Todd Murray - Croon: When a Whisper Became A Song

Croon is intimate music. When "crooning" became a style of singing in the early 1920's thanks to the new record industry, it was considered racy and not fit for impressionable young ears and ladies. When radio took hold in the late 20's and early 30's, crooning was all the rage! This is an album of the acclaimed show written and sung by Todd Murray. All of the music is intimate in nature, meant to be sung as a conversation between two people, but the arrangements are fresh and varied. Murray's walks you through the decades starting in the 1930's with "Lover" "You Are Too Beautiful" "The Nearness of You" on up to a brand new single "And I'm Leaving Today" written by Todd Murray and pianist Alex Rybeck of NYC cabaret fame. Sinatra, Elvis, Broadway, Bacharach, Leonard Cohen, even Lou Rawls are visited on the 19 tracks of CROON. Beautifully recorded at the Avatar Studios in New York, with piano, bass, drums, guitar.