VA - And The Winner Is... Capitol Sings The Best Movie Songs (1992)
Artist: VA
Title: And The Winner Is... Capitol Sings The Best Movie Songs
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Capitol Records
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Oldies, Easy Listening
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:14:59
Total Size: 185/360 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: And The Winner Is... Capitol Sings The Best Movie Songs
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Capitol Records
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Oldies, Easy Listening
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:14:59
Total Size: 185/360 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. Helen O'Connell – Lullaby of Broadway (03:04)
2. Nat King Cole – You'll Never Know (02:44)
3. The King Sisters – Sweet Leilani (02:29)
4. Bob Hope w/ The Clark Sisters – Buttons and Bows (03:00)
5. June Christy – When You Wish Upon a Star (02:35)
6. The Lettermen – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (02:39)
7. Judy Garland – Over the Rainbow (03:31)
8. Johnny Mercer w/ The Pied Pipers – On The Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe (03:05)
9. The Four Freshmen – The Last Time I Saw Paris (02:40)
10. Mavis Rivers – In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (02:23)
11. Dick Haymes – The Way You Look Tonight (03:44)
12. Keely Smith – All the Way (03:05)
13. Billy May – Moon River (02:48)
14. Nat King Cole – Mona Lisa (03:15)
15. Freddie Slack w/ The Brian Sisters – Swinging on a Star (02:43)
16. Peggy Lee – Days of Wine and Roses (03:09)
17. Al Martino – Three Coins in the Fountain (03:14)
18. Margaret Whiting – It Might as Well Be Spring (03:12)
19. Dean Martin – Baby, It's Cold Outside (02:22)
20. Tex Ritter – High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) (03:03)
21. Johnny Mercer w/ The Pied Pipers – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (02:53)
22. Bobby Darin – Call Me Irresponsible (02:05)
23. Nancy Wilson – Secret Love (03:04)
24. Nat King Cole – The Continental (03:33)
25. Ray Anthony w/ The Belvederes – Thanks for the Memory (02:19)
26. Dick Powell & Winifred Shaw – Lullaby of Broadway (02:33)
Show tunes provide a multitude of reference material for the traditional vintage jazz or pop vocalist. Then there are movie themes, more familiar to the general public, especially when they were seen later on a modern invention called television. This collection of 26 tracks features a modicum of jazz, but mainly pop tunes from the Golden Era of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Big bands are prevalent as the backup groups, sometimes including strings, with little instrumental improvisation and stock charts. Among the most famous of these sentimental journey songs are "Moon River" from Billy May, "Call Me Irresponsible" by Bobby Darin, Dean Martin's slightly sloshed "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa" and his actually hip "The Continental" (two of three Cole selections heard here). There are also two from Johnny Mandel with the Pied Pipers, "Swinging on a Star" by Freddie Slack, a young Nancy Wilson with "Secret Love," and soupier group vocal pieces from the King Sisters, Bob Hope with the Clark Sisters, the Lettermen, the Four Freshmen, and Ray Anthony with the Belvederes on the apropos "Thanks for the Memory." Overall, this is nothing more than a trip down that lane of reminiscence for those familiar with the old dirt road path to grandma's, now a superhighway.
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