Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gormé - We Got Us / Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits (2011)

Tracklist

01. We Got Us (from "We Got Us")
02. Side by Side (from "We Got Us")
03. No Two People (from "We Got Us")
04. Darn It, Baby, That's Love (from "We Got Us")
05. Together Wherever We Go (from "We Got Us")
06. Flattery (from "We Got Us")
07. This Could Be the Start of Something (from "We Got Us")
08. I Remember It Well (from "We Got Us")
09. Baby, It's Cold Outside (from "We Got Us")
10. Two Lost Souls (from "We Got Us")
11. Harmony (from "We Got Us")
12. Cheek to Cheek (from "We Got Us")
13. I've Heard That Song Before (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
14. I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
15. Green Eyes (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
16. I Hear a Rhapsody (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
17. And the Angels Sing (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
18. Who Wouldn't Love You? (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
19. Bel mir bist du schön (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
20. Marie (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
21. I Don't Want to Walk Without You (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
22. I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
23. White Christmas (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")
24. Sentimental Journey (from "Eydie and Steve Sing the Golden Hits")

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.

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