cheek (From We Got Us) (2:58)
13. I've Heard That Song Before (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (1:43)
14. I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (2:38)
15. Green Eyes (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (2:43)
16. I Hear A Rhapsody (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (3:22)
17. And The Angels Sing (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (3:13)
18. Who Wouldn't Love You (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (2:51)
19. Bel Mir Bist Du Schon (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (3:15)
20. Marie (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (1:37)
21. I Don't Want To Walk Without You (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (3:28)
22. I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (2:14)
23. White Christmas (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (3:12)
24. Sentimental Journey (From Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits) (2:17)

Married couple and singing partners Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme launched their duo on records with two LPs released in 1960 by ABC-Paramount Records, We Got Us and Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits; the albums are combined on this CD, albeit in reverse order of their initial appearance. We Got Us (tracks 13-23) finds Lawrence and Gorme hunting through then-recent film theme songs and among standards for some classic duets, and presenting their versions of them. Numbers like "Side by Side" are naturals, but anything requiring something in the way of characterization tends to be beyond vocalists who are most concerned with the sound of their voices, not the meaning of the lyrics. They do fine with "No Two People," a Frank Loesser composition from Hans Christian Andersen in which two lovers trip over themselves to express their sweet devotion. But the erotic undercurrent of Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is not something they choose to express, and there's no bite to "I Remember It Well" from Gigi, in which Alan Jay Lerner's lyrics are supposed to express a gentle joisting between the old lovers. Lawrence and Gorme are much better on the songs from Golden Hits (tracks 1-12), which, by the way, are not their golden hits. This album was not a best-of, it was the two singers (separately and together) reviving a bunch of songs from the swing era. They had a natural affinity for these songs, since they could concentrate on the rhythms and act like band singers. ~by William Ruhlmann

We Got Us / Eydie & Steve Sing The Golden Hits 

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Steve Lawrence - Going Solo

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:19
Size: 126.7 MB
Styles: Vocal, Pop
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. (The Bad Donkey) Pum-Pa-Lum
[2:08] 2. Fabulous
[2:11] 3. Footsteps
[2:48] 4. Fraulein
[2:12] 5. Go Away Little Girl
[3:24] 6. Hallelujah
[2:30] 7. (I Don't Care) Only Love Me
[2:41] 8. I Gotta Be Me
[3:07] 9. In Time
[2:24] 10. Many A Time
[2:53] 11. More
[2:44] 12. My Claire De Lune
[2:10] 13. Party Doll
[2:49] 14. Portrait Of My Love
[3:08] 15. A Room Without Windows
[2:59] 16. Sunrise, Sunset
[3:55] 17. That's What Friends Are For
[3:35] 18. Through The Years
[2:43] 19. True Love
[2:11] 20. Uh-Huh Oh Yeah

Oldies fans remember Buddy Knox's chart-topper "Party Doll," but Steve Lawrence also enjoyed a number one hit with the song according to the Cash Box charts. By Billboard's accounting it went Top Five and is only one of several hits included on his first Coral album, Songs by Steve Lawrence. Taragon's CD reissue adds three bonus tracks to make the disc a complete collection of Lawrence's Coral hits, of which there were eight. The material is diverse, from light rock to orchestral pop to ethnic numbers like "(The Bad Donkey) Pum-Pa-Lum." Lawrence even released a competing version of Bobby Helms' crossover country hit "Fraulein," although Lawrence's rendition was made exclusively for the pop audience. This is an excellent and concise summary of his Coral years.

Going Solo

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Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - It's Us Again

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 26:37
Size: 61,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:20)  1. It's Us Again
(2:49)  2. Sunday, Monday and Always
(2:21)  3. I Thought About You
(3:04)  4. Like Someone In Love
(2:37)  5. Ain't Love
(2:07)  6. Aren't You Glad You're You
(3:03)  7. But Beautiful
(2:48)  8. All About Love
(3:12)  9. Tell Her I Said Hello
(2:10) 10. I Wish You Were Mine

One of the rarer items in the Steve & Eydie discography, It's Us Again is an LP recorded as a promotional item for Silvirkin shampoo. On the ten songs, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme duet on four tracks, the title tune, "Ain't Love Grand," "Aren't You Glad You're You," and the closer, "I Wish You Were Mine." Gorme takes solos on "Sunday, Monday or Always," "Like Someone in Love," and "All About Love," and Lawrence also has three solos: "I Thought About You," "But Beautiful," and "Tell Her I Said Hello." The performances are typical of the couple, separately and together, with the kind of post-swing big-band and string arrangements they generally use. Fans who come across copies will be glad they did, but only completists would want to spend serious money to obtain the disc. [Lawrence and Gorme issued the album on CD through their label, GL Music, with six bonus tracks, but that disc went out of print. The album has also been reissued by other firms.] https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/its-us-again/id327676166

It's Us Again

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Steve Lawrence - Lawrence Goes Latin

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 28:40

Size: 65.6 MB

Styles: Vocal

Year: 1961/2012

Art: Front

[1:44] 1. It's All Right With Me

[1:43] 2. Shall We Dance

[2:04] 3. Just In Time

[2:17] 4. Bewitched

[2:46] 5. Small World

[2:17] 6. Too Close For Comfort

[2:24] 7. People Will Say We're In Love

[3:11] 8. Everything's Comin' Up Roses

[2:49] 9. The Sound Of Music

[2:49] 10. Out Of This World

[1:54] 11. Tonight

[2:36] 12. Hello Young Lovers

Lawrence had success on the record charts in the late 1950s and early 1960s with such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" (U.S. #1), "Pretty Blue Eyes" (U.S. #9), "Footsteps" (U.S. #7), "Portrait of My Love" (U.S. #9), and "Party Doll" (U.S. #5). "Go Away Little Girl" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. However, much of his musical career has centered on nightclubs and the musical stage.

