Eartha Kitt - The Essential Eartha Kitt (2011)

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Artist: Eartha Kitt
Title Of Album: The Essential Eartha Kitt
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Sony Legacy / 88697 83419 2
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop
Total Time: 1:53:35
Format: Mp3 / FLAC (tracks +.cue, log-file)
Quality: CBR 320 kbps / Lossless
Total Size: 273 mb / 453 mb

With her slinky, alluring stage presence and her wink-in-the-eye purr of a voice, Eartha Kitt was a one-of-a-kind artist and act in the 1950s, an icon who, had she been a young star when the era hit in the '80s, would have made the song video her own: she instinctively understood that the visual and the song go hand in hand in the modern pop world. This two-disc, 40-track set collects the best of her recordings for RCA Victor between 1952 and 1957, including 1952’s sultry “Monotonous,” 1953’s “Santa Baby,” “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” and “I Want to Be Evil,” the haunting “The Day the Circus Left Town,” and the weary, resigned “Dinner for One Please, James” both from 1955, and 1957's “St. Louis Blues,” drawn from the motion picture of the same name that hit movie screens in 1958. Kitt went on to more movie, stage, club, and television work, but the heart of her recorded legacy as a singer is collected here.

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1
1. Monotonous (3:47)
2. Bal petit bal (2:58)
3. Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2:51)
4. Two Lovers (With Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra) (2:43)
5. I Want to Be Evil (Remastered) (3:30)
6. C'est si bon (2:57)
7. Uska Dara - A Turkish Tale (3:06)
8. Avril au Portugal (April In Portugal) (3:25)
9. Santa Baby (3:26)
10. Under the Bridges of Paris (2:40)
11. Let's Do It (From "Paris") (3:05)
12. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (From "Roberta") (3:02)
13. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (From "Leave It to Me") (3:01)
14. Lovin' Spree (2:53)
15. Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell (Who's Got the Ding-Dong) (2:46)
16. Looking for a Boy (2:59)
17. If I Was a Boy (2:43)
18. My Daddy Is a Dandy (2:30)
19. Hey Jacque (2:37)
20. The Heel (2:45)

Disc 2
1. The Day the Circus Left Town (3:19)
2. Mambo de Paree (2:52)
3. Dinner for One Please, James (2:57)
4. Sweet and Gentle (Me Lo Dijo Adela) (2:33)
5. Je cherche un homme (I Want a Man) (2:48)
6. Just an Old-Fashioned Girl (Remastered) (2:52)
7. Mademoiselle Kitt (2:29)
8. Lazy Afternoon (From "The Golden Apple") (2:21)
9. Lisbon Antigua (2:14)
10. Lullaby of Birdland (2:55)
11. Honolulu Rock and Roll (1:49)
12. I'm a Funny Dame (2:07)
13. A Woman Wouldn't Be a Woman (2:00)
14. Toujours gai (From "Shinbone Alley") (2:08)
15. Take My Love, Take My Love (2:22)
16. Careless Love (3:12)
17. The Memphis Blues (3:26)
18. Chantez-les bas (Sing 'em Low) (2:52)
19. St. Louis Blues (2:46)
20. Steal Away (Negro Spiritual) (2:36)

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cbr 320 kbps

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