He is also an actor, appearing in guest roles on television shows in every decade since the 1950s, in shows such as The Danny Kaye Show, The Judy Garland Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Julie Andrews Hour, Night Gallery, The Flip Wilson Show, Police Story, Murder, She Wrote, Gilmore Girls, and CSI. In the fall of 1965, Lawrence was briefly the star of a variety show called The Steve Lawrence Show, "one of the last television shows in black and white on CBS."

He and Gormé appeared together in the Broadway musical Golden Rainbow, which ran from February 1968 until January 1969. Although the show was not a huge success (a summary of this experience is chronicled in unflattering detail in William Goldman's 1968 book The Season), the show contained the memorable song "I've Gotta Be Me." This song was originally sung by Lawrence at the end of the first act of the musical; Sammy Davis, Jr. would later record a version of the song that became a Top 40 hit in 1969. None less than the Chairman of the Board himself, Francis Albert Sinatra, is known to have repeatedly stated that the best male vocalist Sinatra had ever heard was Steve Lawrence.

Lawrence Goes Latin

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Steve Lawrence - Take It On Home

Size: 91,0 MB
Time: 38:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1981/2014
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. New York, New York (3:23)
02. She's Out Of My Life (4:01)
03. I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love (3:11)
04. You Had To Be There (3:51)
05. I Won't Break (4:00)
06. I Take It On Home (3:29)
07. I Still Believe In Love (2:50)
08. We're All Alone (3:56)
09. One Word (3:17)
10. Maybe This Time (3:29)
11. Welcome To Paradise (3:04)

By 1981, Steve Lawrence was only in his mid-40s, but he was eight years removed from the status of a major label recording artist, having been swept out of record company corridors along with his peers when the bottom finally dropped out of pre-rock pop music in the early 1970s. Of course, he hadn't hung up his tux in the interim, and if Take It on Home -- the premiere release on Beverly Hills, CA, independent label Applause Records -- was any indication, he had kept his pipes in prime shape. Only a year after his mentor, Frank Sinatra, had scored a surprising success with John Kander and Fred Ebb's theme from the film New York, New York, Lawrence had the chutzpah to commission Don Costa to do a different arrangement and then led off the album with it, first teasing "Chicago" and then "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." And his version is credible; he even got the words right, which the Chairman of the Board never did. After that, it was a short step to besting Michael Jackson's then recent Top Ten version of "She's Out of My Life"; Lawrence demonstrates that it was possible -- and preferable -- to get through the song without crying. He is equally effective on such 1970s songs as the Rita Coolidge hits "We're All Alone" and "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love," Charlie Rich's "I Take It On Home," "Maybe This Time" from the film version of Cabaret, and "I Still Believe in Love" from the Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song. (It seemed like he'd been keeping his ears open throughout the decade, waiting for his chance.) But more interesting are the songs that weren't well-known previously, such as the break-up ballad "I Won't Break," written by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen, and the Michel Legrand/Dennis Lambert tribute to New York "You Had to Be There." Taken together, the collection demonstrates that if record companies were no longer interested in Steve Lawrence, it was their loss (and, of course, his fans'). ~ William Ruhlmann

Take It On Home

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Steve Lawrence - Here's Steve Lawrence

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 27:20
Size: 62.6 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008/2013
Art: Front

[3:09] 1. Come Rain Or Come Shine
[3:07] 2. Like Someone In Love
[3:08] 3. My Romance
[2:30] 4. Fraulein
[1:34] 5. Sunny Side Up
[2:29] 6. This Heart Of Mine
[3:36] 7. Makin' Whoopee
[2:26] 8. Then I'll Be Tired Of You
[2:57] 9. If I Had You
[2:20] 10. Put 'em In A Box, Tie 'em With A Ribbon

As a solo artist and in a duo with his wife Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence enjoyed a successful singing career that stretched well past half a century. He placed hits in the best-seller charts for over 25 years and used that as the basis for becoming a nightclub and concert headliner. Starting out in the post-swing, pre-rock & roll era of the early '50s, he maintained his support for traditional pop, which found him bucking popular musical trends for much of his career. But in his maturity he could claim to be the handpicked successor to Frank Sinatra as the music's standard-bearer. Along the way, he also found time to write songs, act in films, star in Broadway musicals, and produce Emmy-winning television specials as well as hosting a few TV series.

Here's Steve Lawrence

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